Supports: cabinet structure – With movable components – Pivotal – fixed axis
Patent
1990-07-29
1992-02-04
Falk, Joseph
Supports: cabinet structure
With movable components
Pivotal, fixed axis
24582, A41F 1100
Patent
active
050854917
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a mounting plate assembly for the adjustable mounting of the wall-related part of a cabinet hinge, which is composed of two separable mounting plates of which the bottom mounting plate closer to the wall can be affixed to the cabinet wall, and the upper mounting plate, more remote from the wall, and holding the carcase-related hinge part adjustably, can be fastened by a resilient catch mechanism to the bottom mounting plate. The bottom mounting plate has at its forward end adjacent the door at least one hook reaching outwardly from the cabinet interior, with which a recess on the underside of the upper mounting plate is associated, the confronting engaging surfaces of the hook and recess being complementary and of an approximately arcuate configuration, at least in part, and the resilient catch mechanism being provided with a handle for releasing the catch holding the mounting plates together.
In hinges mounted with such mounting plates on the wall of a cabinet it is possible to remove individual hinges successively from the cabinet wall or fasten them thereto without the need for difficult manipulations, by actuating the catch mechanism and then raising the arm of the hinge together with the upper mounting plate joined thereto. This is advantageous especially in he case of high cabinets in which the doors are hung on the carcase of the cabinet with more than two hinges, because the doors can then be dismounted--and remounted--even single-handedly. The catch mechanism of the known hinge is formed by a slide guided in the bottom mounting plate and biased by a spring to the catching position; this slide has a catch projection having an inclined catch surface which is held resiliently in engagement with a matching inclined catch surface on the upper mounting plate. The slide is operated by means of a handle which is disposed on the rearward prolongation of the slide toward the cabinet interior. The catch mechanism has been thoroughly proven, but it is of relatively complex construction and accordingly it is expensive. The handle provided on the inner end of the mounting plate is operated by exerting an unlocking movement on the handle outwardly from the cabinet interior. Now, it is not entirely impossible that, when a cabinet is packed very full, the handle may be forced accidentally in the unlocking direction when the door is closed, if, for example, the handle comes in contact with a protruding clothes hanger or other protruding object before the door is fully closed. In the most unfavorable case this might result in the unlocking of the hinge in question and the dropping of the door if the door is hung on the cabinet with only two hinges.
Accordingly, it is the purpose of the invention to make the catch mechanism acting between the top and bottom mounting plates much simpler than the catch mechanism of the known hinge, and at the same time to assure that accidental release will be impossible under any circumstances.
Setting out from a mounting plate of the kind described above, this purpose is accomplished in accordance with the invention by the fact that the upper mounting plate partially hooks onto the bottom mounting plate at least at its end pointing into the cabinet, and is provided in the hooking area with two bows which can flex resiliently parallel to the surface of the cabinet wall and which have each a catch section which matingly catches in an associated recess in the bottom mounting plate. The catch sections and recesses, however, can be brought out of engagement by flexing the bows against one another, parallel to the cabinet wall surfaces. Each bow has a handle that is accessible in the engaged state of the two mounting plates for the purpose of pinching them together in a direction parallel to the cabinet wall surface. The desired simplification of the construction of the catch mechanism is achieved in the resilient bows themselves, so that a precision-made separate actuating slide to be disposed in a fitted guide in the bottom mounting plate is unnecessary.
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REFERENCES:
patent: 812661 (1906-02-01), Luckhaupt
patent: 833458 (1906-10-01), Hausherr
Falk Joseph
Karl Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
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