Supports: cabinet structure – With basin or tub
Patent
1981-10-15
1984-03-13
Sakran, Victor N.
Supports: cabinet structure
With basin or tub
312229, 312238, 211 41, A47B 7706, A47L 1902
Patent
active
044363524
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to kitchen furnishings provided with a storage cabinet for the storage of kitchen items such as kitchenware, kitchen appliances, and tableware in three dimensions.
BACKGROUND ART
Appearances of various cabinets constituting kitchen furnishings have now come to be considered generally important. This is for the reason that the recent trend is to use a kitchen not only as a cooking workshop, but also as a part of a living room and/or a dining room.
Even though kitchen furnishings have now come to be beautifully finished, placement of kitchen appliances used there, as well as exposed tableware storage vessels and rack shelves tends to diminish the appearance of the kitchen furnishings and, possibly, to impair the atmosphere of a happly family circle. Specifically, while the kitchen furnishings include various cabinets for accommodating the various kitchen items, for example, a base cabinet supporting a countertop (work top) thereon, a tableware cabinet (cup-board) positioned, for example, laterally thereof and a wall-mount rack suspended from a kitchen wall above the work top, what is stored in these cabinets are some of the kitchen items which are not regularly used and, on the other hand, some of the kitchen items which are regularly used everyday, for example, tableware used at each meal time, as well as bakeware, a chopping board, a cleanser and others are often left placed in a storage vessel and on a drain rack both provided around a sink.
This is for the reason that the conventional kitchen furnishings are such that the sink area, where is the center of the kitchen workshop, and the cabinets for accommodating the various kitchen items, are not coordinated to each other. In addtion, there is provided no storage cabinet effective to store all such kitchen items which are regularly used everyday. In other words, with the conventional kitchen furnishings, in order to place in a storage cabinet kitchen items which have been cleansed at the sink area, much labor is required to distribute the cleansed kitchen items to appropriate cabinets, e.g., to place the tableware, the bakeware and the chopping board respectively in the cupboard, the wall-mount cabinet and the base cabinet either after they have been temporarily stored in the storage vessel and/or drain rack and subsequently dried with a cloth or after they have been allowed to stand for a predetermined period of time for drainage and drying. Because of the labor required as described above, no one, but a person regular in his or her habits, will regularly place the kitchen items in the storage cabinets each time they have been used, and one generally tends to leave them on the storage vessels and/or the drain rack around the sink area.
Thus, with the conventional kitchen furnishings, the kitchen items regularly used tend to be left placed in the storage vessels and/or the drain rack around the sink area and, accordingly, not only these kitchen items, but also the storage vessels as well as the drain rack for the support thereof diminish the appearance of the kitchen.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, this invention has been designed to improve both pleasant appearance and the handling easiness by providing laterally of and above the work top having a sink with a storage cabinet effective to store kitchen items in three dimensions.
An embodiment of this invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The drawings illustrate an embodiment of this invention, wherein
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the entire arrangement of kitchen furnishings,
FIG. 2 is a perspective view,
FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the same, and
FIG. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same with rack assemblies accommodated inside a storage cabinet.
FIG. 5 is a longitudinal view of the same with the rack assemblies drawn out of the storage cabinet.
FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view taken along A-A' in FIG. 4,
FIG. 7 is a partial cross-sectional view taken
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Murakami Ryohei
Okada Yoshio
Segawa Yoshiaki
Suzuki Yoshiaki
Matsushita Electric - Industrial Co., Ltd.
Sakran Victor N.
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