MODULAR AND VARIABLE PITCH DRAWER BLOCK PARTICULARLY DESIGNED FOR PHARMACIES

Description

PROSPECTUS U UTILITY MODEL SUMMARY WITH MAIN DESIGN, DESCRIPTION AND CLAIMS N IIZUÌÙ APPLICATION IMI95U 000387 I REG.ll OATA 01 DEPOSIT I 01 / LQ9 / Ul 9 9 5 N IMITO BRIVITW ( I DATA01 RELEASE II 1 / LI l / LIIII t TITLE "MODULAR DRAWER BLOCK £0 WITH VARIABLE PITCH, PARTICULARLY DESIGNED FOR PHARMACIES" THE the summary The present invention concerns a modular and variable-pitch drawer unit, particularly for pharmacies. The chest of drawers in question comprises: a pair of side panels, an upper spacer frame and a lower spacer frame, which are connected to the side panels, side panels with sliding guides which are attached to the internal face of the side panels and drawers, which are mounted on the sliding guides of the side panels. Each drawer comprises a front element and a rear element, which are connected to sides equipped with lateral guides in extruded profile, which engage, on the external side of the drawer, with a pin or wheel, connected to the sides, and support the bottom of the drawer. The rear element has, on the sides, wheels that engage with the sliding guides of the jambs. The side guides support, on the inside of the drawer, support and positioning bars for the cross dividers, housed inside the drawer. N' DRAWING AUDIO TECHNICAL-LEGAL PATENTS Don Piot FRANCO CICOGNA Peg 2 Description of the Utility Model having as its title to 1 o : "MODULAR AND VARIABLE STEP DRAWER BLOCK SPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR PHARMACIES" d 6:1 the VAIERA SNC by Lucchini C. & Valera R., Of Italian nationality, based in RHO - (Milan) and electively domiciled at the Patent Office Dr. Franco Stork, in Via Visconti di Modrone, 14 / a - Milan. Deposit nanny The ONE OI " M195U / 0 found the present has as its object a modular chest of drawers and variable pitch, par especially designed for pharmacies. The pharmacy drawers currently in trade are designed with drawers of length fixed even if two different pros are proposed depth. A bi 1ita* type composition is therefore adopted rigid where this term is used to identify the old concept of modularity, in which there is no the possibility of creating a step-by-step module is foreseen variable, depending on the different market needs Analyzing the case in more detail among the pharmacy drawers currently on the market, first of all we find a large variety » variety of implementation solutions adopted. In fact, next to the drawers with flanks independent of more modern design, you can still find drawers completely made of metal with iron bottom and sides, rigidly connected to the rest of the drawer. On the other hand, even drawers with sides Recently designed independent units, which could therefore adopt a more flexible modular system, do not provide for the possibility of inserting a variable-width module because the particular shape of the front panel and of the front and rear counterpanels does not allow the adoption of solutions of this type. Inside the drawer are the separates rators with the 1 ino card holder incorporated inside them. The essential function of the separator and that of keeping the different pharmaceutical specialties separated within the same drawer. The separator also provides the possibility of containing a card used for warehouse management and of the pharmacy. Typically, in fact, when the pharmacist takes a package from the drawer, he also removes the corresponding label, so that he can restock the sales area without having to perform a further check of the out-of-stock medicines. It should also be noted that, if the size of the separator can be estimated at around one centimetre, the size of the separator block with card holder!] ino can be estimated at around 3 cm. Nowadays, the existence of the 1 ino folder holder is no longer necessary when using computerised warehouse management and, therefore, in all these cases, the separator with 1 ino folder holder leads to an unnecessary increase in the minimum subdivision pitch - (3 cm instead of 1) - and consequently a reduction in the number of separators and specialities that can be inserted in the drawer itself, as well as an increase in the cost of the separator. As regards the support structure of the chests of drawers currently on the market, each manufacturer offers the customer drawers with three different heights, which are indicated as single drawer - (with one module) - double drawer - (with two modules) - and basic drawer. ili! AND ROOFS STUD O TECHNICAL-LEGAL THE Drib Prof. FRANCO CICOGNA Peg 5 Typically, three basic drawers make a double one. The fundamental problem of these structures is to allow the integration of these variants into the structure, regardless of the position considered. Until now, the problem of inserting drawers of different heights has been solved by inserting a double fixing hole for the runners in the support structure and then leaving the problem of appropriately positioning the runners on the structure to the assembler. A further drawback of this solution is that it requires larger dimensions of the structure, because the double drilling considerably weakens the structure itself. The aim of this invention is to solve the problems described above by creating a chest of drawers that allows for a drawer arrangement that fully satisfies the most varied customer requirements. Within the scope of the above-described task, a particular object of the present invention is to provide a chest of drawers which is lockable quick and easy installation without requiring any opera- tuning actions by the installer. Another aim of the invention is to create a chest of drawers that allows for the insertion of modules of different widths and depths, based on the configuration and available space. Furthermore, the chest of drawers in question, due to its particular characteristics, can be produced with competitive production costs. The task described above, as well as the purposes mentioned and others that may be better highlighted later, are achieved by a modular drawer unit with variable pitch, particularly for pharmacies, characterised by the fact that it comprises: a pair of side panels, an upper spacer frame and a lower spacer frame, connected to the side panels, sides with sliding guides associated with the internal face of the side panels, drawers comprising a front element and a rear element connected to sides provided with lateral guides in extruded profile that engage, on the external side of the drawer, with a pin or wheel connected to the sides and supporting the bottom of the drawer. The aforementioned rear element features. / / studio yA A / téCNICO-LEGAL e\^\ lì JIKEVETTI l'j P ® 9 \e\ Dell Piot. / / / V\FftANf.O CICOGNA / ** / laterally, , wheels engaging with the guides of sliding of the shoulders and the upper lateral guides they carry, on the inside of the drawer, support bars port and positioning for cross-section separators can be housed inside the drawer. Further features and advantages of the chest of drawers which is the object of this Utility Model will be further highlighted through an examination of the description of the aforementioned chest of drawers, illustrated, for the record, of a bad, but not limiting nature, with the aid of the attached drawings, in which: figure 1 illustrates the load-bearing structure of the chest of drawers in question, in exploded perspective view; 1 Figure 2 illustrates the load-bearing structure of the chest of drawers in question, in partially assembled perspective view; 1 Figure 3 illustrates a drawer of the drawer block according to the present invention, in view perspective ; 1 Figure 4 shows a detail of the chest of drawers in question relating to the coupling between the rear element of the drawer and the sliding guides; - , Figure 5 illustrates a drawer, sectioned in a vertical plane; figure 6 shows one of the jambs with the sliding guides in lateral elevation; Figure 7 shows, in cross-section, a lateral guide of the drawer side; Figure 8 shows, in cross-section, another drawer side guide; Figure 9 shows a cross-section of a longitudinal drawer separator. With particular reference to the numerical symbols of the aforementioned figures, the chest of drawers in question comprises a load-bearing structure, indicated in its entirety by the reference number 1, which is made up of a pair of lateral sides, 2a and 2b, which are joined and precisely spaced from each other by an upper spacer frame 3 and a lower spacer frame 4. The chest of drawers in question includes sides 5, which can be associated with the internal side of the side panels 2a and 2b, using special holes provided, at pre-set heights, in the side panels ?a and 2b. The shoulder boards.5 are intended to be assembled on site and feature, depending on the requirements, IP depending on the type of drawer to be assembled, two, three or four sliding guides 6, which preferably have a substantially C-shaped cross-section, with the open side facing towards the inside of the load-bearing structure. The sliding guides 6 are preferably inclined towards the rear side of the supporting structure, so as to obtain the return to the closed position of the drawer by gravity, when the drawer is released. The shoulders 5 are also provided, near their front end, with pins or wheels 7. 1 drawers which are available in three types with different heights, are essentially made up of a front element 8 and a rear element 9, which are joined together by sides 10 a and 10b. Each side 10a and 10b comprises a lateral guide 11, which is made up of an extruded profile, for example an extruded aluminium profile, which has, in cross-section, a preferably C-shaped shape, with the open side facing the outside of the drawer. Each side guide 11 is connected su- $1 uDlO PATENTS □ oils. Piai. FRANCO CICOGNA above a band 12, the height of which can vary according to the desired height of the drawer and which, in turn, is connected above. to a higher guide 13, also made in extruded profile. The sides 10a and 10b and, in particular, the lateral guides 11 act as a connecting element and as a stiffening element for the entire drawer and, furthermore, support the bottom of the drawer. In fact, on the internal side of the lateral guides 11, near the lower end, a seat 14 is defined, in which a side of the bottom of the drawer. Above the seat 14, still on the internal side of the lateral guide 11, another seat 15 is defined, in which a support and positioning bar 16 is inserted, made in the form of a rack, for transverse separators 17, which can be housed inside the drawer, as will be better highlighted below. The rear element 9 supports, laterally, a pair of wheels 18 which engage within the sliding guides 6 of the shoulders 5. The side guides 11 engage with the their side facing outwards from the drawer with the STUDY CO-LEGAL TECHNOLOGY H PATENTS FRANCO CICOGNA pins or wheels 7, connected to the shoulders 5, so to allow the drawer to slide easily. The drawer of the chest of drawers in question also preferably comprises a longitudinal separator 19, which is arranged parallel to the sides 10a and 10b and which cooperates with them in supporting the bottom of the drawer. Preferably, the longitudinal separator 19 is simply made of an extruded profile, for example in extruded aluminium, which has, at the bottom, on its two opposite sides, seats 20, within which the two sides of the two panels 2 J a and 21b engage, which constitute the bottom of the drawer and which, on the opposite side, are inserted internally into the seats 14 of the lateral guides 11. Above the guides 20, always on the two opposite sides of the longitudinal separator 19, two seats 22 are defined, within which another support and positioning bar 23, suitably made as a rack, for the transverse separators 17, is engaged. At its upper end, the longitudinal separator 19 defines an upper guide 24, which can be exploited also for the support of the transverse separators 7 \PRAWCO STORK / * study TECHNICAL-LEGAL BHEVETTI 17. Each transverse separator 17 consists of a blade 25 which, near its upper lateral end facing one side of the drawer, has a U-shaped portion 26 which can be engaged with the upper guide 13, which allows the transverse separator 17 to slide along the entire length of the drawer. The rear elements 9 are provided, on their sides, with stop devices 26 which, at the end of the drawer's opening stroke, engage against the pins or wheels 7, so as to avoid the accidental complete extraction of the drawer. For the sake of completeness, it should be noted that, on the front side of element 8, a covering panel 27 may be provided, as may infill elements 28, to provide covering for the external side of the load-bearing structure of the chest of drawers. It is worth highlighting that the sides 5, which are designed to accommodate two or three or four drawers at the same time, depending on the user's requests, allow for a quicker and easier on-site installation phase, as the fitter simply has to fix the sides that carry the sliding guides 6 on the sides 2a and 2b without carrying out any adjustment operation, as is instead required in traditional chests of drawers. As regards the transverse separators 17, it is important to underline that, to move them along the drawer, it is not necessary to partially extract it, but simply rotate it. This fact leads to a drastic reduction in the stresses to which the transverse separator is subjected and therefore allows for a lifespan of the transverse separator comparable to that of the rest of the chest of drawers, as well as a possible reduction in production costs. Furthermore, the card holder is no longer included in the cross-section separator. This fact allows for a significant reduction - (up to 60%) - in the width of the separator and therefore a reduction in the minimum distance between two adjacent separators, in all those cases in which the card holder!1 ino is superfluous, such as, for example, in the case of computerized management of the sales warehouse. In all those cases where it is still foreseen I'm using the card holder, this solution per- / / STUDIO \>\ / t / lECNICO-LEGAL iìl PATENTS * Pdg Oc i P„r. . Ifj V\FnANfO STORK / " / allows you to tilt the same card holder 1 ino in the desired direction, thus allowing a decisive reading easier for the operator. From what has been described above and from the analysis of the various figures in the attached drawings, the great functionality and practicality are evident. of use, which distinguish the chest of drawers according to the present invention. In particular, we would like to underline that a chest of drawers is created which, thanks to its modularity* and variable pitch, is able to satisfy the most varied needs of the buyer. In practice, the materials used, as well as the contingent dimensions and shapes, may be any, depending on your needs.

Claims

CLAIMS 1. Modular and variable-pitch drawer unit, particularly for pharmacies, characterised by the fact that it comprises: a pair of side panels, an upper spacer frame and a lower spacer frame, connected to the side panels, side panels with sliding guides associated with the internal face of the side panels, drawers comprising a front element and a rear element connected to sides provided with lateral guides in extruded profile engaging, on the external side of the drawer, with a pin or wheel connected to such side panels and supporting the bottom of the drawer; the aforementioned rear element has, laterally, wheels engaging with the sliding guides of the side panels and the lateral guides support, on the internal side of the drawer, support and positioning bars for transverse separators, which can be housed inside the drawer, 2. Chest of drawers block, as in claim 1, characterised by the fact that it comprises a longitudinal separator arranged parallel to the sides and cooperating with them in supporting the bottom of the drawer. STUDY TECHNICAL-LEGAL PATENTS D«||. P<«f. FRANCO CICOGNA previous revenge, characterized by the fact that each of the aforementioned sides includes a lateral guide in extruded profile and an upper guide in extruded profile, joined to the lateral guide by a strip with variable height, depending on the height of the drawer.

4. Drawer block, as in one or more previous claims, characterised by) made that the lateral guides of the drawer sides have, on their side facing the inside of the drawer, the lateral edges of the drawer bottom.

5. Drawer unit block, such as one or more previous claims, characterised in that the longitudinal separator is made up of an extruded profile, in which two seats facing the sides of the drawer are defined at the bottom and engage with the bottom of the drawer.

6. Drawer unit, as in one or more preceding claims, characterised in that the longitudinal separator has, above the seats for the bottom of the drawer, seats for support and positioning bars for the transverse separators 1i.

7. Drawer block, such as one or more STUDY bri: seen Do'l. P,of. FRANCO CICOGNA fr / 1ECNI CO - LEGAL previous claims, characterized in that the support and positioning bars for the transverse separators are made of rack bars, 8. Drawer unit, as per one or more preceding claims, characterised in that the aforementioned transverse separators comprise a blade which can be engaged with the rack bars and which have a U-shaped portion which can be engaged with the upper guide of the drawer, 9. Drawer block, as in one or more previous claims, characterised by the fact that the sliding guides of the sides are inclined towards the rear side of the drawer block.

10. Drawer block, such as one or more previous claims, characterised in that the rear element of the drawer has laterally locking members which can be engaged with the pin or wheel, to stop the drawer at the end of its opening.

11. Drawer unit, as in one or more previous claims, characterised by the fact that it comprises filling elements for the covering 12. Chest of drawers, as in one or more previous claims, characterised by] comprising a panel for covering the front element.

13. Modular and variable-pitch drawer unit, particularly designed for pharmacies, as per one or more preceding claims, all, in substance, as more fully described and illustrated and for the purposes specified.