What is the crucial problem for furniture producers?

To produce a furniture item which is efficient, reliable and cheap.

In the figures here on the side, taken from the relative patent application, a very recent invention by Girotto is shown. It is a sliding support mechanism for the leaf of a peculiar kind of piece of furniture, currently very appreciated by the market. The leaf is supposed not only to move laterally in order to uncover the space behind, but also to be extracted from the frame for it to overlap the adjacent leaf.

Known mechanisms were complex, heavy, nasty to adjust and very expensive.

Girotto solves the problem by drawing an inextensible wire between two opposite sides of the opening covered by a leaf, in particular between two diagonally opposite points. Then he mounts on the leaf some carriages, each one provided with pulleys to bend correctly the wire therebetween and...that's it!

Now the leaf moves laterally on the frame supported by the wire, like the ruler for drawing moved in perfect alignment to the table of the geometrician while he were using the pantograph.

A simple but clever solution exploiting an ancient knowledge in an innovative way.

The two figures are details of the piece of furniture as designed with SolidWorks and then produced by a well-known and enterprising company (Perin Spa).

Note the wire in red and the details of the guides necessary for directing the leaf.

The order and simplicity in the mechanism is apparent. The installation is almost immediate, the maintenance very simple and the costs reduced to a minimum. There exist margins to choose high quality components, thereby warranting to the customer an ever-lasting and durable product.

Girotto embraces the adagio:"What is absent cannot brake". And he does it really well!