U.S. patent application number 11/630346 was filed with the patent office on 2007-10-04 for build-up furniture.
Invention is credited to Seong Hwan Cho.
Application Number | 20070227994 11/630346 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 35783091 |
Filed Date | 2007-10-04 |
United States Patent
Application |
20070227994 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Cho; Seong Hwan |
October 4, 2007 |
Build-Up Furniture
Abstract
The invention relates to a build-up furniture which is so
constructed as to maintain the rigid assembled state in a
self-standing state or the state of being unfixed to the walls or
other structures and which can be conveniently assembled at homes
without the need for using drills or screw drivers. According to
the aspect of the invention, there is provided a build-up furniture
which comprises vertical frames (10) each formed, along the length
thereof, with pierced holes (11), horizontal frames (20) each
formed, along the length thereof, with pierced holes (21),
connection blocks (30) each provided with a vertical insertion part
(32) and with horizontal insertion parts (34), the connection
blocks being disposed at the intersecting positions of the vertical
frames (10) with the horizontal frames (20); and clamping bolts or
pins (40) provided, at one ends, with heads (41) and connected, at
the other ends, to caps or nuts (45).
Inventors: |
Cho; Seong Hwan; (Incheon,
KR) |
Correspondence
Address: |
BACON & THOMAS, PLLC
625 SLATERS LANE
FOURTH FLOOR
ALEXANDRIA
VA
22314
US
|
Family ID: |
35783091 |
Appl. No.: |
11/630346 |
Filed: |
June 14, 2005 |
PCT Filed: |
June 14, 2005 |
PCT NO: |
PCT/KR05/01805 |
371 Date: |
December 21, 2006 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
211/188 ;
211/190; 211/194 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A47B 47/005
20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
211/188 ;
211/190; 211/194 |
International
Class: |
A47B 47/00 20060101
A47B047/00 |
Foreign Application Data
Date |
Code |
Application Number |
Jul 2, 2004 |
KR |
10-2004-0051648 |
Claims
1. A build-up furniture which comprises vertical frames (10) each
formed, along the length thereof, with pierced holes (11), the
frames standing in the vertical direction; horizontal frames (20)
each formed, along the length thereof, with pierced holes (21), the
frames being disposed to intersect horizontally the vertical frames
(10); connection blocks (30) each provided with a vertical
insertion part (32) and with horizontal insertion parts (34), each
vertical insertion part being formed with a connection hole (31)
corresponding to the piercing holes (11) of the vertical frame
(10), each horizontal insertion part being formed with a connection
hole (33) corresponding to the piercing holes (21) of the
horizontal frame (20), the connection blocks being disposed at the
intersecting positions of the vertical frames (10) with the
horizontal frames (20); and clamping bolts or pins (40) provided,
at one ends, with heads (41) and connected, at the other ends, to
caps or nuts (45), the bolts or pins 40 passing through the
connection holes (31, 33) and the piercing holes (11, 21), wherein
the bolts serve for secured connection of the vertical and
horizontal frames (10, 20) with the connection blocks (30).
2. The build-up furniture of claim 1, further comprising: shelf
rests (60), wherein the connection blocks (30) are extended at the
sides thereof by the prescribed area so that the corner edges of
the shelves (50) may rest on the extended areas.
3. The build-up furniture of claim 1 which is constructed in such a
way that the lower ends of the vertical frames (10) are connected
to bolt shafts (70) having external circumferential threads (71)
and the bolt shafts (70) are enclosed by height controlling members
(80) having internal circumferential threads (81), in order to
control the height of the vertical frames (10) by turning the
height controlling members (80).
4. The build-up furniture of claim 2 which is constructed in such a
way that the lower ends of the vertical frames (10) are connected
to bolt shafts (70) having external circumferential threads (71)
and the bolt shafts (70) are enclosed by height controlling members
(80) having internal circumferential threads (81), in order to
control the height of the vertical frames (10) by turning the
height controlling members (80).
Description
TECHNICAL FIELD
[0001] 1. Field of the Invention
[0002] The present invention relates to a build-up furniture and
more particularly to a build-up furniture with a new structure,
which maintains a rigid assembled structure without being fixed to
walls and which can be assembled easily without using separate
tools.
[0003] 2. Background of the Invention
[0004] Generally, for stationary built-in receptacles or lockers or
dressing rooms or the like, there are used build-up furniture in
which vertical frames and horizontal frames are connected in a
manner of crossing each other, wherein hanger bars or shelves are
connected to those frames to receive clothes or other things. Such
an assembly-type furniture is required to assemble rigidly to hold
the weight of the clothes or other things.
[0005] Conventionally, the rear parts of vertical frames,
horizontal frames or shelves were fixed to walls or the like by
using bolts or other appropriate clamping means in order to ensure
the rigid assembly of the build-up furniture. Such an installation
method through fixing the build-up furniture to walls was
associated with problems in that complicated construction methods
such as forming holes in walls by using drills, clamping bolts by
using screw drivers or so on were necessary and further the already
installed build-up furniture was difficult to move to other place
or to alter in its configuration.
[0006] On the other hand, some of the conventional build-up
furniture are assembled so that the tops and bottoms of the
vertical frames are borne under pressure on the ceilings and
floors. However, while this kind of the methods may be adapted for
bathrooms or the like to accommodate a small number of towels or
light stuffs as the construction itself is hard to withstand a high
load, the method may be inappropriate to apply to built-in lockers
or dressing rooms for receiving a great number of clothes or the
like.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0007] The present invention is devised to solve the
above-described conventional problems and so the object of the
invention is to provide a build-up furniture which is so
constructed as to maintain the rigid assembled state in a
self-standing state or the state of being unfixed to the walls or
other structures and which can be conveniently assembled at homes
without the need for using drills or screw drivers.
[0008] According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a
build-up furniture which comprises vertical frames (10) each
formed, along the length thereof, with pierced holes (11), the
frames standing in the vertical direction; horizontal frames (20)
each formed, along the length thereof, with pierced holes (21), the
frames being disposed to intersect horizontally the vertical frames
(10); connection blocks (30) each provided with a vertical
insertion part (32) and with horizontal insertion parts (34), each
vertical insertion part being formed with a connection hole (31)
corresponding to the piercing holes (11) of the vertical frame
(10), each horizontal insertion part being formed with a connection
hole (33) corresponding to the piercing holes (21) of the
horizontal frame (20), the connection blocks being disposed at the
intersecting positions of the vertical frames (10) with the
horizontal frames (20); and clamping bolts or pins (40) provided,
at one ends, with heads (41) and connected, at the other ends, to
caps or nuts (45), the bolts or pins 40 passing through the
connection holes (31, 33) and the piercing holes (11, 21), wherein
the bolts serve for secured connection of the vertical and
horizontal frames (10, 20) with the connection blocks (30).
[0009] According to another feature of the invention, the build-up
furniture further includes shelf rests (60), wherein the connection
blocks (30) are extended at the sides thereof by the prescribed
area so that the corner edges of the shelves (50) may rest on the
extended areas.
[0010] According to still other feature of the invention, the
build-up furniture is constructed in such a way that the lower ends
of the vertical frames (10) are connected to bolt shafts (70)
having external circumferential threads (71) and the bolt shafts
(70) are enclosed by height controlling members (80) having
internal circumferential threads (81), in order to control the
height of the vertical frames (11) by turning the height
controlling members (80).
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0011] FIG. 1 shows the perspective view of the invention.
[0012] FIG. 2 shows the exploded view of the main portion of the
invention.
[0013] FIG. 3 shows the perspective view of the shelf rest of the
invention.
[0014] FIG. 4 is the cross section of the height controlling member
of FIG. 1.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
[0015] A preferred embodiment of the invention is now described in
detail below by referring to the accompanying drawings.
[0016] FIG. 1 shows the perspective view of a build-up furniture
according to an embodiment of the invention, FIG. 2 shows the
exploded view illustrating the relation of connecting a connection
block with a vertical and horizontal frames in the invention, FIG.
3 shows the perspective view illustrating the way of resting a
shelf on a connection block in the invention and FIG. 4 shows the
cross section illustrating the connecting structure of the height
controlling member in the invention.
[0017] It is seen from FIG. 1 that a build-up furniture according
to an embodiment of the invention is principally constructed by
connecting plural vertical frames 10 and horizontal frames 20 to
intersect each other through connecting blocks 30. The connecting
block 30 is formed with the vertical insertion part 32 to receive
the vertical frame 10 and the horizontal insertion parts 34 to
receive horizontal frames 20 so that the vertical and horizontal
insertion parts 32 and 34 may intersect at the right angle.
Further, the vertical insertion part 32 is formed with a vertical
through-opening to receive the vertical frame and the horizontal
insertion parts 34, which are formed with horizontal
through-openings to receive the horizontal frames, are branched off
horizontally at the middle position of the connection block 30, in
the number depending on the horizontal frames 20. The vertical
frames 10 and the horizontal frames 20 are respectively formed with
a number of pierced holes or through-holes 11 and 21 along the
length of frames for free selection. Some of the horizontal frames
20 may be formed with pierced holes or through-holes 21 only at the
opposite ends of the frame as shown in FIG. 2. The vertical and
horizontal insertion parts 32 and 34 of the connection block 30 are
respectively formed with connection holes 31 and 33 at the
positions corresponding to the through-holes 11 and 21. These
connection holes 31 and 33 and through-holes 11 and 21 are engaged
with the clamping bolts 40 to ensure strong clamping of the
vertical and horizontal frames 10 and 20 to the connection block
30. The clamping bolts 40 are formed with heads 41 at one ends of
the bolts and are to be engaged with caps 45 at the other ends of
the bolts after insertion. The other ends of the bolts 40 are
formed with engaging projections or engaging recesses 42, while the
cap nuts 45, which are preferably made of a soft synthetic resin to
render elasticity, are correspondingly formed, on the inner
circumferential surfaces of the nuts, with the engaging recesses or
engaging projections 46. Thus, the nuts 45 can be prevented from
falling off the clamping bolts 40, unless the nuts 45 are stripped
off compulsorily.
[0018] FIG. 3 is the perspective view in which a shelf 50 is rested
on the shelf rests 60 provided on connection blocks 30. Referring
to this figure, the horizontal insertion parts 34 of the connection
blocks 30 are horizontally and inwardly extended on the sides
thereof to form the shelf rests 60 having a predetermined area to
support the corner edges of the shelf 60. Preferably, the shelf
rest 60 is formed in the form of a sector between two horizontal
insertion parts 34. As shown in FIG. 3, the four corners of a shelf
can be seated on the shelf rests 60 provided on the connection
blocks 30 without a need for assembling tools, wherein the position
of the shelf 50 is fixed by the weight of the articles put on the
shelf 50.
[0019] FIG. 4 shows the cross section illustrating the state in
which the height controlling member 80 is provided on the lower end
of a vertical frame 10. By referring to the figure, the lower end
of the vertical frame 10 is provided with a bolt shaft 70, on the
outer circumference of which the height controlling member 80 is
connected. The lower outer circumference of the bolt shaft 70 is
formed with a thread 71, whereas the inner circumference of the
height controlling member 80 is formed with a thread 81 to engage
with the counterpart thread 71. Accordingly, the rotation of the
height controlling member 80 relative to the bolt shaft 70 causes
the vertical frame 10 to move up or down. This height controlling
member 80 is used either to control the installation height of the
inventive build-up furniture or to adjust the levelling of the
furniture.
[0020] The build-up furniture according to the invention, as
described above, can be installed by simple processes including the
steps of inserting the vertical and horizontal frames 10 and 20 in
the connection blocks 30, passing the clamping bolts 40 through the
connection holes 31 and 33 formed in the connection blocks 30 as
well as the through-holes 11 and 21 formed in the frames 10 and 20,
and finally screwing the nuts 45 of elastic material to the other
ends of the clamping bolts 40. Subsequently, a simple work of
resting the shelves 50 on the shelf rests 60 provided on the
connection blocks 30 is conducted to complete the installation of
the inventive build-up furniture.
[0021] Accordingly, the installation of the build-up furniture is
possible through a simple assembling hand-work without using
particular tools and without fixing a part of components of the
furniture to walls or other building structure to thereby result in
the overall strong assembled state.
[0022] As described in the above, the present invention is not
simply restricted to the illustrated embodiments and accompanying
drawings and thus it is to be understood by the men with ordinary
skill in the art that various replacements, modifications and
alterations within the scope which would not depart from the
technical idea of the invention are possible.
INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY
[0023] Therefore, the advantages of the invention may be briefed as
follows. According to the present invention, the present furniture
can be assembled by simple work of inserting the vertical and
horizontal frames in the connection
[0024] blocks, and then firmly securing the vertical and horizontal
frames to the connection blocks by using clamping bolts and nuts
without using special tools. The rigid assembled state can result
without fixing a part of components of the furniture to walls or
other building structure. The installation is completed by simply
putting the shelves on the shelf rests provided with the connection
blocks.
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