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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6286186 | Furniture hardware device Furniture hardware device (20) which can be fastened to the wall of a piece of furniture because it has fastening means projecting from its surface facing the furniture wall, which can be introduced into bores in the wall of the furniture and can be secur... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6095626 | Subsurface pullout guide for drawers, etc. A subsurface pullout guide (10) with a guiding rail (12), constructed as a profiled rail, which is to be fastened to the carcass wall, and with a running rail (26), which is disposed in the region of the bottom of the drawer and supported longitudinally d... | 08/01/2000 |
| 5779410 | Fastening device for mounting hardware especially cabinet hardware on cabinets A fastening plug for mounting furniture hardware having an expandable sleeve into which an elongated shaft of an expander enters, the shaft having a head for rotating the expander relative to the sleeve. The elongated shaft of the expander has multiple ex... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5779333 | Fastening arrangement for guide rails of pull-out guides A fastening arrangement for guide rails of pull-out guides for drawers within the carcase of cabinets which have a narrow opening in the front relative to the interior width between the side walls of the carcase, the guide rails having a length which is l... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5733027 | Drawer with roller pull-out guide A drawer, which is supported in the carcass of a piece of furniture so that it can be pulled out by means of a roller pull-out guide (10), at the side walls (12) of which drawer, in the rear end region in the interior of the carcass, in each case at least... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5715577 | Door-related member of a furniture hinge Door-related hinge member (26) having a cup part with flattened sides, which is to be driven into a mortise in the back of a door. A flange extending outward against the back of the door is integral with the rim of the cup part, and retaining members are ... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5709443 | Bottom drawer slide for drawers etc. A bottom drawer slide assembly with a guide rail is constructed as a profile rail to be secured to the carcase wall, a running rail is longitudinally movably mounted on the guide rail by means of rolling bodies retained in a cage. A hollow profile section... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5676487 | Connecting hardware Connecting hardware for furniture parts, particularly of panel-shaped components of easily disassembled furniture. The connecting hardware includes a bolt which protrudes from one furniture part and can be introduced into a recess in the second furniture ... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5671538 | Assembly jig for attaching to a cabinet carcase hinges previously attached to a door A jig for hanging doors with preinstalled hinges on the stiles of cabinet carcases, wherein the hinge has a mounting plate which is to be placed on the front edge of the stile and fixed in the correct position on the stile. The jig has a body which can st... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5671989 | Holding arrangement for drawer bottoms at the side walls of the drawer An arrangement for holding the bottom panel (12), which forms the bottom of a drawer, at the assigned side walls (14) of the drawer, for which the lateral edge regions of the bottom panel are in each case held seated on a supporting flange (26) protruding... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5664288 | Furniture hinge A furniture hinge (10) with a door-related hinge member, which is constructed as a hinge pot (18) that can be inserted countersunk in a recess (16) on the inside of the door leaf (12) and is composed of a pot part (20), lying within the recess, and a fast... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5664855 | Fitting for the adjustable-height mounting of drawers The present invention is a fitting for the adjustable-height mounting of drawers on the runner rails of drawer slides, which support them on the bottom. On the runner rail of each drawer slide a slider is provided with a bearing surface facing the drawer ... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5632067 | Door-related hinge member for hanging a cabinet door The present invention is directed to a door-related hinge member having a cup-like portion to be sunk in a substantially circular mortise (28) in the back of a door (30) and having a flange (34) integral with the upper edge of cup-like portion. At least t... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5588729 | Hardware device for the vertical adjustment of drawers Hardware device for the vertically adjustable mounting of drawers extractably held in the carcase of furniture pieces by means of drawer slides. Each of the drawer slides has a guide rail for fastening in the carcase interior and a runner rail for attachm... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5577297 | Door fastening member constructed as a hinge cup for furniture hinges A door fastening member of a furniture hinge having a hinge cup for installation sunk in a recess in the rear surface of a door leaf. The hinge cup has a fastening flange engaging the inner surface of the door leaf. Projecting from the underside of the fa... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5570982 | Screw hole with preinstalled screw The present invention relates to a screw hole (12) in hardware parts (10), especially in metal furniture hardware, in which is screw with a given outside thread diameter provided with a truncoconical countersink head can be preinstalled. The hole (12) has... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5561888 | Furniture hinge A furniture hinge (10) with a carcase-related part (12) which can be fastened adjustably on the carcase of a furniture piece, which is coupled to a door-related part by a linkage mechanism, and which is configured as a hinge cup (14) of metal. The cup par... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5556220 | Plastic fastening plug, especially for furniture hardware Fastening plug (10) made of plastic for fastening in a corresponding bore, especially for fastening furniture hardware on furniture, with an elongate stem portion (14) which can be releasably fastened on the associated hardware piece, from whose outer cir... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5505554 | Drawer front fastening hardware Drawer front fastening hardware (10) with a lug (24) which can be fastened to the inside surface of the drawer front and has a vertical slot (26) opening at the bottom end, into which a stud (28) having a tap (30) opening at its end and protruding from th... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5487610 | Wheel for roller drawer guides Wheel (10) for roller guides for drawers in furniture, having a wheel body (12) made of a shape-stable hard plastic which has a circumferential groove-like opening (28) in the rim with at least one recess and having a tire (20) of resilient material, pref... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5466061 | Corner connecting hardware for drawers Corner connecting hardware for joining the cabinet-interior ends of the drawer sides (14) to their associated back (16) of drawers (10), in the form of a corner piece (30) made of plastic or metal, having structure for attachment to the drawer sides and e... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5412841 | Furniture hinge A furniture hinge (10) for hanging a door (12) on a cabinet carcase, whose door-related member (18) is configured as a hinge cup which can be set into a mortise (16) in the inside of the door (12), the hinge cup being composed of the actual cup part (20) ... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5412840 | Adjustable, furniture hinge having support arm with extensions engaging grooves in mounting plate A furniture hinge has a door fastening member coupled via a joint mechanism to a carcase fastening member which is constructed as a support arm movably securable to a mounting member secured to the furniture carcase. Means are provided which allow the doo... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5306080 | System for fastening the back end of the guide rail of a drawer slide A mounting system for the carcase-interior end of the guide rail (10) of a drawer guide for drawers and the like in the carcase of a cabinet at a distance from the inside surface of the associated carcase side wall. The guide rail (10) is formed as a chan... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5295282 | Mounting plate for furniture hinges In a mounting plate (10) configured as a wing plate for the adjustable mounting of the supporting arm of a furniture hinge, height adjustment is brought about by the fact that the mounting plate is divided into a bottom part (12) which can be affixed to t... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5292192 | Guide rail for roller drawer guides Profiled rail of metal plate with an approximately U-shaped cross-section provided as a guide rail (10) for roller drawer guides in articles of furniture which may be screwed with its web surface (14) onto the support wall of a cupboard carcass. The runni... | 03/08/1994 |
