Patents Represented by Attorney Petree Stockton
  • Patent number: 5535482
    Abstract: A wide angle hinge includes an assembly casing fastenable on a cabinet carcass and having front and back slots which engage corresponding front and back pins connected to a hinge arm, so that the hinge arm is slidable and rotatable relative to the assembly casing. The hinge arm is also connected by an articulation arm to a hinge cup fastenable in a door. A pull mechanism is fastened on one end in the assembly casing and on the other end in the hinge cup, and a deflection roller disposed in the assembly casing and the articulation arm cooperatively guide and continuously hold the pull mechanism under tension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1996
    Assignee: Grass AG
    Inventor: Gunther Grabber
  • Patent number: 5494348
    Abstract: A drawer includes side walls formed as integrated concealed slides which are detachably fastenable to a drawer bottom. The lower edge of each integrated concealed slide respectively forms an upwardly open groove, in which a vertical downward projecting exposed shank of the drawer bottom engages. In order to fasten the integrated concealed slide to the drawer bottom, the vertical side wall of each integrated concealed slide is provided with a bendable joining clip, which engages through a corresponding opening in the vertical shank of the drawer bottom and engages against the underside of the drawer bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1996
    Assignee: Grass AG
    Inventor: Guenter Grabher
  • 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: 5489052
    Abstract: A backpack frame convertible to a mattress supporting cot with a tent supporting structure includes first and second generally U-shaped tubular frame sections hinged to each other and foldable between a compact position defining a backpack frame configuration and an extended position defining a normally substantially horizontally disposed cot configuration having opposing hollow side members. Each hollow side member has an open end, and the respective open ends are positioned diagonally opposite each other. When disposed in a cot configuration, the cot is supported by a plurality of support members mounted on each side member. A tent support assembly is storable in each hollow side member and extendible from the respective side member open ends to define an obliquely disposed strut and substantially horizontally disposed ridge member superposing the cot. The ridge members are releasably connectible to each other at one end and pivoted at the other end to the respective struts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1996
    Inventor: Talmon C. Blood, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5489148
    Abstract: A partition wall component for connecting a drawer partition wall to a drawer side wall is fastened to the hollow front face of the partition wall and is detachable from the partition wall. The partition wall component is resiliently fastened to the side wall at a depression formed in the side wall and is fastened to the partition wall by one or more springs firmly engaged against the inner profile of the partition wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1996
    Assignee: Grass AG
    Inventor: Alfred Grass
  • Patent number: 5481782
    Abstract: A cabinet/furniture hinge with a snap-on device for quick assembly includes a hinge cup and a hinge arm, a cover clamp with an adjusting plate, and a fastening plate clamped on the base plate. Retainer surfaces formed on the front area of the fastening plate are releaseably engageable with corresponding surfaces of the base plate, and a resilient spring-biased tilted chute with a grip nose is located on a rear area of the fastening plate. For easy operation of the tilted chute, the grip nose of the tilted chute engages under a projection of the base plate and defines a space between the grip nose and a bottom edge of side projections formed on the base plate. In order to fix the fastening plate on the base plate, the fastening plate is provided with a centering socket which is closely fittingly engageable in a notch of the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1996
    Assignee: Grass AG
    Inventor: Gunther Grabher
  • Patent number: 5477590
    Abstract: Single articulation door hinge with pressure locking device on a hinge arm, which is located in a hinge cup on a hinge axis; whereby, leg springs of the hinge arm are held resiliently in connection with a pressure roller; whereby, the leg springs are supported with two contact surfaces on the cup casing and have a contact point on the hinge axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1995
    Assignee: Grass AG
    Inventor: Guenter Grabher
  • Patent number: 5478146
    Abstract: A hollow chambered metal drawer side slide for a drawer includes two drawer side slide components, one of which is arranged inside the other forming overlapping wall areas, and the drawer side slide components are connected in the wall areas by a jointed flange connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1995
    Assignee: Grass AG
    Inventor: Gunter Grabher
  • Patent number: D366774
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1996
    Assignee: Cherry Grove, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Frinier
  • Patent number: D370580
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1996
    Assignee: Pennsylvania House, Inc.
    Inventors: H. Thomas Keller, Tim O'Hare
  • Patent number: D371028
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Assignee: Pennsylvania House, Inc.
    Inventors: H. Thomas Keller, Tim O'Hare