Patents Assigned to Julius Blum GmbH
  • Patent number: 11585136
    Abstract: A guide system for a door assembly including a door, which door can be attached to the guide system in a pivotal manner, has a closed position in which at least one device object can be covered on the front side and a parked position in which the door can be moved, preferably slid, in a direction transversely to the front of the at least one device object, preferably into a lateral receiving shaft, by the guide system. The guide system for the door is assembled or formed on a support structure separate from the device object to be covered, the support structure having at least one stand surface for standing on the floor of a room and/or at least one assembly device for assembling on the wall of a room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Rupp, Christian Hauer, Hermann Haemmerle, Ingo Gasser
  • Patent number: 11576487
    Abstract: A fastening device for releasably fixing a front panel to a drawer, in particular to a drawer sidewall, includes at least two connecting elements configured to be mounted to the front panel and at least two locking devices associated to the drawer for, preferably releasably, locking the two connecting elements. At least one cable is provided to connect the at least two locking devices to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventor: Markus Irgang
  • Patent number: 11547211
    Abstract: An arrangement for guiding at least one movable furniture part includes a guide rail to be mounted on the fixed furniture part, a guide device to be coupled to the movable furniture part, and a preferably substantially cylindrical, load-transmitting rolling body. The guide rail has a guide track, on which the load-transmitting rolling body is mounted in a movable manner. The guide track has a parking position for the load-transmitting rolling body, and the parking position corresponds to an end position of the movable furniture part relative to the fixed furniture part. The load-transmitting rolling body and the guide track are designed such that the guide track can be deformed in this region, a depression being formed in the process, and the load-transmitting rolling body is substantially dimensionally stable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventors: Benjamin Hoffmann, Marc Meusburger
  • Patent number: 11536069
    Abstract: An ejecting device for a folding door is movably arranged on a furniture body. First and second door leaves of the folding door are interconnected in an articulated manner. The ejecting device has an ejecting element for folding open the folding door from a closed position, in which the door leaves are in a common closed plane, into an open position, in which the door leaves form an angle not equal to 180°. The ejecting device has a first fitting part for mounting the ejecting device on the first door leaf. The ejecting element can move the second door leaf from the closed position into the open position by a scissor mechanism having at least two scissor levers, and is mounted between the first and second door leaves by an articulated connection formed by an intermediate lever connected in an articulated manner to the first and/or second scissor lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventors: Franz Kohlweiss, Matthias Rupp, Dominik Gabl
  • Patent number: 11530870
    Abstract: To configure existing drawers as evacuable drawers of a vacuum drawer device, a cover for installation in the drawer body can be used. The cover evacuates at the drawer interior with an evacuation system, so that the interior is evacuated when the drawer is closed and ventilated before the drawer is opened. The cover is airtight, is profiled in such that evacuation with a controller, a pump and a valve are fixedly integrated in at least one recess in the cover and the cover has at least one air channel leading into the inside of the cover or, respectively, into the at least one recess, with the air channel operatively connected to the evacuation system such that when the cover is placed onto the drawer, air from the interior can be pumped out of the interior, the inside of the cover interior or, respectively, the at least one recess through the air duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventor: Daniel Bertschi
  • Patent number: 11519440
    Abstract: A dowel for fastening fitting parts of pieces of furniture, including: a dowel sleeve; at least one fastening claw separate from the dowel sleeve; and a spreading element movable axially in the dowel sleeve and intended for radially spreading the at least one fastening claw and the dowel sleeve. The dowel sleeve has a guide which laterally guides a retaining portion of the fastening claw, and a latching element which retains the fastening claw, which is inserted into the guide, on the dowel sleeve, preferably with play. The spreading element can be connected to at least one fastening claw, preferably to all fastening claws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventor: Dominik Hagspiel
  • Patent number: 11512513
    Abstract: An item of furniture includes a first furniture part, a second furniture part, and furniture hinges for pivotally connecting the first furniture part and the second furniture part. The furniture hinges are spaced apart from each other along a longitudinal direction of the first furniture part and the second furniture part, and a gap is defined between the first furniture part and the second furniture part. A cover portion extends at least between the furniture hinges so that the gap can be at least partially covered. The first furniture part and the second furniture part can be moved by the furniture hinges into a position in which the first furniture part and the second furniture part are aligned so as to be substantially coplanar relative to each other whereby the cover portion is substantially covered by the first furniture part and/or the second furniture part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventor: Ingo Gasser
  • Patent number: 11512514
    Abstract: A fitting for a folding door arranged on a furniture carcass has at least one first door leaf and a second door leaf connected thereto in a jointed manner. The fitting has a contact part arranged on the first or second door leaf, and the contact part is movably arranged between a contact position and a rest position on the first or second door leaf. In a closed position of the folding door, the contact part in the contact position can be brought into contact with the furniture carcass or a component of the furniture carcass and, in an open position of the folding door, the contact part in the rest position is movable in an intermediate chamber between the first and the second door leaf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventors: Lukas Blum, Benjamin Niederer
  • Patent number: 11497309
    Abstract: A drawer rail includes a first rail to be fixed to a drawer, and a second rail to be arranged on rail of a drawer pull-out guide. The first rail and the second rail are to be connected to one another by sliding onto each other. The first rail and the second rail are locked to one another by a locking element, with the locking element being pre-stressed by a force of a force storage member in a direction of a locking position. The locking element is arranged on the second rail and is configured to be pivoted, upon sliding the first rail onto the second rail, about a horizontally extending axis in the mounted position, starting from the locking position, against a force of the force storage member in a direction of the carcass rail or the central rail of the drawer pull-out guide into an unlocking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventors: David Ruech, Lukas Kolhaupt
  • Patent number: 11497308
    Abstract: An assembly includes a bearing web for a drawer base of a drawer, and a holding device for a drive device for driving the drawer relative to a furniture body. The holding device has a securing element, by which the holding device can be secured to the bearing web. The bearing web includes a receiving area for the securing element and a bearing region for the drawer base adjacently to the receiving area. The securing element has a support surface that faces the drawer base in a secured state, and the holding device is secured to the bearing web. The support surface of the securing element and the bearing region of the bearing web form a substantially flat drawer base bearing surface for the drawer base in the secured state. The drawer base bearing surface can rest against the drawer base in a flush manner in the secured state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventor: Pascal Janser
  • Patent number: 11499354
    Abstract: A furniture hinge includes a first fitting portion configured to be fixed to a first furniture part, a second fitting portion configured to be fixed to a second furniture part, at least one hinge axis by which the first fitting portion and the second fitting portion are hingedly connected to one another, and at least one adjustment device for adjusting a position of the first fitting portion relative to the second fitting portion. The adjustment device includes at least one movably-supported adjustment element, and the position of the first fitting portion relative to the second fitting portion can be adjusted by an actuation of the at least one adjustment element. Upon actuation of the at least one adjustment element, the position of the first fitting portion and the position of the second fitting portion can be synchronously and symmetrically adjusted in relation to the at least one hinge axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventor: Stefan Duer
  • Patent number: 11492833
    Abstract: A guide system includes a first guide rail, a guide carriage configured to be connected to the door wing and configured to run along the first guide rail, a second guide rail separate from the first guide rail, the second guide rail extending transversely to the first guide rail in a mounted condition, a carrier configured to be displaceable relative to the second guide rail, the guide carriage can be arranged on the carrier, and a transfer device for transferring the guide carriage at least from the first guide rail to the carrier. The transfer device includes a control curve configured to be bow-shaped at least over a region, so that the guide carriage, upon a transfer from the first guide rail to the carrier, can be moved at least over a region in a direction of the second guide rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Sperger, Benjamin Hoffmann, Ingo Gasser
  • Patent number: 11486176
    Abstract: A furniture fitting includes a first fitting portion to be fixed to a furniture carcass, and a second fitting portion to be fixed to a movable furniture part, the two fitting portions being pivotally connected by a hinge axis member. The first fitting portion can be inserted into a recess in the furniture carcass, and/or the second fitting portion can be inserted into a recess in the movable furniture part. The first fitting portion and/or the second fitting portion includes a longitudinal housing having two end sections spaced apart. The hinge axis member is arranged on a first end section of the housing, and the first fitting portion and/or the second fitting portion includes a fastening device having a movably-mounted actuating element formed as a rotatable screw. By actuating the actuating element, at least one fitting portion can be fixed within the recess on both end sections of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventor: Stefan Duer
  • Patent number: 11464333
    Abstract: A drawer rail for a drawer pull-out guide, including a first rail configured to be fixed to a drawer, and a second rail configured to be arranged on a carcass rail or on a central rail of a drawer pull-out guide. The first rail and the second rail are configured to be connected to one another by sliding onto each other, and a spring member is arranged on the first or second rail. A protrusion is arranged on the other rail, the position of which on and/or the extension of which along the other rail is chosen such that the protrusion, in a connected condition of the first and second rail, co-operates with the spring member so as to limit transverse movements of the two rails to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventors: Marc Meusburger, Markus Kampl
  • Patent number: 11457738
    Abstract: A drawer sidewall includes a carrier body, a sidewall profile, and a holding device for fastening a drawer rear wall. Each of the sidewall profile and the holding device is fixed to the carrier body, and the holding device, at least in an unfixed condition of the drawer rear wall, is aligned inclined relative to a longitudinal direction of the carrier body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Irgang, Markus Kampl
  • Patent number: 11428034
    Abstract: An arrangement includes a first guide system to be fixed to a furniture wall and a second guide system to be fixed to the furniture wall a vertical distance from the first guide system. Each of the two guide systems has a guide and a guide body displaceably arranged on the guide, a carrier to which the sliding door or folding-sliding door can be fixed, and a cable pulling device for compensating for a tilting moment of the carrier. The cable pulling device includes a first pulling cable arranged between the guide body of the first guide system and an end of the guide of the first guide system and without connection to the second guide system. A second pulling cable is between the guide body of the second guide system and an end of the guide of the second guide system and without connection to the first guide system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Rupp, Christian Hauer, Hermann Haemmerle, Ingo Gasser
  • Patent number: D979950
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventor: Frank Maager
  • Patent number: D979995
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Holzapfel
  • Patent number: D979996
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventor: Mario Schmelzenbach
  • Patent number: D979997
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventor: Mario Schmelzenbach