Cabinet levelling apparatus
AssigneeDesignerscope Limited
InventorWim Jan DE BRUIN
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Abstract
An apparatus for adjusting a height adjustable leg for supporting a cabinet, appliance or structure is described. The apparatus includes a foot of a height adjustable leg and a tool comprising a driving member and a torque input for applying torque to the driving member. The foot includes a rotatable foot part with a driven member and a base part to support the rotatable foot part on a floor or supporting surface. The tool and the foot are complementarily adapted to releasably maintain engagement between the driving member and the driven member to allow the driving member to drive the driven member to rotate the rotatable foot part about a longitudinal axis of the leg for height adjustment of the leg.
Claims20
Apparatus for adjusting the height of a cabinet above a supporting surface comprising:
- (a) a length adjustable leg having an elongate axial direction, for supporting the cabinet and comprising:
- a first part for securing to or forming part of the cabinet and presenting an external or internal threaded region,
- a foot comprising:
- a rotatable foot part that comprises a rotationally driven member and an externally or internally threaded member to rotate about an axis of rotation coaxial the axial direction with the driven member and to engage with the internally or externally threaded region of the first part to allow the distance between the foot and the cabinet to be adjusted upon rotation of the foot part relative the first member about the axis of rotation, and
- a spacer to engage the foot part and locate between the supporting surface and the foot part to support the foot part above said supporting surface, wherein the spacer comprises a radially extending flange having an axial direction registration surface or surfaces,
- (b) a tool comprising a driving member, a torque input for applying torque to the driving member, and the tool adapted to bear against the registration surface(s) to axially locate the tool to the foot so that the driving member is held relative the driven member in the axial direction to engage the driven member and allow the driven member and foot part to be driven by the driving member about the axis for length adjustment of the leg.
A length adjustable leg having an elongate axial direction, for supporting a cabinet and being adjustable in length by a tool comprising a rotary driving member and a torque input for applying torque to the driving member, the leg comprising:
- a first part for securing to or forming part of the cabinet and presenting an external or internal threaded region,
- a foot comprising:
- a rotatable foot part that comprises a rotationally driven member and an externally or internally threaded member to rotate about an axis of rotation coaxial the axial direction with the driven member and to engage with the internally or externally threaded region of the first part to allow the distance between the foot and the cabinet to be adjusted upon rotation of the foot part relative the first member about the axis of rotation, and
- a spacer to engage the foot part and locate between the supporting surface and the foot part to support the foot part above said supporting surface, wherein the spacer comprises a radially extending flange having an axial direction registration surface or surfaces for the tool to bear against to axially locate the tool to the foot so that the driving member is held relative the driven member in the axial direction and engage the driven member and allow the driven member and foot part to be driven by the driving member about the axis for length adjustment of the leg.
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An apparatus for adjusting the height of a cabinet, appliance or structure above a supporting surface and comprising:
- a height adjustable leg that has a longitudinal axis and that comprises a foot part comprising a driven member able to be rotated relative to the support surface about the longitudinal axis, and
- a tool comprising a handle and a driving member to rotate relative the handle about a rotational axis of the driving member that extends in use parallel to the longitudinal axis and a torque input for applying torque to the driving member that includes a first gear drivingly coupled to the driving member, and
- wherein the driving member and the driven member are gears that can releasably mesh together at a plurality of radial locations relative to the longitudinal axis of the leg.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.