Miscellaneous hardware (e.g. – bushing – carpet fastener – caster – Hinge – Resiliently biased hinge
Patent
1990-04-19
1991-10-22
Spruill, Robert L.
Miscellaneous hardware (e.g., bushing, carpet fastener, caster,
Hinge
Resiliently biased hinge
16288, 16291, 16296, 16341, E05D 500
Patent
active
050582380
ABSTRACT:
A crosslink hinge for hanging a door on a cabinet has two crosslink arms attached in the middle in a scissors-like manner. One end of one of the crosslink arms is coupled directly to the cabinet-related part of the hinge, which can be fastened on a mounting plate to the cabinet, and one end of the other crosslink arm is coupled directly to the door-related part which is a cup which can be set in a mortise in the door, and at the other end they are coupled indirectly each by a link to the other part of the hinge. The crosslink arm that is directly pivoted at one end on the door-related hinge part is formed by two flanges disposed parallel to one another at a distance apart and joined together at least section-wise by a web to form a channel shape. The hinge furthermore contains a closing mechanism urging it resiliently into the closed position. The closing mechanism has a movable thruster which is situated in the end portion of the crosslink arm, between the flanges and underneath the web thereof, and is resiliently biased toward the fulcrum point of the link coupling the crosslink arm to the cabinet wall-related hinge part. The thrusting surface of this thruster is in contact with a cam surface of a cam element formed on the link in the area where the link is pivoted on the crosslink arm. The cam surface is of such a shape in connection with the contacting surface of the thruster that a torque acting on the link in the closing direction is produced only as it nears the closed position of the hinge.
Cuda Carmine
Karl Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
Spruill Robert L.
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