DE29814749U1 - Light bar, in particular for a kitchen furniture system built in a cheek construction - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention concerns a twinned kitchen furniture system (10), in particular to be wall-mounted with or without bottom support, comprising lower, upper and hanging cupboards (18, 30), shelves (23) and special zone elements, and fixing elements and a base (15). A wall-mounting system (34, 45, 48, 29, 14) fixes the twin-assembled lower, upper and hanging cupboards, and the shelves (23), at a certain distance relative to a wall (13), and transfers the load taken from the wall (11) and/or from the base (15) system independent of the lower cupboards (18). In the space between the cupboards and the wall is located part of a door-rail system (29, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70) required for the complete vertical opening of the doors (27) above the work top (22).

Description

PAe Kunze & Hansen 0265.25

DESCRIPTION

Light strip, especially for a kitchen furniture system constructed in a panel design

The invention relates to a light strip, in particular for a kitchen furniture system constructed in a panel design.

Kitchen furniture systems with, for example, base, upper and wall cupboards and special areas for a stove as well as areas for wheelchairs and also areas for sinks etc. in individual construction are well known. This means that these kitchen system elements manufactured in individual construction are usually complete, i.e. equipped with base, side, back, front and upper elements. However, this has a number of disadvantages. For example, these elements require a high transport and packaging volume, and when system elements abut one another, the side walls are doubled, which is why they are often made of different material qualities. Furthermore, a kitchen furniture system in individual construction proves to be less flexible in terms of space utilization on site because, for example, all elements have a flat support area and therefore cannot leave out corners. All elements usually extend to an available wall, the unevenness of which must then be concealed with decorative strips. Such kitchen furniture systems have light strips or other lighting fixtures, which are usually attached to the base and on the base, upper and wall cabinets and also special

areas. Lighting systems for integration into furniture are known for this purpose. One such system is described, for example, in the brochure "OEC - OFFICE ELECTRIC COMPONENTS S.A., CH-2800 Delemont with the German representative Euronorm, Uwe Dorn GmbH, D-4930 Detmold" on pages 7 and 8. The lighting system described therein contains fluorescent tubes with a normal large diameter, which are arranged on a carrier plate, which in turn is attached to two longitudinal profiles.

On the side opposite the plate there is a transparent cover that ensures that light can escape. Electrical elements for operating the fluorescent tubes are arranged using another profile, which is located on the side of the longitudinal profile opposite the fluorescent tube. The longitudinal profiles also serve as reflectors. These lighting systems are to be installed in shelves or construction floors or to be attached separately. They visually form an additional element of a furniture construction and therefore have little integrating effect. This and other lighting systems known in the prior art are therefore not suitable for satisfactorily solving the problem of the present invention.

The object of the present invention is to create a light strip, in particular for a kitchen furniture system constructed in a side-panel design, which is an integral component of the kitchen furniture system, ensures individual, even subsequent, variation options and ensures easy installation of always accessible areas of the kitchen furniture system.

According to the invention, this object is achieved in that

the light strip is arranged integrally between adjacent panels of the kitchen back wall on a vertically running multifunctional profile.

From the German patent application 197 35 905.1, a kitchen furniture system in a side-panel construction, in particular for unconditional and/or conditional wall mounting with base, upper and wall cabinets, shelves and elements for special areas as well as fastening elements and plinths is known, in which a system for wall mounting fastens the base, upper and wall cabinets as well as shelves assembled in a side-panel construction at a distance from a wall and introduces the load transfer into the wall and/or into a system of plinths independent of the base cabinets, whereby the distance takes up part of a door rail system for the complete vertical opening of the doors above a work surface.

As stated, the present invention relates inter alia to:

a fully and/or partially wall-mounted kitchen furniture system in a side-panel design. Conditionally wall-mounted means that the sides are suspended in wall rails, but that they rest directly or indirectly on a base bench and the vertical load transfer itself only takes place via the base bench. The structural parts of the wall suspension and also the counterweights of the sliding door system are located behind a continuous system wall, which is defined or formed by the furniture back walls and the panel areas.

It is only broken in the area of the movable shelves.

This construction is particularly characterized by the fact that the cheek construction is not a single construction

and as such is advantageous in the kitchen area compared to the known state of the art. The individual parts can therefore be delivered on pallets, which means that the transport and packaging volume can be massively reduced. With the known construction, the side walls of the furniture are always doubled. With the side-panel construction, this leads to material savings and to a consistent external and internal material quality. The recessed base according to the invention creates the optical impression of base freedom. The rear wall freedom provided according to the invention can be used advantageously for moving installations or the like. Vertically movable shelves make poorly located storage spaces easily accessible. The design of different worktop depths with simultaneous integration of the recessed worktop areas in a shelf area that can be covered with doors results in very good use of space with great variability. The niches in the top cupboards that can be covered by doors are an advantage because they can be used both as a work surface and as a good parking space for ready-to-use devices that can be simply pulled forward without any height steps and stowed away again just as easily. The vertical sliding doors in the top cupboard area advantageously avoid the annoying and accident-prone upper cupboard doors. Different side panel heights allow for a large variability of working heights. Lowered sections of the work surfaces can be made by simply hanging them between two side panels. There are also special areas for a stove and also areas that can be driven under, which are particularly advantageous for wheelchairs in general but also for wheelchair users.

As already explained, the system is a wall-mounted side-panel construction with load transfer to the wall or to a base bench that is set far back and is adjustable in height and length. The kitchen furniture system essentially consists of a wall-mounting system, a base bench, under-table side panels with different depths, a work surface, table-top side panels, tall cabinet side panels with different heights and depths, rear wall and panel systems with wall cabinet side panels, functional elements, shelves, doors for the under-table area and doors for the table-top area.

In the table-top area, the cheek can be provided with a multifunctional profile, which has fastening grooves for the fastening element, ultimately for wall fastening and, supplemented with holders, also serves to connect two panels.

Surprisingly, it has been shown that, particularly in the area of the kitchen furniture system that is visible to the user, i.e. from the front, the multifunctional profiles according to the invention serve as a mounting base and enable easy installation of light strips that are essentially made up of just a small-diameter fluorescent tube and an acrylic cover and that, when integrated between two panels, disappear, so to speak. Insofar as the multifunctional profiles can also be used in kitchen systems with a body or individual construction, the light strip according to the invention is of course also advantageously suitable for such kitchen systems.

It is advantageous that the width of the light bar corresponds to that of the multifunctional profile and its length to the length of the multifunctional profile visible to the viewer.

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the complete integration of the light strip into the kitchen furniture system is guaranteed. The dimensions of the adjacent parts, including functional elements, are not affected by this. Only the width of the panels needs to be adjusted accordingly.

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It is further advantageously provided that engagement elements;

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of which the kitchen furniture system has one or a number of vertically extending, which, with a rectangular cross-section, on two opposite sides each have two guide grooves with a circular and/or one groove each with a dovetail-shaped or t

rectangular cross-section and one of the other sides is closed and the fourth side is open, to accommodate a U-profile base with spacer block, whereby the closed side has two threaded holes for the fastening screws. The multifunctional profile is mounted on top and wall cabinets, as well as on tall cabinets in the vicinity of top or wall cabinets and in panel areas in the table area. It is used to accommodate the guide elements for, for example, counterweights of vertical sliding doors. Two guide grooves are provided on each side for this purpose. It can also be extended to accommodate a sliding or insertable form-locking part, which is used either in the case of the coupling of multifunctional profiles or for alignment, i.e. the alignment of the positions of the under-table and table cheeks. In this case, the

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Multifunctional profile for fastening panels to be arranged next to each other and also for fastening holders into which the panels are hung.
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It is advantageous that at least two lamp sockets for a small diameter fluorescent tube are arranged opposite one another on a U-profile base, which extends completely into the multifunctional profile on the open side, touching the inner side surfaces of the profile with its flanges. The U-profile base thus forms the mounting plane for the fluorescent tube bases or lamp bases. The bridge section of the U-profile base has through holes for fastening screws at an appropriate distance from one another. The lamp bases positioned in this way cannot be moved horizontally in the panel plane.

It is also advantageous that in the area of the lamp holders the U-profile base is supplemented with a spacer block that completely fills the interior of the multifunctional profile in the area of the lamp holders so that the lamp holders are positioned just outside the multifunctional profile. In order to ensure that the lamp holders are securely positioned outside the multifunctional profile, a spacer block with an appropriately profiled cross-section is arranged inside the multifunctional profile.

It serves as a spacer so that when screwing the U-profile base to the multifunctional profile, no pressure occurs between the lamp holders and the multifunctional profile.

It is also advantageous that each spacer block is a molded part that has a through hole for receiving a screw that attaches the lamp base to the multifunctional profile and is guided through a corresponding through hole in the U-profile base and is firmly screwed into the threaded hole in the opposite side of the multifunctional profile. This type of installation of the light bar can always be carried out without any problems, even from the front, since the through hole of the lamp holder is accessible without a fluorescent tube, the holder only has to be positioned above the through hole of the U-profile base and after placing the spacer block on the screw, or better fastening screw, it can be screwed from the front into the threaded hole of the multifunctional profile, whereby the lamp holder is attached to the U-profile base and this is simultaneously attached to and in the multifunctional profile via the spacer block.

It is advantageous that the fluorescent tube is enclosed on the side and towards the viewer by a U-shaped acrylic cover that covers the visible area of the multifunctional profile and is attached to it by means of two side adhesive surfaces of the lamp holders. This enables the acrylic cover of the fluorescent tube to be installed extremely easily. "Due to the other elements that are connected to the side of the light bar, such as panels, such an attachment is also completely sufficient.

Of course, locking elements can also be provided instead of the adhesive surfaces, which are designed, for example, as adhesive surfaces or Velcro surfaces.

It is also advantageous that the acrylic cover is arranged between adjacent panels, is flush with the panel surface formed or protrudes from this surface with the thickness of its material thickness and is provided with an inner surface facing the viewer to scatter the light. As already explained, the light strip is advantageously arranged between adjacent panels. In addition to a special appearance, this has the functional advantage that the light strips embedded in the panel surface formed from these can be easily cleaned. However, it can also be provided that the light strip is not flush with the panel surface, but protrudes from it with the thickness of its material thickness. This ensures a stronger light effect with a special appearance, whereby the functional cleaning advantage is little impaired. The inner surface of the acrylic cover in the section facing the user can be provided with a light-diffusing ribbing.

It is advantageous that the acrylic covers are closed at their open ends with end caps that have a rolled-out section through which they are firmly screwed to the U-profile base. To prevent uncontrolled light from escaping at the open ends of the acrylic covers and to counteract contamination inside, the ends can be closed with end caps made of brushed stainless steel, for example.

According to a particular embodiment of the invention, it is advantageously provided that the width of the panels is reduced by half the width of the light strip and that these,

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like other adjacent elements, are attached using angled brackets that are screwed to the panels on the one hand and to slot nuts on the other hand, which are guided in the dovetail-shaped or rectangular grooves of the multifunctional profile. If, for example, an existing panel wall is to be fitted with light strips in the area of the multifunctional profiles, all that is needed is to replace new panels with existing ones, or to shorten the existing ones accordingly. This also makes it possible to ensure that light strips can be retrofitted using simple measures.

Further preferred embodiments of the present invention emerge from the subclaims. An embodiment of the present invention is explained in more detail with reference to a drawing. Therein shows:

Fig. 1 a schematic plan view of the multifunctional profile and a light bar

without forehead caps,
Fig. 2 a schematic sectional side view

according to Fig. 1 with front cap,

Fig. 3 is a schematic plan view corresponding to Fig. 1 with panels, and

Fig. 4 is a schematic view of a tabletop area with panels.

Fig. 1 shows a light bar 10 according to the invention in a top view without end caps 11. The light bar 10 is mounted in a multifunctional profile 12, which is also shown schematically in a top view. The light bar 10 has a U-shaped acrylic cover 13, which is preferably kept in opal white.

and on its front surface facing the viewer, in Fig. 1 below, on its inner surface has a corrugation 14 for light scattering. The side flanges of the acrylic cover 13 are connected to and with the side surfaces of the lamp bases or lamp holders 16 via adhesive surfaces 15. These can be adhesive elements, such as adhesive tape and Velcro or the like, as well as locking elements. A fluorescent tube is indicated in cross-section in the middle of the lamp base 16. The fluorescent tube 17 is a tube with a small diameter. Its control elements etc. are arranged in a so-called E-rail 18 outside the actual light bar.

For each light bar 10, two lamp sockets 16 are arranged for each fluorescent tube. All lamp sockets 16 are arranged on a U-profile base 19. The U-profile base 19 protrudes flush into the multifunctional profile 12, which is open on one side and has a rectangular cross-section. In the area of the lamp sockets 16, it is supported on a spacer block 20, the cross-section of which is adapted to the remaining cross-sectional space of the multifunctional profile 12. The spacer block 20 thus enables the U-profile base 19 to be positioned in such a way that the lamp sockets are arranged just outside the multifunctional profile 12. To attach the lamp base 16 to the U-profile base 19 and the spacer blocks 20 in the multifunctional profile 12, coordinated through holes 21 are provided so that a screw or fastening screw (not shown) can be screwed through them into a threaded hole 22 in the opposite side of the multifunctional profile.

The multifunctional profile 12 has a square cross-section, circular, dovetail-shaped or square grooves 23, 24 on the sides and a closed side opposite the open side. The grooves are used to guide counterweights of vertical sliding doors, for example, to attach brackets for panels 27 and also to attach form-fitting parts (rods). In this case, however, the light strip 10 is attached instead of a cheek inside the multifunctional profile 12. The light strip 10 is adapted in its lateral dimensions, i.e. towards the panels 27, to those of the multifunctional profile, so that the panels 27 only need to be shortened by half the profile width.

Fig. 2 shows a basic, partially sectioned side view of the light bar 10 with multifunctional profile 12. The acrylic cover 13 and the lamp bases 16 located therein, which have lateral adhesive surfaces 15 and support the fluorescent tube 17, can be clearly seen. The lamp bases 16 are attached to a U-profile base 19, which is supported on spacer blocks 20 in the area of the lamp bases 16. The lamp base 16, U-profile base 19 and spacer blocks 20 are each connected by a fastening screw (not shown) that is passed through them and screwed into a threaded hole 22 (also not shown) of the multifunctional profile 12. It is clear that Fig. 2 only shows the upper area of the light bar 10, which is closed at the top and bottom with end caps 11. The end caps consist of an angled brushed stainless steel sheet, which is screwed firmly into a threaded hole 2 6 of the U-profile base 19 using a screw 25

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Fig. 3 shows a representation corresponding to Fig. 1, but supplemented by two panels 27, which are attached to the multifunctional profile 12 with two holders 28. The holders 28 are rectangular metal sheets, which are attached to the panels 27 on the one hand with screws 29 and are connected to the multifunctional profile 12 on the other hand with screws 30. The screws 30 are screwed into the slot nuts 31 of the dovetail-shaped or rectangular groove 24. The panels 27 are each narrowed by half the width of the light strip 10, so that the light strip 10 has space there. A version is shown in which the acrylic cover 13 protrudes by its material thickness from the panel surface formed by the panels 27. For the rest, please refer to the description of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 shows an example of a tabletop area of a lower worktop 32, an E-rail 33 arranged above it and panels 27 located above it with a light bar 10 arranged between them. As mentioned above, the start and supply electronics of the fluorescent tube 17 are arranged in the E-rail.

The features of the invention disclosed in the above description, in Figs. 1 to 4 and in claims 1 to 10 can be essential for the realization of the invention in its various embodiments, both individually and in any combination.

Claims (10)

: "&iacgr;:W" CLAIMS 1. Light strip, in particular for a kitchen furniture system constructed in a side-panel design, characterized in that the light strip (10) is arranged integrally between adjacent panels (27) of the kitchen back wall on a vertically running multifunctional profile (12). 2. Light strip according to claim 1, characterized in that the width of the light strip (10) corresponds to that of the multifunctional profile (12) and its length corresponds to the length of the multifunctional profile (12) visible to the observer. 3. Light strip according to claim 2, characterized in that engagement elements of the light strip (10) engage in the multifunctional profile (12), of which the kitchen furniture system has one or a plurality of vertically extending ones, which, with a rectangular cross-section, have two guide grooves (23) with a circular and/or one groove (24) with a dovetail-shaped or rectangular cross-section on two opposite sides and one of the other sides is closed and the fourth side is open, for receiving a U-profile base (10) with a spacer block (20), the closed side having two threaded holes (22) for the fastening screws. 4. Light bar according to claim 3, characterized in that at least two opposite yinüx horizontal lamp holders (16) for a fluorescent tube (17) of small diameter are arranged on a U-profile base (19) which projects completely on the open side into the multifunctional profile (12), touching the lateral inner surfaces of which with its flanges. 5. Light strip according to claim 4, characterized in that in the area of the lamp holders (16) the U-profile base (19) is supplemented with a spacer block (20) which completely fills the interior of the multifunctional profile (12) in the area of the lamp holders (16) so that the lamp holders (16) are positioned just outside the multifunctional profile (12). 6. Light strip according to claim 5, characterized in that each spacer block (20) is a molded part which has a through hole (21) for receiving a screw which fastens the lamp base (16) to the multifunctional profile (12) and is passed through a corresponding through hole (21) of the U-profile base (19) and is firmly screwed into the threaded hole (22) in the opposite side of the multifunctional profile (12). 7. Light strip according to claim 6, characterized in that the fluorescent tube (17) is enclosed laterally and towards the viewer by a U-shaped acrylic cover (13) which covers the visible area of the multifunctional profile (12) and is attached thereto by means of two lateral adhesive surfaces (15) of the lamp holders (16) is. 8. Light strip according to claim 7, characterized in that the acrylic cover (13) is arranged between adjacent panels (27), is flush with the panel surface formed or protrudes from this surface with the thickness of its material thickness and is provided with an inner surface facing the viewer for scattering the light. 9. Light strip according to claim 8, characterized in that the acrylic covers (13) are closed at their open ends with end caps (11) which have a developed section by means of which they are firmly screwed to the U-profile base (19). 10. Light bar, after one or more previous claims, characterized in that the width of the panels (27) is reduced by half the width of the light strip and these, like other adjacent elements, are fastened via angled holders (28) which are screwed on the one hand to the panels (27) and on the other hand to slot nuts (31) which are guided in the dovetail-shaped or rectangular grooves (24) of the multifunctional profile (12).