TABLE SYSTEM

Abstract

A workplace system includes at least two workplace pieces of furniture which make a work surface available. The workplace pieces of furniture are connected to one another by a rotary, movable connection means.

Claims

1. A workplace system comprising: at least two workplace pieces of furniture which make a work surface available, wherein the workplace pieces of furniture are connected to one another by a rotary, movable connection means.

2. The workplace system according to claim 1, wherein the workplace pieces of furniture are tables.

3. The workplace system according to claim 2, wherein the tables each comprise a table frame and/or a standing leg on which the rotary, movable connecting means is arranged or constructed.

4. The workplace system according to claim 2, wherein the rotary, movable connection means includes at least a first connection arm of a first table, a second connection arm of a second table and a rotary articulation arranged between the two connection arms.

5. The workplace system according to claim 1, wherein the rotary, movable connection means runs along a floor.

6. The workplace system according to claim 1, wherein each workplace piece of furniture comprises a foot, preferably a V-shaped foot consisting of two foot sections oriented at an angle a relative to one another, wherein the feet are preferably arranged adjacent to a lower end of a standing leg.

7. The workplace system according to claim 6, wherein a foot section of each foot forms a connection arm of the rotary, movable connection means.

8. The workplace system according to claim 2, wherein at least one table has a height-adjustable table frame in order to be able to adjust a table working plate of the table in height.

9. The workplace system according to claim 4, wherein the connection arms of the workplace pieces of furniture can be arranged at a changeable angle β to one another in such a manner that a distance of the tables, measured at an end of the connection arms to one another, changes in such a manner that as the angle β changes in an angular range of 90° to 180°, the distance changes up to a maximum value.

10. The workplace system according to claim 2, wherein adjacent table side edges, which are arranged above the connecting element when observed from above, run in a front area located in a direction of a front table edge in such a manner that a distance between the table side edges becomes larger at least in sections at an angle β=90° in the direction of the front table edge.

Description

DRAWINGS

[0028] In the drawings:

[0029] FIG. 1 shows a view of an exemplary embodiment of a table system of the disclosure consisting of two tables;

[0030] FIG. 2 shows a front view of the exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 1;

[0031] FIG. 3 shows a bottom view of the exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 1;

[0032] FIG. 4 shows a view of the table system of the exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 1 in different mounting positions;

[0033] FIG. 5 shows the mounting positions of FIG. 4 in a bottom view;

[0034] FIG. 6 shows a sectional view along intersection line A-A in FIG. 1; and

[0035] FIG. 7 shows a detail of the rotary articulation of the table system of FIG. 6.

DESCRIPTION

[0036] The disclosure is explained in detail in the following with reference made to the FIGS. 1 to 7, wherein the same reference numbers in the figures refer to the same structural and/or functional features.

[0037] FIG. 1 shows a top view of an exemplary embodiment of a workplace system according to the disclosure, namely a table system 1 consisting of two tables 10, 20. The tables 10, 20 each comprise a table plate (10a, 20a) each with a work surface 11, 21.

[0038] The two tables 10, 20 are connected to one another in a rotating, movable manner by a rotating, movable connection means 30 via the rotary articulation 31. Accordingly, the table 20 can be rotated through an angle β relative to the table 10. In the view of FIG. 1 the angle β=90°. In such a mounting position of the two tables relative to one another the tables are arranged in series adjacent to one another and the front table edges 18a, 28a and the rear table edges 18c, 28c run in a parallel manner. The two tables side edges 18d, 28d, which face away from one another, also run in parallel while the immediately adjacent table edges 18b, 28b run away from one another.

[0039] As can furthermore be seen, e.g., from the FIGS. 2 and 3, the tables 10, 20 each have a table frame 12, 22 and a standing leg 15a, 25a on which the rotary, movable connection means 30 is arranged and constructed. Furthermore, another traditional standing leg 15b, 25b is on the particular opposite (outer) table side of the tables 10, 20.

[0040] It can be readily recognized in the bottom view according to FIG. 3 that a foot (14, 24) consisting of two foot sections 14a, 24a is formed on the lower end of the table legs 15a, 15b and 25a, 25b.

[0041] The rotary, movable connection means 30 consists here of a first foot section 14a of the V-shaped foot 14 of the first table 10 and of a second foot section 24a of the foot 24 of the V-shaped foot of the second table 20, wherein the two foot sections 14a, 24a are connected to one another by a rotary articulation 31.

[0042] Therefore, the two foot sections 14a, 24a are simultaneously the connection arms 13, 23 between the two tables in this exemplary embodiment. In a less advantageous embodiment the connection arms could also be arranged further above and separated from the table legs.

[0043] Furthermore, the position of the table legs 15a, 15b, 25a, 25b and of the supports of the table which form the vertical sections of the table legs are shown in the bottom view of FIG. 3.

[0044] FIGS. 4 and 5 show a view of the table system 1 of the exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 1 in different mounting positions (once in a top view and once in a bottom view (with sketched-in dotted help lines).

[0045] The top view shows a mounting position in which the angle β between the foot sections 14a, 24a participating in the connection element 30 is approximately 90° and the tables are accordingly arranged adjacent to one another in series. The relative position of the tables to one another is accordingly 0° or 180° (as a consequence of the mirror-image alignment of the tables). As can be readily recognized from the help lines in FIG. 5, the distance A between the table legs 15a, 25a at the angle β of 90° is minimal whereas the distance A at the maximal angle of β=180°, as can be seen in the lower view of FIGS. 4 and 5, is maximal.

[0046] The middle view shows an intermediate state at an angle β of approximately 130° and a distance A between the table legs 15a, 25a which is less in comparison to the lower view A.

[0047] The lateral table edges 18b, 28b (side edges) which are immediately adjacent in the FIG. 4 in the top view and which are arranged above the connection element 30, viewed vertically upward, run in an area located in the front of the particular table front edge 18a, 28a so that the distance B1 becomes greater between the lateral table edges 18b, 28b at an angle β=90° in the direction of the front table edge 18a, 28a at least in sections. This has the advantage that in an arrangement of the tables 10, 20 in a lower view such as shown in FIG. 4 in which the angle β=180°, not only is a collision between the table corners concerned prevented but a remaining distance is ensured.

[0048] FIG. 6 shows a sectional view along the section line A-A from FIG. 1 and FIG. 7 shows a detail of the rotary articulation of the table system from FIG. 6. As FIG. 6 shows, the tables 10, 20 can be adjusted in height. The articulation 31 consists of two flat articulation plates 31a, 31b which are formed by the foot parts 14a, 24a on the end side. The end of the one foot part 14a of the first table 10 is semicircular and engages into a corresponding partially circular recess on the end of the other foot part 24a of the second table 20. A U-shaped profile 35 on which a flat profile is placed runs along the bottom of the foot parts 14a, 24a.

[0049] As is shown in FIG. 4 (lower illustration), an articulation web 33 on the front side on the first foot part 14a and with an opening 36 formed in it projects over the flat part 34 of the other foot part 24a and is connected to the latter by an articulation about the shaft 37 in a rotary, movable manner.

[0050] The disclosure is not limited in its execution to the above-indicated preferred exemplary embodiments but rather a number of variants is conceivable which make use of the presented solution even in the case of basically differently designed embodiments.