DE9205281U1 - Compartment dividers - for dividing cupboard and shelf compartments and for organizing and supporting storage material - Google Patents

Description

DESCRIPTION technical name of the

Subject of the application:
Compartment dividers

REGISTERED BY: Thomas Ledwoch
Schildgenweg 8
5000 Cologne 90

Date: 13. o4. 1992

Compartment dividers for dividing cupboard and shelf compartments and for organizing
and supporting storage material

State of the art

According to the inquiries made, compartment dividers of the type specified here are not known.

Due to the respective system or model-specific nature of vertical walls or partitions in shelves or cupboards, the state of the art is limited to predetermined partitions which - often in contrast to the shelf surfaces and horizontal shelves themselves - can only be used in exceptional cases within the corresponding furniture or shelving system.
can be flexibly adapted to changing needs,
This is because the walls of cupboards or shelves always have a load-bearing function. Even if the partitions within a piece of furniture or a shelf can be changed, this cannot be done in terms of their height and, depending on the model, neither continuously adjustable laterally nor continuously adjustable vertically. Examples of this are wire or flat metal brackets, which
be hooked into the wall mounting profile (26 in Fig. 6) corresponding to the furniture.

In the office area, shelf extensions are used to divide a shelf compartment at the sides. These are clamped to the front edge of the shelf, but this is only possible up to a certain board thickness.

In the home as well as in the office, bookends are used to divide a shelf into compartments. These bookends

DESCRIPTION

technical name of the
Subject of the application: compartment divider

REGISTERED: Thomas Ledwoch Schildgenweg 8 5000 Cologne 90

Date: 13. o4. 1992

are either heavy ornamental objects or heavy objects with a vertical side or typical bookends made of angled flat metal or other angled flat material.

Shelving systems are known in which the vertical support profiles are clamped between the floor and ceiling of a room using screw or threaded clamping.

Problems

The invention defined in claim 1 is based on the following problems:

A) Vertical partitions in cupboards or shelves are generally not movable or quickly convertible once the furniture has been assembled, and if they are, then only within the given dimensions and fastening conditions of the respective construction.

B) Heavy jewelry items or heavy objects with one vertical side provide sufficient to good support for the material placed or set down, but usually take up a lot of space, so they are more for decorative purposes.

C) Bookends made of angled, flat material (plexiglass, flat iron) used in the home and office usually prove to be unstable when the storage material is moved, so that they then tip over or have to be held in place.

D) Vertical shelf attachments for clamping onto the bottom board of the respective shelf compartment can only be attached up to a certain board thickness.

E) The solutions currently in use have the common disadvantage that none of them separates the shelf or cupboard compartment from the floor

DESCRIPTION

technical name of the
Subject of the application: compartment divider

REGISTERED: Thomas Ledwoch Schildgenweg 8 5000 Cologne 90

Date: 13. o4. 1992

side to the roof side, meaning that large, heavy books, for example, cannot find adequate support in the place intended for them.

F) No other solution known to date offers the option of equipping the compartment dividers with additional, horizontally positioned sub-compartments in order to achieve a specific arrangement for small parts, papers, forms, etc., while offering continuous horizontal and vertical flexibility.

G) Shelving systems whose support profiles are stretched vertically between the floor and the ceiling of a room are not designed in such a way that partition walls or compartment dividers within the meaning of the invention are also present as parts of the shelving systems in question and therefore cannot be inserted into the shelves of such a system or into those of another shelving unit at any point.

invention

Problems A) to E) as well as problem G) are solved with the measures of claim 1 of the invention; problem F) is solved in various embodiments according to further claims.

Advantageous effects of the invention

The invention enables the fully flexible division of storage compartments in shelves and cabinets regardless of the model and regardless of the height of the shelf or cabinet compartment from the bottom side to the roof side of the same in one continuous way, heavily loaded shelf compartments - for example in tool shelves - are reliably supported, additional sub-compartments can be set up, the use of the compartment divider and its variants is effective and clear without taking up space.

DESCRIPTION

technical name of the
Subject of the application: compartment divider

REGISTERED: Thomas Ledwoch Schildgenweg 8 5000 Cologne 90

Date: 13. o4. 1992

Waste. The compartment divider can always be adapted or expanded to suit the changing organizational needs.

Further developments of the invention

Advantageous embodiments of the invention are specified in claims 2 to .

The design according to claim 2 extends the clamping cylinder mechanism to a flat, telescopically expandable partition wall, so that not only a cylindrical separating element, but an entire partition wall can be used.

The embodiment according to claim 3 shows the possibilities of inserting sub-compartment panels between two cylindrical compartment dividers arranged one behind the other.

The variation according to claim 4 also shows the suitability of the telescopic partition wall for accommodating sub-compartment panels, so that a shelf compartment can be divided up in great detail.

The extension according to claim 5 relates to the lower compartment panels themselves, insofar as they either have a practical gripping recess and/or can be equipped with vertical dividers (19) for the purpose of an even more detailed shelf arrangement. Finally, the telescopic structure of the lower compartment panel allows the use of the same in continuously variable lower compartments, depending on the distance between two compartment dividers.

The further development according to claim 6 simplifies the construction of the compartment divider insofar as the casing piece (23) is a piece made of solid material.

DESCRIPTION

technical name of the
Subject of the application: compartment divider

REGISTERED: Thomas Ledwoch Schildgenweg 8 5000 Cologne 90

Date: 13. o4. 1992

is selected, and thus only the threaded rod (24) and adjusting screw (10) or an adjusting nut (not shown) permanently embedded in the solid piece of material are required to clamp the compartment divider between the shelves .

The continuation according to claim 7 shows the vertically symmetrical structure of the compartment dividers. Such a divider is either installed for external reasons, but more importantly for optimal use of space when using sub-compartment panels and, if necessary, is also suitable for achieving a maximum clamping distance in the sense of the design according to claim 8 in order to use a multi-stage clamping mechanism to exchange the compartment divider if necessary between greatly differing shelf heights or to reuse it at another location with a significantly different height.

The variation according to claim 9 relates to the type of installation of grooves for the possible use of sub-compartment panels. In order to be able to retrofit a compartment divider with grooves that previously had no grooves, serrated profiles are suitable, sold by the meter or in lengths appropriate to the compartment dividers, which are either glued on or - even better - hung vertically at several points on the respective compartment divider, i.e. in pairs one behind the other on the side surface of a compartment divider (not shown).

The extension according to claim 10 is the equipment of a pair of compartment dividers with a common base piece connecting them to build a small shelf or to protect the shelf base.

The further development according to claim 11 reduces the structural parts of the compartment divider to a strong spring, an internal or external reinforcement cylinder, which is shorter than the spring, and anti-slip attachments,

DESCRIPTION technical name of the

Subject of the application: compartment divider

REGISTERED: Thomas Ledwoch Schildgenweg 8 5000 Cologne 90

- 6 - Date: 13. o4. 1992

of which either the foot or head attachment can be connected to the reinforcement cylinder. In this case, the spring can also be bent elliptically or rectangularly, and the reinforcement sleeve accordingly, which makes an aesthetically and functionally good solution possible with minimal construction effort, but without the possibility of being expanded to include sub-compartments (not shown).

Description of the invention

An embodiment is explained using Figures 3 and 6. They show:

Figure 3 shows the clamping cylinder mechanism (3) as the core of the telescopic partition wall (9), which is then clamped between the bottom side (5) and the roof side (6) of a shelf compartment, whereby the top side of the telescopic partition wall has a recess (27) with a corresponding interruption of the non-slip attachment (7), so that as in (continue next figure 6)

Figure 6 If the compartment dividers or telescopic partitions (9) are arranged towards the user (see arrows), any support brackets (28) of the shelves do not interfere with such an arrangement.

Claims (11)

PROTECTION CLAIMS technical designation of the subject of the application: compartment divider APPLICANT: Thomas Ledwoch Schildgenweg 8 5000 Köln 90 Date: 13. o4. 1992 Main claim 1. Compartment dividers for dividing cupboard and shelf compartments and for organizing and supporting storage materials such as books, files, notebooks, etc. characterized, that a jacket cylinder (1) with an inner cylinder (2) is clamped between the bottom side (5) and the roof side (6) of a shelf or cupboard compartment by means of spring tension (3) or screw tension (4), wherein the head (7) of the jacket cylinder (1) or the foot (8) of the inner cylinder (2) are provided with non-slip attachments (corresponding to 7 and 8) or with knobs or pins (7 and 8), so that a non-slip insertion of the compartment divider is guaranteed either in smooth-surface shelf compartments or between heavily structured roof and bottom sides (6/5), such as gratings. Further protection claims 2. Compartment divider according to claim 1,
characterized, that the outer cylinder (1) and the inner cylinder (2) thereof are fastened in the middle of a telescopic partition wall (9) made of at least sufficiently strong material - possibly hard cardboard - and thus the telescopic partition wall (9) can be tensioned between the bottom side (5) and the roof side (6) of a shelf compartment by means of spring tension (3) or by means of an adjusting screw (10). PROTECTION CLAIMS technical designation of Subject of the application: compartment divider REGISTERED: Thomas Ledwoch Schildgenweg 8 5000 Cologne 90 - 2 - Date: 13. o4. 1992 3. Compartment divider according to claim 1 or 2
characterized, that the casing cylinder (1) has formations (12/13/14) for receiving flat sub-compartment panels (11), for example made of hardboard or other material, namely either a) holes for receiving bearing pins or support rods (12) or b) grooves or conical grooves (13) or c) bearing plates (14) or d) as an additional piece, sleeves (15) with spring-loaded bearing insert (16), whereby the sleeves (15) either have a non-slip coating on the inside or completely enclose the casing cylinder (1) and are positioned with a fixing screw (not shown). 4. Compartment divider according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the telescopic partition (9) may have grooves (17) into which the lower compartment panels (11) can be inserted. 5. Compartment divider according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the lower compartment plates (11) may have a gripping recess (18) and/or further dividing plumb lines (19) or the lower compartment plates (11) are themselves telescopically constructed (20), i.e. either like the telescopic partition wall (9) with an adjusting screw (10) or spring (3) in the middle or with an adjusting screw (not shown) or with a spring (reference number no. 3 in figure no. 5; figure no. 5 shows the telescopic lower compartment plate (20) 90° from the horizontal PROTECTION CLAIMS technical designation of Subject of the application: compartment divider REGISTERED: Thomas Ledwoch Schildgenweg 8 5000 Cologne 90 - 3 - Date: 13. o4. 1992 tal = normal to vertically rotated from the front below - here for reasons of space) in the front and back of the casing part (21) of the telescopic lower compartment plate (20), whereby the front and back of the telescopic lower compartment plate (20) act as spring or screw tunnels (22) like rounded gripping recesses (18). 6. Compartment divider according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that holes for threaded rods (24) are drilled into a plate (23) made of solid material, such as chipboard, and the threaded rods (24), which are connected in pairs by a non-slip, stable attachment (25) for each compartment divider of this type, clamp the compartment divider into the shelf compartment with adjusting screws (10), whereby grooves (17) for inserting sub-compartment plates (11) can also be milled or otherwise formed into the compartment divider made of solid material. 7. Compartment divider according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the construction of the compartment dividers - whether with spring tension or screw tension - can also be constructed symmetrically at the top and bottom, i.e. casing pieces at the top and bottom and a clamping piece in the middle (as in Figure No. 7), or clamping pieces at the top and bottom and casing piece in the middle (most clearly visible in the construction of the telescopic lower compartment plate, reference number No. 20 in Figure No. 5). PROTECTION CLAIMS technical designation of Subject of the application: compartment divider REGISTERED: Thomas Ledwoch Schildgenweg 8 5000 Cologne 90 - 4 - Date: 13. o4. 1992 8. Compartment divider according to one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that the telescopic extension or unscrewing stages can be not only two-stage, but also multi-stage (not shown). 9. Compartment divider according to one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that the grooves for receiving the lower compartment panels are not milled or formed into the compartment dividers, but rather corresponding groove strips are glued vertically onto the side surface of the compartment divider or are attached to it in some other way, whereby the groove strip means rectangular notches per meter (not illustrated). 10. Compartment divider according to one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that that two or more compartment dividers are connected by individual base plates if necessary so that the compartment dividers form an independent shelving system (not shown). 11. Compartment divider according to one of claims 1 to 10, characterized in that that a compartment divider consists of only one - stronger - spring, which has flat anti-slip attachments on the head and foot, whereby the - strong - spring is possibly reinforced vertically by a jacket cylinder, and the reinforcement cylinder is shorter than the inner spring (not shown).