Patents Assigned to Grass America, Inc.
  • Patent number: 5722749
    Abstract: A self-positioning cabinet rail for a drawer guide for supporting a drawer in a drawer opening of a furniture article, such as a cabinet, and including a means for spacing the cabinet rail a pre-determined distance from the bottom of the drawer opening. The self-positioning cabinet rail includes a rail member with front and rear ends, upper and lower ledges, a cabinet rail roller and a downwardly bent projection on the front end. The projection is angled downward to extend below the front end and in use, is positioned at the lower member of the drawer opening for spacing the cabinet rail with its front end at the drawer opening. The self-positioning cabinet rail also includes a bumper cover on the projection and extending forward of the front end to provide an abutment surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: Grass America, Inc.
    Inventor: Georg Domenig
  • Patent number: 5636820
    Abstract: A bracket for mounting a drawer guide in a furniture article such as a desk or cabinet has a base provided with opposing retaining flanges on the front of the base for receiving a drawer guide for lateral adjustment and fasteners disposed on the back of the base for supporting the base on a furniture article wall. The fasteners include a positioning portion and a resilient spring leg which is extendable through the wall for releasably securing the base to the furniture article wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1997
    Assignee: Grass America, Inc.
    Inventor: Georg Domenig
  • Patent number: 5617800
    Abstract: A method for cleaning a fixture utilized in an electrostatic spray painting process to remove adhered paint particles from the fixture utilizing inductive heating to heat the paint particles to a temperature sufficient to thermally decompose the paint particles to ash and gaseous combustion products. Also disclosed are apparatus for carrying out the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1997
    Assignee: Grass America, Inc.
    Inventors: Elmer J. Moreschi, Reinhart U. Piuk
  • Patent number: 5597220
    Abstract: A bracket for mounting a drawer guide supporting a moveable structure for use in a desk or cabinet with sidewalls and a desk or cabinet opening has a body portion with a bottom surface which carries at least one leg upstanding from the bottom surface for engaging a sidewall of the desk or cabinet and with a top surface spaced from the bottom surface which carries means for supporting a drawer guide in predetermined spaced relationship to the sidewall and desk or cabinet opening to enable movement of the moveable structure supported on the drawer guide through the desk or cabinet opening. The drawer guide is supported on the top surface of the body portion by one or more drawer guide mounting screws receivable in one or more mounting holes formed in the body portion top surface. The top surface of the body portion may also include portions defining a wing member engagable by the desk or cabinet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1997
    Assignee: Grass America, Inc.
    Inventors: Georg Domenig, Rick Marsh
  • Patent number: 5584550
    Abstract: A ledgeless pull-out guide for supporting a moveable structure such as a drawer in a furniture article for use with a guide rail includes a pull-out rail movably supportable by a guide rail, the pull-out rail having a web portion and one or more support members extending from the web portion for receiving a drawer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1996
    Assignee: Grass America, Inc.
    Inventor: Wernfried Kueng
  • Patent number: 5562333
    Abstract: A bracket for use in a cabinet or similar furniture article with a false drawer front opening and with a drawer guide has a base attachable to a false drawer front and an engaging member upstanding from the base with a locking projection lockable in the false drawer front opening of the cabinet or furniture article and a support element upstanding from the base provided with at least one support post engageable by a tongue portion of the drawer guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1996
    Assignee: Grass America, Inc.
    Inventors: Georg Domenig, Rick Marsh
  • Patent number: 5549376
    Abstract: A snap-in mounting bracket for use in a desk or cabinet and with a drawer guide having a tongue portion includes a base carrying a pair of opposing retaining flanges resiliently connected to the base and configured to cooperatively receive a drawer guide tongue portion in snap-in engagement allowing lateral adjustment of the drawer guide with respect to the desk or cabinet. At least one support wall and preferably a pair of opposing support walls rigidly connected to the bracket base cooperatively support the engaged drawer guide tongue portion. One of the support walls may be provided with a notch for engaging the drawer guide to prevent lateral movement of the drawer guide. The bracket is supported on the desk or cabinet by fasteners such as fastening screws received through openings formed in the base and into the desk or cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1996
    Assignee: Grass America, Inc.
    Inventor: Georg Domenig
  • Patent number: 5490724
    Abstract: A drawer guide for supporting a moveable structure such as a drawer in a furniture article includes a guide rail having a rotatable guide rail roller, which guide rail is mountable to the furniture article in a generally horizontally disposed position, and a pull-out rail for carrying the moveable structure, which pull-out rail has a pull-out rail upper ledge in rolling contact with the guide rail roller enabling forward and rearward horizontal movement of the pull-out rail and carried structure, and the pull-out rail is provided with a pull-out rail retaining member engaging the guide rail roller in a rearward position of the pull-out rail resisting forward movement of the pull-out rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1996
    Assignee: Grass America, Inc.
    Inventor: Georg Domenig
  • Patent number: 5485656
    Abstract: A hinge for mounting a door on a frame includes a hinge arm receiver and a hinge arm connected at one end to the hinge arm receiver and having at its other end a hinge plate with a depending ledge having a terminus portion which is engageable in a pre-mounting position on a door or frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1996
    Assignee: Grass America, Inc.
    Inventor: Georg Domenig
  • Patent number: 5414896
    Abstract: An adjustable door hinge for mounting a door on a supporting frame utilizing a hinge arm receiver and a hinge plate connected by hinge arm having ends that are pivotally connected to the hinge arm receiver and the hinge place. The hinge plate has a depending edge fashioned to be cooperatively received by a groove formed in the frame to provide additional gripping strength and hinge stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1995
    Assignee: Grass America, Inc.
    Inventor: Georg Domenig
  • Patent number: 5387033
    Abstract: A laterally adjustable mounting bracket for use on a desk or cabinet drawer and with a drawer guide having a tongue portion, the bracket including a base supporting a pair of opposing retaining flanges configured to cooperatively receive a drawer guide tongue portion for lateral adjustment of the drawer with respect to the desk or cabinet. An insert having a stop component limiting lateral movement of the drawer guide tongue portion and at least one support component is cooperatively received within at least one aperture in the base so that the support component extends through the base to support the base on the desk or cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1995
    Assignee: Grass America, Inc.
    Inventor: Georg Domenig
  • Patent number: 5353476
    Abstract: An improvement in a configured hinge having a hinge cup for mounting on a surface provided with a hinge cup bore hole comprising a spacer having a pre-selected thickness and a periphery substantially conforming to the configuration of the hinge cup for mounting beneath the hinge cup flange near the bore hole to compensate for the less than standard depth of the bore hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1994
    Assignee: Grass America Inc.
    Inventor: Georg Domenig
  • Patent number: 5257861
    Abstract: A laterally adjustable mounting bracket for use with a desk or cabinet drawer and with a drawer guide having a bent tongue, the bracket including a base and opposing spring flanges flexibly secured to the base and cooperatively receiving the drawer guide tongue for lateral adjustment. The base is secured to the desk or cabinet, and latching members having shaft sections and engaging ears secure the bracket to the desk or cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1993
    Assignee: Grass America, Inc.
    Inventors: Georg Domenig, Rick Marsh
  • Patent number: RE34108
    Abstract: A pull-out guide for drawers consists of two 2 frame sides, U-shaped guide rails and Z-shaped pull-out rails movable therein, both the guide and pull-out rails being provided with a roller each, and the lower guide legs of the U-shaped guide rails having in their end areas run-in slopes adjoined by run-in stops each, and the front end areas of the upper pull-out rail legs, serving as rolling surfaces for the rollers, having a run-in slope each oriented in the same direction and preferably parallel to the run-in slope in the end area of the guide rail on the frame side. This improves the pull-in and staying closed behavior when drawers of little net weight and small load capacity are involved. Because the legs of both rail pairs of the pull-out guide run parallel, the front blind is approximately jointlessly flush with the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1992
    Assignee: Grass America, Inc.
    Inventor: Alfred Grass