Miscellaneous hardware (e.g. – bushing – carpet fastener – caster – Hinge – Including adjustment for changing relative orientation of...
Patent
1993-10-18
1995-05-09
Rosenbaum, Mark
Miscellaneous hardware (e.g., bushing, carpet fastener, caster,
Hinge
Including adjustment for changing relative orientation of...
16270, E05D 704
Patent
active
054128404
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a furniture hinge whose door fastening member, which is constructed as an insertion cup which may be mounted sunk in a recess in the inner surface of a door of an article of furniture, is coupled via a joint mechanism to a carcase fastening member which is constructed as a support arm which is to be movably secured to a mounting member secured to the furniture carcase, is short and at least partially laterally fittingly engages over the mounting member with a U-shaped cross-section, whereby the support arm has narrow, strip-shaped corners, which are bent over substantially at right-angles towards one another from the limiting edges, which are directed away from the insertion cup and extend at right-angles to the carcase fastening surface of the mounting member, of its cheeks which laterally engage over the mounting member, which corners are slidable into a respective groove, which is provided in the mounting member and is open at the upper end directed away from the carcase, and for the purpose of adjusting the spacing of the support arm from the carcase fastening surface an adjusting screw is screwed into the mounting member, on whose free end the web surface of the support arm bears and for the purpose of fixing the support arm a fastening screw is screwed through an opening in the web surface of the support arm into the mounting member, the head of which may be screwed against the outer surface of the support arm web surface directed away from the mounting plate.
Such furniture hinges, which are also referred to as "short arm hinges" in which not only the support arm but also the mounting member used in place of the mounting plate which is commonly provided for the adjustable fastening to the cupboard carcase are significantly shortened in the longitudinal direction of the support arm with respect to normal hinges, are used, for instance, when the hinges are to be fastened not to the inner surface of the associated carcase side wall but to the narrow end face of a frame which reduces the size of the free cupboard opening. When using normal hinges the support arm and the mounting plate extend beyond the frame into the interior of the cupboard, which not only has an unattractive appearance but can also impede the removal of the contents of the cupboard. Such short arm hinges are questionable even if the mounting member holding the support arm is secured in bores of a series of bores provided in fact for bottom carriers in the immediate vicinity of the end edges of the cupboard carcase. The corners which may be slid into the grooves in the mounting member are secured against pivotal movement relative to the fastening surface on the cupboard carcase, whereby an adjustment is possible of the degree of contact or overlap of the door leaf connected to the cupboard carcase with the short arm hinges in question by altering the screwing-in depth of the adjustment screw into the mounting member and the fixing of the support arm is then possible by screwing the head of the fastening screw onto the support arm web surface. For the purpose of access to the adjusting screw there is generally provided in the web surface of the support arm an opening through which the screwdriver may be introduced for the purpose of altering the degree of contact. A further opening is then provided in the web surface for the shaft of the fastening screw. Since, with these short arm hinges, the support arm must be pushed onto the mounting member at right-angles to the carcase fastening surface during assembly, i.e. cannot be pushed, as with normal hinges, parallel to the fastening surface, the fastening screw cannot be preinstalled in the mounting member but must be pushed through the associated fastening opening in the web surface after sliding the support arm onto the mounting member and then screwed to the mounting member. This is laborious and the loose fastening screw can also be lost.
It is thus the object of the invention to develop the short arm hinges in question so that mounting of the support arm on th
Hansen Kenneth J.
MEPLA-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
Rosenbaum Mark
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