FURNITURE ITEM EQUIPPED WITH A COMPARTMENT THAT CAN BE CLOSED BY LEAVES

Abstract

A furniture item is described comprising compartment, -an L-shaped guide arranged on the ceiling of the furniture item, and a first and second leaf to uncover or close the compartment. Thanks to a column element hinged at one end of the second leaf and coupled with two parallel guides mounted on the side of the furniture item, the leaves can be moved.

Description

Claims

1. Furniture item comprising: a compartment with a front opening bounded by walls and a ceilingan L-shaped guide arranged on the ceiling of the furniture item,a first and second leaf coupled together in such a way as to be able to fold one on top of the other to uncover the compartment or to be able to be arranged coplanar and close the compartment, the first leaf having a free end which is slidingly coupled to the guide to obtain the book-like closing and opening of the leaves,a column element that is hinged at one end of the second leafcoupled with two parallel guides mounted on the side of the furniture iteminclined with respect to a horizontal plane, so that the column element can move linearly along the side of the furniture item parallel to the depth of the compartment while remaining at the same height from the ground, and move linearly between two positions, a first position adjacent to the opening of the compartment and a second position adjacent to the rear of the compartment,coupled with the inclined guides and the second leaf so that moving towards the - and then remaining at the - first position it extracts the packed leaves out of the side of the furniture item and brings them to unfold in front of the compartment, while moving to - and then staying at - the second position it accompanies and/or pushes the coplanar leaves to fold book-like, to pack themselves one on top of the other and to arrange themselves packed parallel to the side of the furniture item.

2. Item according to claim 1, wherein the column element is a bar set vertically having a length approximately as the height of the compartment and a width, measured along the depth of the compartment, less than the depth of the compartment.

3. Item according to claim 1, wherein the column element has a weight such as to - or sufficient to - make it slide on the inclined guides to drag the leaves only by gravity force.

4. Item according to claim 1, wherein the column element is coupled to the two inclined guides by means of respective carriages which have a weight such as to - or sufficient to - make the column element slide on the inclined guides to drag the leaves only by gravity force.

5. Item according to claim 4, wherein the carriages for making the column element slide on the inclined guides are connected to each other by a rigid element, whose weight Is such as to, or sufficient to, or contributes to, make the column element slide on the inclined guides.

6. Item according to claim 1, comprising. two auxiliary slides mounted parallel and spaced apart on one side of the furniture item, andthe column element is slidingly coupled to the two auxiliary slides by means of respective auxiliary carriages for sliding linearly horizontally along the furniture item’s side.

7. Item according to claim 1, wherein the inclined parallel guides inclined such that their lowest end is the end facing the rear of the compartment, so as to maintain by gravity the column element at said second position.

8. Furniture according to claim 1, comprising an anchoring means or device for anchoring the column member and a part of the furniture item, so as to make the column member and said part integral with each other to block the column member to said part and hold it still in the first position.

9. Item according to claim 8, wherein said part of the item is a fixed part of the furniture item (MC).

10. Item according to claim 8, wherein said part of the furniture item is a seat formed in a or each carriage with which the column member is coupled to one of said two inclined guides (64).

11. Item according to claim 8, wherein said part is one of said guides.

12. Item according to claim 8, wherein the anchoring means or device is mounted on the column element.

13. Item according to claim 8, wherein the anchoring means or device comprises a stop element movable between a position wherein it makes the column element integral with said part, and a position wherein the column element and the part are disengaged.

14. Item according to claim 8, wherein the stop element is linearly movable.

15. Item according to claim 8, wherein the stop element has a free end movable for selective engagement with said part, the free end being provided with a rolling element.

16. Item according to claim 5, comprising a device or means for synchronizing the movement of the leaves and/or the column element with the action of the anchoring means or device.

17. Item according to claim 1, wherein the device or means for synchronizing comprise a sensor for (i) detecting the position of a leaf and/or the column element, and(ii) driving the anchoring means or device as a function of the position so detected.

18. Item according to claim 17, wherein the sensor consists of a lever that is mounted protruding from the column element and is configured to intercept one end of a leaf moving along the L-shaped guide,be displaced due to contact with such end, anddrive the anchoring means or device by its movement induced by such end.