Housing for a laboratory instrument

US9983050B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BRAND GMBH & CO KG · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Ettig · Osthofen, DE
• Steffen Gehrig · Heide, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 26, 2015
• Grant date: May 29, 2018
• Expiry date: May 27, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC E): Fixed Constructions
• CPC primary: E05Y2900/202
• WIPO field: Civil engineering
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A housing for a laboratory device, having floor, ceiling, rear, side, and front walls, which together form an operating chamber, wherein the front wall is movable upward and downward between a lowered closed position and a raised open position in a linear and simultaneously pivoting manner and, in the open position of the front wall, the operating chamber is open on the front side of the housing. The top wall section having top and bottom wall sections connected about a first pivot axis and transitions in an arc shape to a plate-shaped connection section extending at an angle to the top wall section, or is connected thereto in an angularly rigid manner, and a connection section is hinged in a pivoting manner to the ceiling on the edge thereof distant from the top wall section parallel to the first pivot axis, at a distance from the front wall.