Fitting for a corner cupboard and corner cupboard with fitting
10092094 ยท 2018-10-09
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Abstract
A fitting for a corner cupboard comprises a support arm mounted to a basis such that it can be pivoted in a pivoting movement about a first vertical pivot axis; an elongated tray supported on the support arm such that it can be pulled out in a pull-out movement along a horizontal axis. A coupling device coupling the pivoting movement of the support arm to the pull-out movement of the tray comprises a control arm which, at its one end, is mounted to the basis such that it can be pivoted about a second vertical pivot axis and which, at its other end, is mounted to the tray such that it can be pivoted about a third vertical pivot axis. In a pushed-in position of the tray the second pivot axis, when viewing along the horizontal axis, is arranged between the first and third pivot axes.
Claims
1. A fitting for a corner cupboard, the fitting comprising a basis having fixation devices configured for fixation of the basis in a stationary way; a support arm mounted to the basis in such a way that it, with regard to the basis, can be pivoted in a pivoting movement about a first vertical pivot axis out of a swung-in position into a swung-out position; a tray which is elongated along a horizontal axis and supported on the support arm by means of at least two drawer rails, and which, with regard to the support arm, can be pulled out in a pull-out movement in a direction along the horizontal axis out of a pushed-in position into a pulled-out position, wherein stationary parts of the at least two drawer rails are fixed to the support arm, and wherein movable parts of the drawer rails are fixed to the lower face of the tray, and a coupling device coupling the pivoting movement of the support arm with regard to the basis to the pull-out movement of the tray with regard to the support arm, wherein the coupling device comprises a control arm which, at its one end, is mounted to the basis in such a way that it, with regard to the basis, can be pivoted about a second vertical pivot axis and which, at its other end, is mounted to the tray in such a way that it, with regard to the tray, can be pivoted about a third vertical pivot axis, wherein the third pivot axis, with regard to the pull-out movement, runs in a back area of the tray, and wherein the second pivot axis, in the pushed-in position of the tray, when viewing along the horizontal axis, is arranged between the first pivot axis and the third pivot axis.
2. The fitting of claim 1, wherein a distance between the first pivot axis and the second pivot axis, in the pushed-in position of the tray, when viewing along the horizontal axis, is 30 to 70% of a distance between the first pivot axis and the third pivot axis.
3. The fitting of claim 1, wherein the control arm, in each pivot position about the second pivot axis with regard to the basis, has a positively defined length between the second pivot axis and the third pivot axis.
4. The fitting of claim 1, wherein the control arm comprises a plurality of partial arms which are pivotable with regard to each other about further vertical pivot axes, and wherein the control arm has a length varying over its pivoting positions about the second pivot axis with regard to the basis.
5. The fitting of claim 4, wherein a control pin extending vertically from one of the partial arms of the control arm engages a horizontally running horizontal cam track which is stationary either with regard to the basis or with regard to the tray.
6. The fitting of claim 5, wherein the cam track runs around the second pivot axis in the basis.
7. The fitting of claim 4, wherein the control arm has three partial arms, wherein two of the three partial arms are connected to each other via a horizontal elongated hole in one of the two partial arms in a pivoting way, whereas the other vertical pivot axes between the partial arms are fixed along the partial arms.
8. The fitting of claim 4, wherein the control arm has four partial arms in a four joint arrangement, wherein the four partial arms are optionally provided in a parallelogram control lever arrangement.
9. The fitting of claim 1, wherein a tension spring is attached to the basis and the control arm in such a way that it loads the tray when approaching its pushed-in position into this pushed-in position and when approaching its pulled-out position into this pulled-out position.
10. The fitting of claim 9, wherein the tension spring, in the pushed-in position of the tray, runs on that side of the second pivot axis facing away from the tray, and, in the pulled-out position of the tray, runs on that side of the second pivot axis facing the tray.
11. The fitting of claim 1, wherein the basis includes a vertical support column which comprises the fixation devices at its upper and its lower end.
12. The fitting of claim 11, wherein a base of the basis to which the support arm is mounted in a pivoting way is mounted to the support column in a height adjustable way.
13. The fitting of claim 12, wherein a plurality of bases for a plurality of support arms for a plurality of trays are mounted to the support column one above the other.
14. The fitting of claim 12, wherein the support column, in the pushed-in position of the tray, when viewing along the horizontal axis, is located between the first vertical pivot axis and the second vertical pivot axis.
15. The fitting of claim 12, wherein the support column, in the pushed-in position of the tray, is located on one side of a vertical plane defined by the first pivot axis and the second pivot axis, whereas the drawer rails arranged between the support arm and the tray are located on the other side of this vertical plane.
16. A corner cupboard comprising a corpus, a cuboid-shaped interior defined by the corpus, a door opening only extending over a part of a width of the interior, and a fitting comprising a basis fixed to the corpus in a stationary way by means of fixation devices; a support arm mounted to the basis in such a way that it, with regard to the basis, can be pivoted in a pivoting movement about a first vertical pivot axis out of a swung-in position into a swung-out position; a tray which is elongated along a horizontal axis and supported on the support arm by means of at least two drawer rails, and which, with regard to the support arm, can be pulled out in a pull-out movement in a direction along the horizontal axis out of a pushed-in position into a pulled-out position, wherein stationary parts of the at least two drawer rails are fixed to the support arm, and wherein movable parts of the drawer rails are fixed to the lower face of the tray, and a coupling device coupling the pivoting movement of the support arm with regard to the basis to the pull-out movement of the tray with regard to the support arm, wherein the coupling device comprises a control arm which, at its one end, is mounted to the basis in such a way that it, with regard to the basis, can be pivoted about a second vertical pivot axis and which, at its other end, is mounted to the tray in such a way that it, with regard to the tray, can be pivoted about a third vertical pivot axis, wherein the third pivot axis, with regard to the pull-out movement, runs in a back area of the tray, and wherein the second pivot axis, in the pushed-in position of the tray, when viewing along the horizontal axis, is arranged between the first pivot axis and the third pivot axis.
17. The corner cupboard of claim 16, wherein the basis is fixed to the corpus in an area of the interior located beside the door opening.
18. The corner cupboard of claim 16, wherein the first vertical pivot axis runs through an area of the interior of the corner cupboard located behind the door opening.
19. The corner cupboard of claim 16, wherein a coupling element which is at least tensionally stiff is jointed to the tray and to a cupboard door, wherein the cupboard door can be pivoted to open about a vertical door pivot axis running in an area of the front cupboard middle, wherein the tray, when pivoting the cupboard door to open, is moved by the coupling element out of the interior of the corner cupboard, and wherein the cupboard door, when moving the tray into the interior, is pivoted to be closed by the coupling element.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
(1) The invention can be better understood with reference to the following drawings. The components in the drawings are not necessarily to scale, emphasis instead being placed upon clearly illustrating the principles of the present invention. In the drawings, like reference numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the several views.
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DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
(8) The term corner cupboard refers to a cupboard whose corpus defines a cuboid interior which is accessible via a door opening only extending over about approximately half of the width of the interior. Therefore, trays supported in the corpus can only easily be loaded and unloaded if they can be moved out of the interior through the door opening to at least a substantial extent. The invention relates to a fitting which enables such a movement of one or more trayshaving an area as large as possiblethrough the door opening.
(9) In one embodiment of a fitting for a corner cupboard comprising a basis having a fixation device for fixation in a stationary way, a support arm mounted on the basis to be pivotable around a first vertical pivot axis from a swung-in position into a swung-out position in a pivoting movement, a tray elongated along a horizontal axis and supported on the support arm in a way that allows it to be pulled out from a pushed-in position into a pulled-out position in a pull-put movement along the axis and a coupling device coupling the pivoting movement of the support arm with the pull-out movement of the tray, the coupling device comprises a control arm which on its one end is mounted to the basis pivotably around a second pivot axis and on its other end is mounted to the tray pivotably around a third pivot axis. The third pivot axis runs in a back area of the tray with respect to the pull-out movement, and the second pivot axis in the pulled-in position of the tray lies between the first pivot axis and the third pivot axis when viewed along the horizontal axis.
(10) In one embodiment of the fitting for a corner cupboard, a distance between the first pivot axis and the second pivot axis in the pulled-in position of the tray, when viewed along the horizontal axis, is in a range from 10 to 90%, or from 20 to 80%, or from 30 to 70% or from 40 to 60% of a distance between the first pivot axis and the third pivot axis. Correspondingly, a distance between the second pivot axis and the third pivot axis then is in a range from 90 to 10%, or from 80 to 20%, or from 70 to 30%, or from 60 to 40% of the distance between the first pivot axis and the third pivot axis.
(11) In the fitting, the tray is in a proven and reliable way supported via the support arm, with respect to which the tray is linearly displaceable and which with respect to the spatially fixed basis of the fitting is pivotable. The control arm of the coupling device serves exclusively for coupling the pivoting movement of the support arm and the pull-out movement of the tray. The second pivot axis, around which the control arm is pivotable with respect to the basis, lies further back than the first vertical pivot axis around which the support arm is pivotable with respect to the basis when viewed in the direction of the horizontal axis along which the tray is extendable with respect to the support arm in the pushed-in position of the tray. The third vertical pivot axis, around which the control arm is pivotably supported on the tray, in this view lies even farther back. The back area of the tray, in which the third pivot axis runs, can even lie outside a storage area of the tray. Then, the control arm is supported pivotably around the third pivot axis on a fixed cantilever arm of the tray which juts out to the back from the storage area of the tray. The control arm causes a complete overlay of the pull-out movement of the tray and the pivoting movement of the support arm, where the relative shares starting from the pushed-in position of the tray continuously shift from the pivot movement to the pull-out movement. In the opposite direction of movement of the tray into its pushed-in position it is the other way around.
(12) In the fitting, the control arm, in each pivot position around the second pivot axis, has a positively defined length between the second pivot axis and the third pivot axis with respect to the basis. This positively defined length can be constant over all pivot positions around the second pivot axis with respect to the basis. Then, the coupling device of the fitting is constructed in an especially simple way.
(13) In one embodiment, the control arm comprises a plurality of partial arms pivotable with respect to one another around further vertical pivot axes and a length varying over its pivot positions around the second pivot axis with respect to the basis realised in this way. With the aid of the variable, but for each pivot position around the second pivot axis still positively defined length of the control arm, the coupling device of the fitting may even guide a tray of maximum dimensions, that is, a maximum area, securely through the door opening of the respective corner cupboard without striking against the corpus of the corner cupboard. In other words, by the aid of a variable length of the control arm, the area of the tray can be increased at constant dimensions of the corner cupboard with respect to a control arm of constant length.
(14) In order to set the length of the control arm dependently on its pivot position around the second pivot axis, a control pin extending vertically from a partial arm of the control arm can engage with a horizontally running horizontal cam track stationary with respect to the basis with the tray. Preferably, the cam track in the basis runs around the second pivot axis. In order to reduce friction between the control pin and the cam track, on the control pin a guiding roller can be supported via which the control pin engages with the edge of the cam track.
(15) Practically, the control arm may have three partial arms, where two of the three partial arms are connected with each other via a horizontal elongated hole in one of the two partial arms in a pivoting way, while the other vertical pivot axes between the partial arms are fixed along the partial arms. The partial arms can all be straight. Especially the partial arm with the elongated hole can also be curved, however, and the elongated hole extending along this partial arm can have a correspondingly curved shape.
(16) In another practical embodiment, the control arm has four partial arms in a four-joint arrangement. Two of the four partial arms can be arranged in a parallelogram control lever arrangement, where at least one, frequently two of the partial arms can protrude outwards over the four pivot axes formed between the four partial arms.
(17) In the fitting, a tension spring may be attached to the basis and the control arm in such a way that it loads the tray into its pushed-in position when it approaches this pushed-in position and into its pulled-out position when it approaches this pulled-out position. The tension spring in this way does not only provide self-closing for the tray, but also brings the tray completely into its pulled-out position and keeps it in this pulled-out position until it is consciously pushed back. Practically, the tension spring in the pushed-in position of the tray can run on the side of the pivot axis turned away from the tray and in the pulled-out position of the tray run on the side of the second pivot axis turned towards the tray. This means that during the pulling-out of the tray the tension spring moves over the second pivot axis and at the same time reaches its point of maximum extension.
(18) The basis of the fitting may include a vertical support column which comprises the fixation devices on its upper and lower end. This support column can be fixed in the interior of the respective corner cupboard next to the door opening.
(19) Furthermore, the basis may comprise a base on which the support arm is mounted pivotably and which generally is supported on the support column fixedly, but in a height-adjustable way. Several bases for several trays can be mounted on the support column one above the other.
(20) In the pushed-in position of the tray, when viewed along the horizontal axis, the support column can lie between the first and the second pivot axis. In this way, the first pivot axis around which the support arm is pivotable, when viewed from the support column, is arranged in the direction of pulling out, while the second pivot axis is arranged further back in the interior of the cupboard.
(21) Furthermore, the support column in the pushed-in position of the tray may be on one side of a vertical plane defined by the first pivot axis and the second pivot axis while drawer rails arranged between this support arm and the tray lie on the other side of this vertical plane. The tray itself in its pushed-in position can jut out over the plane defined by the first and the second pivot axis, so that the support arm and the control arm are arranged below the tray on the basis.
(22) A corner cupboard according to the invention comprising a corpus, a cuboid-shaped interior defined by the corpus and a door opening extending over only a part of a width of the interior comprises a fitting according to the invention fixed to the corpus with its basis.
(23) The basis preferably is not fixed to the corpus in a region of the interior lying behind the door opening but in a region of the interior lying next to the door opening. The first vertical pivot axis pivotably around which the support arm is mounted to the basis, on the contrary, preferably runs through the region of the interior of the corner cupboard lying behind the door opening.
(24) Typically, the corner cupboard will comprise a cupboard door that can be pivotably opened around a vertical door pivot axis lying in the region of the front cupboard centre. To the cupboard door and the traywith the lowest tray, if there are several traysa coupling element that is at least stiff with regard to tension can be linked. Through this coupling element, the tray can be moved out of the interior of the corner cupboard at the pivoting open of the cupboard door, while by the coupling element the cupboard door is pivoted closed again when the tray is moved inside the interior. The multiple joint arrangement formed by the door, the coupling element and the tray mounted via the support arm of the basis is not completely defined even when the coupling element is not only stiff with regard to tension but also stiff with regard to pressure. The coupling element therefore does not replace the control arm of the fitting. If several trays are provided, as has been hinted at, only the lowest may be moved out of the interior with the cupboard door. Then items placed on it are approachable. When needed, a further tray arranged above it can be separately moved out of the interior of the corner cupboard and back into the interior of the corner cupboard.
(25) Now referring in greater detail to the drawings, the fitting 1 shown in
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(30) Many variations and modifications may be made to the preferred embodiments of the invention without departing substantially from the spirit and principles of the invention. All such modifications and variations are intended to be included herein within the scope of the present invention, as defined by the following claims.