Adjustment device for drawer faceplates

• US 9,125,490 B2
• Filed: 07/03/2013
• Issued: 09/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Julius BLUM GmbH (BLUM Verwaltung GmbH)
• Original Assignee: Julius BLUM GmbH (BLUM Verwaltung GmbH)
• Inventors: Haemmerle, Kurt, Holzer, Andreas
• Primary Examiner(s): Troy, Daniel J
• Assistant Examiner(s): ROERSMA, ANDREW MARK
• Application Number:
  US13/934,919
• Publication Number:
  US 20130293078A1
• Time in Patent Office: 797 Days
• Field of Search: 312/334.4, 312/334.5, 312/330.1, 312/348.1, 312/348.2, 312/334.6, 312/334.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 88/40 Sliding drawers; Slides or guides therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 88/427 at drawer side
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 88/956 for enabling adjustment of the front panel

Abstract

A device for detachably coupling a drawer to an extendable rail of a pull-out guide including an adjusting device by which a position of a drawer connected to the rail is adjustable relative to the rail in a lateral direction. The adjusting device includes a fastening part that can be fastened to the drawer and a coupling part that can be coupled to the rail. The fastening part is linearly movable by the adjusting device relative to the coupling part, and the adjustment device includes a setting wheel mounted on the coupling part or on the fastening part so as to rotate about an axis. The adjustment device also includes at least two axially spaced transmission devices for converting a rotary movement of the setting wheel into a linear movement of the fastening part relative to the coupling part.

Claims

1. A coupling device for detachably coupling a drawer to an extendable rail of a pull-out guide, said coupling device comprising:

a fastening part to be fastened to the drawer;

a coupling part to be coupled to the extendable rail; and

an adjustment device configured to adjust a position of said fastening part relative to said coupling part in a lateral direction with respect to a longitudinal axis of the extendable rail by linearly moving said fastening part relative to said coupling part so as to thereby adjust a position of the drawer relative to the extendable rail in the lateral direction, said adjustment device including;

a setting wheel having a circumferential actuating region and output drive portions on opposite sides thereof, said setting wheel being rotatably mounted to a first one of said coupling part or said fastening part; and

at least two axially spaced transmission devices mounted to a second one of said coupling part or said fastening part, said second one being different than said first one, said at least two transmission devices being configured to convert a rotational movement of said setting wheel into a linear movement of said fastening part relative to said coupling part for adjusting the position of said fastening part relative to said coupling part in the lateral direction.

2. The coupling device according to claim 1, wherein said adjustment device is self-locking.

3. The coupling device according to claim 1, wherein said setting wheel comprises two half side portions, each of said half side portions engaging with a one of said at least two transmission devices.

4. The coupling device according to claim 3, wherein a front side of each of said two half side portions of said setting wheel composes a respective one of said output drive portions and is formed as a spiral disc engaging a respective one of said at least two transmission devices for converting the rotational movement of said setting wheel into the linear movement.

5. The coupling device according to claim 1, wherein said setting wheel is rotatably mounted on said fastening part, said at least two transmission devices being mounted on said coupling part, said at least two transmission devices comprising at least two lugs each having a portion formed thereon configured to convert the rotational movement of said setting wheel into the linear movement of said fastening part relative to said coupling part.

6. The coupling device according to claim 5, wherein said portion formed on each of said at least two lugs is a toothed strip portion.

7. The coupling device according to claim 1, wherein said setting wheel is rotatably mounted on said coupling part, said at least two transmission devices being mounted on said fastening part, said at least two transmission devices comprising at least two lugs each having a portion formed thereon configured to convert the rotational movement of said setting wheel into the linear movement of said fastening part relative to said coupling part.

8. The coupling device according to claim 7, wherein said portion formed on each of said at least two lugs is a toothed strip portion.

9. The coupling device according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said at least two transmission devices comprises toothed strips on said second one of said coupling part or said fastening part.

10. The coupling device according to claim 1, wherein said setting wheel includes two connected portions each having a respective one of said output drive portions configured to engage a respective one of said at least two transmission devices for converting the rotational movement of said setting wheel into the linear movement of said fastening part relative to said coupling part, said two connected portions being non-rotatably connected to one another.

11. The coupling device according to claim 1, further comprising a housing part having an opening through which projects said actuating region of said setting wheel for allowing rotation of said setting wheel.

12. The coupling device according to claim 1, wherein said setting wheel is rotatably mounted so as to rotate about an axis substantially parallel to a movement direction of the drawer.

13. The coupling device according to claim 1, wherein said actuating region of said setting wheel is configured to allow rotation of said setting wheel, said at least two transmission devices of said adjustment device being configured to convert a movement of said actuating region of said setting wheel in an adjusting direction into the linear movement of said fastening part relative to said coupling part in the adjusting direction.

14. A coupling apparatus for detachably coupling a drawer to extendable rails of a pull-out guide, the extendable rails being arranged on opposite sides of a furniture carcass, said coupling apparatus including:

a first coupling device according to claim 1 for detachably coupling the drawer to a first rail of the extendable rails; and

a second coupling device for detachably coupling the drawer to a second rail of the extendable rails, said second coupling device including;

a second fastening part to be fastened to the drawer; and

a second coupling part to be coupled to the second rail, said second fastening part and said second coupling part being configured to linearly move relative to one another corresponding to a relative positional displacement of said fastening part and said coupling part of said first coupling device.

15. The coupling apparatus according to claim 14, wherein said second coupling device further includes a second adjustment device for adjusting a position of the drawer connected to the second rail in the lateral direction relative to the second rail, said second adjustment device including:

a second setting wheel rotatably mounted to a first one of said second coupling part or said second fastening part; and

at least two axially spaced second transmission devices mounted to a second one of said second coupling part or said second fastening part, said second one being different than said first one, said at least two second transmission devices being configured to convert a rotational movement of said second setting wheel into a linear movement of said second fastening part relative to said second coupling part for adjusting a position of said second fastening part relative to said second coupling part in the lateral direction.

16. The coupling device set according to claim 15, wherein said at least two second transmission devices of said adjustment device are configured to convert a movement of said second setting wheel in an adjusting direction into the linear movement of said second fastening part relative to said second coupling part in the adjusting direction.

17. The coupling device set according to claim 14, wherein said second adjustment device is self-locking.

18. A drawer comprising:

a side wall;

a rear wall;

a front wall;

a bottom wall;

a pull-out guide attached to at least one of said side wall, said rear wall, said front wall, and said bottom wall; and

said coupling device according to claim 1 fastened to at least one of said side wall, said rear wall, said front wall, and said bottom wall.

19. An item of furniture comprising:

a furniture body; and

said drawer according to claim 18 mounted in said furniture body.

20. The coupling device according to claim 1, wherein said setting wheel has a cylindrically-shaped body, said circumferential actuating region being formed on a circumference of said cylindrically-shaped body, and said output drive portions being located on opposite axial ends of said cylindrically-shaped body.