Chair guide

Abstract

The invention relates to a device (5) for supporting and for movably guiding a chair (6) in a slotted guide (8, 8.1, 8.2), which is provided in a housing (7) and is designed as an elongated hole guide, having a carriage (10) that can be moved in the slotted guide (8, 8.1, 8.2) and supports a chair receptacle (9) of the chair (6). In order to be able to use this device in a more varied manner, according to the invention, the slotted guide (8, 8.1, 8.2) has at least two slotted guide tracks (13, 14), between which an adjustable track switch (12) is provided in order to transfer the chair (6) out of the one slotted guide track (13) into the other slotted guide track (14), and vice versa.

Claims

1. A device comprising: a housing comprising a slotted guide comprising slotted guide tracks, wherein each slotted guide track is an elongated hole guide; a carriage supported in the slotted guide, the carriage configured to support a chair receptacle configured to receive a chair and the carriage further configured to movably guide the chair receptacle in the slotted guide; an adjustable switch, wherein the slotted guide tracks include a first slotted guide track and a second slotted guide track, wherein the adjustable switch is arranged between the first and the second slotted guide tracks and is configured to transfer the chair receptacle from the first slotted guide track into the second slotted guide track and from the second slotted guide track into the first slotted guide track.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the first and the second slotted guide tracks are angularly positioned relative to each other.

3. The device according to claim 2, wherein the first and the second slotted guide tracks are positioned at a right angle relative to each other.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein the switch comprises a slotted guide arranged coaxially to the first slotted guide track in a first operating position and arranged coaxially to the second slotted guide track in a second operating position.

5. The device according to claim 4, wherein the elongated hole guides of the slotted guide tracks each comprise two elongated holes arranged at a first distance to each other, and wherein the slotted guide of the switch comprises two elongated holes arranged at a second distance to each other, wherein the first and second distances are identical.

6. The device according to claim 1, wherein the switch is rotatably supported.

7. The device according to claim 1, wherein the switch is lockable in operating positions thereof.

8. The device according to claim 1, wherein the chair receptacle together with a chair received in the chair receptacle is movable via the switch from the first slotted guide track into the second slotted guide track and the chair, together with the chair receptacle and the switch, is pivotable from a first position into a second position.

9. The device according to claim 1, wherein the chair receptacle together with a chair received in the chair receptacle is movable via the switch from the second slotted guide track into the first slotted guide track and the chair, together with the chair receptacle and the switch, is pivotable from a first position into a second position.

10. The device according to claim 1, wherein the housing and the switch are planar with a floor of an installation room in which the device is installed.

11. The device according to claim 10, wherein the installation room is provided in a building, a mobile home, a travel trailer, a boat, or a yacht.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

(1) With respect to further important embodiments, reference is being had to further dependent claims, the following description, and the drawing. The drawing shows in:

(2) FIG. 1: an embodiment of the device according to the invention, illustrated in an arrangement in a mobile home with two chairs at a rectangular table in first chair guiding positions;

(3) FIG. 2: the embodiment according to FIG. 1 in a different view;

(4) FIG. 3: an illustration of the embodiment according to FIG. 1 analog to FIG. 1 with a chair that has been moved into a switch;

(5) FIG. 4: the embodiment according to FIGS. 1 and 2 in a view at a slant from behind;

(6) FIG. 5: the embodiment according to FIG. 1 with two chairs of which one is arranged at the longitudinal side of a table and a second one at the end face of a table;

(7) FIG. 6: the embodiment according to FIG. 5 in a different perspective; and

(8) FIG. 7: the embodiment according to FIG. 5 with illustration of a chair additionally arranged therein.

(9) The drawing uses identical reference characters for identical parts.

DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

(10) The drawings show in general as a whole the receiving space 1, not illustrated, in a mobile home, a building, a boat, a yacht or the like installation room with respective outer walls 2, a floor 3, and a chassis 4 on which the floor 3 is supported. The device 5 for supporting and movably guiding chairs 6 is provided in the floor 3 and comprises a housing 7 with a slotted guide 8 which, in the illustrated embodiment, is comprised of two elongated holes 8.1 and 8.2, which is engaged by a chair receptacle 9 that comprises a carriage 10 by means of which the chair receptacle 9 together with the chair 6 can be moved along the elongated holes 8.1 and 8.2.

(11) A switch 12 is provided between the two slotted guide tracks 13 and 14. The slotted guide tracks 13 and 14 are aligned at a right angle to each other and can be connected mutually by means of the rotatable switch 12.

(12) In FIG. 1, a position of the switch 12 is illustrated in which its longitudinal guides are oriented, coaxial to the longitudinal guides 8.1 and 8.2 slotted guide track 14, while in the embodiment according to FIGS. 5, 6, and 7 the switch 12 with its elongated holes is coaxially oriented relative to the elongated holes 8.2 and 8.3 of the slotted guide 13 at the end face 15 of the table 16 and no longer oriented relative to the longitudinal side 17 of the table 16.

(13) The adjustment of the switch 12 can be done manually but also by a motor, for example. Moreover, securing means are provided in order to lock the respective chair 6 in each position. This includes that the chair can also be locked at the switch 12.

(14) Due to the slotted guide tracks 13 and 14, of which also more than two can be provided, a variation-rich positioning of chairs 6 is possible, namely, depending on the application situation or operating state of the installation room 1, be it in solid buildings or be it in movable installation rooms such as in travel trailers, mobile homes, yachts and the like. As illustrated in FIG. 7, due to the movability of the chairs 6 in the slotted guide tracks 13 and 14, the possibility is also provided to accommodate an additional chair 18, as illustrated in FIG. 7.