Platform-Type Shelf and Assembling Method thereof
A platform-type shelf includes at least two lengthways lattice beams, at least two transverse lattice beams, at least two lengthways frame beams, and at least two transverse frame beams. Each lattice beam defines downward engaging grooves and upward engaging grooves. The lengthways lattice beams and the transverse lattice beams can be vertically snapped one other via a weaving technique. Each end of the frame beam has an outer tenon and an inner tenon, and the outer tenons of the two ends of the frame beam and the inner tenons thereof respectively have contrary locations in up-down direction. The outer tenons and the inner tenons of two adjacent frame beams are respectively engaged in a fastening manner. Thereby, the lattice-like platform-type shelf can be formed so as to entirely enhance its connecting force and supporting force, and to facilitate various derivative applications thereof.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a platform-type shelf and, more particularly, to a platform-type shelf assembled with lattice beams and an assembling method thereof. The platform-type shelf can be used as articles such as table, chair, bed set, worktable, trestle, pallet, padding plate, shelf and so on.
2. Description of the Prior Art
A conventional board or table for supporting weight is generally formed of a platform-type faceplate and supporting lattice beams. The board or table is a platform-type shelf such as, for example, a pallet for loading and unloading, a padding plate, a table, a chair, a bed set, a worktable etc. A main body of the platform-type shelf for directly supporting weight has been gradually changed to the supporting lattice beams instead of the faceplate. However, because lengthways lattice beams and transverse lattice beams both are columns with comparative thickness and width, they are generally engaged together using single-direction engaging structures (e.g., engaging grooves) formed thereon. Such arrangement results in that the lengthways lattice beams and the transverse lattice beams cannot generate a stable connecting force therebetween. When an outside force in a certain direction is accidentally exerted to the platform-type shelf, it is readily distorted or loosed. Also, if the engaging structures are not accurately machined, the engagement therebetween may need adhesive to increase the connecting force. Further, frame beams of the platform-type shelf need to be fixed by angle bars or nails at theirs meeting corners. Thus, such manufacturing and assembling process is relatively fussy and obviously cannot fully achieve the economical benefit of manufacture. Therefore, it is an important direction to develop and design the lattice beams of such platform-type shelf and to make theirs structural connecting strength can facilitate the use of paper material so that such disused platform-type shelf is more easy to be recovered, burned down or refashioned.
What is needed, therefore, is an improved platform-type shelf with a strengthened structure, a convenient performance and an economical performance.
BRIEF SUMMARYThe present invention provides a platform-type shelf and an assembling method thereof, which weave and connect the lengthways and the transverse lattice beams into a lattice-like structure via a weaving technique so as to thereby entirely enhance the connecting force and supporting force of the platform-type shelf.
The present invention also provides a platform-type shelf and an assembling method thereof, which can make the platform-type shelf achieve an interlocking effect between components thereof so as to thereby form a firm structure without the use of tools, rivets and nails, and which are also advantageous to induce the application of environment-protection materials and to facilitate various derivative applications of the platform-type shelf.
The platform-type shelf of the present invention comprises a central lattice beam group. The central lattice beam group comprises at least two lengthways lattice beams and at least two transverse lattice beams, each of the lattice beams defining at least one downward engaging groove and at least one upward engaging groove, the lengthways lattice beams and the transverse lattice beams vertically snapping one other via engagements of the downward engaging groove and the upward engaging groove so as to form a weaved connection.
The platform-type shelf of the present invention comprises a frame beam group. The frame beam group comprises two lengthways frame beams and two transverse frame beams, wherein each end of the frame beam has an outer tenon and an inner tenon, and the outer tenons of the two ends of the frame beam and the inner tenons thereof respectively have contrary locations in up-down direction, and the outer tenons of two adjacent frame beams are engaged in a fastening manner, and the inner tenons of two adjacent frame beams are engaged in a fastening manner.
The platform-type shelf of the present invention comprises a foot part for supporting the platform-type shelf. The foot part comprises agglutinate bodies and a strip-type covering plate and a middle covering plate, each agglutinate body being formed by agglutinating four cubic poles, the agglutinate bodies being linearly arranged and agglutinated on the strip-type covering plate, the agglutinate bodies at two ends of the strip-type covering plate being covered by the strip-type covering plate at four sequential sides, the middle agglutinate body being covered by the middle covering plate at three sequential sides.
The method of assembling a platform-type shelf according to the present invention, the platform-type shelf comprising at least two lengthways lattice beams and at least two transverse lattice beams, each of the lattice beams defining at least one downward engaging groove and at least one upward engaging groove, comprises aligning the engaging groove and the engaging groove of one lattice beam with the engaging groove and the engaging groove of an
These features and advantages of the present invention will be fully understood and appreciated from the following detailed description of the accompanying drawings.
These and other features and advantages of the various embodiments disclosed herein will be better understood with respect to the following description and drawings, in which like numbers refer to like parts throughout, and in which:
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In the above-mentioned first and second embodiments, the central lattice beam group A and the locking lattice beam group B are classed for easy to describe. In fact, they can be integrated in one structure. That is, the both lattice beams (11-14, 21-24) can have downward engaging grooves and upward engaging grooves at the same time. Therefore, one main-body structure of the present invention can be formed of two or more lattice beams and the frame beam group C in connection, and another main-body structure of the present invention can be formed of the single frame beam group C in connection (such as shown in
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The above description is given by way of example, and not limitation. Given the above disclosure, one skilled in the art could devise variations that are within the scope and spirit of the invention disclosed herein, including configurations ways of the recessed portions and materials and/or designs of the attaching structures. Further, the various features of the embodiments disclosed herein can be used alone, or in varying combinations with each other and are not intended to be limited to the specific combination described herein. Thus, the scope of the claims is not to be limited by the illustrated embodiments.
Claims
1. A platform-type shelf, comprising a central lattice beam group, the central lattice beam group comprising at least two lengthways lattice beams and at least two transverse lattice beams, each of the lattice beams defining at least one downward engaging groove and at least one upward engaging groove, the lengthways lattice beams and the transverse lattice beams vertically snapping one other via engagements of the downward engaging groove and the upward engaging groove so as to form a weaved connection.
2. The platform-type shelf as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lattice beam defines a downward engaging groove and a upward engaging groove and a downward engaging groove in sequence, or a upward engaging groove and a downward engaging groove and a upward engaging groove in sequence.
3. The platform-type shelf as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lattice beam defines a upward engaging groove and a downward engaging groove and a upward engaging groove and a downward engaging groove in sequence, or a downward engaging groove and a upward engaging groove and a downward engaging groove and a upward engaging groove in sequence.
4. The platform-type shelf as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lattice beam defines a upward engaging groove and upward engaging groove and a downward engaging groove and a downward engaging groove in sequence, or a downward engaging groove and a downward engaging groove and a upward engaging groove and a upward engaging groove in sequence.
5. The platform-type shelf as claimed in claim 1, wherein ends of the lattice beam define tenons.
6. The platform-type shelf as claimed in claim 5, further comprising a frame beam group, wherein the frame beam group comprises two lengthways frame beams and two transverse frame beams, and each of the frame beams defines a plurality of mortise portions for insertion of the tenons.
7. The platform-type shelf as claimed in claim 6, wherein the mortise portions are mortise grooves or through holes.
8. The platform-type shelf as claimed in claim 7, wherein each end of the frame beam has an outer tenon and an inner tenon, and the outer tenons of the two ends of the frame beam and the inner tenons thereof respectively have contrary locations in up-down direction.
9. The platform-type shelf as claimed in claim 8, wherein each outer tenon is formed by first removing half of a partial inner side in width, then removing half of a lower portion or an upper portion in thickness; and each inner tenon is sequentially formed by removing half of the upper portion or the lower portion of the partial inner side in thickness.
10. The platform-type shelf as claimed in claim 8, wherein the lattice beam or the frame beam has at least one stilt extending downwards therefrom.
11. The platform-type shelf as claimed in claim 10, wherein the outer tenon is a tenon formed on the stilt, and the inner tenon is a groove formed on the stilt.
12. A platform-type shelf, comprising a frame beam group, the frame beam group comprising two lengthways frame beams and two transverse frame beams, wherein each end of the frame beam has an outer tenon and an inner tenon, and the outer tenons of the two ends of the frame beam and the inner tenons thereof respectively have contrary locations in up-down direction, and the outer tenons of two adjacent frame beams are engaged in a fastening manner, and the inner tenons of two adjacent frame beams are engaged in a fastening manner.
13. The platform-type shelf as claimed in claim 12, wherein each outer tenon is formed by first removing half of a partial inner side in width, then removing half of a lower portion or an upper portion in thickness; and each inner tenon is sequentially formed by removing half of the upper portion or the lower portion of the partial inner side in thickness.
14. The platform-type shelf as claimed in claim 12, wherein the frame beam has at least one stilt extending downwards therefrom.
15. The platform-type shelf as claimed in claim 14, wherein the outer tenons is a tenon formed on the stilt, and the inner tenon is a groove formed on the stilt.
16. The platform-type shelf as claimed in claim 12, wherein the frame beams defines a plurality of mortise grooves or through holes.
17. A platform-type shelf, comprising a foot part for supporting the platform-type shelf, the foot part comprising agglutinate bodies and a strip-type covering plate and a middle covering plate, each agglutinate body being formed by agglutinating four cubic poles, the agglutinate bodies being linearly arranged and agglutinated on the strip-type covering plate, the agglutinate bodies at two ends of the strip-type covering plate being covered by the strip-type covering plate at four sequential sides, the middle agglutinate body being covered by the middle covering plate at three sequential sides.
18. The platform-type shelf as claimed in claim 17, further comprising a outer-frame box for receiving the platform-type shelf, wherein the outer-frame box comprises outer walls, strengthening walls and inflexed walls, and the bottom of the outer-frame box defines bottom plates connected with the inflexed walls, and each of two opposite inflexed walls has two insertion parts directly extending therefrom so as to insert between the adjacent outer walls and the inflexed walls.
19. The platform-type shelf as claimed in claim 17, wherein the platform-type shelf comprises a plurality of lattice beams and a plurality of frame beams, and the plurality of lattice beams are engaged using different-direction engaging grooves and engaging grooves, and the plurality of frame beams connect with the lattice beams at the peripheral of the lattice beams in an inserted way, and Each end of the frame beam has an outer tenon and an inner tenon, and the outer tenons of the two ends of the frame beam and the inner tenons thereof respectively have contrary locations in up-down direction, and lattice-like pane spaces of the platform-type shelf can be selectively inserted a properly reduced platform-type shelf or an inner supporting plate.
Type: Application
Filed: May 2, 2007
Publication Date: Nov 8, 2007
Inventor: Feng Tsai Chen (Wugu Township)
Application Number: 11/743,666
International Classification: B65D 19/00 (20060101);