Patents Assigned to Grass AG
  • Patent number: 5979017
    Abstract: A fastener system for mounting a furniture fitting includes a pair of spreader dowels supported in corresponding holes in the fastening flange of a furniture fitting. Each spreader dowel includes an expandable dowel with an inner notch and a noncircular spreader screw within the inner notch. The spreader screw expands the dowel with a 90-degree turn of the spreader screw, and each spreader screw is provided with a cover cap from which a crank extends. The respective dowels are expanded by rotating the respective cranks through a 90-degree turn from a position substantially parallel to one another to a position overlapping one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Grass AG
    Inventor: Reinhard Karl
  • Patent number: 5743608
    Abstract: A drawer slide which forms a side wall of a drawer has outwardly curving holding devices in the form of a first shoulder projection with a tab and a second shoulder projection offset to one another in a back wall area of the drawer slide which engage in corresponding bore holes of a back wall and secure the back wall against shifting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: Grass AG
    Inventor: Hammerle Johannes
  • Patent number: 5725342
    Abstract: Spreading dowel, consisting of a dowel component (15) and a non circular spreader screw (1); whereby, the inner notch (17) of the dowel component (15) is fitted in its form for the outer contour of the spreader screw (1); whereby, the spreader screw (1) has one or more thread convolutions (9). By means of these thread convolutions (9), twisting the spreader screw (1) achieves the spreading expansion of the dowel component (15) together with an axial shifting of the spreader screw (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Grass AG
    Inventor: Wilfried Gehrer
  • Patent number: 5681101
    Abstract: The present invention is a drawer slide and a process to produce it. The described drawer slide is preferred for the quick assembly drawer on which the drawer slide is to be fastened on a drawer side wall. The drawer slide consists of a somewhat Z-shaped profile, which, in the first step of production forms a first holding device for the drawer side wall from the material of the lower horizontal shank of the drawer slide. At least a second holding device for the drawer side wall is formed from the material of the vertical shank of the drawer slides. The drawer side wall is then placed on the lower horizontal shank of the drawer slide and both holding devices are pressed into the material of the drawer side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1997
    Assignee: Grass AG
    Inventor: Havlat Peter
  • Patent number: 5673460
    Abstract: A hinge with a hinge cup and a hinge arm is described which inserts in a cabinet/furniture component. The hinge cup has a recess located on the outer side of the side which is opposite the hinge arm, so that a step is formed in the inner space of the hinge cup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1997
    Assignee: Grass AG
    Inventor: Georg Domenig
  • Patent number: 5641216
    Abstract: A drawer slide, includes a cabinet body rail and a drawer rail with rollers and corresponding slide tracks and the cabinet body rail and the drawer rail are placed next to each other on the underside of the drawer bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1997
    Assignee: Grass AG
    Inventor: Alfred Grass
  • Patent number: 5604956
    Abstract: A hinge with self-closing mechanism includes a hinge arm fastened swivelable to a hinge cup and also includes an elastic element which lies with one end of the elastic element on the hinge arm and disposed outside the hinge cup under the bottom of the hinge cup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1997
    Assignee: Grass AG
    Inventor: Alfred Grass
  • Patent number: 5577296
    Abstract: A single articulation door hinge includes a base plate and a one-piece hinge arm. The base plate and hinge arm are quickly disconnected by a snap-in locking device to allow easy removal of a door from a cabinet frame, for example. The catch spring includes two substantially parallel sides releasably engageable with the base plate with one side having a catch shank and the other second side having a nose disposed toward one another. The catch spring further includes a scroll spring disposed between the shank and nose, biased toward the nose to engage and secure the catch spring against the hinge arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: Grass AG
    Inventor: Alfred Grass
  • Patent number: 5549378
    Abstract: A panel adjustment component for adjusting the incline a front panel of a drawer with railings and a front panel makes use of an angle member having a horizontal leg fastenable in a hollow railing of the drawer and a vertical leg to which the front panel is connected by a threaded bolt. An incline adjustment of the front panel is achieved by a threaded nut engaging the threaded bolt and disposed rotatable in an opening formed in the vertical leg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1996
    Assignee: Grass AG
    Inventor: Guenter Grabher
  • Patent number: 5548870
    Abstract: A hinge cup with releasable fastener for use with a cabinet component having a bore hole includes an assembly component anchorable in the cabinet component bore hole. The assembly component is provided with a receptacle, and a cup casing is receivable in the assembly component receptacle in a press fit relationship and is fastenable to the assembly component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1996
    Assignee: Grass AG
    Inventor: Alfred Grass, sen.
  • 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: 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: 5462349
    Abstract: A drawer with drawer side slide and drawer bottom inserts a drawer side slide with a lower horizontal drawer side slide bottom, which supports the drawer bottom in the form of inwardly directed support shanks. The tabs formed from the material of the support shanks are divided from one another by slots, and have grips on their free ends, which dig in a barbed manner with their points into the material of the drawer bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1995
    Assignee: Grass AG
    Inventor: Gunther Grabher
  • Patent number: 5452952
    Abstract: A drawer with integrated concealed slides designed as side walls, utilizes a drawer bottom that is easily detached or inserted. The bottom is fastened with a catch fastening system on the integrated concealed slides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1995
    Assignee: Grass AG
    Inventor: Guenter Grabher
  • Patent number: 5439334
    Abstract: A quick change gear box for a hardware drilling machine includes a mounting plate having a catch pin bore hole and coupling bolt recesses provided with a coupling bolt bore hole and a coupling bolt slot having an upper surface. A fastening plate is provided with a spring biased catch pin insertable in the catch pin bore hole and spring biased headed coupling bolts receivable through the coupling bolt bore holes into the coupling bolt recesses. The coupling bolts are moveable in the coupling bolt recesses between an uncoupled position and a coupled with the coupling bolt heads urging a clamping force toward the fastening block on the coupling bolt slot upper surface. The coupling bolt slot upper surface ascends from one end of the coupling bolt recess to its other end, and the clamping force is increased by movement of the coupling bolt in the recess from the uncoupled position to the coupled position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1995
    Assignee: Grass AG
    Inventor: Genther Grabher
  • Patent number: D451000
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Assignee: Grass AG
    Inventor: Reinhard Karl