The invention concerns a fitting for corner cabinets, in particular for kitchen corner cabinets, comprising an interior that is accessible by means of a corner cabinet door at the front side and is substantially rectangular in horizontal section, comprised of at least one support stationarily supportable in the interior of the corner cabinet for securing at least one one-part shelf of a basic shape that is similar to a semicircle, wherein the support has at least one guide member that supports the shelf and transfers the shelf on a predetermined movement path from an inner position in the interior of the corner cabinet into an outer position that is substantially located in front of the door opening of the corner cabinet, wherein the guide member is articulated on the bottom side of the shelf and is connected pivotably by means of a support fitting with a corner cabinet part, in particular a sidewall part, wherein between the corner cabinet door that closes off the door opening and the shelf a driver device is provided for coupling the door with the shelf during at least one segment of the opening movement of the door.
A fitting for corner cabinets is disclosed in DE 20 2004 011 200 U1. This fitting has a support with two guide members that control a predetermined movement path of the shelf wherein one guide member is supported on a stationary support column in the interior of the corner cabinet in a pivotable way and another one is supported on a sidewall of the corner cabinet. The two guide members are articulated on the bottom side of each shelf so that they ensure that the shelf is movably supported such that not only a pivot movement about an axis can be performed but moreover the shelf can perform also an additional movement relative to a circular movement path which makes it possible that, as a result of this movement path controlled by the two guide members, a final position can be assumed in which the shelf is positioned for the most part in front of the door opening of the corner cabinet.
It is particularly advantageous in this context that also in case that several shelves are provided that are positioned at a spacing above each other, as a result of the individual guide members associated with each shelf, the shelves can also be individually pivoted outwardly without the other provided shelves having to be mandatorily entrained. In this connection, each shelf support surface is accessible from above for the user.
DE 20 2005 016 432 U1 discloses a pivotable pull-out device for a corner cabinet that, in analogy to the fitting system disclosed in the afore mentioned document, operates with two guide members, wherein one is attached to a sidewall of the cabinet and another to a vertical support column. Due to the two provided guide members, it is also possible to transfer in this system a shelf for the most part to a position in front of the door opening. As a result of a support arm-like construction provided thereat, two shelves that are arranged above each other can only be moved together into the outer position located in front of the door opening so that the lower shelf positioned underneath the upper shelf is no longer freely accessible from above.
DE 10 2007 009 894 C5 discloses a corner cabinet, in particular a kitchen corner cabinet, with a cabinet body and an interior that is accessible by means of a corner cabinet door that is supported on the cabinet body and can be moved between a closed position and an open position, wherein in the interior at least one shelf is supported by means of a fitting so as to be movable between an inner position and an outer position, wherein a driver device is provided by means of which the corner cabinet door and the shelf are motion-coupled. For this purpose, decoupling means in the form of a bolt and a guide part are provided. The bolt engages the guide part such that the bolt from a certain intermediate shelf position on is automatically decoupled from the guide part. With this automatic decoupling the shelf is however still mostly located within the cabinet interior so that this device is not suitable for fast access to objects supported on the shelf.
It is the object of the present invention to provide a fitting for corner cabinets of the aforementioned kind that enables safe entrainment of the shelf during a pivot movement for opening the door but also additionally enables a simple manual decoupling action.
As a solution to this object, the corner cabinet of the aforementioned kind is characterized in that the driver device comprises a driver that is stationarily attached to the door and has a guide slot into which a releasable coupling member secured to the shelf for a driver action between corner cabinet door and shelf is inserted and movable therein, wherein the coupling member has a height-adjustable driver segment that is insertable into the guide slot and is automatically insertable into the guide slot from an unlocked position into a driver position by a relative movement of the shelf relative to the door, wherein the coupling member can be unlocked by a height adjustment of the driver segment that can be manually activated. With regard to important further embodiments, reference is being had to the dependent claims.
Accordingly, a fitting for corner cabinets is made available with which a safe entrainment of the shelf during a door entraining movement is ensured and that moreover enables an unlocking action that is extremely simple to handle in any position of the door. Moreover, the fitting is also capable of automatically effecting coupling or locking of the coupling member in the guide slot of the driver on the door. Due to this automatic mechanism that can be realized by simple means it is possible to initially pivot wide open the shelf with the door which is beneficial for fast access of objects on the shelf support surface. In particular, the fast accessibility across a large area is enabled for a great support surface area of the shelf when, as is known in the art, the shelf is moveable, controlled by two guide members, into the open pivoted position or intermediate position because in this embodiment it is made possible to enable entrainment of the shelf for a pivot angle of the door of approximately 85° so that the door is essentially completely open. Then, by means of a simple manual unlocking action, the coupling member can be released from the guide slot and the shelf can then be moved farther, again controlled by the guide members, into a position in which it is for the most part in front of the cabinet.
In a subsequent return movement, the coupling member is introduced by its own action, i.e., automatically, into the guide slot of the driver as a result of the relative movement, which is made possible by the height adjustment of the driver segment of the coupling member in that, for example, it glides across slanted surfaces of lateral areas or a front side of the driver with height adjustment and then can dip again into the guide slot.
With regard to the configuration of the height adjustment means, various embodiments can be realized. For example, it is conceivable to provide a springy yielding action of a driver segment at the coupling member or, as a result of a suitable material selection, a material-based elastic yielding action. Moreover, the driver segment can be secured, for example, pivotably, on a holder, for example, configured together with an actuator that can be manually activated, so that unlocking as well as the automatic yielding action in case of a locking action can be realized by means of the pivot or tilting axis.
Further advantageous embodiments of the invention result from further dependent claims, the following description, and the drawing. In the drawing it is shown in:
In the drawing, parts that basically operate the same are identified with identical reference characters.
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A driver 6 is provided stationarily on the door 3 and has a guide slot 7. A coupling member 8 that has a driver segment 9 can be inserted into this guide slot 7.
The coupling member 8 is attached to the bottom side of the shelf 4 wherein the driver segment 9, as can be already seen in
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