1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a kit for producing frame structures for switchgear cabinets.
2. Discussion of Related Art
Racks for switchgear cabinets are known in various structural sizes, in regard to width, depth and height. Twelve racks, sections of a profiled continuous strand, can be connected with each other in the four corner areas of the rack with corner connectors, to form a fixed or releasable frame structure.
As European Patent Reference EP 0 076 819 A shows, four vertical profiled frame elements can be connected with each other to form a frame structure with a cover as a bottom unit and a cover as a top unit. In this case, the frame structure with the fastening receivers of the vertical profiled frame elements makes possible the installation of additional mounting rails.
In known frame structures, the installation requirements very definitely dictate the design of the frame legs used.
It is one object of this invention to provide a kit for placement in frame structures for switchgear cabinets, which includes a few simple components and yet can be matched to most varied installation requirements.
To attain this object, a kit according to this invention has a cabinet rack made of four horizontal broad struts, four horizontal depth struts, as well as four vertical frame legs of a preset width, depth and height. There are plate-shaped cover elements, which have on two opposite sides fastening edges beveled at right angles with at least one row of fastening receivers. Vertical frames made of two vertical profiled frame elements and two horizontal broad frame struts can be installed in the cabinet rack, wherein they can be connected with the depth struts, or can be attached at different spacings by base profiled sides of the vertical profiled frame elements to the insides of the fastening edges of the cover elements and, with cover elements used as a bottom element and a top element, and can form an independent basic rack. At least one cabinet door, which is beveled on its circumference and can be hinged to the cover elements.
The cabinet rack alone can be used in a known manner for the installation of different built-in devices, and can be closed off by a cabinet door and panel elements.
It is also possible to install two vertical frames in the cabinet rack, which are used, for example, for installing 19″ built-ins of different installation depth.
Finally, two such vertical frames with two cover elements can be connected to form an independent basic rack, in which the built-ins can be installed, wherein a simple adaptation to different installation depths of the built-ins is possible. This independent basic rack can be combined by a cabinet door and vertical lateral panel elements into a basic rack which can be matched to quite different installation requirements and can be completed to form an entirely independent switchgear cabinet. It is thus possible with two additional simple components to considerably increase the variation options for producing frame structures, and thus to considerably reduce the storage of switchgear cabinets for varied installation conditions.
In this case, the cabinet rack as a component of the kit can be designed so that the broad struts, the depth struts and the frame legs of the cabinet rack are formed as sections of respectively identical profiled elements, which are fixedly connected with each other, for example welded together, in corner areas of the cabinet rack by corner connectors. However, the design can also be such that the broad struts and the depth struts of the cabinet rack form a solid bottom frame and a solid cover frame. The vertical frame legs can be attached in the corner areas of the bottom frame and the top frame and form, together with the corner connectors and the bottom and top frames, a continuous exterior receiver.
In accordance with one embodiment, the structural units of the kit are designed as a vertical frame. The vertical profiled frame elements of the vertical frames have a profiled base side with at least one row of fastening receivers, which terminate with the front faces of the horizontal broad vertical struts. The lateral legs are beveled off on both sides of the profiled base side, which are oriented to the longitudinal sides of the associated horizontal broad frame struts of the vertical frames and are connected with them. In this case, the vertical profiled frame elements of the vertical frame can be designed so that at least one row of identical fastening receivers is cut in a uniform aligned graduation into the profiled base side and the beveled lateral legs of the vertical profiled frame elements of the vertical frames, or at least one row of equal or identical fastening receivers is cut in the same or a different graduation into, respectively, the profiled base side and in the beveled lateral legs of the vertical profiled frame elements of the vertical frames.
The structural unit of the vertical frames has sufficient sturdiness and torsional rigidity, and thus a permanent alignment of the parts of the vertical frame, if the horizontal broad frame struts and the vertical profiled frame elements of the vertical frames are fixedly connected with each other in the corner areas, for example welded together.
So that two vertical frames together with two cover elements can be connected in a simple manner into a basic rack, in one embodiment, on two facing sides the plate-shaped cover elements have fastening edges, which are beveled at right angles and have at least one row of fastening receivers. The vertical profiled frame elements of two vertical frames can be connected by profiled base sides with the insides of the fastening edges of the cover elements at different spacings to form a basic rack.
An installation of the vertical frames into a structural unit formed as a cabinet rack is simplified if the horizontal broad frame struts of the vertical frames have cable guide openings, and if the two vertical frames can be connected via fastening receivers of the horizontal broad frame struts with the facing tops of the horizontal depth struts of the cabinet rack at different distances from each other.
If the vertical frames are parts of a basic rack, for the introduction of cables via the bottom element or the top element, the base plates of the cover elements have cable introduction recesses in the basic rack above the horizontal broad frame struts of the vertical frames.
In one design for attaching lateral walls and a cabinet door to the basic rack, the fastening edges of the cover elements have connecting strips beveled toward the exterior on their free edges, and protrude beyond the base plate of the cover elements over the fastening edges and together with the connecting strips form receivers for attaching lateral walls on the basic rack. The base plates of the cover elements protrude at the sides extending perpendicularly with respect to the fastening edges and have bevels, on which a cabinet door can be hinged and locked, and a rear wall can be fastened.
The construction of the cabinet rack can be simplified if the base plates of the cover elements have a center opening and with fastening bores in the corner areas. In this case, the attachment of the vertical frame legs at the bottom frame and the top frame is solved if the vertical frame legs of the cabinet rack have a profiled element with a plug-in connection for the plug-in element of the corner connectors, and together with the exterior contour, the profiled element forms the exterior receptacle, which is designed symmetrical with respect to the diagonal plane of the bottom and top frames. Thus, the exterior receptacle in the corner areas of the cabinet rack can be maintained over the entire height of the cabinet rack. The bottom and the top frames of the cabinet rack have corner receivers, into which the corner connectors can be placed with a filler element and connected with the bottom or top frame. With their exterior contour, the filler elements of the corner connectors extend the exterior receptacles of the vertical profiled frames of the cabinet rack past or beyond the bottom frames and the top frames.
In case of an asymmetric cross section with interchanged front sides, the vertical frame legs can be supportingly fastened at the bottom frame or the top frame if the front sides of the vertical profiled frame elements of the cabinet rack are connected in an upright manner with the facing sides of the bottom and of the top frames and the filler elements of the corner connectors.
The vertical frame legs of the cabinet rack can be used for bringing in connection and junction cables because the vertical profiled frame elements of the cabinet rack form a channel, open to the interior of the cabinet rack, between the bottom and the top frames, which can be closed by a profiled box. The profiled box has vertical channels and rows of bores in the cover wall. In this case, the profiled box can close off channels of the vertical frame legs of the cabinet rack which are not used. Closing the channel becomes optimal if the cover wall of the profiled box covers the channel in the vertical profiled frame elements of the cabinet rack with covering strips.
There are other fastening possibilities at the vertical frame legs of the cabinet rack if the profiled side of the vertical profiled frame section forming the channel supports connecting strips are formed on the exterior of the free profiled side.
In one embodiment of this invention, the cabinet door has a beveled edge, receiving hinge elements with hinge bolts, which can be inserted into bearing receivers of the cover elements of the basic rack, in the corner areas of the hinge side of the cabinet door. The hinge bolts are adjustable in an axially limited manner in the hinge elements and can be fixed on the bevel of the cover elements so they do not shift, at least in the position in which they are engaged with the facing bearing receiver or bearing bushing.
In this case, the hinge elements which can be attached to the rack for hinging the cabinet door become superfluous, because their function is taken over by the bearing receivers at the bevels of the cover elements of the rack. Only the counter-hinges with the hinge bolts to be attached to the cabinet door are required. The hinge elements permit easy mounting/removal of the cabinet door at the rack.
The rack makes the hinging of the cabinet door easier because the end edges of the fastening edges of the cover elements are set back in relation to the beveled edges, at a minimum by an amount which at least corresponds to the dimensions of the first door bevel directed perpendicularly to the door leaf. A receptacle is thus created at the rack, which can receive the cabinet door pivotably.
The rotary seating of the hinge bolts fixed in the hinge elements can be improved easily if bearing bushes are inserted into the bearing receivers in the beveled edges of the cover elements.
If bearing receivers or bearing bushes are provided in the two end areas of the beveled edges of the cover elements, the lock side of the cabinet door has displaceable locking bars, which can be shifted manually or by a rod closing device and can be inserted into or moved out of the bearing receivers or bearing bushes of the beveled edges of the cover elements of the rack.
In one embodiment of this invention, the bearing receivers are designed as bearing bushes, which are arranged on facing fold areas of the double-walled edges. A stable connecting point for the door hinges is thus created. At the front, the fold forms a rounded end of the cover element, which is visually attractive and prevents the danger associated with a cutting injury. Thus, the bearing receivers can be designed as bearing bushes, which are arranged on facing fold areas of the double-walled edges. The functionality of the double-walled edge can be extended if at least one of the double-walled edges has a bevel, which protrudes as a door stop in the direction toward the respectively oppositely located cover element.
This invention is explained in view of an embodiment represented in the drawings, wherein:
b shows a perspective view of an alternative design detail of the cover element;
The vertical frame 10 shown in
The broad frame struts 12 can have cable introduction openings 12.2 and can be reinforced at the longitudinal edges with beveled edges 12.1. Also, the broad frame struts 12 can have fastening receivers 12.3 in the area of or near their front sides, such as shown in the partial perspective view in accordance with
A cover element 20 is represented in an enlarged perspective view in
The cover element 20 has a base plate 21 with cable introduction openings 21.1 which, with the basic rack 60 completed, overlap the cable introduction openings 12.1 of the broad frame struts 12 of the vertical frame 10. Also, the base plate 21 of the cover element 20 can have a center opening 21.1, and fastening bores 22 in the corner areas.
The edge areas of the base plate 21 have bevels 25, which protrude past or beyond the front faces of the fastening edges 23 and simplify the attachment of a rear wall and a cabinet door at the basic rack 60. The base plate 21 of the cover element 20 also protrudes from the exteriors of the fastening edges 23 and forms a receptacle 24 with it, which makes the attachment of lateral walls on the basic rack 60 easier. In this case, it is also possible to use outwardly beveled connecting strips 26 at the free edges of the fastening edges 23. The cover element 20 can be produced in a simple manner and cost-effectively as a stamped-and-bent sheet metal element.
The construction of a further component of the kit is explained in view of
Here, the cabinet rack 30 comprises identical bottom frames and top frames 35 with four vertical frame legs 33. The identical frames are each put together from two horizontal broad struts 31 and two horizontal depth struts 32. The struts which meet in the corner areas of the frames 35 are fixedly connected with each other and form corner receivers 35.1. The struts 31 and 32 have horizontal and vertical profiled sides with rows of fastening receivers 31.1 and 32.1, which preferably differ from the fastening receivers 11.2 of the vertical frames 10. Corner connectors 40 are inserted into the corner receivers 35.1 of the frames 35 and are screwed together with the frame so that a filler element 40.1 of the corner connector 40 fills the corner receiver 35.1 in such a way that the filler element 40.1 terminates flush with the horizontal profiled sides of the struts 31 and 32, and the vertical frame leg 33 is pushed on and can be supported by the plug-in element 40.2.
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Two spaced-apart vertical frames 10 are fastened by the depth struts 32 of the lower and upper frame 35. In this case, the vertical frames 10 with the profiled sides 11.1 and their fastening receivers 11.2 are arranged on sides of the vertical frame 10 facing away from each other and that are placed at a defined distance.
The cabinet rack 30 with two frames 35 and four vertical frame legs 33 installed in accordance with
The basic cabinet rack 60 of the switchgear cabinet is shown in a perspective plan view in
The vertical frames 10 are fastened at a distance from each other at beveled and facing fastening edges 23 of the cover elements 20, wherein the fastening edges 23 have at least one row of fastening receivers 23.1, or elongated holes extending in the direction of the cabinet depth. In this case, the vertical profiled frame elements 11 can be set back with respect to the edges 23.1 (see
b shows an alternative embodiment of the cover element 20, wherein the edge 25, 27 is folded by 180°. The edge 25, 27 supports a bearing bush 29 with a bearing receiver 28.
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The corner area of the hinge side of the cabinet door receives a hinge element 87 with adjustable hinge pins 86, as represented by
Locking bars, which can be moved manually or by a rod closing device, can be arranged in the area of or near the circumferential frame 82, on the back of the cabinet door on the lock side of the cabinet door 80, and can be inserted into the unoccupied bearing receptacles 28 or bearing bushes 29 of the beveled edges 25, 27 of the cover elements 20 and can be removed again. In this way, the cabinet door 80 can be fixed in place in the locked position, and can be released again from the locked position into the opening position.
In connection with this embodiment, the cover elements 20 are symmetrically designed in their center plane, which extends parallel with respect to the fastening edges 23. This also applies to the center plane which extends perpendicularly with respect to them, so that they can be used as the bottom element and as the top element for the basic rack 60. Thus the corresponding embodiment at the upper and lower hinge points applies to the hinged installation of the cabinet door 80. Regarding the attachment of the locking elements to the cabinet door 80, matters are also the same at the lower and upper cover element 20 and the lower and upper locking position.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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202004002351.2 | Feb 2004 | DE | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind | 371c Date |
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PCT/EP2004/005860 | 5/29/2004 | WO | 00 | 7/19/2006 |