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    • 专利摘要:
    Described is an assortment cabinet (100) comprising a housing (20) with at least one roulade (30) carried by a corresponding supporting plate (27; 23), the roulade (30) being completely inside the housing (20) in a rest position wherein the roulade (30) can be moved horizontally from that resting position with respect to its corresponding support plate (27; 23) to a working position that protrudes partially from the housing (20), and wherein the roulade (30) is at least in its working position is rotatable about a vertical axis of rotation (33).
    公开号:BE1018330A3
    申请号:E2008/0596
    申请日:2008-10-29
    公开日:2010-09-07
    发明作者:
    申请人:Overbeek Jan Willem Josef；
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    专利说明:

    Title: Assortment cabinet
    The present invention relates generally to assortment cabinets.
    Assortment cabinets are generally known for clearly storing a stock of parts, for example an assortment of screws and nuts. Figure 1A schematically shows a perspective view of a known assortment cabinet 10. The known cabinet 10 comprises a rectangular housing 1 with a plurality of sliding drawers 2 accommodated therein. The sliding drawers can have all mutually equal dimensions, as shown, but this is not necessary. The drawers 2 are generally arranged in several floors, the drawers of each floor having the same height. In principle, an assortment cabinet can be of any size. However, as a rule, assortment cabinets are available in standard dimensions, whereby they can be arranged modularly next to and above each other to thus form a cabinet of any size I in a modular manner.
    For a user with a relatively small assortment, a combination of one or a small number of assortment cabinets of the type described above will suffice. However, in particular for professional users, with a large assortment, it may be necessary to provide a large number of storage drawers, for which purpose a large number of assortment cupboards must then be arranged next to and above each other. This means that the assortment cabinets quickly take up a fairly large wall area. When a further extension is desired, it becomes necessary to set up a new rack with assortment cabinets, whereby it is possible to set the second rack with assortment cabinets opposite the first rack,. that is, with the fronts facing each other, in which case an aisle between the two racks must be kept clear, or the two racks with assortment boxes can be placed with their backs against each other, in which case it is necessary to sit on either side of keep an aisle free with this combination.
    A further drawback of the known assortment cabinet is that the drawers have a relatively small depth, i.e. the dimension from the front of the drawer to the rear of the drawer. That means that the storage volume that is available is quite small in relation to the amount seized. 'wall surface.
    To spend the available wall area as well as possible, it is not unusual to stack the assortment cabinets from floor to ceiling. However, a problem then is that the objects present in the drawers are not all equally good. visible to the user. Figure 1B schematically illustrates a cross-section of the assortment cabinet 10 with two partially pulled-out drawers 2Ά and 2B. The drawers may not be pulled out further, because there is a chance that they will fall out of the cupboard. The drawer 2A is representative of a drawer that is at a fairly high level, namely above a user's eye level. It will be clear that it is particularly difficult for this user to see objects which are located in the rear part of the drawer 2A, that is to say the part of the drawer still in the housing 1. The lower drawer 2B is representative of a drawer that is at a fairly low level, for example close to the floor surface. A user who wants to see any objects on the back of the drawer 2B must sit on his knees bent for this purpose.
    The present invention has for its object to provide an assortment cabinet where the above-mentioned disadvantages have been eliminated or at least considerably reduced.
    To this end, the present invention provides an assortment cabinet, a drawer of which can both slide in and out and rotate about a vertical axis, the drawer resting on balls.
    It is noted that the German patent application 10120023 describes a rotatable drawer which lies on a pull-out plate. The plate is slidable relative to a cabinet, and the round drawer is rotatable relative to the plate.
    A similar remark applies with regard to US patent 898153. This publication furthermore shows a drawer which can itself rotate and slide relative to a cupboard, wherein a central pin is guided into a horizontal slot, but the bottom of this known drawer becomes not supported so that it is not suitable for heavy objects.
    Finally, it is noted that the use of ball bearings for supporting drawers is known per se from British patent 358.
    These and other aspects, features and advantages of the present invention will be further elucidated by the following description with reference to the drawings, in which like reference numerals indicate like or similar parts, and in which: figure IA schematically shows a perspective view of a known assortment box; figure 1B schematically shows a cross-section of the known assortment cabinet of figure IA; figure 2 schematically shows a perspective view of an assortment cabinet according to the present invention; Figure 3 schematically shows a cross-section of the assortment box of Figure 2; Figure 4 shows a schematic side view, partly in cross-section, of a roulade in the housing of the cupboard; Figure 5 shows the roulade in the condition pulled out of the housing; Figure 6 is a schematic top view of a carrier plate; Figure 7 is a schematic top view similar to Figure 6, in which also the contour of the roulade is shown in the pulled-out state illustrated in Figure 5; Figure 8 is a view similar to Figure 5 of a variant of the assortment cabinet; Figures 9A-9C illustrate another variant of the assortment cabinet.
    Figure 2 shows a schematic perspective view of an assortment cabinet 100 according to the present invention. The cabinet 100 comprises a housing 20 with a substantially rectangular rear wall 21, substantially rectangular side walls 22, a bottom surface 23 and an upper surface 24. The cabinet 100 has a front wall which is bent according to a part of a cylindrical surface, which front wall is formed by curved side walls of drawers, as in the following. will be explained in more detail. The upper surface 24 has a leading edge 25 which has the contour of a part of a circle in a corresponding manner. The same applies to the front edge 26 of the bottom surface 23.
    Figure 3 shows a schematic cross-section, in side view, of the cabinet 100. The housing 20 is divided into different levels by means of horizontal supporting plates 27 secured to the rear wall 21 and to the side walls 22. In the illustrated example, three support plates 27 are shown, so that the housing 20 has four floors. The number of floors may, however, be greater or smaller than four. The present invention is embodied even in an embodiment where no supporting plates 27 are present, so that the housing 20 has only a single floor.
    Each carrier plate 27 has a leading edge 28 which has a contour corresponding to the contour of the leading edge 25 of the upper surface 24.
    A roller drawer 30 is arranged in each floor of the housing 20, i.e. a drawer which can roll. Each roller drawer is supported by a plurality of supporting balls 40, which in turn are mounted on or in the bottom 23 or the supporting plates 27, respectively. The support balls 40 can be implemented in the form of ball pots known per se, as will be clear to a person skilled in the art. The support balls 40 are appropriately distributed over the surface of the bottom 23 and the support plates 27, the precise number of support balls and the pattern according to which these support balls are distributed are not essential to the present invention. It will be clear to a person skilled in the art that the number of supporting balls will be chosen in relation to the expected weight of the roulade 30 including its possible content.
    Each roulade 30 has a substantially circular bottom 31 and a substantially cylindrical side wall 32. A rotation symmetry axis of the roulade 30 is indicated by the reference numeral 33. The roulade 30 further comprises a system of tangentially oriented partitions 34, 35, as well as in substantially radially directed partitions which are not shown in figure 3 for the sake of simplicity. The said partitions divide the interior of the roulade 30 into a large number of storage compartments. The tangential dividers 34, 35 can be bent according to a cylindrical shape, but it is also possible that the tangential dividers 34, 35 are straight bulkheads.
    In the example shown, two radial partitions 34, 35 are arranged coaxially with respect to each other, so that the roller drawer 30 is subdivided by these partitions 34, 35 into two annular storage compartments 36, 37 as well as a centrally located compartment 38. In principle, this central section 38 can also be used, but it is also possible to leave this central section 38 empty. Said radial partitions divide the annular storage compartments 36, 37 into a large number of circumferentially adjacent storage compartments, as will be clear to a person skilled in the art.
    Although it is generally most practical if the tangential dividers 34, 35 have a constant radius with respect to the axis of rotation symmetry 33, it is also possible that tangential dividers are placed at a larger or smaller distance from the axis of rotation 33, so as to the dimensions of the storage compartments can vary. It is further noted that the number of tangential dividers need not be equal to two.
    Figure 3 shows the assembly cabinet 10 in the closed state, that is to say that each roulade 30 is entirely inside the housing 20, each roulade 30 being covered at its top by the upper wall 24 of the housing 20 or the upper supporting plates 27. roller drawers are thus protected against the ingress of dust and the like. This position of a roulade will be referred to as a resting position.
    Each runner 30 can be pulled individually out of the housing 20 to a position that will be referred to as a working position. To facilitate grip by a user, the side wall 32 can be provided with handles in the form of recesses. Because the roulade 30 rests on balls 40, the said movement proceeds fairly easily and requires little force, even if the weight of the roulade plus content is quite large. The cabinet 100 is provided with a limiting mechanism that prevents the drawer 30 from being pulled too far out and then falling out of the cabinet 20. Figures 4 and 5 illustrate a preferred embodiment of such a limiting mechanism.
    Figure 4 shows a schematic side view, partly in cross-section, comparable to Figure 3 but on a larger scale, of a single roulade 30 with the supporting plate 27 located below it. For the sake of simplicity, the other parts of the cabinet 20 are not shown. Incidentally, it should be noted that instead of a support plate 27 the bottom 23 could also have been shown: with respect to the lower roulade, the bottom 23 has the function of a support plate. It is further noted that, for the sake of clarity in Figure 4, the roulade 30 is lifted relative to the carrier plate 27.
    A ball bearing 41 is mounted on the underside of the bottom 31 of the roller drawer 30, aligned with the axis of rotation 33 of the roller drawer 30. The bearing plate 27 is provided with an elongated slot 42 into which this ball bearing 41 fits. This slot 42 has a longitudinal direction which is directed substantially perpendicular to the rear wall 21 of the housing 20. The slot 42 has a width, that is perpendicular to the plane of the drawing in Figure 4, which corresponds to the diameter of the ball bearing 41, or is slightly larger. The slot 42 has a front end edge 44 located near the front edge 28 of the carrier plate 27 and a rear end edge 43 opposite this end. These end edges 43 and 44 form stops for the ball bearing 41 and thus determine the extreme positions of the roller drawer 30 within the housing 20. In the situation shown in Fig. 4, ball bearing 41 is shown in the rest position with the rear end edge 43 of the slot 42 forming a stop, the roller drawer 30 being entirely in the housing 20, as illustrated in Fig. 3.
    Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4, wherein the roulade 30 is now shown resting on the balls 40, and wherein the roulade 30 is shown in the working position pulled out of the housing 20 with the ball bearing 41 against the front end edge 44 of the slot 42 punch. The figure further shows that the inner tangential partition 35 in this position is substantially aligned with the end edge 28 of the support plate 27 (or end edge 25 of top plate 24), so that the annular compartments 36 and 37 are freely accessible. The central compartment 38 can also be an accessible compartment if the height of the inner partition 35 is smaller than the height of the side wall 32 of the roulade 30, as shown. However, it is also possible for the partitions to have a height corresponding to the height of the side wall 32; in that case the central box 38 will remain empty.
    The boundary structure as shown ensures that, if the objects stored in the roulade are evenly distributed, the center of gravity of the roulade 30 is always within the cabinet 20. If the roulade 30 is loaded more heavily on one side than on the other side, it could still happen that the center of gravity comes to lie beyond the end edge 28 of the carrier plate 27, in which case the roulade 30 will tend to tip over . The rear end of the side wall 32, indicated at A in Figure 5, will touch against the underside of the upper supporting plate 27. Further tilting is thereby prevented. In order to ensure that in this situation too, the roulade 30 can still rotate about its axis of rotation 33, it is possible, if desired, to arrange guide balls or guide wheels 45 along the upper edge of the side wall 32, as schematically illustrated in the partial enlargement B.
    The balls 40 on which the roulade 30 rests allow the roulade 30 to be rotated about its vertical axis of rotation 33. The ball bearing 41, which is aligned with this axis of rotation 33, also permits this rotational movement. In the extended working position of Figure 5, this means that the entire contents of the annular storage compartments 36 and 37 can be accessed by rotating the roller drawer 30.
    Figure 6 is a schematic top view of a carrier plate 27. In this figure the slot 42 is visible, as are the balls 40. The figure shows an example of a distribution pattern for the balls 40. The balls 40 can be arranged in concentric rings centered around the center M, which is centrally located in the slot 42, at a distance from the rear end edge 43 - which corresponds to half the diameter of the ball bearing 41. In this case, it is advantageous if the outer ring of balls 40 is a with the slot-aligned 42 ball 40P.
    Figure 7 is a schematic top view similar to Figure 6, in which also the contour of the roll drawer 30 is shown in the extended working position illustrated in Figure 5. The position of the ball bearing 41 is also shown, abutting the front end edge 44 of the slot 42. Also. a tangential baffle 34 and an example of some radial baffles 39 are shown, as far as projecting outside the housing 20, to illustrate that the annular storage compartments 36 and 37 are accessible for a fairly large part of their circumference size in this state. Because the roulade 30 can rotate indefinitely, as indicated by the arrow P, it is simply possible to quickly obtain an overview of the contents present in the roulade 30 and to take a desired object from the roulade 30.
    A major advantage of the present invention is that, in relation to the seized wall area, the cabinet 100 offers a fairly large storage volume. In a suitable embodiment, the case 100 has a width of 120 cm and a depth, i.e. distance between rear wall 21 and front edge 28, of 125 cm. The roulade 30 in this suitable embodiment has a diameter of approximately 120 cm, and the slot 42 can have a length of 45 cm (plus the diameter of a ball bearing 41 used). The two annular storage compartments 36 and 37 can then together have a radial dimension of 45 cm, for example 20 and 25 cm, respectively, and the central compartment 38 can then have a diameter of 30 cm.
    In the above-discussed embodiment, a support plate 27 is fixed within the housing 20, and the roll drawer 30 can be rotated as well as horizontally shifted on the support plate. In an alternative embodiment, the roulade 30 can only rotate relative to the support plate, and there is no horizontal freedom of movement. In that case, in order to partially move the roulade 30 outside the housing 20, the support plate can be shifted horizontally.
    Figure 8 illustrates schematically an embodiment in which the support plate 27 can be moved horizontally with a linear movement, for example by driving on a horizontal guide 81 by means of wheels 82. A pin 83 under the bottom of the roulade 30 engages in a hole 84 of the support plate 27 so as to allow only a rotational movement of the roulade 30 relative to the support plate. If desired, this pin 83 can be provided with a rotation bearing, comparable to 41.
    Figure 9 illustrates schematically an embodiment in which the support plate 27 can be moved horizontally with a rotary movement, for example by pivoting by means of a hinge 91 about a vertical axis 92 which is fixed relative to the housing 20 (not shown in Figure 9A). Figure 9B shows a schematic top view of the support plate 27 in its rest position located within the housing 20. The pivot point 91 is located at a corner point of the support plate 27 near the front of the cabinet 20, in the lower right figure. For the sake of simplicity, the roulade 30 is not shown in Figure 9B. A hole in the support plate 27, for receiving a central pin (with or without rotation bearing) from the roulade 30, is indicated by the reference numeral 94. Figure 9C shows a similar top view of the support plate 27 in its hinged outward direction (counterclockwise) ) working position. It is clearly recognizable that the hole 94 has been moved forward relative to its position in the rest position, which corresponds to a horizontal movement of the roulade 30.
    It will be clear to a person skilled in the art that the invention is not limited to the exemplary embodiments discussed above, but that various variants and modifications are possible within the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.
    For example, it is not necessary for the support plate to be a completely sealed plate: it can be provided with openings in places where no ball bearings are mounted. It is also possible for the plate to be replaced by a system of horizontal bars or strips, which can be oriented according to the longitudinal direction of the housing and / or according to the width direction of the housing, the ball bearings being mounted on said bars or strips.
    A characteristic of a ball bearing is that the ball can rotate in all directions but is positionally secured. The same technical effect is achieved with a wheel or cylindrical bearing with a horizontal axis of rotation mounted in a holder which in turn is rotatable about a vertical axis relative to the support plate or support rod or support strip. In all these cases, a supported object (namely the drawer) can be moved in two dimensions relative to the support structure. For this reason, the term "2D bearing" will be used as the umbrella term for these bearings.
    Furthermore, it is possible that the case has a different outer contour than the described contour.
    It is further noted that it is not necessary for the housing to have closed walls.
    In general, a range cupboard will have several floors, so several drawers one above the other. However, the advantage offered by the present invention is already achieved with a single drawer. Furthermore, it is not necessary for the present invention to be implemented in a free-standing cabinet: it is quite conceivable that one (or more) drawers according to the present invention are built into a wall. It is also conceivable for one (or more) drawers according to the present invention to be built into a vehicle, for example a service trolley, in particular in the floor of a service trolley.
    Features described only for a particular embodiment are also applicable to other described embodiments.
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    Claims (13)
    [1]
    A storage system, comprising: a housing (20) with at least one horizontal support structure (27; 23) fixed relative to the housing, which support structure is provided with a plurality of 2D bearings (40) that are positionally fixed with respect to of the support structure; a drawer (30) carried by the 2D bearings of the support structure, which drawer is in a rest position entirely within the housing, and wherein the drawer has a working position where the drawer partially protrudes from the housing; wherein the drawer can be moved back and forth from its rest position to its working position through a horizontal sliding movement relative to the support structure, and the drawer remains supported by at least a part of the 2D bearings during this sliding movement; and wherein the drawer is rotatable at least in its working position about a vertical axis of rotation (33), wherein the drawer remains supported by at least a part of the 2D bearings during this rotational movement.
    [2]
    The storage system of claim 1, wherein the 2D bearings are implemented as balls or wheels.
    [3]
    The storage system of claim 1, wherein a support structure is implemented as a horizontal support plate.
    [4]
    The storage system of claim 1, wherein a support structure is implemented as a system of horizontal profiles, bars or strips.
    [5]
    A storage system according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the drawer is provided with a limiting mechanism for limiting the horizontal freedom of movement of the drawer relative to its corresponding support structure (27; 23).
    [6]
    A storage system according to claim 5, wherein the limiting mechanism comprises an elongated guide slot (42) with a rear end edge (43) and a front end edge (44), as well as a rotation shaft (33) mounted below the drawer (30). guide (41) fitting into said slot (42).
    [7]
    Storage system according to claim 6, wherein the guide (41) is designed as a ball bearing.
    [8]
    The storage system of claim 6, wherein the guide slot (42) is disposed in the support structure (27; 23).
    [9]
    A storage system according to claim 6 or 7 or 8, wherein the drawer (30) has an inner cylindrical partition (35), the radius of which corresponds to the distance between the front end edge (44) of the elongated guide slot (42) and a front edge (28; 25) of the support plate (27; 23).
    [10]
    A storage system according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the drawer (30) has a cylindrical side wall (32).
    [11]
    The storage system of claim 10, wherein the drawer (30) at the upper edge of its cylindrical side wall (32) is provided with guide balls or guide wheels (45).
    [12]
    12. Assortment cabinet (100), comprising at least one storage system according to any of the preceding claims.
    [13]
    A vehicle provided with at least one storage system according to any one of the preceding claims.
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