Patents Assigned to Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
  • Hinge
    Patent number: 4850080
    Abstract: A hinge includes a hinge arm to be connected with a second hinge part by hinge links. The hinge arm is provided at the front thereof with a joint adjusting screw for engagement with a mounting plate. The rear of the hinge arm is provided with a clamping screw which permits a depth adjustment and extends through a rearwardly open slot in the hinge arm. The clamping screw connects the hinge arm with an intermediate member which carries a tensioning lever which is acted upon by a spring. The tensioning lever holds the intermediate member with the hinge arm on the mounting plate in a clamping arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1989
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Klaus Brustle, Helmut Rupprechter
  • Drawer with metal side walls
    Patent number: 4848860
    Abstract: A drawer includes metal side walls and a front plate attached to the drawer side walls by holding devices. At least one strip of plastics material or the like is fastened to the outer side of each drawer side wall. Each strip covers an opening in the drawer side wall through which a screwdriver has access to the holding device for the front plate. Each strip has edge guide flanges held in guide grooves of the drawer side wall. The guide flanges are shorter than the strip, such that the strip thus has a free flap which can be pulled away from the drawer side wall. The flap has a projection which engages in the opening and forms a catch for the strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1989
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Josef Brunner
  • Drawer metal side wall with hooks for connection to drawer bottom plate
    Patent number: 4842351
    Abstract: A drawer has metal side walls with vertical flanges thereof forming the lateral limits of the drawer. Each vertical flange has at a lower end thereof a horizontal flange on which a drawer bottom plate of wood or the like abuts. Hooks are punched from the horizontal flanges and project into recesses in the bottom plate. The hooks are bendable and have angular tips pierced into walls of the recesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1989
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Helmut Hollenstein
  • Fitting for fastening the rail member of a drawer
    Patent number: 4840512
    Abstract: A fitting for fastening a rail member of a drawer to a rear wall of the drawer includes a supporting member fastenable to the real wall. The rear end of the rail member is held in the support member by a fastening member which is engageable in the supporting member and is screwable into the rail member. The fastening member is clamped to the supporting member by a clamping screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1989
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Helmut Hollenstein
  • Double wall drawer frame
    Patent number: 4832423
    Abstract: A drawer has metal drawer frames or side walls and a front plate connected thereto by holding devices. At least one strip of plastics material or the like is fastened to the outer side of each of the drawer frames. The strips cover holes in the drawer frames, such holes providing access for a tool such as a screw driver to the front plate holding devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1989
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Reinhold Rapp
  • Holding device for the front plate of a drawer
    Patent number: 4815798
    Abstract: A holding device for the front plate of a drawer with metal drawer frames includes holding members fastened to the front plate and supporting members fastened respective of the drawer frames. The holding members are engageable in the supporting members. The supporting members are adjustably fastened to the drawer frames by means of clamping screws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1989
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Helmut Hollenstein, Josef Brunner
  • Drawer
    Patent number: 4815796
    Abstract: A fitting fastens each side of a drawer front panel to metal drawer sides. In a vertical web adjacent the front panel of each drawer side is provided a recess open towards the front and having vertically projecting therein a nose to hang a holding member of the front panel. A slot, which is stamped out of the drawer side and into which projects a nose of a clamping plate, is disposed behind the recess. The clamping plate can be clamped to a holding plate which is perpendicular to the front panel and which is secured to the front panel. The holding plate and the clamping plate, which together form the holding member, receive therebetween the vertical web of the drawer side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1989
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft M.B.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Helmut Hollenstein, Josef Brunner
  • Rail fitting assembly for use in a drawer
    Patent number: 4804239
    Abstract: A fitting for a drawer, which can be assembled from a plurality of components and has metal drawer side walls which at the same time form pull-out rails for extracting the drawer includes a fastener for connecting each rail to a front panel (3) and a rear wall (3) of the drawer. Each drawer side wall is provided with a fastening plate (3) for the rear wall (3) of the drawer. Attachments connect opposite ends of the rail to the front panel and the rear wall of the drawer. Rail has at one end thereof an adaptor and at the other end thereof an annular groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1989
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft M.B.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Josef Brunner, Helmut Hollenstein
  • Mounting plate for a hinge for mounting a door on furniture frames of varying thickness
    Patent number: 4803749
    Abstract: A hinge mounting plate suitable for fastening to a furniture frame is U-shaped and is laterally slideable onto the furniture frame. A distance compensating plate is provided at one of the two parallel side flanges of the mounting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1989
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft M.B.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Helmut Rupprechter
  • Fitting assembly for connecting the sidewall of a drawer to the rear wall thereof
    Patent number: 4802716
    Abstract: A fitting for a drawer which can be assembled from a plurality of components and has metal drawer sides includes fasteners for connecting the drawer sides to a rear wall of the drawer. Each drawer side is provided with an angled fastening plate for connection to the rear wall of the drawer. The fastening plate has therein a keyhole and on the upper edge a slot which is open at the top and into which holding members of the rear wall of the drawer can be inserted. In addition, the fastening plate is provided with additional holes for fastening screws or tenons. The holding members of the rear wall of the drawer are plates each of which has a positioning web projecting into the open slot and a nose projecting into the keyhole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1989
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Helmut Hollenstein, Josef Brunner
  • Hinge
    Patent number: 4800621
    Abstract: A hinge includes a hinge arm which is snappable onto a mounting plate by means of an intermediate member. The intermediate member is at the front thereof engageable with the mounting plate and at the rear thereof provided with a pivot lever having a hook member by means of which the pivot lever and the intermediate member are lockable on the mounting plate. Centering elements include, for example, a locking bolt extending into a notch in the mounting plate or noses which abut on a base member of the mounting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1989
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Klaus Brustle, Helmut Rupprechter
  • Furniture hinge including hinge arm releasably connected to a mounting plate
    Patent number: 4800622
    Abstract: A hinge includes a hinge arm adapted to be snapped onto a mounting plate. The front of the hinge arm is directly or by an intermediate member indirectly engageable into the mounting plate, and the rear of the hinge arm has a tilting lever at which a hook member is formed by which the tilting lever is lockable to the mounting plate. When a door is mounted to the body of an article of furniture, the hinge arm can be engaged into the mounting plate and then fastened thereto simply by applying pressure. Canting of the hinge arm at the mounting plate is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1989
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Helmut Rupprechter, Klaus Brustle
  • Drawer
    Patent number: 4786123
    Abstract: A drawer includes a bottom, a rear wall, a front plate and two side walls. Each side wall includes separates a lower and upper parts which are anchored to each other by means of a downwardly extending flange of the upper part. The lower part is made of an organic material, for example plastics material or chip board. The upper part is formed by a metal profile having a substantially U-shaped configuration including upper and lower running flanges defining a running groove for a runner roller at the side of a furniture body. A roller carrier is connected to the upper part and is mounted on to the rear wall of the drawer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1988
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Felix Schwarzler
  • Device for fastening the front plate of a drawer
    Patent number: 4775202
    Abstract: A device for fastening the front plate of a drawer to metal drawer frames includes, for each side of the drawer, a fastened to the front plate and of angular configuration, when viewed from the top, with a holding flange aligned parallel to the front plate. A supporting member is formed at the front end of the drawer frame. The supporting has a U-shaped configuration when viewed from the top. The flange of the holding member that is aligned parallel to the front plate is insertable into the U-shaped profile of the supporting member. Each holding member has a bracing flap which is by means of a bracing screw pressable against a supporting flange or against a flange of the supporting member lying opposite the supporting flange of the U-shaped profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1988
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Josef Brunner
  • Mounting plate, in particular for hinges
    Patent number: 4768259
    Abstract: A hinge mounting plate on which a hinge arm is fastenable is adjustable in one direction and fastenable to a furniture part, for example a furniture side wall, by means of fastening screws extending through elongated holes in the mounting plate. In each elongated hole is provided two flaps projecting from the rim of the hole having free front faces pivotally holding the respective fastening screw. The fastening screws have countersunk heads, and when the fastening screws are inserted the countersunk heads press the flaps away from the screw cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1988
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Helmut Rupprechter
  • Hinge
    Patent number: 4750238
    Abstract: A hinge has a hinge arm which is snappable onto a mounting plate by means of an intermediate member. The front of the intermediate member is engageable into the mounting plate and the rear of the intermediate member is provided with a pivot lever having a hook member by means of which the pivot lever locks the intermediate member to the mounting plate. A cover member is mounted on the hinge arm and at its rear end has a shoulder which embraces the end of the hinge arm and extends between the hinge arm and the pivot lever, so that the pivot member cannot be released from the mounting plate unintentionally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1988
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Klaus Brustle, Helmut Rupprechter
  • Drawer with improved pull-out rail, drawer frame and rail slide
    Patent number: 4749243
    Abstract: A drawer has lateral drawer frames of injection molded plastics to which are fastened pull-out rails rolling on runner rollers at the sides of the body of an article of furniture. Slides are arranged at the rear sides of the drawer frames and at the pull-out rails. The slides engage the supporting rails at the side of the body and are movable therealong. The slides are inserted into the drawer frames from the rear thereof and have projections which engage in recesses of the respective drawer frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1988
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Josef Brunner
  • Fastening device for adjustable front plates
    Patent number: 4741583
    Abstract: A fastening device for adjustably mounting a drawer front plate, a includes a suppporting part arranged at each side of the drawer and having a fastening flange aligned vertically to the front plate and a holding flange aligned parallel to the front plate. The holding flanges extend at angles with respect to the fastening flanges. Holding parts are fastened to the front plate by means of screws. The holding parts include hooks that are engageable into the holding flanges. A tightening member is held at each supporting part. The tightening members are pressable against the holding parts and thus provide a bracing engagement between the holding parts and the supporting parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1988
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft M.B.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Klaus Brustle
  • Assembling jig for furniture doors
    Patent number: D294469
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1988
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Helmut Rupprechter
  • Combined drilling and insertion machine for furniture fittings
    Patent number: D297331
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1988
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Dietmar Blum