ES1062635U - Column for furniture (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Column for furniture, especially for glazed or opaque panel furniture, in which said panels or plates are established between columns, characterized because it is constituted by the functional combination of two grooved profiles or corners, one exterior and one interior, interlocking tongue-and-groove or through hooks through their mouths, with the particularity that in said coupling define two longitudinal grooves, on adjacent faces of the column, width according to the thickness of the plates or panels to be received in said grooves. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

Furniture column.

Object of the invention

The present invention relates to a column conceived as a structural component of a piece of furniture, which results especially suitable for the conformation of exhibitors glazed, but that can also be adapted to furniture with wood panels, DM, laminates, etc.

The object of the invention is a metal column, of high mechanical resistance, formed by a bipartite structure, whose two components are mounted virtually instantaneously, by hooks or tongue and groove, in the absence of screws or other similar fixing means, to which they are easily fixed the panels or plates that converge on it.

Background of the invention

Metal columns are known for furniture,  specifically for shelves, generally constituted by a unique profile, profusely grooved, so that collaborating with said columns also metal trays, depending on shelves, it is these trays that assemble the furniture when screwed strongly to the columns, usually with the contest of squads

This type of columns is not equipped with media. to allow comfortable fixing to them of the panels side enclosure of furniture, regardless of materials used, and its aesthetic leaves much to be desired, what remains in background given the practical utility of this type of shelves

Trying to eliminate the problem that the mounting of the screws with which shelves and columns are fixed the shelves mentioned are also known shelves based of metal columns with grooves in which fittings are attached complementary that allow the fixing of the shelves by hooks, but this solution does not improve the aesthetics of the furniture.

There are also profiles for columns that they have tongue and groove lid, normally placed under pressure, as a decorative complement, but not as a structural part of the column.

Any of the cited columns is not even much less the most suitable to make a display cabinet glazed, for example.

Description of the invention

The column proposed by the invention has been conceived and structured in order to achieve parallel to a solid structuring of the furniture of which it is part, a perfect aesthetic finish for it, allowing to combine different materials and finishes, which has a positive and positive impact important in the furniture as a whole.

For this and in a more concrete way, said column It is constituted by two ribbed profiles, of which one of them, the one destined to constitute the external profile, incorporates level of its mouth two staggered remissions perpendicular to each other, intended to receive the second profile, provided in turn with two partitions orthogonally angled towards inside intended to be coupled by hooks in "L" to another profile, configuring with the latter's remissions longitudinal grooves on two adjacent faces of the column, intended to receive complementary plates or panels that participate in the furniture.

According to another of the characteristics of the invention there are "L" hooks on both profiles, and they are oriented in the opposite direction to each other, so that whatever whatever position the column profiles adopt, with one from the ends facing down or up, always a profile will support the other, specifically the one with the hooks oriented upwards, establishing the definitive fixation between both profiles by simply bending a tab of one of them coupled in a slot of the other, or by screwed, riveted or welded.

These profiles, like corners, can give place to a polygonal prismatic column, of living vertices, or of any other form deemed convenient, rounding or chamfering the vertices of the profiles, grooving their faces, etc.

Finally and as a complement to the structure described, interior and exterior profiles or corners can have slots and holes for mounting the enclosures furniture sides and for other accessories.

Description of the drawings

To complement the description that is being performing and in order to help a better understanding of the characteristics of the invention, according to a preferred example of practical realization of it, is accompanied as part member of that description, a set of drawings where with illustrative and non-limiting nature, what has been represented next:

Figure 1.- Shows a development of the sheet from which you start to obtain the profile or corner exterior that participates in the column for furniture that the invention proposes.

Figure 2.- Shows a detail in section cross section of the profile obtained from the sheet of the figure previous.

Figures 3 and 4.- Show representations respectively similar to those in figures 1 and 2, but corresponding to the profile or inner corner.

Figure 5.- Shows, finally, the two profiles of the previous figures duly mounted together, configuring the column for which they have been planned.

Preferred Embodiment of the Invention

In view of the figures outlined you can observe how the column that is recommended is constituted to from a profile or outer corner (1) and a second profile or inner corner (2), while the profile (1) of a rectangular sheet (1 '), considerably elongated, equipped next to one of its edges of a plurality of hooks (3) of "L" configuration and next to the other edge of grooves (4), whose  purpose will be seen next.

The sheet (1 ') is folded forming the profile fluted showing figure 2, with a wide dihedral bottom and rectum, whose mouth suffers staggered and symmetrical remission (5) that define a pair of fins (6) perpendicular to each other and sharply distanced.

The sheet (2 ') corresponding to the profile or inner corner (2) also incorporates in one of its longitudinal edges a plurality of "L" hooks (7) and next to its opposite edge a plurality of grooves (8), so that the hooks (7) of this profile or inner corner are intended to fit in the grooves (4) of the outer corner (1), and vice versa, that is the hooks (3) of the corner exterior intended to engage in the grooves (8) of the inner corner, leaving the hooks (3) and (7) oriented in opposite direction, as seen in figures 1 and 3.

The sheet (2 ') from which the corner is obtained interior (2), also adopts a ribbed configuration, with its dihedral and straight bottom, and with its mouth accused by two partitions (9) angled orthogonally inwards, perpendicular to each other and perpendicular to the end walls (6) of the mouth of the outer corner (1), so that one and the other partitions support their free edges and remain hooked by hooks (3) and (7) as shown in the Figure 5, defining two grooves (10) intended to receive the plates or panels (11) that also participate in the furniture, settling between columns (1-2) of same.

Obviously the amplitude of the grooves (10) will be appropriate in each case to the thickness of the aforementioned boards or panels.

Finally and as a complement to the structure described, the sheet (2 ') constituting the inner corner (2) It also has slots and holes (12) in its middle area that allow the assembly of side panels, furniture back, shelves and other accessories as mentioned above, slots and holes that the sheet may also have (1 ') constitutive of the outer corner (1).

It only remains to point out that either profiles that participate in the column, preferably the profile or inner corner (2), incorporates a small fin (13), in any appropriate place of the same, that after assembling both profiles, folding it will go through a complementary groove of the another cantonera, and ensures the definitive fixation between both profiles or corners, which is the same, the stability of the column as a whole.

Claims (6)

1. Column for furniture, especially for glazed display units or with opaque panels, in which said panels or plates are established between columns, characterized in that it is constituted by the functional combination of two corrugated profiles or corners, one exterior and one interior, intercoupled tongue and groove or through hooks through their openings, with the particularity that in said coupling define two longitudinal grooves, on adjacent sides of the column, of width according to the thickness of the plates or panels to be received in said grooves. 2. Column for furniture, according to claim 1, characterized in that the profile corresponding to the outer corner has a dihedral and straight bottom and a strangulated mouth, with branches perpendicular to the adjacent faces of the dihedral and provided with staggered recesses determining two perpendicular tabs between yes and considerably distanced, of which one of them is provided at its free edge with a plurality of "L" hooks, while the other is provided near its edge with an alignment of grooves, presenting the profile of the inner corner also a dihedral and straight configuration, with internal orthogonal couplings in its mouth determining determinants of similarly perpendicular to each other, one provided with "L" hooks for coupling in the grooves of the other corner, and the other provided with grooves for coupling the "L" hooks of the outer corner. 3. Column for furniture, according to previous claims, characterized in that the length of the staggered recesses of the mouth of the outer corner, determine the amplitude of the grooves defined in the column, according to the thickness of the plates or boards that complement the furniture . 4. Column for furniture, according to previous claims, characterized in that the "L" hooks of the outer corner are oriented in the opposite direction as the "L" hooks of the inner corner. 5. Column for furniture, according to previous claims, characterized in that at least one of the corners incorporates at least one of its edges at least one fin which, in a situation of mounting the column, crosses a slot of the other corner and folds down to permanently immobilize both corners. 6. Column for furniture, according to previous claims, characterized in that the profiles or corners incorporate in its middle zone longitudinal grooves and holes for coupling of rear and side panels, as well as other accessories.