Miscellaneous hardware (e.g. – bushing – carpet fastener – caster – Hinge – Resiliently biased hinge
Patent
1996-04-18
1998-06-16
Howell, Daniel W.
Miscellaneous hardware (e.g., bushing, carpet fastener, caster,
Hinge
Resiliently biased hinge
16287, 16360, 16366, E05F 108, E05D 306
Patent
active
057652619
ABSTRACT:
An X-shaped automatic hinge structure serving as a fulcrum for supporting and pivotally connecting a swinging cabinet door board to a cabinet body. At a final stage of closing the door board, the hinge structure aids in speedily closing the door board. The hinge structure includes a C-shaped elongated slide seat having an upper and a lower leg plates each formed with a slot and having a locking plate for securing the slide seat on inner side of the cabinet door board; a C-shaped fixing seat having two leg plates each having a locking plate for securing the fixing seat on inner side of the cabinet body; a buffering block disposed in the fixing seat and having a waved arch end, the buffering block being formed with a longitudinal rectangular through hole and a transverse circular through hole communicating therewith, two circular sockets being formed beside the transverse circular through hole for placing two springs therein, a nut being placed into the rectangular through hole, a long bolt being passed through a central hole of the top plate into the circular through hole to be engaged with the nut in the rectangular hole, whereby the buffering block is resiliently spaced from the top plate of the fixing seat by the springs; and an X-shaped linkage formed by a long and a short C-shaped levers each having a round head end for abutting against the waved arch end of the buffering block.
Gurley Donald M.
Howell Daniel W.
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