Patents Assigned to Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
  • Patent number: 6712573
    Abstract: A fitting to be removably fastened to a furniture part includes a body, at least one expanding plug anchored in the body, and a pin-shaped expansion part. The body has a projecting supporting throat to protrude into a cavity in the furniture part. The supporting throat has at least one recess into which a projection on the expanding plug extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: Julius BLUM Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Edgar Huber
  • Patent number: 6666306
    Abstract: A damping device (14) for movable furniture parts comprising a fluid damper which is in the form of a rotational damper (20) and which includes two members which are rotatably movable relative to each other, namely a housing and a drum disposed in the housing. A damping fluid, for example a silicone oil, is disposed in the housing. During the damping action one of the two members is rotated by an actuating member and the other member is held fast. The rotational damper (20) is radially displaceably mounted and during the damping action is pressed by the actuating member against a retaining element (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Ingo Gasser
  • Patent number: 6622343
    Abstract: A hinge for connecting a door to a piece of furniture with a frame includes a base plate mounted on the frame. The base plate bears a hinge arm to which a hinge boss is connected by a hinge pin. The base plate is fixed to the frame by a fixing screw. The base plate is provided with a bridge spanning the hinge arm, and an adjustment device is provided for adjusting the position of the hinge arm on the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Helmut Rupprechter
  • Patent number: 6591454
    Abstract: A hinge for pieces of furniture comprising a hinge arm (2) and a hinge casing (1) which are connected to each other by means of at least one hinge axle. The hinge arm (2) is provided with a fluid damper (20). The fluid damper is mounted on the side of the hinge arm without the use of a tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Klaus Brustle
  • Patent number: 6565168
    Abstract: A pull-out guide assembly for a drawer comprises a first body rail, a second body rail, a first moveable rail, a second moveable rail, a first support roller mounted on the first body rail, a second support roller mounted on the second body rail, a first running roller mounted on the first moveable rail, and a second running roller mounted on the second moveable rail. The first and second body rails each have a U-shaped section including an upper web and a lower web, and the first running roller is adapted to be guided in the U-shaped section of the first body rail so as to run on the upper web or lower web thereof, and the second running roller is adapted to be guided by the U-shaped section of the second body rail so as to run on the upper web of the lower web thereof. The first running roller and the second running roller are non-rotationally connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Karl Baliko
  • Patent number: 6553621
    Abstract: A hinge comprising: a hinge arm; and a mounting plate by means of which said hinge arm can be mounted to a furniture side wall. The hinge arm is hingedly connected to a hinge member. An adjustment screw is provided to adjust the position of the hinge arm with respect to the mounting plate. The mounting plate has a slot open at one end and having two elongated rims opposed to each other. The adjustment screw is mounted in said hinge arm so as to be turnable but axially undisplaceable with respect to said hinge arm. The opposed rims of the slot engage in the screw thread of the adjustment screw, so that the adjustment screw can be screwed into the slot of the mounting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Herbert Isele
  • Patent number: 6547477
    Abstract: A connecting fitting for releasably connecting two furniture parts is disclosed. The fitting comprises a pin-shaped member that is insertable into a hole in a first furniture part, and a fitting body insertable into a bore in a second furniture part. The fitting body comprises a tightening element. The fitting body is in the form of a circular cylindrical part defined by a curved side wall and a flat side wall. The fitting body is radially displaceable within said bore in the furniture part when not in a tightened position. The pin-shaped member protrudes from the curved side wall when in the tightened position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Edgar Huber, Klaus Bereuter
  • Patent number: 6499818
    Abstract: A pull-out guidance assembly for drawers has one drawer-side pull-out rail and one body-side bearing rail on both sides of the drawer. A fluidic damper is provided as a rotation damper (20). Between the bearing rail (4) and the pull-out rail (6) is displaceably disposed a center rail (5). The pull-out rail (6) is set into a drawer side wall (3) and fixed therein. The fluidic damper, which is mounted on the pull-out rail (6) or the drawer side wall (3), includes a pinion (10), which meshes with a rack section (16) of a slider (8) movable relative to the pull-out rail (6), to the drawer side wall (3) and to the bearing rail (4). A stop (11) disposed on the bearing rail (4) is provided for the slider (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Klaus Brüstle
  • Patent number: 6442798
    Abstract: A hinge for connecting a door to a piece of furniture with a frame includes a base plate mounted on the frame. The base plate bears a hinge arm to which a hinge boss is connected by a hinge pin. The base plate is fixed to the frame by a fixing screw. The base plate is provided with a bridge spanning the hinge arm, and an adjustment device is provided for adjusting the position of the hinge arm on the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Helmut Rupprechter
  • Patent number: 6416244
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a furniture fitting that is detachably fastened to a furniture part. The fitting comprises a fitting body removably mounted on the furniture part, an expansion sleeve insertible into an opening arranged in the furniture part, and an expansion portion for the expansion sleeve and passing through the fitting body. A peg or bolt is provided for connecting the expansion portion to the expansion sleeve. The expansion portion has a body preferably tapered, at one end, and is articulated, at the opposite end, to a tiltable clamping lever supported by the fitting body. The fitting body includes projections directed towards the expansion portion. The expansion portion abuts a shoulder of each projection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Edgar Huber
  • Patent number: 6401298
    Abstract: A furniture hinge comprises a hinge casing and a hinge arm, each adapted to be mounted on different furniture parts and connected by means of hinge links, and a pressure spring acting on one hinge link. The pressure spring is a leg spring which is mounted on a hinge axle connecting a hinge link to the hinge arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Günter Lenz
  • Patent number: 6325473
    Abstract: A pull-out guide for a drawer includes a carcass-side supporting runner and a drawer-side pull-out runner on each side of the drawer. A respective roller is supported on each runner. Running flanges of the pull-out runners cover running flanges of the supporting runners. The pull-out runners have horizontally projecting fins which are disposed below the running flanges of the pull-out runners and which have free ends projecting to below the running flanges of the corresponding supporting runners in such a way that the pull-out runners are secured against unintentional lifting off from the supporting runners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Klaus Brüstle, Helmut Hollenstein, Erich Röck
  • Patent number: 6312186
    Abstract: A fastening device for the fastening of a plurality of furniture fittings to a furniture part includes an anchoring rail which is to be fastened to a side wall of a piece of furniture and has lateral openings for receiving fastening pins of the fastening device has a locking rail (10, 19) which is complementary to the and is displaceable relative to the anchoring rail while advantageously being guided therein and which has edge portions which latch in behind projections of the fastening pins in a locked position. The locking rail is movable by way of an eccentric mounted in the anchoring rail rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Röck, Horst Hörger
  • Patent number: 6287044
    Abstract: A fitting to be detachably fastened to a furniture part includes a fitting body to abut the furniture part, at least one dowel-like expansion sleeve which is anchored to the fitting body and which can be inserted into a drilled hole of the furniture part, and a pin shaped expansion member for expanding the expansion sleeve. The expansion sleeve projects through an opening in the fitting body, and the expansion sleeve also projects through the opening in the fitting body. The expansion sleeve is provided with at least one flap that projects in a radial direction from the expansion sleeve. The expansion member is provided with a head, which, when the fitting is mounted, presses the flap onto the side of the fitting body which faces away from the furniture part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Edgar Huber
  • Patent number: 6266848
    Abstract: A hinge with adjusting devices has a hinge arm with a U-profile that can be secured to a base plate by an intermediate piece, and is connected to a hinge cup by articulated hinge links. The base plate has a mounting plane for abutting a furniture side wall in a mounted position. The position of the hinge arm is adjustable with respect to the base plate in a plane perpendicular to the mounting plane by means of an adjustment screw. Guides are provided for guiding the hinge arm in a direction of the depth of a piece of furniture when the position of the hinge arm is adjusted the adjustment screw. Two intermediate pieces are connected to the hinge arm before the hinge arm is mounted on the base plate. One intermediate piece is fixable to base plate by a spring locking mechanism, ad the other piece is slidably mounted on the first intermediate piece for slidable displacement in the direction of the depth of the piece of furniture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Georg Fraccaro, Marco Rücker
  • Patent number: 6233783
    Abstract: A hinge with adjusting devices in which a hinge arm can manually be secured to a base plate by means of an intermediate piece. The hinge arm is connected to a second hinge fastening part, for example a hinge cup, by articulated hinge links. The hinge arm is displaceable with respect to the intermediate piece in the direction of a depth of the piece of furniture and in a direction perpendicular to a side wall of the piece of furniture. Each adjusting device includes a manually operatable member for displacement of the hinge arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Fredi Dubach
  • Patent number: 6205617
    Abstract: A hinge with an adjusting device for adjusting the position of an elongated hinge arm which is mounted on a base plate and is connected to a hinge cup by means of articulated hinge links. The base plate has a mounting plane for abutting a furniture side wall in the mounted position and the position of the hinge arm is adjustable by the adjusting device in a plane perpendicular to said mounting plane. The adjusting device comprises two screws spaced from each other in the longitudinal direction of the hinge arm and being perpendicular to the mounting plane of the base plate. The screws are coupled to each other so that rotation of one screw will result in rotation of the other screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Held, Günter Lenz
  • Patent number: 6179399
    Abstract: A fastening device enables fastening of a front panel of a drawer to respective metal drawer side walls each having a vertical web having an opening. The fastening device has a fastening member having a holding plate to be attached to the front panel and a fastening device to extend perpendicularly to the drawer front panel. A clamping lever is mounted on the fastening plate by an axle and is tiltable on such axle between a locking position for securing the front panel to the drawer side wall and an unlocking position in which the front panel can be removed from the drawer side wall. A tightening member is slidably mounted on the fastening plate and is moveable by tilting of the clamping lever. The tightening member is provided with a lateral projection to be moved into the opening in the vertical web of the drawer side wall when the clamping lever is tilted into its locking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Klaus Br{umlaut over (u)}stle, Helmut Hollenstein
  • Patent number: 6106185
    Abstract: A fitting for a piece of furniture is provided with at least one separate dowel, which is inserted into a hole of a furniture part. An expansion member is positioned within the dowel. The expansion member is connected to a lever with an eccentric cam by an axle. The dowel is pressed against a plate like part of the fitting. When the dowel is in an expanded position, the lever is situated in a recess of the plate like part. The recess is in the form of a slot. The dowel is positioned at one end of the slot and the plate like part has a casing at the same end of the slot. The expansion member protrudes through a bottom plate of the casing and the axle is situated within the casing so that the dowel abuts the bottom plate of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Herbert Isele, Andreas Fenkart
  • Patent number: 6095627
    Abstract: A drawer side wall made of metal with a horizontal supporting flange for supporting a bottom plate of a drawer. The drawer side wall is provided with manually operateable clamping devices for clamping the bottom plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Harald Sutterlutti