U.S. patent application number 14/006636 was filed with the patent office on 2014-01-16 for hooking device for fixing a drawer to a guide.
This patent application is currently assigned to ARTURO SALICE S.P.A.. The applicant listed for this patent is Luciano Salice. Invention is credited to Luciano Salice.
Application Number | 20140015392 14/006636 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 44584360 |
Filed Date | 2014-01-16 |
United States Patent
Application |
20140015392 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Salice; Luciano |
January 16, 2014 |
HOOKING DEVICE FOR FIXING A DRAWER TO A GUIDE
Abstract
The hooking device (10) for fixing a drawer (20) or the like to
a pull-out longitudinal guide (11) premountable on a body of an
article of furniture comprises a body (12) applicable to the
pull-out part (11A) of the guide and a hooking member (17) which in
the mounting condition extends upwards and is insertable in a hole
(18) provided on the drawer (20); the hooking member (17) is
separate and connected in a movable and adjustable way to the body
(12) of the device, and adjusting means (23, 31) are provided for
adjusting the position of the hooking member (17) with respect to
the body (12) of the device.
Inventors: |
Salice; Luciano; (Carimate,
IT) |
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Applicant: |
Name |
City |
State |
Country |
Type |
Salice; Luciano |
Carimate |
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IT |
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Assignee: |
ARTURO SALICE S.P.A.
Novedrate
IT
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Family ID: |
44584360 |
Appl. No.: |
14/006636 |
Filed: |
July 27, 2012 |
PCT Filed: |
July 27, 2012 |
PCT NO: |
PCT/EP2012/064829 |
371 Date: |
September 20, 2013 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
312/334.44 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A47B 88/483 20170101;
A47B 88/427 20170101; A47B 88/423 20170101 |
Class at
Publication: |
312/334.44 |
International
Class: |
A47B 88/12 20060101
A47B088/12; A47B 88/04 20060101 A47B088/04 |
Foreign Application Data
Date |
Code |
Application Number |
Jul 29, 2011 |
IT |
MI2011A001454 |
Claims
1. Hooking device for fixing a drawer or the like to a longitudinal
pullout guide pre-mountable to the body of a piece of furniture,
the device comprising a body applicable to the pull-out part of the
guide and a hooking member for the drawer, insertable in a hole
provided on the drawer, which in the mounted position extends
upwards, and is insertable in a hole afforded in the drawer,
wherein said hooking member is separate and connected in a movable
and adjustable way to the body of the device, and in that wherein
adjusting means are provided for adjusting the position of the
hooking member with respect to the body of the device.
2. Hooking device according to claim 1, characterized in that
wherein the hooking member is movable and adjustable with respect
to the body in the longitudinal pull-out direction of the
guide.
3. Hooking device according to claim 2, wherein the hooking member
is adjustable with respect to the body crosswise to the
longitudinal pull-out direction of the guide, in a horizontal plane
in which the drawer lies.
4. Hooking device according to claim 2, wherein the hooking member
is formed on an element, separate from the body, connected to the
body in a movable and adjustable way with respect to the body
parallely to the longitudinal pull-out direction of the guide.
5. Hooking device according to claim 4, wherein said separate
element is conformed as a slider, slidably inserted longitudinally
in a seating provided in a side wing of the body.
6. Hooking device according to claim 5, wherein said adjusting
means comprise a toothed wheel, rotatably disposed in a housing
seat of the wing, and a toothing longitudinally extending on the
slider, the toothed wheel and the toothing being engaged with each
other.
7. Hooking device according to claim 5, wherein said adjusting
means further comprise releasable retaining means between the
slider and the wing of the body.
8. Hooking device according to claim 7, wherein said retaining
means comprise opposite cross toothings respectively on the slider
and on a part of the wing of the body, said toothings being
engageable with each other in different positions corresponding to
the longitudinal adjusting positions of the slider.
9. Hooking device according to claim 5, wherein said adjusting
means comprise a wheel supported in a rotating seating fashioned on
said lateral wing, the wheel being provided with a spiral guide
which enmeshes in projections facing towards the spiral guide and
fashioned on the slider.
10. Hooking device according to claim 2, wherein the hooking member
is formed on a support separate from an element in turn separate
from the body, said element being connected to the body in a
movable and adjustable way with respect to the body parallely to
the pull-out direction of the guide, said support being connected
to said element in a movable and adjustable way with respect to
said element for adjusting the position of the hooking member at
least crosswise to the pull-out direction of the guide.
11. Hooking device according to claim 10, wherein the hooking
member is disposed in eccentric position on said support formed by
a disc rotatably housed in a hole of said slider.
12. Hooking device according to claim 1, further comprising a front
member connected to the body in an elastically yieldable way
conformed and disposed to be inserted in a corresponding seat of
the front wall of the drawer.
13. Hooking device according to claim 5, wherein the separate
element consists of sheared piece of sheet metal, the hooking
member being formed by a upwardly bent part of the sheet of the
separate element, said separate element being releasably fixed to
the wing of the body by a screw extending through a longitudinal
slot of the same element for engaging in a threaded hole provided
in the wing.
14. (canceled)
15. (canceled)
16. Hooking device according to claim 1, in combination with and
operably connected to a pull-out guide for drawers and the
like.
17. Hooking device according to claim 16, wherein the pull-out
guide is operably connected to a drawer.
Description
[0001] The invention relates to a hooking device for a fixing a
drawer or the like to a pull-out guide premountable on a body of an
article of furniture, the device being of a type applicable to the
guide and exhibiting a hooking pin insertable in a mounting
position in a hole afforded on the drawer.
[0002] It is well known the use of hooking devices, or clip
devices, applicable to the front end of the extraction guides for
drawers, which devices exhibit a pin insertable in a mounting
position in a hole afforded on the lower part of the drawer for
fixing the drawer to the extracting guide. The devices enable
limiting the operations required on the drawer and thus
conventionally exhibit height adjusting means, which enable
aligning the fronts of the drawers so that they are parallel to one
another.
[0003] However there is the problem that the fronts of the drawers,
once mounted, can also be in an advanced or retracted position
and/or displaced laterally with respect to one another due to
working errors or tolerances or erroneous positioning of the
holes.
[0004] There exists, therefore, the need for a hooking device of
the sort under consideration, which enables the above-mentioned
drawer positioning problems to be obviated, and which is also
constructionally simple and easy to be mounted; it also enables
compensating working and/or hole-drilling operation errors on the
drawer as well as recuperating any eventual play that might exist
between the guide and the drawer.
[0005] The aim of the invention is thus to provide a hooking device
of a type with a hooking pin insertable in a hole afforded on the
drawer, which is constructionally simple and easy to be mounted,
and which can enable a correct reciprocal positioning of the
drawers, while at the same time enabling a compensation of working
errors and/or hole-drilling errors, and allowing a recuperation of
any play that might exist between the guide and the drawer.
[0006] The above can be attained with a hooking device for fixing a
drawer or the like to a longitudinal pull-out guide pre-mountable
to the body of a piece of furniture, the device comprising a body
connectable to the pull-out part of the guide and a hooking member
for the drawer, which in mounting condition extends upwards and is
insertable in a hole provided on the drawer, characterized in that
said hooking member is separate and connected in a movable and
adjustable way to the body of the device, and in that adjusting
means are provided for adjusting the position of the hooking member
with respect to the body of the device.
[0007] Further characteristics of the present invention will be
further defined in the following claims.
[0008] The characteristics and advantages of the present invention
will be more fully evident from the following description of
preferential but not exclusive embodiments of the hooking device
for fixing a drawer or the like to a longitudinal pull-out guide,
with reference to the accompanying figures of the drawings, in
which:
[0009] FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a pull-out guide for
drawers, provided with a hooking device for fixing a drawer
according to the present invention;
[0010] FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the guide of FIG. 1
along line 2-2, in which a drawer is hooked to the device according
to the present invention;
[0011] FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view from above of a
hooking device for fixing a drawer, according to a first embodiment
of the present invention;
[0012] FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view from below of the
hooking device of FIG. 3;
[0013] FIGS. 5 and 6 are perspective views from above of the
hooking device of FIG. 3, with the hooking member regulated in an
advanced position and respectively in a retracted position;
[0014] FIG. 7 is an exploded perspective view from above of a
slider for the hooking device, by means of which, in conformity
with a second embodiment of the invention, the hooking member is
connected to the body of the device adjustably transversally to the
pull-out direction of the guide;
[0015] FIG. 8 is an exploded perspective view from below of the
slider of FIG. 7;
[0016] FIG. 9 is an exploded perspective view of a hooking device
for fixing a drawer, according to a third embodiment of the present
invention;
[0017] FIGS. 10 and 11 show a perspective view from above of a
hooking device for fixing a drawer, according to a fourth
embodiment of the present invention, in the two end adjustment
positions;
[0018] FIGS. 12 and 13 show an exploded perspective view from above
and respectively from below of the hooking device of FIGS. 10 and
11.
[0019] The hooking device according to the present invention,
denoted in its entirety with reference numeral 10, is of a type
applicable to a front end of the mobile part 11A of a pull-out
guide 11 for drawers or the like, premountable on the body of a
piece of furniture, and is provided with a suitable hooking member
for fixing the drawer, as will be more fully explained herein
below.
[0020] In particular, as illustrated in figures from 1 to 6, the
device 10 comprises a body 12, preferably made of a plastic
material, which extends along a longitudinal axis, which exhibits
an axial extension 12' conformed such as to be insertable or in any
case connectable and fixable to the front end of the mobile part
11A of the guide 11, such as to be arranged parallel to the
longitudinal pull-out direction of the guide 11.
[0021] The body 12 of the device on a first longitudinal side
exhibits a support wing 14 for a height-adjusting means 15 of known
type for the drawer, while on a second longitudinal side opposite
the preceding side it exhibits a support wing 16 for a hooking
member 17 for the drawer, preferably in the form of a pin, which in
mounting conditions extends upwards and is insertable in a hole or
a seating 18 afforded on the drawer, for example on the lower side
of a lateral wall 19 of the drawer 20, as illustrated in FIG.
2.
[0022] According to the present invention, the hooking member 17 is
separate and connected movably and adjustably to the body 12 of the
device 10, and means are provided for adjusting the position of the
hooking member 17 with respect to the body 12 of the device.
[0023] In a preferential embodiment of the invention, the hooking
member 17 is adjustable with respect to the body 12 in the
longitudinal pull-out direction of the guide 11.
[0024] Alternatively, the hooking member 17 is adjustable with
respect to the body 12 transversally to the longitudinal pull-out
direction of the guide 11, or both in a longitudinal direction and
in a transversal direction to the longitudinal pull-out direction
of the guide 11, in a horizontal lie plane of the drawer.
[0025] More specifically, for the purposes of the above-mentioned
longitudinal regulation, the hooking member 17 is preferably formed
on an element 21, separate from the body 12, which element 21 is
connected to the body 12 movably and adjustably such as to enable a
displacement of the hooking member 17 in different positions
parallel to the pull-out direction of the guide 11.
[0026] According to an exemplary embodiment, illustrated in greater
detail in figures from 3 to 6, the separate element 21 provided
with the hooking member 17 is in the form of a slider 21, which is
inserted slidably longitudinally in a seating or elongate cavity 22
afforded in the lateral wing 16 of the body 12, such as to enable
longitudinal displacement of the pin 17 with respect to the body
12.
[0027] With the aim of regulating and blocking the slider 21 is
position, as mentioned, adjusting means are provided, which for
example comprise a toothed wheel 23, arranged rotatably but not
axially displaceably in a housing seating 24 below the wing 16, as
well as a toothing 25 which extends longitudinally on the slider 21
such as to engage with the toothed wheel 23 and enable
longitudinally adjusting the slider 21 with a suitable rotation of
the toothed wheel 23, for example by engaging a suitable tool in a
profiled hole 23' thereof.
[0028] In order to achieve a rotating constraint in the housing
seating 24 of the wing 16, the toothed wheel 23 further exhibits a
disc 23'' coupled to the wheel in an axially distanced position
such as to define an intermediate annular engaging seating for an
arched edge 24' of the seating 24.
[0029] The adjusting means further comprise releasable retaining
means between the slider 21 and the wing 16 of the body 12, such as
to enable selective blocking of the slider 21 in the different
adjustment positions; the retaining means can for example be
realised in the form of transversal opposite toothings 26, 27,
afforded respectively on the slider 21 and on a part of the wing 16
internally of the cavity 22, which are engageable to one another
slidably in different positions corresponding to the longitudinal
adjusting positions of the slider 21.
[0030] With the aim of preventing withdrawal of the slider 21, a
peg 28 is preferably provided, which extends internally of the
cavity 22 of the wing 16 such as to engage in a longitudinal slot
29 of the slider 21; for the purposes of the mounting of the slider
21 in the cavity 22 of the wing 16, the peg 28 extends starting
from a flexible tab 30 of the wing 16, such as to enable insertion
of the peg 28 in the slot 29 by flexion of the tab 30.
[0031] As illustrated in FIGS. 5 and 6, thanks to the
above-described solution the hooking member 17 can be regulated
simply and rapidly in the longitudinal extraction direction of the
guide 11 in different positions comprised between a completely
advanced position and a completely retracted position.
[0032] FIGS. 7 and 8 illustrate a further embodiment of the
invention in which similar or equivalent parts have been denoted
using the same numerical references. In particular, in FIGS. 7 and
8 a slider 21 is illustrated for the hooking device 10, by means of
which the hooking member 17 is not only adjustable in a
longitudinal direction but is also adjustable with respect to the
body 12 transversally to the longitudinal pull-out direction of the
guide 11, in a horizontal lie plane of the drawer.
[0033] In particular, in the exemplary embodiment, the hooking
member 17 is formed on a support 31 separate from the slider 21 in
turn separate from the body 12. The support 31 is connected to the
slider 21 in a movable and adjustable way with respect to the
slider 21, for adjusting the position of the hooking member 17 at
least transversally to the pull-out direction of the guide 11. By
way of example, the support 31 is formed by a disc 31 on which the
hooking member 17 is positioned offset. The disc 31 is housed
rotatably in a through-hole 32 of the slider 21. In this way, by
suitably rotating the disc 31 for example by means of a suitable
tool inserted in a profiled cavity 33, the position of the hooking
member 17 can be regulated in the above-mentioned transversal
direction. Instead, the position of the hooking member 17 in the
longitudinal direction in this case is defined both by the angular
position of the disc 31 and by the longitudinal position of the
slider 21.
[0034] For the purpose of retaining the disc 31 in the hole 32 of
the slider 21, the hole 32 exhibits a stop having an annular edge
34 at an axial end and at the other end an elastic tab 35 which
enables, after insertion of the disc 31, retaining the disc 31 in
position.
[0035] Instead, for the purposes of the rotational blocking of the
disc 31 in the various regulating positions, the disc 31 and the
hole 32 exhibit knurling 36, 37 on the peripheral surfaces,
respectively external and internal which, by engaging with one
another, prevent a free rotation of the disc 31.
[0036] FIG. 9 exhibits a third embodiment of the invention, in
which similar or equivalent parts have been denoted using the same
reference numerals. In this embodiment, the slider 21 is made of a
profiled metal sheet, with the hooking member 17 formed by folding
a part of the sheet metal of the slider 21 upwards, enabling a
simplification at the constructional level.
[0037] The slider 21 is for example mounted slidably longitudinally
in a guide seating 42 afforded on an upper side of the lateral wing
16 of the body 12, or it can be mounted directly on the upper
surface of the wing 16, such as to enable a longitudinal
displacement of the hooking member 17 with respect to the body 12.
With the aim of regulating and blocking the slider 21 in position,
for example a lockscrew 43 can be provided which extends through a
slot 44 fashioned longitudinally in the slider 21 such as to engage
in a threaded hole 45 in the wing 16; in this case, the
longitudinal regulating of the slider 21 can be manually realised,
after unblocking the screw 43.
[0038] Finally, in this case too opposite transversal toothings 26,
27 are provided, fashioned respectively on the slider 21 and on a
part of the wing 16 internally of the cavity 42, which are
engageable to one another in different positions corresponding to
the longitudinal regulating positions of the slider 21, such as to
enable selective blocking of the slider 21 in the different
regulating positions.
[0039] FIGS. 10-13 illustrate a further embodiment of the
regulating means of the longitudinal position of the hooking member
17 which in this case comprise a wheel 50, supported in a rotating
seating 53 fashioned on the lateral wing 16, and provided with a
spiral guide 51 which enmeshes with projections 52 facing towards
the guide and afforded on the slider 21. The longitudinal guide for
the slider 21 is obtained by means of U-folded parts 54 of the
slider 21, which surround the wing 16 of the body 12, and by a pin
55 equipped with a head 56 fixed in the wing 16 and crossing a slot
57 afforded in the slider 21. The wheel 50 projects laterally from
its rotating seating 53 in order to be activatable manually by the
user, and perimetrally exhibits a knurling 58 which facilitates
gripping thereof for command thereof. The wheel 50 is alternatively
activatable by means of a tool. For this purpose the wheel 50
centrally exhibits, on the opposite side to the side on which the
spiral guide 51 is fashioned, a centring pin 59 in the seating 53
inserted in a through-hole 60 in the wing 16, and the end of the
pin 59 has a notch 61 that is engageable by the tip of the
tool.
[0040] The above-described embodiments represent possible examples
which should not be taken to limit the invention; according to the
present invention, different modes of connection of the hooking
member 17 to the body 12 of the device 10 can be provided, as well
as different means for regulating the position of the hooking
member 17 with respect to the body 12 of the device, by means of
screw means, cam means, wedge means or the like.
[0041] The hooking device 10 preferably further comprises a peg or
lateral anti-tilt fixing organ 38 for the drawer, which extends
through a through-hole and is transversally mobile to the axis of
the body 12 such as to engage in a seating or slot, not
illustrated, elongate in a longitudinal direction, provided in a
lower prolongation 19' of the lateral wall 19 of the drawer 20.
[0042] Once the drawer 20 has been correctly mounted on the
pull-out guides 11, the fixing peg 38 enables the drawer 20 to be
solidly anchored to the hooking devices 10.
[0043] For activation thereof, the fixing peg 38 exhibits at an end
thereof a manual gripping means, for example in the form of a flat
prolongation 39, such as to be able to slide the pin 38 easily such
as to engage or disengage it from the seating in the lateral wall
19 of the drawer.
[0044] The hooking device 10 can further comprise a pin or frontal
organ 40 which can be used as an anti-tilt fixing means, in
substitution for or in addition to the lateral fixing peg 38.
[0045] In particular, the front pin 40 extends axially starting
from a transversal wing 41 that is flexible or elastically yielding
located at an end of the body 12 facing towards the front wall of
the drawer 20.
[0046] The front wall of the drawer 20 exhibits a seating or
engaging hole, in which the pin 40 inserts in the mounted condition
of the drawer 20.
[0047] As is clear from the foregoing, the hooking device according
to the present invention exhibits a simple construction that is
easy to mount, as the base structure of the body of the device and
the fixing means thereof to the guide are not modified with respect
to the known hooking devices; further, thanks to the regulation of
the hooking member of the invention, the drawers can be optimally
positioned with regard to one another, enabling compensation of
working errors and/or drilling errors on the drawer, and
recuperating any play that there might be between the guide and the
drawer.
[0048] The hooking device according to the invention is however
susceptible to modifications and variants which fall within the
scope of the inventive concept; further, the constructional details
can be replaced by technically equivalent elements.
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