A new and improved piece of furniture, a freestanding bookcase, or a room divider.
The freestanding bookcase with hinge-connected lamellar parts and flexible slat design addresses the limitations of traditional bookshelves by allowing tool-free assembly and bidirectional operation, enhancing usability and flexibility in shelf arrangement.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- DE202025001843
- Authority / Receiving Office
- DE · DE
- Patent Type
- Utility models
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2025-07-05
- Publication Date
- 2025-12-24
- Estimated Expiration
- 2035-07-31
AI Technical Summary
Existing bookshelves require attachment to a wall and lack flexibility in assembly and shelf insertion, limiting their usability and versatility.
A freestanding bookcase design using four lamellar parts connected by hinges, allowing accordion-style assembly and flexible shelf insertion with fixed and loose slats, enabling assembly without tools and bidirectional operation.
Enables a stable, tool-free assembly and flexible shelf arrangement, enhancing usability and versatility of the bookcase.
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Abstract
Description
[0001] The standard design of a bookshelf consists of a rectangular frame with a base, two side panels, and a back panel. The shelves can be inserted using shelf supports and pre-drilled holes. Books can only be added from one side. The bookshelf must be attached to the wall.
[0002] The invention specified in claim 1 is based on the problem of setting up a freestanding shelf that can be flexibly assembled without aids or tools and can be operated from 2 sides.
[0003] This problem is solved by the feature listed in claim 1. Four lamellar parts are used ( Fig. 1) connected by hinges (1). This advantageous design allows the slatted parts to be pulled apart accordion-style and thus assembled into a stable, freestanding shelf in an M or W shape.
[0004] Claim 2 solves the highly flexible insertion of the shelves.
[0005] The 4 slat sections ( Fig. 2) They have fixed slats (2) at the top and bottom, a gap (3) of 2 slats is left at the top, followed by loose slats (4), i.e., slats (4) that can be slid upwards in the side supports (6). This allows the shelves (5) to be inserted very flexibly between the loose slats (4) (as desired and required).
[0006] The implementation of the intellectual property rights will be based on the Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 explained.
[0007] They show: - Fig. 1 the connection of the side supports (6) with hinges (1) - Fig. 2 the execution of the 4 slat parts with fixed slats (2), empty space (3), loose slats (4), shelf (5) and side supports (6) Reference symbol list 1 hinge 2 Fixed slats 3 empty spaces 4 Loose slats 5 shelves 6 side supports
Claims
[1] A stable, freestanding shelf that can be set up without aids or tools. characterized by , that the side supports (6) or lamella parts (4) are connected by hinges (1). [2] The assembly of the lamella parts with side supports (6) is characterized by , that upwardly sliding slats (4) are provided to allow the shelves (5) to be inserted flexibly.