Patents Assigned to Grass GmbH
  • Patent number: 6340078
    Abstract: The invention concerns a braking device with closing servo control for movable cabinet/furniture parts, such as drawers, cabinet and furniture doors, etc. The device includes a casing located on either a fixed or movable cabinet/furniture component and this casing has a pull-in device located within it, which has a mechanical energy store, and a connected movable control element is also located within the casing, and a driving pin that is always located on the other cabinet/furniture components and works together with the control element. This pull-in device that works as a closing servo control after the braking process, is shown, in that, in the casing between the energy store and the control element, there is a connected braking element that is guided and movable. The braking device, thus, forms a unit with the pull-in device and is controlled likewise by the driving pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2002
    Assignee: Grass GmbH
    Inventor: Adolf Scheible
  • Patent number: 6309038
    Abstract: A swinging drawer takes the form of an upper open compartment that is fastened to the underside of an upper wall cabinet/furniture such as, for example, an upper kitchen cabinet that is attached or hung on a wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Grass GmbH
    Inventor: Georg Domenig
  • Patent number: 6234596
    Abstract: A fastening device for fastening a front panel to a metal drawer slide/side is provided which comprises a front panel, a dowel component, and a distance plate, adapted to be connected to a metal drawer slide/side, disposed between the front panel and the dowel component, and an adjustment device comprising an eccentric piece that is operated by a retractable or foldable adjusting lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Grass GmbH
    Inventor: Remo Egger
  • Patent number: 6120226
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a railing fastener for drawers that has one part with an expansion dowel located in the front panel of the drawer and one part that is a fastener (that can be inserted), which is connected in the dowel to the railing pipe. The fastener fitting has a head component with an expansion head that can be inserted in the expansion dowel. Guides and/or catches are provided on the head component, respectively the expansion head, that work together with the corresponding grooves or catch openings of the expansion dowel. After completely inserting the expansion head, the expansion dowel spreads, activated by the swinging or swiveling of the fastener fitting; the guides or catches reach the corresponding lock-in positions so that the fastener fitting is held securely in the expansion dowel and an extraction of the expansion head is no longer possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: Grass GmbH
    Inventors: Remo Egger, Adolf Scheible
  • Patent number: 6061872
    Abstract: The invention is a cabinet hinge that has a hinge arm or hinge fastened on a hinge cup; the hinge arm, that can be adjusted by means of an adjusting plate, can be connected to a fastening baseplate on the cabinet/furniture, and has a catch connection provided in order to make this connection.According to the invention the adjusting plate is a one piece, partially resilient snap-on component that on one side has hook-shaped shanks that link with the baseplate and on the other side has shanks that engage into corresponding catch nose projections of the baseplate when pressure is placed on the adjusting plate by a suitable means forces sliding motion of the adjusting plate relative to the baseplate. Then the resilient component of the adjusting plate is secured against further shifting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Grass GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Albrecht, Georg Domenig, Johannes Hammerle, Reinhard Karl, Wolfgang Muller
  • Patent number: 5992958
    Abstract: The invention is a drawer with Zargen drawer slide system. The side walls of the drawer are simultaneously the Zargen drawer slides, and the Zargen drawer slide system has horizontal flanges that support and hold the drawer bottom. There are fastening devices on the Zargen drawer that connect the Zargen drawer together with the drawer bottom. These fastening devices take the form of latch connectors, which are anchored, swinging, in the Zargen drawer slide system and can be engaged or disengaged manually with the corresponding notches in the drawer bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: Grass GmbH
    Inventor: Adolf Scheible
  • Patent number: 4671716
    Abstract: The locking screw for the adjustable connection of a hinge strap to a base plate of a hinge has an external thread, with which the locking screw is screwed into a corresponding threaded hole in the hinge flap. The end face of the bolt portion of the locking screw abuts on the corresponding face of the base plate. In order to ensure a secure seating of the locking screw even under changing loads, a plate spring is attached to the end face of the locking screw and is spring-loaded axially, which abuts the base plate with its spring front face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1987
    Assignee: Alfred Grass GmbH Metallwarenfabrik
    Inventor: Alfred Grass