Tuck-up foot for furniture
AssigneeCamar S.p.A.
InventorSergio Marchetti
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Abstract
A foot for furniture, in particular kitchen furniture, is restrained to a fixing device on the underside of a piece of furniture in a manner that permits it to be tucked upwards from a vertical operative position to a substantially horizontal inoperative position adjacent to the said underside, wherein the fixing device protects both the foot and the underside of the piece of furniture. Between the foot and the fixing device means are provided for disengageably locking the former stably in the vertical operative position. The said locking means preferably consists of at least a coupling with grooved profiles.
Claims6
A foot for furniture comprising:
- (a) a device for stably fixing to the underside of the furniture the foot wherein said device restrains the foot in a first vertical position to support the furniture or in a second substantially horizontal position adjacent to the underside of the furniture for storage;
- (b) a disengageable locking means of said device for stably locking said foot in said first vertical position wherein said locking means includes a first coupling with grooved profiles comprising a male portion formed at the top of said foot and a female portion forming part of a seat for said foot in said device;
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- (c) a pair of diametrically opposed grooves in said seat in which respective pins of the foot latchingly engage to provide rotational and translational movement of the foot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.