Patents Assigned to BLUM GmbH
  • Patent number: 10208509
    Abstract: A push-out device for a movable furniture part includes a rotatable push-out element for pushing out the movable furniture part from a closed position to an open position. When the movable furniture part is pushed out, the push-out element can be rotated in a rotation direction. The push-out device has a push-out force accumulator which applies force to the push-out element in the opening direction of the movable furniture part, and has a tensioning device for tensioning the push-out force accumulator by the push-out element. When the push-out force accumulator is tensioned, the push-out element can be rotated in the same rotation direction as when the movable furniture part is pushed out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventor: Andre Hammerer
  • Patent number: 10188209
    Abstract: A securing device for detachably securing a front panel on a drawer, in particular on a drawer side wall, includes at least one furniture fitting that can be pre-mounted on the front panel, and a catch device assigned to the drawer. During the sliding in of the furniture fitting, the catch device automatically holds the same, and the catch device has a movable catch element. The securing device further includes a locking device that prevents an unintended release of the furniture fitting from the securing device, and the locking device has a movable locking element which is separate from the catch element, and which is positioned on the pre-mountable furniture fitting in a locked position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventors: Benjamin Hoffmann, Gerald Sperger
  • Patent number: 10188208
    Abstract: A drive mechanism for a movable furniture part includes a mechanically loaded drive element which is movable in the drive direction. The drive element has a drive stop by which a follower can be moved in the course of a drive movement. On a side of the drive element facing away from the drive stop, a ramp is provided to allow the follower to pass over the drive element in the drive direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventor: Christof Goetz
  • Patent number: 10172460
    Abstract: A retraction device includes an entrainment member to be releasably coupled to a movable furniture part and supported displaceably along a linear displacement path, a spring device for applying a force to the entrainment member, the spring device configured to be tensioned by a spring holder separate from the entrainment member, and a coupling device for motionally coupling a movement between the entrainment member and the spring holder. The fastening location of the spring device on the spring holder falls back relative to the position of the entrainment member along a control curve by the coupling device as the entrainment member is being pulled out in an opening direction. The coupling device includes a two-armed lever pivotally mounted about a pivoting axis on the spring holder. A first lever end of the two-armed lever is motionally coupled to the entrainment member and the second lever end includes a guide element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventor: Ingo Gasser
  • Patent number: 10172461
    Abstract: A furniture drive for retracting a movably supported furniture part into a closed position relative to a furniture carcass includes a housing, an entrainment member which can be releasably coupled to the movable furniture part, a spring device for applying a force to the entrainment member, and a guide path arranged or formed on the housing. The entrainment member is displaceably arranged along the guide path, and the guide path includes a first bend for releasably locking the entrainment member. The guide path includes at least one second bend for releasably locking the entrainment member, and at least one movably-supported switch element with a first and with a second switching position is provided. The switch element, in the first switching position, blocks the first bend so that the entrainment member can move into the second bend and the switch element, in the second switching position, unblocks the first bend so that the entrainment member can move into the first bend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventors: Florian Fischer, Christof Goetz, Elvis Music
  • Patent number: 10143303
    Abstract: A drive mechanism for a movable furniture part, in particular a drawer, has a first and a second lockable pushing-out mechanism and a synchronizing mechanism for synchronizing the two pushing-out mechanisms. The synchronizing mechanism has a synchronizing rod and a first and a second synchronizing element which can be connected to the synchronizing rod, and relative movement takes place between the synchronizing elements and the pushing-out mechanisms during synchronizing operation. In an active synchronizing mode, during synchronizing operation, movement is transmitted from the first pushing-out mechanism, via the first synchronizing element, the synchronizing rod and the second synchronizing element, to the second pushing-out mechanism. In an inactive synchronizing mode, the synchronizing rod is removed and the synchronizing elements each remain in contact with one of the pushing-out mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Koenig, Marc Meusburger
  • Patent number: 10113346
    Abstract: A hinge, in particular for a piece of furniture, comprises an inner hinge portion that can be attached to the furniture carcass or to a door hinged to the carcass, an outer hinge portion that can be attached to an outer door, a connecting device that connects the inner hinge portion to the outer hinge portion so that they can pivot relative to each other by three receiving members. The inner hinge portion has a main body that can be attached to the furniture carcass or to a door hinged to the furniture carcass. A lower receiving member is movable, preferably slidable, relative to an upper receiving member which is mounted, preferably rigidly, on the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventor: Franz Kohlweiss
  • Patent number: 10111524
    Abstract: A furniture fitting includes a slide which is moveable linearly in relation to a housing and has a first slide part with an internal thread and a second slide part with an external thread interacting with the internal thread. The length of the slide is adjustable by rotation of the external thread relative to the internal thread, and a securing element prevents the external thread from unscrewing completely from the internal thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventor: Marco Ruecker
  • Patent number: 10070721
    Abstract: An arrangement includes a first drive mechanism for moving a movable furniture part. The first drive mechanism has a lockable first push-out mechanism for pushing the movable furniture part out of a closed position into an open position, and a first locking mechanism for locking the first push-out mechanism in a locked position. The first push-out mechanism can be unlocked from the locked position by an overpressure movement of the movable furniture part into an overpressure position beyond the closed position. A synchronizing device synchronizes the first drive mechanism with a second drive mechanism, and can be moved by the first drive mechanism. The overpressure movement begins free of a movement transfer between the first drive mechanism and the synchronizing device. When the movable furniture part moves in the opening direction, the synchronizing device can be moved by the first drive mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventors: Harald Brunnmayr, Alexander Simon Flogaus, Hermann Haemmerle, Michael Blum, Bernd Koenig, Christof Goetz
  • Patent number: 10058175
    Abstract: A driving device for a movable furniture part includes a retracting device for retracting the movable furniture part out of an open position into a close position, and the retracting device has a housing; a guide path formed in the housing and which comprises a retaining section; a retracting slide which can be moved in the guide path relative to the housing and can be locked in the retaining section; and a retracting force accumulator which urges the retracting slide. The retracting slide can be moved along the guide path between a first end position, which corresponds to the retaining section, and a second end position, which corresponds to the closed position, wherein the distance between the end positions along the guide path can be changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventor: Fredi Dubach
  • Patent number: 10051962
    Abstract: A drive device for a movable furniture part includes a force-actuated ejection element for ejecting the movable furniture part from a closed position into an open position, and a locking device for locking the ejection element in a locking position. The locking device includes a control element connected to the ejection element, and a gate for the control element. The gate has—outside an optionally present latch depression—sidewall regions that have different hardnesses in certain sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventor: Christof Goetz
  • Patent number: 9993857
    Abstract: A method relates to producing a sheet metal profile, in particular consisting of steel, for a drawer pull-out guide having at least one web projecting laterally, in particular perpendicularly, from a flat surface of the sheet metal profile and extending in the longitudinal direction of the sheet metal profile. In a first method step, from at least one flat surface of a sheet metal billet, there is extruded at least one web projecting laterally, in particular perpendicularly, and extending in the longitudinal direction of the sheet metal billet. In at least one further method step, preferably in 10 to 15 further method steps, the at least one web is squeezed together, i.e. is reduced in width and increased in height. The invention further relates to a sheet metal profile produced in this manner and to a drawer pull-out guide that comprises such a profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Schneider, Olaf Isele
  • Patent number: 9909346
    Abstract: The invention relates to an adjusting device for moveably mounting a furniture part onto a furniture body, comprising an adjusting arm lever. A first lever of the adjusting arm lever can be moved with respect to a second lever of the adjusting arm lever from a mounted position into an operating position. The first lever can be locked in the locked position with respect to the second lever by means of an automatic locking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas Holzapfel
  • Patent number: 9903145
    Abstract: An actuating drive includes an actuating arm pivotally mounted about a pivoting axis for moving the movable furniture part, a spring device for applying a force onto the actuating arm, and a transmission mechanism for transmitting a force of the spring device onto the actuating arm. The transmission mechanism includes an actuating portion movement-coupled to the actuating arm, a setting contour, and a pressure portion pressurized by the spring device. The pressure portion is a rotatably mounted pressure roller for running along the setting contour. The setting contour is arranged between the actuating portion and the pressure roller, and the setting contour is on a contour portion separate from the actuating portion. The contour portion has a fastening section configured to rest against the actuating portion and a limb protruding transversely from the fastening section, and the setting contour is a curved outer surface of the limb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventors: Edgar Huber, Harald Nussbichler
  • Patent number: 9894992
    Abstract: A drawer pull-out guide includes a carcass rail to be fixed to a furniture carcass, an extension rail displaceable relative to the carcass rail between a closed position and an open position, and a rolling body and a supporting body movable along a running limb of the carcass rail and a running surface of the extension rail upon a movement of the extension rail. A clearance is formed on the running limb of the carcass rail and/or on the running surface of the extension rail. The rolling body is accommodated within the clearance in the closed position of the extension rail and is thereby relieved from the load of the extension rail so that, in the closed position of the extension rail, the load of the extension rail is carried by the supporting body. Furthermore, rolling body and the supporting body are arranged in a common running carriage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventors: Pascal Berchtold, David Fink, Marc Meusburger, Daniel Boch, Gernot Mohr, Albert Boesch, Philipp Nachbauer, Simon Grabherr
  • Patent number: 9820573
    Abstract: An arrangement includes two locking devices which are arranged on either side of a movable furniture part for locking the movable furniture part with respect to a furniture body in a locking position. Each locking device has a blocking device which prevents the locking position from being reached in a blocking position. Each locking device has a releasing device by means of which the blocking position of the blocking device associated with the other locking device can be cancelled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventor: Harald Brunnmayr
  • Patent number: 9797175
    Abstract: A drive device for a movable furniture part includes a lockable push-out device for pushing the movable furniture part out of a closed position into an open position. The push-out device can be unlocked by virtue of the movable furniture part being pushed into an excess-pressure position located behind the closed position, as seen in the closing direction. An excess-pressure region is located between the closed position and an excess-pressure position. The drive device also has a damping device for damping the closing movement of the movable furniture part. The damping device has displacement-dependent damping, in which the damping force in a main damping region, located in front of the closed position—as seen in the opening direction, is higher than in the excess-pressure region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventor: Harald Brunnmayr
  • Patent number: 9775434
    Abstract: A drive device for a movable furniture component, particularly for a drawer, includes an ejection device having an ejection force accumulator for ejecting the movable furniture component into an open position, and a retraction device having a retraction force accumulator for retracting the movable furniture component from an open position into a closed position. The ejection force accumulator can be charged by the retraction force accumulator during retraction of the movable furniture component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventor: Alexander Simon Flogaus
  • Patent number: 9719283
    Abstract: An actuating drive for moving a flap of an item of furniture, including: an actuating arm pivotally mounted about a pivoting axis for moving the flap, a spring device for applying a force onto the actuating arm, a transmission mechanism for transmitting a force of the spring device onto the actuating arm in a closing direction and for transmitting a force of the spring device onto the actuating arm, and an adjusting device for adjusting a position of an actuating portion of the actuating drive in or along a guide. The actuating drive includes a coupling device coupling the spring device, the pivoting axis of the actuating arm, and the actuating portion to one another. By adjusting the actuating portion in or along the guide, the position of the dead-center of the actuating arm and the force of the spring device acting towards the opening direction can be variably adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas Holzapfel
  • Patent number: 9717334
    Abstract: A drive device for a moveable furniture part including an ejection element, an ejection force accumulator, and a locking device for the ejection element. The locking device includes a locking journal which is subjected to force of the ejection force accumulator and can be locked in a locked position in a latch region of a guide track. The guide track is shaped like a curved heart and has a tightening section in which the locking journal can be moved when the ejection force accumulator is tightened, and a latching movement section of the locking journal prior to reaching the locked position in the latch region. The locking journal impinged upon by the tightened ejection force accumulator can be slowed down and/or dampened in the latching movement section and can be placed in the latch region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventors: Christof Goetz, Florian Fischer