Patents by Inventor Erich Rock

Erich Rock has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5056879
    Abstract: A pull-out guide assembly for use on each of opposite sides of a drawer includes a pull-out rail mounted on the drawer and a supporting rail mounted on a furniture body. Rollers are arranged between running flanges of the rails. The running flanges of the rails are inclined downwardly towards the rear. Thus, when the drawer is in the extreme front position of a path of extraction, it is acted upon to move in the closing direction by a horizontal force component. At the same time, the drawer is held in such front position by a locking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Reinhard Maser
  • Patent number: 4984929
    Abstract: A fitting to connect the front plate of a drawer with a rail member thereof includes a dowel casing which can be fitted into the front plate and a hook member connected to the front end of the rail member to be engaged in the dowel casing. A metallic disk provides rigidity for the dowel casing. The hook member has a flange which abuts flush with the front face of the dowel casing and which has a bevelled portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1991
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Helmut Hollenstein
  • Patent number: 4983000
    Abstract: An article of furniture includes at least one drawer which is held between two side walls of the body of the article of furniture by a pull-out guide assembly including, on each side of the drawer, a supporting rail at the side of the body and a pull-out rail at the side of the drawer. The supporting rails are mounted at front and at rear bearing points at the body side walls. At the rear bearing points, the supporting rails are height-adjustably mounted and guided so that the pivoting movement of the supporting rails is limited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 8, 1991
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Erich Rock
  • Patent number: 4961614
    Abstract: A drawer includes a bottom, two side walls, a rear wall and a front plate. On each side of the drawer, there is provided a pull-out rail mounted on the drawer and a supporting rail fastened to a furniture body. Rollers, balls or slides are arranged between the supporting rails and the pull-out rails. The pull-out rails and the supporting rails are guided without clearance. On each side of the drawer, adjusting device are provided adjacent to the front plate for vertical and lateral adjustment of the drawer with respect to the pull-out rails. Each adjusting device has an oblong hole which is aligned parallel to the front plate and through which projects a clamping screw which engages in a female thread in a horizontal flange of the pull-out rail. Each of the adjusting devices is connected to the drawer by a vertically adjustable holding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 9, 1990
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Erich Rock
  • Patent number: 4961648
    Abstract: A pull-out guide assembly for a drawer or the like includes a pull-out rail on each side of the drawer and a supporting rail on each side of a furniture body, as well as load-transmitting rollers. Each supporting rails is in the longitudinal direction, divided into a stop member fastenable to a furniture side wall and a running member. The running members are pivotally mounted on the stop members about vertical axle located in the centers of respective running members. The running member of at least one supporting rail is acted upon by at least one spring which holds such running member parallel to the furniture side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 9, 1990
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Erich Rock
  • Patent number: 4956956
    Abstract: A connector for connecting two structural elements in an endwise manner includes a pair of fitment members to be mounted on respective of the structural elements, a tie anchor and associated clamping structure for applying a pulling force to the fitment members in a first direction to clamp the fitment members together, and adjusting structure for adjusting the relative positions of the fitment members in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1990
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Friedrich Maier, Fredi Dubach, Erich Rock, Klaus Brustle
  • Patent number: 4955160
    Abstract: A guide rail assembly for a drawer includes, for each side of the drawer, a supporting rail on the side of an article or body of furniture and a pull-out rail slideably mounted on the supporting rail. The load of the drawer is transmitted by means of cylindrical runner rollers and/or balls. The runner rollers or balls are arranged substantially in a horizontal plate and adjacently mounted in carriages. The supporting rail has a guide flange with a U-shaped channel and outwardly projecting horizontal marginal flanges extending from both sides thereof. Central runner rollers roll in the U-shaped channel, and lateral runner rollers roll on the marginal flanges. The pull-out rail embraces the supporting rail. The pull-out rail has on each side thereof an outwardly projecting horizontal running flange which is spaced from the upper and lower edges of the pull-out rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1990
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Erich Rock
  • Patent number: 4953991
    Abstract: A pull-out guide assembly for drawers in which there is arranged, on each side of the drawer, a pull-out rail on the side of the drawer and a supporting rail on the side of the body. Slides or rollers which are for example mounted in a carriage are mounted between the rails. The supporting rails are in longitudinal direction divided into a mounting member fastenable to the furniture side wall and a running member. The mounting member is adapted to be coupled to the running member. A horizontal flange of the running member is at the rear end pushed below a hook which is bent out from a horizontal flange of the mounting member. A positioning pin for the running member is provided at the front end of the supporting rail. The positioning pin has the form of a hook. A slide is mounted at the mounting member and presses the running member towards the rear in the push-in direction of the drawer and underneath the projection of the positioning pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1990
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Erich Rock
  • Patent number: 4952074
    Abstract: A pull-out guide assembly for drawers comprising a pull-out rail fastened to the drawer, a supporting rail fastened to the body of the piece of furniture and a center rail differentially running between said two rails on each side of the drawer. Running carriages which hold load-transmitting running rollers are arranged between said rails. Driving rollers which run on the supporting rails and on the pull-out rails are mounted on the center rails. The center rails have Z-profiles, and the supporting rails and the pull-out rails have U-profiles which are substantially half-covered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1990
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Erich Rock
  • Patent number: 4937917
    Abstract: A hinge, in particular a one-axle hinge, includes a hinge arm mountable to a furniture wall and at least one hinge casing which is on the side of a door. The hinge casing is linked to the hinge arm and an inner coupling member insertable therein. A clamping screw holds the coupling member. The coupling member is lockable in the hinge casing by a locking member which is a spring or has spring acting parts or which is acted upon by a spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1990
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Helmut Rupprechter, Klaus Brustle
  • Patent number: 4937915
    Abstract: A hinge has a hinge arm of U-shaped cross-section connected with a hinge casing by hinge links. The hinge arm is mounted on a mounting plate and at its rear end is pivotally connected thereto. At its fron end, the hinge arm has a female thread into which is screwed a joint adjustment screw which is mounted with its head in a slot of the mounting plate. The slot is open towards the front of the mounting plate. The hinge arm is deformable. The hinge arm and the mounting plate have openings for a screwdriver. The mounting plate has a slot into which extends a pin projecting from a lateral flange of the hinge arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1990
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellshaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Erich Rock
  • Patent number: 4911509
    Abstract: A drawer includes metal drawer side walls, with a rail member arranged above each drawer side wall. A lateral top member is clamped onto each rail member and abuts on the upper rim of the inner side of the drawer side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1990
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Helmut Hollenstein
  • Patent number: 4910916
    Abstract: A sliding door fitting includes at least two superjacently arranged guide rails each having a pivot member which is displaceable thereon and at which a door is mounted. Each pivot member includes a running plate which is provided on one side with rollers in the manner of a running carriage. A mounting plate for a hinge is mounted on the other side of the running plate, the hinge thus being movable along the guide rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1990
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Fredi Dubach, Erich Rock
  • Patent number: 4908907
    Abstract: A hinge includes a hinge arm adapted to be snapped onto a mounting plate. The front of the hinge arm is directly or by an intermediate member indirectly engageable into the mounting plate, and the rear of the hinge arm has a tilting lever at which a hook member is formed by which the tilting lever is lockable to the mounting plate. When a door is mounted to the body of an article of furniture, the hinge arm can be engaged into the mounting plate and then fastened thereto simply by applying pressure. Canting of the hinge arm at the mounting plate is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1990
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Helmut Rupprechter, Klaus Brustle
  • Patent number: 4895417
    Abstract: A drawer side wall of aluminum includes a vertical flange forming the lateral limitation of a drawer, a lower fastening flange for attachment of the bottom of the drawer and an upper horizontal running flange for a supporting roller to be mounted on the body of an article of furniture. At the front end of the drawer side wall, the vertical flange has formed therein a deformation positioned below an oblique or inclined portion of the running flange. The profile of the side wall of aluminum is injection molded or extruded. After such operation, the front end of the vertical flange of the drawer side wall is impressed to form the deformation, and thus, the horizontal flange is bent upwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1990
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Erich Rock
  • Patent number: 4888853
    Abstract: A hinge includes a hinge arm adapted to be snapped onto a mounting plate. The front of the hinge arm is directly or by an intermediate member indirectly engageable into the mounting plate, and the rear of the hinge arm has a tilting lever at which a hook member is formed by which the tilting lever is lockable to the mounting plate. When a door is mounted to the body of an article of furniture, the hinge arm can be engaged into the mounting plate and then fastened thereto simply by applying pressure. Canting of the hinge arm at the mounting plate is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1989
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft M.B.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Helmut Rupprechter, Klaus Brustle
  • Patent number: 4882808
    Abstract: A hinge includes a hinge arm adapted to be snapped onto a mounting plate. The front of the hinge arm is directly or by an intermediate member indirectly engageable into the mounting plate, and the rear of the hinge arm has a tilting lever at which a hook member is formed by which the tilting lever is lockable to the mounting plate. When a door is mounted to the body of an article of furniture, the hinge arm can be engaged into the mounting plate and then fastened thereto simply by applying pressure. Canting of the hinge arm at the mounting plate is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1989
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Helmut Rupprechter, Klaus Brustle
  • Patent number: 4875746
    Abstract: A drawer includes a bottom plate engaged with two metal drawer side walls each having a Z-shaped profile including upper and lower horizontal flanges. The bottom plate is positioned on the lower horizontal flanges of the drawer side walls. On each side of the drawer, a sealing member of plastics material is arranged between the bottom plate and the respective drawer side wall. Each sealing member has a covering lip for covering the gap between the bottom plate and the drawer side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1989
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Klaus Brustle
  • Patent number: D319933
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Helmut Hollenstein, Josef Brunner
  • Patent number: D320710
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Helmut Hollenstein, Josef Brunner