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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5302016 | Automatic pull-in mechanism for drawer guides An automatic pull-in mechanism for drawer guides consists of a guide rail and a runner rail, which are made longitudinally displaceable relative to one another by rolling bodies. On the guide rail there is disposed a component that can toggle between two ... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5218739 | Single-joint furniture hinge Single-joint hinge (10) for the pivotable attachment of a door element (12), which comes to rest against a cabinet body, with a hinge (16), which is visible in the closed position of the door element and the door element contact part (20) of which has a p... | 06/15/1993 |
| 5195214 | Hinge housing The invention relates to a hinge housing in the form of a cup which can be sunk in a mortise in the back of the door of a piece of furniture and which has a cup portion made of metal from whose upper margin a mounting flange projects integrally in the pos... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5191677 | Cabinet hinge The present invention relates to a hinge for hanging a door on the carcase of a piece of furniture having an open front which is narrowed by projecting face frame stiles. The supporting arm of the hinge can be snapped onto or removed from a mounting plate... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5180217 | Metal drawer sides Drawer side wall of metal having a web forming the vertical side of the drawer, from whose bottom and top horizontal margin a bottom flange and a top flange respectively project, as a support for the drawer bottom on the one hand and for the stiffening of... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5163774 | Hardware device for mounting drawer fronts Hardware device for fastening the front facing of a drawer to its sides, having a mounting member which can be attached to the front facing, and a coupling arm which can be joined releasably to the mounting member and can be fastened adjustably to or in t... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5147123 | Metal panel for drawer walls The present invention relates to a metal panel for drawer walls. The invention provides for a single thickness wall plate stamped and shaped from sheet metal and a separately manufactured drawer-bottom holding shaped structure formed of metal. The wall pl... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5131733 | Mounting bracket for drawer guides Mounting bracket (10) for the rearward end of the runner (18) of a drawer guide (20), in which the guide rail (22) to be fastened to the cabinet wall reaches from underneath into the corresponding runner (18) which is formed of a hollow structural shape o... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5090820 | Wheel for rolling drawer guides A wheel for guides for drawers and the like, having a wheel body journaled on an axle and made of a material of stable shape, in which at least one recess is provided, in which there is disposed a material, preferably an elastomeric plastic, that is softe... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5085491 | Mounting plate assembly for cabinet hinges Mounting plate assembly (30) for the mounting of a hinge on a wall of a cabinet, which has two separable mounting plates (40; 42) which are superimposed on one another and can be snapped on and off from one another. The bottom mounting plate (40) which ca... | 02/04/1992 |
| 5076723 | Fastening hardware set for drawer fronts The invention relates to a fastening hardware set for the adjustable fastening of a drawer front to the sides of a drawer. The invention has a hook which can be affixed to the front mark. A stud unit which can be releasably held by the hook is provided on... | 12/31/1991 |
| 5076652 | Drawer railing Drawer railing having a railing rod to be disposed above and parallel to a drawer side with its front and back end releasably fastened to an associated coupling which can be affixed to the drawer front or drawer back, the rod being adjustable in length at... | 12/31/1991 |
| 5062180 | Mounting plate for cabinet hinges Mounting plate for the adjustable mounting of the supporting wall-related part of a cabinet hinge composed of two separable mounting plate members of which the bottom mounting plate member nearer the supporting wall can be fastened fixedly to the supporti... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5058238 | Crosslink hinge with closing mechanism 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 mounti... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5052077 | Cabinet hinge with adjustments The invention relates to a carcase-related part of a cabinet hinge, which is an elongated, channel-shaped supporting arm, releasably fastened on the mounting plate by a catch mechanism. The catch mechanism has at the outer end of the mounting plate and su... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5039181 | System for fastening the track of a drawer slide System for fastening the inside, rear end of the track of a guide for drawers and the like, inside of a cabinet at a distance from the inside surface of the associated side wall of the cabinet. A tongue is bent from the inside end of the track at right an... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5031269 | Wheel for rolling drawer slides A wheel (10) for rolling drawer guides in furniture construction. A wheel body journaled on a wheel shaft and made from a hard plastic of good stability of shape has a circumferential, groove-like gap opening into the wheel rim, and in it there is dispose... | 07/16/1991 |
| 5022117 | Cabinet hinge with closing mechanism Cabinet hinge whose door-related part in the form of a cup set in a mortise is articulated to the carcase-related part configured as an elongated supporting arm of inverted U-shaped cross section by two hinge links whose ends are journaled in the cup at o... | 06/11/1991 |
| 5008977 | Cabinet hinge with closing mechanism Cabinet hinge having a door-related part configured as a plug-in cup and a carcass-related part configured as an elongated supporting arm, which are articulated relative to one another by two hinge links journaled at their ends in the cup at one end and o... | 04/23/1991 |
| 4979262 | Roller for rolling drawer guides Roller for rolling drawer guides with a wheel journaled on a stud (24) fastened to the running and/or guiding rail of the drawer guide, the wheel having a rim concentric with the longitudinal central axis of the stud (24). The wheel is divided into a hub ... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4976006 | Furniture hinge Furniture hinge whose cabinet-related part is configured as a supporting arm of channel-shaped cross section astride the corresponding mounting plate, the mounting plate being composed of two separable members which are adjustable relative to one another.... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4919548 | Drawer guide A drawer guide has a runner rail and a guide rail in the form of a channel, which can be displaced relative to one another by rolling on at least one wheel journaled at the drawer-front end of the guide rail and at least one wheel journaled on the rearwar... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4819298 | Self-closing hinge for corner cabinets Self-closing hinge for hanging the free leaf of a two-leaf corner cabinet door on the leaf that is hung on the carcase of the cabinet. The hinge has two members, one associated with each of the door leaves, which can turn by about 90° on hinge pins passi... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4810045 | Fitting for the adjustable mounting of the runner of a drawer slide Fitting for holding the front-drawer end of the runner of a drawer slide. The fitting has a runner holding clip which can be fastened behind the drawer front under the bottom of the corner of the drawer and grips the end of the runner between two resilien... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4797045 | Formation of a screw thread in mounting holes in furniture hardware made of sheet metal Formation of a screw thread in a mounting hole in furniture hardware made by the stamping and pressing process from thin sheet metal, which can be fastened to the furniture wall by means of mounting screws driven through the mounting hole into a furniture... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4779999 | Drawer guide In a drawer guide with a guide rail to be fastened to the wall of a cabinet, the guide rail enters from below into a corresponding tubular runner rail of an open-bottomed rectangular or square cross section which is to be fastened removably to the drawer,... | 10/25/1988 |
| 4778230 | Spacer for drawer guides A spacer for fastening a drawer guide that is too long in itself for a particular drawer to the drawer in question. The spacer is held releasably on the section of the runner rail that extends past the back of the drawer into the interior of the carcase a... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4771508 | Arrangement and support of pivots in a four-joint cabinet hinge A four-joint cabinet door hinge, especially for opening angles of more than 105°, in which the door-related hinge part is a stamped and drawn cup of thin sheet metal. The pivot pin at the cup end of the inner link is located in a recess of the wall of th... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4752143 | Drawer guide A guide for drawers, cutting boards and other such retractable furniture parts, having a guide rail which can be fastened to a cabinet wall, and a running rail which can be fastened to the retractable furniture part and is mounted for movement along the g... | 06/21/1988 |
| 4720896 | Cabinet hinge Hinge for hanging a door on the facing of a cabinet. The carcase-related part of the hinge, in the form of an elongated door-supporting arm, can be adjustably fastened on a mounting plate preinstalled on the inside surface of the facing, while its free en... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4706332 | Cabinet hinge Cabinet hinge whose cabinet-wall-related part in the form of a cantilever arm can be slipped onto a mounting plate installed on the wall of a cabinet and can then be fixed at selected positions on the mounting plate by tightening a screw. The mounting pla... | 11/17/1987 |
| 4703539 | Cabinet hinge Cabinet hinge whose jamb-related part in the form of an arm can be fastened at selectable positions along the length of a mounting plate attached to a jamb on a cabinet carcase by sliding it onto the mounting plate and then tightening a screw. The mountin... | 11/03/1987 |
| 4654930 | Self-closing over-center hinge having a link guided in a spring biased cam In a hinge for cabinet doors, a four-joint hinge articulation having two links and a single-arm lever pivotally mounted in the cabinet wall-related hinge part with its free end able to swing in a plane lying at right angles to the axis of the articulation... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4639145 | Drawer guide On a drawer guide having a guide track to be fastened to the carcase of a cabinet and a runner track to be fastened to a drawer side, the drawer or other sliding device is movable relative to the cabinet by at least one wheel journaled at the front end of... | 01/27/1987 |
