Patents Assigned to Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
  • Patent number: 4412366
    Abstract: A hinge for furniture doors is adjustable in three directions, i.e. in the direction of the depth of an article of furniture, in the direction of the height of the article of furniture and in the direction of the breadth of the door joint. Adjustment is effected by moving a hinge arm of the hinge with respect to a base plate on which the hinge arm is mounted. The hinge arm has a U-shaped cross section. A guiding member which is a rhomboid plate or a rectangular plate with oblique slots is positioned in the U of the hinge arm and has oblique faces sliding along corresponding faces on the base plate. Side edges of the guiding member slide along side flanges of the hinge arm. For height adjustment the hinge arm is not moved on a straight line but along a curve or two straight lines that are at an angle to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1983
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Klaus Brustle
  • Patent number: 4411046
    Abstract: A hinge for opening a door up to an angle of about 180.degree. includes a mounting plate and a hinge casing connected by two hinge arms. The movement of the hinge arms with respect of each other is controlled by a rack and pinion arrangement. One hinge arm carries the pinion and this hinge arms is guided at two points of connection in guiding grooves in the mounting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1983
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Peter Nawrath
  • Patent number: 4411045
    Abstract: A hinge for mounting a door swingably on the frame of a piece of furniture includes one mounting member mountable on the door and a second mounting member mountable on the frame. The two members are connected by a hinge pin or by hinge pins and hinge links. Between the member mounted on the frame and the frame itself there is a wedge type intermediate member for adjusting the distance between this mounting member and the face of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1983
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Klaus Brustle
  • Patent number: 4367906
    Abstract: A pull out guide assembly for drawers includes a pull out rail on each side of the drawer and a supporting rail on each side wall of a cabinet or the like. Rollers run between each pull out rail and supporting rail. The rollers are held in a floating carriage. The carriage extends horizontally and not vertically in the operating position and the rollers that embrace the supporting rail are situated laterally of each other and not above each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1983
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Erich Rock
  • Patent number: 4367566
    Abstract: A multimember mounting plate assembly is provided as a base plate for a hinge arm of a furniture hinge. The position of the hinge arm is adjustable on the assembly in the direction of the depth of the piece of furniture and the direction of the breadth of the door joint. The assembly provides an additional possibility of adjustment in the direction of the height of the piece of furniture. The mounting plate assembly includes a carrier plate for the hinge arm. The carrier plate is slidably mounted on the mounting plate, and a clamping screw is provided which fixes the carrier plate to the mounting plate in a desired position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1983
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Herbert Blum
  • Patent number: 4359802
    Abstract: A hinge includes a hinge arm which is adjustable in three directions. An intermediate member is situated between the hinge arm and a mounting plate. One screw clamps the intermediate member to the mounting plate, another screw clamps the hinge arm to the intermediate member, and a third screw acts between the intermediate member and the mounting plate providing an adjustment of the hinge arm in a plane vertical to the mounting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1982
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Erich Rock
  • Patent number: 4352222
    Abstract: A hinge with a snap-in mechanism is activated by a spring. The spring is housed in a bush-like member pivotally mounted on a hinge axle of the hinge arm. There are two hinge links that connect the hinge arm with the hinge casing. The bush-like member presses on one hinge link when the hinge is in its closed position but rests mainly or completely on the hinge axle of the hinge link when the hinge is in its open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m. b. H.
    Inventors: Bernhard Mages, Erich Rock
  • Patent number: 4351575
    Abstract: A pull-out guide assembly for drawers is provided by means of which a drawer can be pulled out of a body of a piece of furniture over its entire depth, while still being anchored in the supporting rails on the side of the body. The assembly includes supporting rails on the sides of the body, pull-out rails fastened to the drawer and center rails arranged between the supporting and pull-out rails. Carriages are arranged between the rails, rollers transferring the load from one rail to the other being mounted in the carriages. Locking- and control members are provided to control the course of movement of the individual members of the pull-out guide or to hold the members of the pull-out guide together, when the drawer has been entirely taken out of the body of the piece, thus facilitating the reinsertion of the drawer into the body of the piece of furniture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1982
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m. b. H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
  • Patent number: 4349941
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1982
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Josef Brunner
  • Patent number: 4338699
    Abstract: A door hinge assembly is especially adapted to be used in cabinets or the like whose side walls cannot support the hinge arm of the hinge. The cabinet has a door frame structure to which a fastening member for the hinge arm is secured, and the fastening member extends into a recess in the corresponding structural member of the door frame structure. An adjustment device for adjusting the fastening member within the recess of the structural member are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1982
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Erich Rock
  • Patent number: 4325649
    Abstract: A joining device for connecting furniture parts includes two structural members each being a dowel housing and both having the same diameter.One housing has a connecting member and the other housing has a locking member. When joined the connecting member projects into the housing with the locking member and is held by the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1982
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Erich Rock
  • Patent number: 4323213
    Abstract: A suspension fitting for cabinets to be hung on a wall includes a supporting member which is fastened to the piece of furniture and a suspension member displaceably mounted in the supporting member and adapted to rest in a hook in the wall. A disc with a spirally extending member is provided for displacing the suspension member.The fitting is mounted on the outside of the cabinet directly at the rear wall and is elongated vertically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1982
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Josef Brunner
  • Patent number: 4320934
    Abstract: A pull-out guide for drawers with which the drawer can be pulled completely free of the cabinet and is still held in the latter has a structure such that on each side of the drawer is a holding member attached to the drawer and a holding member attached to the side wall of the cabinet, both holding members being elongated and have a running surface for a roller placed between the holding members and mounted in the middle of an intermediate rail. The holding members have a rack profile and a part of the roller is a pinion engaging in the racks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1982
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
  • Patent number: 4310948
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1982
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
  • Patent number: 4304028
    Abstract: A hinge for a furniture door includes a hinge arm which carries the hinge links. The hinge arm is mounted on a mounting plate, and the latter is fixed on a furniture side wall. The hinge arm is secured to the mounting plate by means of screws and by means of such screws is also adjustable with respect to the mounting plate. The mounting plate is made of sheet metal and has a U-shaped cross-section. The two lateral flanges of the mounting plate rest on the furniture side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1981
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
  • Patent number: 4294499
    Abstract: A pull-out guide assembly for drawers or the like with which the drawer can be pulled free of a cabinet while it is still held by the guide assembly. The guide assembly has an intermediate rail on each side of the drawer which moves between, and with respect to, the drawer and the cabinet. The movement is steered by a belt forming a closed loop. The belt is carried on the intermediate rail and is connected both with the drawer and the cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1981
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
  • Patent number: 4255002
    Abstract: A withdrawal guide for drawers or the like, where the drawer has two external sides, for use in a fixed structure, the latter having two internal sides, includes two support rails disposed on each of the fixed structure sides, respectively, two guide rails disposed on the external sides of the drawer, respectively, and two mobile units. Each mobile unit includes at least two rollers. The rollers are supported between a corresponding guide and support rail for taking up vertical forces. The support rails and/or the guide rails having a stop for the mobile units. Each mobile unit is formed with at least one clamping means being a fixed part of the mobile unit, co-acting with the track in which the mobile unit is held, when the drawer is pulled out from the fixed structure for securing the mobile unit in the inward-movable direction of the withdrawal guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1981
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
  • Patent number: D264660
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1982
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Josef Brunner
  • Patent number: D267066
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1982
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Josef Brunner
  • Patent number: D272123
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1984
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Klaus Brustle