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EP2918194A1
EP2918194A1 EP14193769.8A EP14193769A EP2918194A1 EP 2918194 A1 EP2918194 A1 EP 2918194A1 EP 14193769 A EP14193769 A EP 14193769A EP 2918194 A1 EP2918194 A1 EP 2918194A1
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shelf
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Orville Beckford
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B81/00—Cabinets or racks specially adapted for other particular purposes, e.g. for storing guns or skis
    • A47B81/002—Corner cabinets; Cabinets designed for being placed in a corner or a niche
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B57/00—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions
    • A47B57/30—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions with means for adjusting the height of detachable shelf supports
    • A47B57/48—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions with means for adjusting the height of detachable shelf supports consisting of tongues, pins or similar projecting means coacting with openings
    • A47B57/485—Straight pins
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B96/00—Details of cabinets, racks or shelf units not covered by a single one of groups A47B43/00 - A47B95/00; General details of furniture
    • A47B96/06—Brackets or similar supporting means for cabinets, racks or shelves
    • A47B96/066—Supporting means received within an edge of the shelf

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  • This invention relates to a cupboard, in particular to a cupboard for the storage of relatively small items such as shoes, or other domestic or household items.
  • a storage unit of considerable dimensions such as above 800 mm, may be located in a porch or in a hallway close to the house door, but in smaller dwellings space is often not available for such storage units. Even if a conventional unit is fitted in a hallway, more often than not it cannot cater for a full household with e.g. more than a dozen shoes. Furthermore, conventional cupboards, whether floor mounted or wall mounted, leave wasteful vacant space above and/or below them.
  • the present invention stems from the realisation that most dwellings have dead corner spaces which are unused. These may be for example adjacent a door of the dwelling, adjacent the door of a reception room or on the curve in the stairway of the dwelling.
  • German Utility Model DE 20203068U (Herbstritt ) which describes modular extendable furniture, in particular in the form of bath or shower accessories for room corners or walls and comprises at least one frame element which is pivotable about its longitudinal axis and forms a hinge plate for a frameless, straight or curved pivotable door.
  • the invention is characterised in that the door panel has a horizontal cross-section including an arcuate portion defining a curve centred on a vertical axis within said shelf support rail.
  • the door panel in horizontal cross-section may include the arcuate portion positioned between tangentially extending portions extending to the edges of the door panel. These three portions may be provided in separate connectable parts, which provision can be of advantage if the cupboard is to be supplied in a flat-pack form.
  • the shelf support rail which is preferably formed of metal or other rigid material, may have a generally right-angled triangular cross-section, with two adjacent faces abutting the walls of the building which define the corner.
  • the shelf support rail may additionally include channels into which an edge of a shelf slots. These channels may have horizontal upper and lower faces against which the topside and the underside respectively of the shelf rest in use.
  • Each shelf may be of a generally planar configuration.
  • Each shelf preferably has a back edge positioned against the back panel and a side edge positioned against the side panel.
  • Each shelf is preferably removably secured to said shelf support rail, so that spacing between shelves can be selected as desired.
  • the shelves may be secured in any convenient manner.
  • Each shelf may have a horizontal cross-sectional shape which includes an arcuate edge defining a curve centred on a vertical axis within the shelf support rail.
  • the arcuate edge of each shelf cross-section is ideally coaxial with the arcuate portion of the door panel cross-section when the latter is in its closed position.
  • each shelf includes a support rod embedded within its body and having a protruding portion extending therefrom adjacent a corner of the shelf, and the shelf support rail may include a plurality of apertures for selectively accommodating the protruding portion of the rod.
  • the third, hypotenuse, side of the support rail carries the apertures in which the supporting rods of the shelves are accommodated.
  • the shelf support rail includes channels into which an edge of a shelves slot, these channels serve to prevent rotation of the shelves about the axis of the support rod.
  • a plurality of shelves are provided with one rail, the number of shelves being fewer than the number of the channels in the rail, enabling the spacing between the shelves to be varied according to choice.
  • each shelf has a supporting rod embedded therein to lie parallel with the plane of the shelf, the supporting rod having a spigot end portion protruding from the shelf at a corner thereof.
  • the supporting rail is of generally right-angled triangular hollow configuration, the hypotenuse face of which includes a plurality of transverse channels for selectively accommodating said corner of the shelf and an aperture in the base of each channel leading to a receptor within the rail to receive the spigot.
  • the receptor is preferably defined between an aperture in the base of a channel in line with an aperture in the right-angled corner of the rail.
  • the hypotenuse face of the rail further may include apertures positioned intermediate said channels, in line with apertures in the right-angled corner of the rail, to allow access to fixing devices for fixing the rail to a corner in the walls of a building.
  • the transverse channels in the hypotenuse face of the rail are equal to each other in terms of width, length and depth and are regularly spaced along the rail.
  • the channels in the hypotenuse face of the support rail subtend a small angle (e.g. 0 to 5 degrees) to the horizontal so as to raise the front edge of the shelf slightly, as this would provide a more secure fixing especially when a load is placed upon the shelf.
  • the upper face of the channel may be provided with a recess into which a protrusion formed on the top surface of the shelf may be accommodated when the shelf is in position.
  • a quarter-turn latch fastener of known type may be associated with each channel, each shelf having a groove provided adjacent its rear edge, in which the tongue of the fastener may be held when the fastener is locked.
  • the retaining edge to the or each shelf may be reinforced as necessary.
  • the corner cupboard may additionally comprise a floor panel secured to the door panel. Also, the corner cupboard may additionally comprise a top panel secured to the door panel. Floor and top panels add structural integrity to the door panel to prevent deformation. A ventilation opening, optionally together with a ventilation fan, is usefully provided in the top panel.
  • the corner cupboard may be provided as a single unit (having a height of, for example, up to 3.0 m) or in modular form, including a bottom module (having a height of, for example, 1.0 to 1.5 m) comprising the floor panel and a lower part of the back, side and door panels, a top module (having a height of, for example, 1.0 to 1.5 m) comprising the top panel and an upper part of the back, side and door panels, and optionally one or more intermediate modules (having a height of, for example about 1.0 m) comprising an intermediate part of the back, side and door panels.
  • connecting devices would be included for fitting the modules together, such as, for example dowels for locating in drilled holes in the abutting edges of the back, side and door panels.
  • the corner cupboard preferably further comprises a screen, possibly in the form of a mesh, positioned against an edge of each shelf opposite to that edge thereof which lies against the side panel. Such a screen can help to carry the load from the shelves.
  • the corner cupboard may include a switch to be activated when the door panel is opened, to turn on a light within the cupboard.
  • a magnetic catch may be provided to normally hold the door panel in its closed position.
  • the cupboard may be of any suitable height, such as between 1.0 and 3.0 metres high.
  • the cupboard includes the following elements:
  • the back wall panel 11 extends from the shelf support rail 9 against one of the building walls 20 and is secured thereto in a conventional manner while the side wall panel 6 extends from the shelf support rail 9 against the other of the building walls 22 and is secured thereto in a conventional manner.
  • the door panel 2 is mounted to the back wall panel 11 by a piano hinge 13 adjacent the edge 24 thereof remote from the shelf support rail 9.
  • the door panel extends, in its closed position, to the side wall panel 6 adjacent that edge 26 thereof remote from the shelf support rail 9 and opens in the direction indicated by the curved arrow in Figure 3 .
  • the door panel 2 has a horizontal cross-section including an arcuate portion 28 defining a curve centred on the a vertical axis within the shelf support rail 9.
  • the door panel 2 in horizontal cross-section includes the arcuate portion 28 positioned between tangentially extending portions 32, 34 extending to the edges of the door panel 2.
  • a magnetic push catch 4 normally holds the door panel 2 in its closed position.
  • a number of lightweight load bearing shelves 3 are supported by the shelf support rail 9 within the space defined by the back panel 11, side panel 6 and door panel 2 in its closed position.
  • Each shelf 3 is removably secured to the shelf support rail 9.
  • Each shelf is of generally planar configuration.
  • Each shelf 3 includes a support rod 10 embedded within its body to lie parallel with the plane of the shelf and having a protruding portion in the form of a male spigot 8 extending therefrom adjacent a corner 68 of the shelf 3, and the shelf support rail 9 includes a plurality of apertures in the form of female receptors for selectively accommodating the male spigot 8 of the rod 10.
  • Each shelf 3 has a back edge 42 positioned against the back panel 11 and a side edge 44 positioned against the side panel 6.
  • Each shelf 3 has a horizontal cross-sectional shape which includes an arcuate edge 46 defining a curve centred on a vertical axis within the shelf support rail 9.
  • the arcuate edge 46 of each shelf cross-section is coaxial with the arcuate portion 28 of the door panel cross-section when the latter is in its closed position.
  • the support rail 9 is secured in a generally vertical position in a corner between two walls within a building.
  • the shelf support rail 9, which is formed of metal or other rigid material, has a generally right-angled hollow triangular cross-section, with two adjacent faces abutting the walls of the building which define the corner and the third, hypotenuse, side 70 carrying the receptors into which spigots 8 of the supporting rods 10 of the shelves are accommodated.
  • the shelf support rail 9 additionally includes evenly spaced (by e.g. 50 mm) transverse channels 52 typically having a depth of 20 mm, for selectively accommodating the corner 68 of the shelf to prevent rotation of the shelf 3 about the axis of the support rod 10.
  • An aperture 74 in the base of each channel leads to a respective receptor within the rail to receive the spigot 8.
  • the receptor is defined between the aperture 74 in the base of the channel in line with an aperture 76 in the right-angled corner of the rail.
  • a magnetic strip 7 secured to the edge of the shelf 3 helps to locate the shelf correctly in its respective channel 52, while preventing unintentional shelf rotation due to deformation or stress from imposed loads. The shelf is then able to carry a reasonable domestic load of up to e.g. 3 kg.
  • Those channels 52 which lie between the receptors are closed off with flush fitting spacers 54.
  • the hypotenuse face 70 of the rail further includes apertures 80 positioned intermediate the channels, in line with apertures 82 in the right-angled corner of the rail, to allow access to fixing screws 84 for fixing the rail to a corner in the walls of a building.
  • the rail is fixed at approximately 200 mm centres.
  • the transverse channels 52 in the hypotenuse face of the rail are equal to each other width, length and depth and are regularly spaced along the rail. Where a number of the shelves are provided with one the rail, the number of shelves will be fewer than the number of the channels in the rail, enabling the spacing between the shelves to be varied according to choice.
  • the corner cupboard additionally includes a top panel 36 and a floor panel 38 secured respectively to the top and bottom edges the door panel 2, and serve to provide rigidity to the door panel 2.
  • the cupboard is typically about 2.5 metres high.
  • the mesh prevents items, stored on the shelves 3, from falling out.
  • a switch 5 is activated when the door panel 2 is opened, to turn on a vertically oriented LED lighting strip 12 extending within the cupboard from the floor panel 38 to the top panel 36.
  • the shelves, side and back panels and the door panel are suitably formed in white melamine, which is available in 3 metre standard lengths.
  • FIG. 7 there is shown three possible embodiments for securing a shelf 3 to the support rail 9. These embodiments can be used as alternatives or in any combination.
  • the channels 52 have horizontal upper and lower faces 90, 92 against which the top surface 94 and the under surface 96 respectively of the shelf would rest. These faces subtend a small angle of about 2° to the horizontal (exaggerated in Figure 7 for the sake of clarity) so as to raise the front edge of the shelf slightly, to provide a more secure fixing when a load is placed upon the shelf.
  • the upper face 90 of the channel is provided with a recess 98 into which a protrusion 100 formed on the top surface 94 of the shelf may be accommodated when the shelf is in position.
  • a quarter-turn latch fastener 102 is associated with each channel 52, each shelf having a groove 104 provided adjacent its rear edge, in which the tongue 106 of the fastener will be held when the fastener is locked.

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GB2214782A (en) * 1988-02-16 1989-09-13 Anthony John Carr Shelving
EP0862876A1 (de) * 1997-03-07 1998-09-09 Bellplex Limited Regale
DE29821130U1 (de) * 1998-11-25 1999-03-04 Rauch Möbelwerke GmbH, 97896 Freudenberg Begehbare Eckschränke
DE29920947U1 (de) * 1998-11-30 2000-03-16 Lindeqvist, Kent, Malmö Aufbewahrungseinrichtung
US20030173877A1 (en) * 2002-03-13 2003-09-18 Pleiman Brian Ralph Corner storage container

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CH416987A (de) * 1963-01-05 1966-07-15 Mayer Anneliese Aktenregal
US3679164A (en) * 1970-03-05 1972-07-25 Martin Bard Shelf-supporting standard
DE8912225U1 (de) * 1989-10-14 1990-02-01 Hanhardt Möbelwerke GmbH + Co KG, 4835 Rietberg Rundabschlußecke für Wohnwandsysteme
DE20203068U1 (de) * 2002-02-27 2002-06-27 Herbstritt, Michael, Dipl.-Ing. (FH), 79336 Herbolzheim Modular erweiterbares Möbel, insbesondere Bad- oder Duschaccessoire
JP5835571B2 (ja) * 2011-11-30 2015-12-24 株式会社サヌキ コーナー棚装置

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GB2214782A (en) * 1988-02-16 1989-09-13 Anthony John Carr Shelving
EP0862876A1 (de) * 1997-03-07 1998-09-09 Bellplex Limited Regale
DE29821130U1 (de) * 1998-11-25 1999-03-04 Rauch Möbelwerke GmbH, 97896 Freudenberg Begehbare Eckschränke
DE29920947U1 (de) * 1998-11-30 2000-03-16 Lindeqvist, Kent, Malmö Aufbewahrungseinrichtung
US20030173877A1 (en) * 2002-03-13 2003-09-18 Pleiman Brian Ralph Corner storage container

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