Panels comprising a mechanical locking device and an assembled product comprising the panels

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10448739-B2
Application number	US-201615271622-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 21, 2016
Priority date	Sep 22, 2015
Publication date	Oct 22, 2019
Grant date	Oct 22, 2019

Abstract

A set of panels including a panel with a first main plane and an adjacent panel with a second main plane, wherein the panel and the adjacent panel are provided with an angleable locking device for locking a first edge of the panel to a second edge of the adjacent panel. The first main plane is essentially perpendicular to the second main plane. The angleable locking device includes an edge groove at the first edge and a tongue groove at the second edge. The edge groove includes a flexible tongue arranged in an insertion groove at a first side of the edge groove. The angleable locking device is configured to be unlocked by an angling motion of the panel relative the adjacent panel, such that an angle between the first and the second main plane increases.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A set of panels comprising a panel with a first main plane and an adjacent panel with a second main plane, wherein the panel and the adjacent panel comprise an angleable locking device for locking a first edge of the panel to a second edge of the adjacent panel, wherein the first main plane is essentially perpendicular to the second main plane, wherein:
the angleable locking device comprises an edge groove at the first edge and a tongue groove at the second edge, the edge groove comprises a tongue arranged in an insertion groove at a first side of the edge groove, said tongue is configured to cooperate with the tongue groove for locking together the first and the second edges in a first direction which is perpendicular to the first main plane,
the angleable locking device further comprises contact surfaces between the edge groove and the second edge at the first side and at a second side, respectively, of the edge groove for locking together the first and the second edges in a second direction which is parallel to the first main plane, and
the angleable locking device is configured to be unlocked by an angling motion of the panel relative the adjacent panel, such that an angle between the first and the second main plane increases, wherein the angleable locking device is configured such that at least part of the tongue moves out of the tongue groove by the angling motion, wherein the angleable locking device comprises a first space between the first edge and the second edge at a second side of an opening of the edge groove in a locked position of the panel and the adjacent panel,
wherein, as seen in a cross-section along a plane essentially perpendicular to the first and second main planes:
an innermost surface of the edge groove contacts an outermost surface of the adjacent panel;
the first space is bounded by a lateral surface of the second edge, the lateral surface of the second edge being coplanar with one of the contact surfaces; and
the first space is bounded by only a single intersection of the panel and the adjacent panel.

2. The set of panels as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the angleable locking device comprises cooperating surfaces at a first side of the opening of the edge groove in a locked position of the panel and the adjacent panel.

3. The set of panels as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the angleable locking device comprises a first recessed surface at the first edge, the first recessed surface bounding said first space.

4. The set of panels as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the first recessed surface is oblique relative to the first main plane.

5. The set of panels as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the angleable locking device comprises a second recessed surface at the second edge the second recessed surface bounding said first space.

6. The set of panels as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the second recessed surface is oblique relative to the first main plane.

7. The set of panels as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the angleable locking device comprises at least one recessed surface at a first and/or a second outer edge for enabling said angling motion.

8. The set of panels as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the angleable locking device comprises a second space between an outer edge of the second edge and the edge groove at the first side of the edge groove for enabling said angling motion.

9. The set of panels as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the edge groove extends along essentially the entire length of the second edge.

10. The set of panels as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the tongue is displaceable in the insertion groove.

11. The set of panels as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the angleable locking device comprises a third space between an outermost surface of the second edge and the edge groove.

12. The set of panels as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the angleable locking device comprises cooperating surfaces at the second side of an opening of the edge groove.

13. The set of panels as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the angleable locking device comprises a bottom part of the panel at a bottom of the edge groove and a side part, wherein the bottom part is bendable such that the side part is displaceable for enabling said angling motion.

14. The set of panels as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the angleable locking device comprises a bevel or rounding at an opening of the tongue groove.

15. The set of panels as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the second edge and the edge groove comprise cooperating surfaces at the first side of the edge groove, for positioning of the second edge relative the edge groove in a depth direction of the edge groove.

16. The set of panels as claimed in claim 15 , wherein the cooperating surfaces are a first surface of a recess at the second edge and a second surface of a recess at the edge groove.

17. An assembled furniture product comprising a frame and a back piece, wherein the frame comprises panels, wherein a first and a second corner edge of the frame each comprises a corner locking device for locking two adjacent panels to each other, said corner locking device comprising a tongue, wherein the corner locking device is un-lockable by displacing and/or compressing the tongue by a tool, wherein the back piece is connected to the frame by the angleable locking device according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Vaelinge Innovation Ab
• Valinge Innovation Ab

Inventors

• Derelov Peter
• Nilsson Mats

Classifications

• A47B2230/16

  Interlocking or wedging elements making up pieces of furniture without additional fasteners · CPC title

• A47B47/042

  Panels connected without frames · CPC title

• F16B12/24 Primary

  using separate pins, dowels, or the like · CPC title

• F16B12/44

  Leg joints; Corner joints · CPC title

• A47B96/201 Primary

  Edge features · CPC title