Abstract: A hinge mechanism for assisting the lifting of a trunk lid of a vehicle comprises a V-shaped leaf spring (12) mounted on a first hinge part (2) attached to the vehicle body, and a roller element (32) mounted on a second hinge part (4) attached to the lid. A compressible gas strut (38) may be connected directly between the lid and the body; alternatively the strut may be connected between the first and second hinge parts, (2, 4) so that the resulting sub-assembly can be mounted directly to the lid and body on the vehicle assembly line. The hinge mechanism assists in initially lifting the trunk lid so that the gas strut (38) is disposed in an advantageous leveraged position at which it can continue the lifting movement of the trunk lid.

Abstract: Movable partition elements and a hinge to connect the partition elements to each other. The partition elements can be swung on the hinge toward one another until they are substantially parallel to each other. The hinge can have stacked or crossed connecting arms seated in or braced against connecting elements attached to the partition elements. The hinge can also have a retainer which passes through a penetration in each of the connecting elements. The retainer can be inserted into or connected to the partition elements by the retainer shank. The retainer further can separate the connecting arms from each other. The retainer finally can be designed to form or support the axle arms on which the connecting arms can rotate.

Abstract: A refrigerator door hinge assembly including a refrigerator bracket and a door bracket, a first link pivotally connected to the refrigerator bracket and the door bracket, a second link pivotally connected to the refrigerator bracket and the door bracket, the distance between the pivot connections of the second link being greater than the distance between the pivot connections of the first link, each of the first and second links being located in different but parallel planes and include a surface which engages the inner wall of the door bracket when the door is in the closed position thereby maintaining the parallel relation between the door and the refrigerator.

Abstract: A hinge (1) for a door (6) of an electrical appliance, (for example a refrigerator, for use in particular where the appliance is built in) to be covered with a facing panel (7) is provided with structure for adjusting the position of the panel on the door. The hinge includes a first support member (2) attached to the body (4) of the appliance, a second support member (5) attached to the door (6) and the facing panel (7) and first and second connecting bars (9, 10) connecting said first and second support members to form a hinged quadrilateral therewith. The second support member also includes adjustment structure ( 16, 17) enabling adjustment of the horizontal and vertical position of the panel (7) relative to the door (6). The adjustable structure may be detachable from the hinge.

Abstract: A hinge includes a stationary fitting base plate part, which fitting base plate part is connected with a pivotal fitting part. The hinge is able to be pivoted for lateral adjustment of a door or flap carried by the pivotal fitting part, in relation to the base plate part by a setting device in the pivot plane of the hinge. A stop member which bears on a hinge arm and is acted upon by a resilient element, is, via a cam, able to be pivoted with the pivotal fitting part and urges the pivotal fitting part in the closing part of its range of movement towards its closed position whereas outside such closing range it is rendered ineffective by the cam.

Abstract: The hinge (1), designed for suspension members (2 and 3), is provided with a flexible mechanism comprising a pair of joining components (4, 5), intended to be attached to corresponding suspension members (2 and 3) and connected to each other by means of the levers (6 and 7). The levers (6 and 7) are mounted with a freedom for reciprocal motions in parallel planes around rotation axles (8,9' and 8', 9) disposed on the joining components (4, 5). The levers (6, 7) have an equal length between their rotation axles (8,9' and 8',9) whereas the locus of points, formed at a turn of the joining components (4 and 5) relative to each other by the intersection of the longitudinal axes (F1 F2 and F3 F4) of the levers (6 and 7) on a plane parallel to the plane of the lever movements, is an elliptical curve.

Abstract: A four-bar linkage hinge comprises two fastening elements (11, 12) with a first (14) and a second link (13) pivoted by their ends, respectively, to each fastening element (11, 12). The first link (14) has an extension (20) which rests on a free arm (25) of a spring (21) which reacts with its other end (24) on one of the two fastening elements, and which exerts pressure on said extension (20) in order to rotate the link to shift the hinge from a nearly closed to a closed position. The arm (25) bears a cam surface with a raised area (28) which is traversed by said extension (20) when the hinge is in the nearly open position, to permit the release of the spring (21) on continuation of the opening movement and push the hinge open.

Abstract: A flat-mounted cabinet door hinge, having a low cabinet-side profile, including a cabinet mounting plate and a door mounting plate interconnected by an elongated carrier plate, optionally containing a bend, attached to the cabinet and door mounting plates through a link and a toggle, to allow the door to swing from a closed position through an arc exceeding 90.degree. to an open position and containing a spring device to urge and releasably hold the door in its closed position against the cabinet.

Abstract: A crosslink hinge for hanging a door on a cabinet has two crosslink arms attached in the middle in a scissors-like manner. One end of one of the crosslink arms is coupled directly to the cabinet-related part of the hinge, which can be fastened on a mounting plate to the cabinet, and one end of the other crosslink arm is coupled directly to the door-related part which is a cup which can be set in a mortise in the door, and at the other end they are coupled indirectly each by a link to the other part of the hinge. The crosslink arm that is directly pivoted at one end on the door-related hinge part is formed by two flanges disposed parallel to one another at a distance apart and joined together at least section-wise by a web to form a channel shape. The hinge furthermore contains a closing mechanism urging it resiliently into the closed position.

Abstract: The present invention provides a hinge consisting of two halves. Each half of the hinge comprises a base plate (5, 6), to be respectively fastened to a side (3) and a door (1) of a piece of furniture, a rocker arm (10, 14), and a link (7, 11). The intersecting rocker arms (10, 14) which are each provided in one half of the hinge, have a "V" profile in cross section, and are fitted the one into the other through an opening (26) formed in the crosspiece of the "V" profile of rocker arm (10). At an intersecting pivot point these rocker arms are pivotally connected to each other by means of pin (17), and at the facing ends of the base plates (5, 6), the rocker arms (14, 10) are each hingedly connected by means of a hinge pin (15, 16) with the base plate (5, 6) of the one half of the hinge.

Abstract: A furniture hinge has a first hinge arm and a second hinge arm which are interconnected by inner and outer pivot levers. The inner pivot lever carries a control cam within the first hinge arm for cooperating with an internal coil spring so that the hinge can snap between open and closed positions. A transverse pin within the first hinge arm transmits force between the spring and the control cam. The pin is carried in elongate slots which are inclined with respect to the longitudinal axis of the coil spring. In the closed position of the hinge, the pin engages a snapping section of the control cam and in the open position of the hinge the pin engages a radiused sliding section of the cam.

Abstract: Cabinet hinge whose door-related part in the form of a cup set in a mortise is articulated to the carcase-related part configured as an elongated supporting arm of inverted U-shaped cross section by two hinge links whose ends are journaled in the cup at one end and on the supporting arm at the other. A closing mechanism is provided in the door-end of the supporting arm and has a cam surface configured nonrotationally on the inner hinge link. A resiliently deformable section of one leg of a substantially U-shaped leaf spring engages the cam surface with bias, and the end remote from the cup of the other leg is fastened inside of the supporting arm by a section of the web of the latter. The inner hinge link has at the end by which it is mounted in the supporting arm two parallel ears formed by tabs cut and bent at right angles from the lateral margins of its end inside of the supporting arm.

Abstract: Cabinet hinge having a door-related part configured as a plug-in cup and a carcass-related part configured as an elongated supporting arm, which are articulated relative to one another by two hinge links journaled at their ends in the cup at one end and on the supporting arm at the other. The hinge has a closing mechanism having a cam element disposed at the inner end of the inner hinge link, which is joined corotationally with the hinge link, and on whose cam surface a resiliently flexible section of one leg of a substantially U-shaped leaf spring lies under bias while its second leg is joined to the outer end of the resiliently flexible leg in the interior of the supporting arm by a bridging section and thrusts against the interior of the supporting arm. The inner hinge link has at its inner end two parallel ears spaced apart from one another, between which the cam element is disposed for corotation therewith.

Abstract: An over-center hinge for cabinet doors with a door-related hinge part in the form of a recess-mounting cup in which one end of each of two links is journaled whose other ends are journaled on a jamb-related hinge part in the form of an elongated supporting arm. On the side of the inner link facing the outer link a cam is articulated with its free end facing the supportring arm and is urged by a spring inserted between the cam and the pivot eye of the inner link against a counter-surface formed by a section of the inner wall of the supporting arm such that its face forces the hinge resiliently into the closed position upon passing a dead point in the closing movement. The section of the wall of the supporting arm that forms the counter-surface is provided at least in the surface area cooperating with the cam with a smooth, wear-resistant and friction-reducing surface.

Abstract: Over-center self-closing hinge for cabinet doors, having an inner link and an outer link in a quadrilateral arrangement and a lever in the form of a hairpin spring fulcrumed at one end in the cabinet-wall-related hinge part and thrusting at right angles to the hinge axis against a cam which is journaled on the inner link and abuts in its one position against the pivot eye of the latter and in its other position against the link itself. The cam is of such a configuration that, when the hinge is moved from the open position to the closed position, just before it reaches the closed position, the line of thrust applied by the hairpin spring passes through the pivot axis of the link, but then the spring passes over onto a portion of the cam associated with the second position of the latter, thereby causing the cam to rock over and alter the line of thrust of the spring such that it seeks to close the hinge.

Abstract: A hinge consisting of a base, a rotating member mounted to one end of the base through a pair of link arms, the rotating member being supported by a spring in a closed or open condition. The base is formed out of a single piece of sheet metal by bending and shaping so as to have a pair of side plate portions to be fitted over projections of a member on which the hinge is mounted; a connecting plate portion formed integral with, and provided between, the link arm mounting sides of the pair of the side plate portions; and screw support plate portions bent inwardly from the pair of the side plate portions so that they face the projections of the member on which the hinge is mounted, the screw support plate portions being joined together to be shaped like a letter U, the joint part of the screw support plate portions being formed with screw insertion holes.

Abstract: A self-closing invisible hinge for returning a door to its closed position rom its open position including a self-closing structure in which the closing force can be selectively adjusted externally at the hinge and in which the self-closing structure is compact.

Abstract: A hinge having a base fixed to a piece of furniture and to which a pivotable member attached to a door is joined so that the pivotable member can be turned so as to be opened and closed, the hinge being fixed to a mounting member attached to a body of furniture. A rear screw engaged with the mounting member is inserted into and engaged with a recess in an upper wall of the base with the head of the rear screw positioned above the recess as the base is moved slidingly from the front side on the mounting member so as to be fitted thereon, and the head of a front screw which is engaged with the mounting member is opposed to an opening in the upper wall of the base from the lower side thereof so as to be engaged at least from the upper side with locking members on the base. The mounting member is made longitudinally symmetric, so that the base can be secured to the mounting member in two directions.

Abstract: An improved snap-toggle hinge for furniture comprising a toggle segment and a first pivot arm both combined with a base plate, the toggle segment connected with a pin by way of a shaft, the shaft surrounded by a helical spring, a foot provided in the toggle segment able to insert in between two fixing pins provided in the second pivot arm when this hinge becomes closed up.

Abstract: A flush mounted hinge assembly for use in applications where the hinges are to be fully concealed and where the doors abut one another or an adjacent structural member, includes a cabinet mounted bracket, a door mounted bracket, and a housing pivotally mounted to the cabinet bracket. The movement of the door accomplished in two stages, with initial pivoting being handled by a parallelgram-type linkage interconnecting the housing with the door mounted bracket, and permitting initial outward movement of the door to clear the adjacent door or abutting cabinet structure.

Abstract: An over-center, two-link hinge mechanism which can be made of simple off-the-shelf components has a hinged part pivotally mounted to a bar spaced apart from a frame. Two pivotally connected links connect the hinged part and the frame in front of the hinged part pivot point. A pre-tensioned volute spring connects an interlink pivot pin with the frame behind the hinged part pivot point. Two hinge mechanisms can be used back-to-back, in which case the pin connecting the link to the frame for one hinge can serve as an attachment point for the spring of the other hinge, and vice-versa.

Abstract: A hinge of the type wherein a rotor is connected to a front part of a base by link arms in such a manner as to be capable of rotating with respect to the base, and the base is fitted to the fitting member which is fitted to the main body of furniture. The base is provided with a set screw having a ring-like engagement portion at the tip thereof, an elongated hole, and a sliding member having hook portions and pawl portions fitted by a screw inserted through the elongated hole. The fitting member is provided with a notch to which the ring-like engagement portion of the set screw engages from forward side, recesses with which the hook portions of the sliding member are engaged, and a lever having grooves engaging with the pawl portions of the sliding member from forward side, urged forward by a spring rotatably.

Abstract: This invention discloses a tip out hinge specifically designed for use with a storage container located within a cabinet. The tip out hinge provides easy access to the contents of a storage container located within a cabinet. For example, the tip out hinge is used in a tip out storage container in a bathroom for clothing or bathroom items. It also provides access to a storage facility located behind a false front in a bathroom or kitchen. The tip out hinge permits the storage unit to tip forward from the cabinet, remain open until closing begins, remain closed even when bumped, provide a large opening for easy access to the storage container and will not interfere with the operation of any doors or drawers located below the tip out storage container.

Abstract: A hinge of the type wherein a rotor is connected to be rotatable to a front part of a base by first and second link arms, the base is supported by a set screw on a fitting member which is mounted on a body of furniture and at least one of the link arms is urged so as to keep the rotor closed. The one of the link arms has a cam surface that is formed on the side of the base, and the base has a frame member pushing the cam surface, so that when the rotor is closed the frame member engages the under side portion of the cam surface to urge the rotor in a direction such that the rotor is closed.

Abstract: A door hinge mechanism for a motor vehicle is disclosed. The hinge has four rotary center shafts, two of which are supported at positions on an end of the side door, and two others at two positions on a surface on the side of the vehicle body disposed adjacent to the end of the door. A first arm is rotatably connected at its opposite ends to one of the rotary center shafts on the vehicle body and one of the rotary center shafts on the door. A second arm is rotatably connected at its opposite ends to the remaining rotary center shafts. A rear end portion of a front side fender is located at a position adjacent to and in front of the forward end of the side door. A portion of the end face of the side door is disposed outwardly in the widthwise direction and extended forward from the end face of the body of the vehicle to form an extension for covering the outer surface of the side door hinge mechanism.

Abstract: A door hinge mechanism and associated body of a motor vehicle is disclosed. The hinge mechanism has rotary center shafts supported on an end panel on the pivoting (rocking proximal) end of a side door, and rotary center shafts supported on a surface on the vehicle body adjacent the end panel. A first arm is rotatably connected at its opposite ends to a rotary center shaft on the vehicle body and to another rotary center shaft on the end panel of the door. A second arm is rotatably connected at its opposite ends to a rotary center shaft on the vehicle body and to a rotary center shaft on the door. A forward end corner portion of the end panel of the side door is raised forward on the compartment side of the vehicle body from the rear surface of the end panel where the side door hinge is secured. The raised portion of this configuration is attached to a weather strip mount.

Abstract: A counterbalancing device for a hatchback lid on a road vehicle includes a lid hinged at the top about a horizontal axis to the superstructure of the vehicle and at least one counterbalancing unit such as a pneumatic spring. One end of the counterbalancing unit is pivoted to the superstructure and the other end is pivoted to the lid. The counterbalancing unit is pivotally connected to one of the lid and the superstructure by a first lever. A first end of a link is pivotally connected to the first lever; a second end of the link is pivotally connected to a second lever which, in turn, is connected to the one of the superstructure and the lid. A roller carried by the second lever bears against the superstructure or the lid near the closed position of the lid. The device is more efficient than known devices irrespective of the layout of the lid.

Abstract: In a hinge for cabinet doors, a four-joint hinge articulation having two links and a single-arm lever pivotally mounted in the cabinet wall-related hinge part with its free end able to swing in a plane lying at right angles to the axis of the articulation and being urged under resilient bias against the cam face of a cam body disposed in the area of the wall-end pivot eye of the inner link, the cam body is journaled on an axis offset from the pivot axis of the pivot eye of the inner link, and additionally guided for displacement at a distance from the two pivot axes between the pivot eyes on opposite sides of the inner link.

Abstract: A hinge has a catch mechanism including a pressure spring which is arranged in a bush member of plastic material. When the hinge is closed the pressure spring acts through the bush member on a hinge link. A steel pin has a head which rests against a hinge link axle and is provided within the pressure spring.

Abstract: An improved closure panel hinge assembly is provided that gives an improved opening motion to a closure panel, such as a deck lid that has an edge disposed close to a vertical plane associated with the vehicle, such as the plane of a backlite. A pair of horizontal guide tracks and sliding pivots cooperate with an interconnected hinge strap, control link and follower link to shift the edge of the deck lid away from the back light as it is initially raised. Continued raising of the deck lid tilts it upwardly to an open position.

Abstract: A hinge with a closing mechanism includes a hinge arm connected with a hinge casing by two hinge links. The internal hinge link is a two-arm lever pivotable around a hinge axle on the hinge arm. A pressure member is pivotably mounted on an arm of the internal hinge link which extends into the hinge arm, such pressure member pressing on a pressure surface on the hinge arm.

Abstract: A hinge is urged into a closed position by a spring. The hinge includes a hinge arm and a hinge casing which are linked by internal and external outer hinge links. The internal hinge link is a two armed lever and a pressure member is mounted on an end of an arm thereof extending into the hinge arm. The pressure member and a spring which acts thereon abut hinge axles which connect the hinge links to the hinge arm.

Abstract: An over-center self-closing hinge for furniture. In the door-related part of the hinge, which is in the form of a cup to be set in a mortise, there is provided a resiliently biased, pivotingly mounted cam which, in cooperation with a contact surface on the jamb-related part of the hinge, forms the over-center mechanism. Within the hinge cup there is provided a swivel arm which can be swung upwardly to a position in which it holds the resiliently biased cam in its dead-center position. With the swivel arm there is associated a resilient element which seeks to swing it up into the raised position. The resilient element is preferably an elastically flexible arm reaching beneath the swivel arm and joined fixedly to the cam adjacent the pivot axis thereof.

Abstract: A shock absorbing fallfront bracket of the type having rigid hinged-together links diagonally supporting the fallfront panel in its open position and folding into the cabinet in closed position, and also including a third spring loaded link extending from the mutual hinge of the linked pair and to the cabinet to resiliently resist the full opening of the panel, and to fold, when closed, fully into the cabinet along with the supporting linked pair.

Abstract: Over-center hinge (10) whose jamb-related part is in the form of a supporting arm (16) coupled by two links (18 and 20) to the door-related part (14) in the manner of a four-joint hinge. In the linkage end of the supporting arm (16) there is provided a thruster (26) whose one end is mounted so as to be longitudinally displaceable under resilient bias and rotatable about the fixed pivot (28) of one of the hinge links (18), and whose other end, which is provided with a cam (42-44), is urged against a crosspiece (36) in the supporting arm (16). By way of studs (50) on the other hinge link (20), which are guided by a cam (48), the thruster (26) is swung during the hinge movement, while in the vicinity of the closed position a ramp surface (44) cooperates with the crosspiece (36) in such a manner that the thruster (26) is swung towards the second hinge link (20 ) and exerts a force thereon acting in the closing direction.

Abstract: A wide-angle hinge assembly includes a frame hinge section and a door leaf inge section connected to one another by a linkage arrangement. The linkage arrangement includes two double-armed link members and an intermediate link. The double-armed link members are pivotable about a common pivot point, and one of the link members pivotally engages one end of the intermediate link having its other end pivotally connected to the leaf hinge section. The linkage arrangement further includes a spring mechanism that is effective to provide a closing pressure during closing and maintaining the closed position for securing the door leaf. The spring mechanism is arranged on the intermediate link and coacts with a cam component included as a part of the leaf hinge section.

Abstract: A hinge comprises a closing member which is acted upon by a spring, the spring being arranged in a shell and one end thereof resting against a hinge axle. The shell has a lateral driving pin which rests against a supporting flange associated with a hinge link, the supporting flange having a curved guiding surface for generating a closing pressure. The supporting flange is formed on a separate guiding block mountable on the hinge link.

Abstract: A hood hinge mechanism includes upper and lower brackets interconnected by pivoted links. An auxiliary hinge member is pivoted to the upper bracket and secured to the hood. The lower bracket is secured to the body. The upper hinge bracket and auxiliary hinge member are releasably secured to each other and normally move together as the hood moves between closed and partially open positions. When the auxiliary hinge member is released from the upper hinge bracket, the hood can be moved to various further open positions.

Abstract: Cabinet hinge (10,50) whose articulation is constituted by two hinge links (18, 20) pivotingly articulated to a door-related hinge part (14) at one end and to a supporting-wall-related part (16) at the other end in the manner of a four-joint articulation. One of the two hinge links (18) has ears (24) bent over from its lateral longitudinal edges toward the other hinge link (20), the ears being of such shape and dimensions that their free edges will abut flatly in the widest-open position of the hinge against the other hinge link (20) over at least a portion of their length.

Abstract: A furniture hinge includes a hinge arm and a hinge casing connected by two hinge links. A pressure spring is situated on the hinge arm and urges a retaining member onto a sliding member fixed to one of the hinge links, thus holding the hinge closed by the force of the spring, when the hinge is in the closed position.

Abstract: A hinge includes a hinge arm mounted on a mounting plate on a furniture side wall. A hinge casing is insertable into a bore in the door. The hinge casing and the hinge arm connected by two hinge links. The hinge has a closing mechanism activated by a spring which acts on one of the hinge links. This hinge link is a lever with two arms, one of which is telescopic.