Note: Descriptions are shown in the official language in which they were submitted.
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The present invention rela-tes to a sectional uprlght
with rack.
There is currently used for all sorts of furniture,
and particularly for bookcases, sets of shelves, as well as
for numerous other uses, racks fixed on a support, a wall or
dividing wall, or assembled as a post, on which may be hooked
at any desired level brackets themselves intended to support
shelves.
These racks are generally formed by a metal section,
having an H or similar cross-section, the transverse leg of
which is pierced with equidistant windows forming the rack
properly speaking, and the edges of the two parallel branches
of which, intended to bear against the dividing wall, are
extended outwardly by portions bent at right-angles, forming
feet and pierced with holes for fixing thereof by means of
screws to the wall.
A reproach often made against these racked sections
is that they are unaesthetic, because the heads of the fixing
screws can be seen.
The present invention relates to a rack of the
above-mentioned type which palliates this disadvantage.
According to the present invention, there is provided
a sectional upright with rack, comprising a section having a
transverse leg pierced with windows forming the rack, and two
parallel legs intended to be applied against a support, each
leg being extended at one end by a portion bent outwardly at
right-angles forming feet pierced with holes for receiving
fixing means, and removable masks connected to said section
for hiding said section from view, characterized in that each
of said removable masks is formed of a counter-section having
first edges ad~acent free edges of said bent portions and
second opposite edges passing close to other edges of said
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legs and extending beyond said other edges by thin lips
hiding said rack, a system of clamping lips and fixing
strips provided on said legs and masks permitting easy
fixing of said mask onto said section.
These means for fixing the masks to the section
are preferably fluted, grooved, or shaped in any other
appropriate way allowing a firm, though removable,~securing
to be obtained.
The drawing shows by way of example several
embodiments of the present invention.
Figure 1 is a perspective view, with parts cut
away, of a first embodiment of the invention.
Figure 2 is a cross-sectional view of a variation.
Figures 3, 4 and 5 are variations shown in section.
Figure 6 is a detail view.
The section shown, having an H-shaped cross-section,
comprises a transverse leg 1, pierced at equally spaced
intervals with oblong windows 2, evenly distributed, which
form the rack properly speaking. The two parallel legs 3
and 4 of this section are extended outwardly, on the side
intended to be applied against the support, by means of
portions 5 and 6 bent at right-angles, forming feet and
pierced with holes 31 for fixing by means of screws (not shown).
On the outer faces of the parallel legs 3 and 4 of
this H-section are provided, for example half-way, continuous
lips 7 and 8 between which may be force-fitted and fixed the
strips or ribbons 9 and 10 integral with the counter-sections
11 and 12, whose edges bear respectively against the outer
faces of the parallel le~s 3 and 4 of the section and against
the adjacent faces of their bent ex-tensions 5 and 6, forming
feet.
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This method of fixing flexible counter-sections,
of any shape, size and color to metal H-, U- or L-sections
makes for easy positioning since all that is required is to
present each mask from the side until the fixing members
are engaged one in the other, which allows these masks to be
changed at will and as often as desired, which the slide or
snap-fitting methods of fixing do not allow (French Patent
2,039,207 and 2,369,451).
In the embodiment shown in Figure 2, the counter-
sections 11 and 12 are applied on the edges 15, 16 of the
parallel legs 3 and 4 of the H-section which they hide; they
could also bear with their opposite edges 28, 29 against
the edges 24, 25 of the portions 5, 6 bent back at right-
angles of the sections.
The clamping lips 13, 14 securing the counter-
sections to the H-section may be integral with the counter-
sections 11, 12 instead of being so with the H-section;
his solution, which is shown in Figure 3, is preferable if
the H-section is made from aluminum, and the counter-sections
from a plastic material ~Figure 4).
In this case, the second ends or edges 26, 27 of
counter-sections 11 and 12 directed towards one another, may
be made thinner and extended beyond the edges 15 and 16 of
legs 3 and 4 of the U-section by lips 19, 20, so as to hide
rack 1 also; the resiliance of these thinned extensions 19
and 20 may be sufficient for them to draw sufficiently aside
to allow to pass therethrough the fixing hooks of the brackets
which the rack 1, 2 is to carry at the desired level.
These H-sections are sometimes arranged to form poles
21, as shown in Figure 5, instead of being fixed to a wall;
the counter-sections 22, 23 are then arranged to each hide a
half of the poles; in the embodiment shown, they are of the
type of those of Figure 4.
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The metal sections may be sections having a cross-
section other than in the form of an H providing that the
securing of the masks may be achieved by engaging continuous
strips of one of the elements in lips or grooves of the
other element, which avoids the disadvantages of known
assemblies comprising slides, snap-fittings, screws or clips.
It is apparent that within the scope of the invention,
modifications and different arrangements can be made other
than is here disclosed. The present disclosure is merely
illustrative with the invention comprehending all variations
thereof.
Thus it is that one of the anchoring members may be
provided on portions 5, 6 bent at right angles of the section,
the other member integral with counter section 11, 12 being
disposed so as to engage with the first.
This means of fixing flexible and curved counter
sections 11, 12 on the sectional upright allows panels 30
to be fitted having edges suitably indented to bear on the
portions 5, 6 bent at right angles of the section and to abut
lips 7, 8 to fit flush with legs 3, 4 (Fig. 6).
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