Set of components for constructing furniture pieces

• US 4,875,418 A
• Filed: 10/14/1988
• Issued: 10/24/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nixdorf Computer AG (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Nixdorf Computer AG (Siemens AG)
• Inventors: Stumpf, Jorg, Doinghaus, Hermann, Hardt, Walter, Moeckl, Ernst
• Primary Examiner(s): Aschenbrenner, Peter A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chen, Jose V.
• Application Number:
  US07/258,078
• Time in Patent Office: 375 Days
• Field of Search: 108/50, 108/111, 108/153, 108/157, 312/257 SK, 312/257 R, 312/223, 288/188, 403/231, 403/403, 403/205
• US Class Current: 108/50.02
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 13/003 Connecting table tops to underframes connecting furniture tubing to non-tubular parts F16B12/42
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 17/00 Writing-tables
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 21/06 characterised by means for holding, fastening or concealing cables
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2200/0013 Desks with central bearing beams
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2200/0028 Attachment of desk lateral uprights
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2200/0085 Supplementary support fixed on the edge of a desk or table
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2200/0086 Supplementary support fixed to the extension of a table leg
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 3/06 with separable parts

Abstract

A set of components for making furniture includes at least an elongated support section (102), connectable with at least one surface element (18) and/or at least one further support section, with such components providing a cable channel (104) extending along the support section (102).

Claims

1. A construction set for furniture pieces, said construction set comprising:

a connecting element having a longitudinal axis;

a first part and a second part, each of said first and second parts having inner and outer faces;

said connecting element being constructed as to be connected in a predetermined arrangement to said first and to said second parts along each of said first and second part inner faces to hold said first and second parts in assembly with one another and with said connecting element;

said first part when said connecting element is connected to said first and second parts in said predetermined arrangement being spaced from said inner surface of said second part to define a slot therebetween and portions of said inner face of said first and second parts together with a portion of said connecting element defining a channel extending along said longitudinal axis and communicating with said slot;

said channel being accessible from the outer faces of each of said first and second parts to allow a cable to be placed into said channel by moving such cable laterally of itself from a position in front of said outer faces to a position behind said inner faces of said first and second parts;

said connecting element being a corner connecting element with two flanges each containing flat fastening faces extending parallel to said longitudinal axis of said connecting element and arranged at an angle to one another;

said first and second parts are respectively connected adjacent their said inner faces to said fastening faces of said connecting element;

said two fastening faces each terminating short of an intersection line of two planes containing said two fastening faces

said connecting element, said first and said second parts when said two parts are connected to said connecting element forming said channel which channel is defined by portions of said inner faces of said first and second parts located between said termination of each fastening face and said intersection line and by said portion of said connecting element.

2. A construction set for furniture pieces, said construction set comprising:

a connecting element having a longitudinal axis;

a first part and a second part, each of said first and second parts having inner and outer faces;

said connecting element being constructed as to be connected in a predetermined arrangement to said first and to said second parts along each of said first and second part inner faces to hold said first and second parts in assembly with one another and with said connecting element;

said first part when said connecting element is connected to said first and second parts in said predetermined arrangement being spaced from said inner surface of said second part to define a slot therebetween and portions of said inner face of said first and second parts together with a portion of said connecting element defining a channel extending along said longitudinal axis and communicating with said slot;

said channel being accessible from the outer faces of each of said first and second parts to allow a cable to be placed into said channel by moving such cable laterally of itself from a position in front of said outer faces to a position behind said inner faces of said first and second parts; and

said connecting element has a first channel extending parallel to said longitudinal axis of said connecting element with a circular shaped cross section and has a second channel with a polygonal cross section extending parallel to said longitudinal axis of said connecting element.

3. A furniture construction set according to claim 2 further characterized in that said first channel is bordered by a partially cylindrical wall section with which said flanges are connected.

said intervening surface between said edges of said support member being defined in part by said partially cylindrical wall section and in part by said flanges.

4. A furniture construction set according to claim 2 further characterized in that said second channel has a rectangular cross section.

5. A furniture construction set according to claim 2 further characterized in that it includes at least one support yoke with at least one shank whose outer cross section corresponds to the inner cross section of one of said first and second channels.

6. A construction set for furniture pieces, said construction set comprising:

a connecting element having a longitudinal axis;

a first part and a second part, each of said first and second parts having inner and outer faces;

said connecting element being constructed as to be connected in a predetermined arrangement to said first and to said second parts along each of said first and second part inner faces to hold said first and second parts in assembly with one another and with said connecting element;

said first part when said connecting element is connected to said first and second parts in said predetermined arrangement being spaced from said inner surface of said second part to define a slot therebetween and portions of said inner face of said first and second parts together with a portion of said connecting element defining a channel extending along said longitudinal axis and communicating with said slot;

said channel being accessible from the outer faces of each of said first and second parts to allow a cable to be placed into said channel by moving such cable laterally of itself from a position in front of said outer faces to a position behind said inner faces of said first and second parts;

said connecting element being the first of three such connecting elements included in said construction set, said first one of said connecting element is formed as an elongated girder having a longitudinal axis, and said first and second parts being connected with said first connecting element such that said first part being is a table plate which is connected to said girder for movement about an axis parallel to said longitudinal axis of said girder and said second part is a rear wall; and

said second and third connecting elements are each connected with adjacent portions of said rear wall.

7. A construction set according to claim 6 further characterized by each of said second and third connecting elements has a longitudinal axis and includes a channel extending parallel to its longitudinal axis, and said girder being the middle section of a C-shaped yoke having shanks arranged perpendicular to said middle section, said shanks being insertable in said channels of said second and third connecting elements.

8. Furniture construction set according to claim 7, further characterized by said table plate having inner and outer parallel faces and engaging elements fixed to said inner face, and in that on said girder is arranged a support bracket extending parallel to the longitudinal axis of said girder, which bracket is inclined with respect to a plane perpendicular to said shanks of said yoke and which bracket has elongated hole type apertures for receiving said engaging elements of said table plate.

9. A furniture construction set according to claim 8 further characterized in that said engaging elements are made of an elastic material and each have a shank portion as well as a head portion of larger diameter than the width of said apertures in said bracket.

10. A furniture construction set according to claim 7 further characterized in that said cable channel extending along the longitudinal axis of said girder is formed by a bracket fastened to said girder, which bracket extends parallel to said longitudinal axis of said girder and which bracket opens upwardly.

11. A furniture construction set according to claim 10 further characterized by said table plate having parallel inner and outer faces and engaging elements fixed to said inner face, and

in that said cable channel formed by said bracket includes a support bracket portion, which support bracket portion is inclined with respect to the plane perpendicular to said shanks of said yoke and which support bracket portion has elongated hole type apertures for receiving said engaging elements of said table plate.

12. A furniture construction set according to claim 10 further characterized in that said bracket is made of one piece with said girder.

13. A furniture construction set according to claim 6 further characterized in that said girder is a simple tube having circular cross section,

said table plate having parallel inner and outer faces are parallel with one another, and

shackles fastened to said inner face of said table plate and adapted to at least partly surround said tube to connect said table plate to said tube.