Patents Assigned to Paul Hettich GmbH & Co. KG
  • Publication number: 20150147009
    Abstract: A pull-out guide for furniture parts which can move relative to one another includes at least two pull-out rails, between which at least one first roller body and at least one second roller body are disposed, which are held in a rotatable manner in at least one roller body cage, the at least one first roller body having a greater nominal diameter and a lower modulus of elasticity than the at least one second roller body of the roller body cage. The pull-out guide is characterised in that a difference in diameter (?d) between a first nominal diameter of the first roller body and a second nominal diameter of the second roller body is greater than a lower limit which is at least as great as a manufacturing tolerance (?d1) in the diameter of the first roller body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: PAUL HETTICH GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Peter Jährling, Alexander Hemminger, Sebastian Bastkowski
  • Patent number: 9038623
    Abstract: A pull-out guide for a baking oven. The pull-out guide includes a guide rail fixed in a position and configured as a hollow profile. The pull-out guide further includes a running rail movably mounted on the guide rail, and a bar inserted is into the guide rail, at least in sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: PAUL HETTICH GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Peter Jährling, Daniel Rehage, Daniel Reidt, Timo Kaps
  • Patent number: 9010314
    Abstract: A pull-out device for a household appliance The pull-out device includes a side grid configured to be installed in an interior space of the household appliance and a plurality of horizontal rods each having a bent end section on opposite sides of the rod, the bent end sections being fixed on a vertical post of the side grid. Also included is a guide rail fixed on at least one of the rods by a fastening element and locking means configured to detachably fix a sliding rail that is movably supported on the guide rail in one or both of a retracted and an extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Paul Hettich GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Daniel Rehage, Daniel Reidt, Sven Budde
  • Patent number: 9004622
    Abstract: An apparatus for adjusting the height of at least one counter, the at least one counter being guided in a household device by at least one pull-out guide. The apparatus includes at least one sliding rail on which the at least one counter is guidable and configured to be pulled out in a pull-out direction. Also included is a height adjustment mechanism configured to be fixed to opposing side walls of the household device. The height adjustment mechanism includes two arms which are rotatably fixed to each of the side walls. Further included are two guide rails fixable to respective second ends of the arms in a rotatable manner parallel to the plane of the side walls and an energy storage device is fixed to at least one of the opposing side walls of the household device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Paul Hettich GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Oscar Garcia, Eqaut Arriaga, Ilker Lopetegi, Mikel Azkue
  • Patent number: 8979222
    Abstract: A pull-out guide of a movable element of a piece of furniture or a domestic appliance. The pull-out guide including a guide rail configured to be fixed to a body of the piece of furniture or domestic appliance; a movable element; and a slide rail configured to be connected to the movable element. The guide rail is detachably connected to a molded part, the molded part being provided on the body. A component is configured to support movement of the movable element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Paul Hettich GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Peter Jahrling, Alexander Hemminger
  • Patent number: 8911039
    Abstract: A pull-out guide for a drawer or for a pull-out of a piece of furniture. The pull-out guide includes a guide rail, a self-retracting device mounted on the guide rail, a running rail mountable on the drawer or furniture pull-out, an actuator attached to the running rail to control the self-retracting device, and a closing stopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Paul Hettich GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Darko Radusin
  • Patent number: 8882351
    Abstract: A pull-out guide for domestic appliances. The pull-out guide includes a guide rail, at least one additional rail displaceably mounted relative to the guide rail via a rolling body in a rolling-body cage, and at least one stop configured to limit a displacement path of the at least one additional rail. The at least one stop is configured as a first crosspiece and shaped onto one of the guide rail and the at least one additional rail. The at least one stop projects into the displacement path of one of the rolling-body cage and the rolling body. The rolling body is an outer rolling body. The at least one stop projects up to at least half of the radius of the outer rolling body or up to substantially a rotational axis of the outer rolling body, as seen in a direction of displacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Paul Hettich GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Peter Jährling, Sven Budde
  • Patent number: 8875909
    Abstract: A device for transporting objects, in particular fittings, having a frame includes outer walls (2, 3) protruding upwards from a floor at opposite end faces, on which a plurality of receiving hoppers (4) are provided for placing a first end section of an object, and at least one middle wall section (5, 5?) protruding from the floor. A plurality of receiving hoppers (4) is provided thereon for placing a second end section of an object opposite the first end section. At least one middle wall section (5, 5?) is displaceably mounted on a floor guide and can be fixed at different distances from an outer wall (2, 3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Paul Hettich GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christian Gerkensmeier, Reinhard Hampker
  • Patent number: 8851591
    Abstract: A fastening arrangement for fixing a guide rail of a pull-out guide to a side grid of an oven. The side grid includes a rod having end sections bent at an angle and each end section is fixed to a post of the side grid and the guide rail being fixed to the rod. The fastening arrangement includes fastening means for fixing the guide rail to the rod and the fastening means is formed integrally with the guide rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Paul Hettich GmbH & Co. KG.
    Inventors: Eckhard Meier, Daniel Rehage, Daniel Reidt
  • Patent number: 8820689
    Abstract: A guide rail configured to be mounted on bars of a grid side part of a household appliance or furniture. The bars run horizontally and are bent at an angle in bent end regions. The guide rail includes a quick fastening device including two mounting elements attached in end regions of the guide rail and configured to be detachably fixed to the bars of the grid side part. A first mounting section partially encloses one of the bars in a longitudinally extending region of the bar. A second mounting section partially encloses the bar at one of the bent regions of the bar. One of the mounting sections faces a rear bent end region and is open in a direction towards a rear of the guide rail. A resilient catch lug extends upward from the leg and engages behind the bar that is enclosed by the mounting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Paul Hettich GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Daniel Reidt, Sven Budde, Holger Redeker, Timo Kaps
  • Publication number: 20140239789
    Abstract: A fitting, in particular for a piece of furniture or a domestic appliance, comprises a first storage element, which is mounted such that it can be displaced from a rear storage position into an access position, and a second storage element, which is coupled to the first storage element via at least one connecting element, wherein the second storage element is mounted in a pivotable manner and can be raised, via the first storage element, from a lowered, storage position into an access position. This makes it possible for the stowage space in a domestic appliance to be optimally utilized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Paul Hettich GmbH & Co. Kg
    Inventors: Daniel Rehage, Thorsten Kloth
  • Patent number: 8770683
    Abstract: A pullout guide for a furniture pullout part configured to be pulled out from a piece of furniture over a predefined pullout distance. The pullout guide includes a retraction device configured to retract the furniture pullout part at least over a portion of the predefined pullout distance. The retraction device includes a spring configuration having a first spring and a second spring connected in parallel with respect to each other. Each of the first and second springs includes a different spring characteristic curve than the other spring and/or each of the first and second springs includes a different force-distance characteristic acting in a pullout direction of the pullout guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Paul Hettich GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Daniel Rehage
  • Patent number: 8695197
    Abstract: A method for producing a coated pull-out guide for baking ovens, the pull-out guide including a guide rail and at least one of a middle rail and a running rail displaceably supported by rolling elements on the guide rail. The rolling elements are guided along tracks on one or more of the guide rail, middle rail and running rail. The method includes the steps of: assembling the pull-out into a unit including one or more of the guide rail, middle rail, and running rail; cleaning a metal surface of at least one of the rails by one or more of a mechanical and chemical cleaning method; and, applying a coating to the cleaned metal surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Paul Hettich GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Lars Schrubke, Daniel Reidt, Willi Grigat, Arthur Krause
  • Publication number: 20140021840
    Abstract: A pull-out guide for a drawer or for a pull-out of a piece of furniture. The pull-out guide includes a guide rail, a self-retracting device mounted on the guide rail, a running rail mountable on the drawer or furniture pull-out, an actuator attached to the running rail to control the self-retracting device, and a closing stopper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: PAUL HETTICH GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Darko RADUSIN
  • Publication number: 20130336602
    Abstract: A pull-out guide for domestic appliances. The pull-out guide includes a guide rail, at least one additional rail displaceably mounted relative to the guide rail via a rolling body in a rolling-body cage, and at least one stop configured to limit a displacement path of the at least one additional rail. The at least one stop is configured as a first crosspiece and shaped onto one of the guide rail and the at least one additional rail. The at least one stop projects into the displacement path of one of the rolling-body cage and the rolling body. The rolling body is an outer rolling body. The at least one stop projects up to at least half of the radius of the outer rolling body or up to substantially a rotational axis of the outer rolling body, as seen in a direction of displacement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: PAUL HETTICH GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Peter Jährling, Sven Budde
  • Patent number: 8590991
    Abstract: Drawer guide (1) for furniture drawer parts, comprising a guide track (2) that can be attached to the body of a piece of furniture and a glide track (3) that can be connected to a furniture drawer part, wherein the guide track (2) comprises a profile having a plurality of tracks (2b) for rolling members preferably comprising balls, said profile having mirror-image symmetry in cross section about at least one axis, and that the guide track (2) is attached detachably in form-fitted and/or positive fitted fashion at the end at two supporting moldings (4, 5) at the body of a piece of furniture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Paul Hettich GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Darko Radusin
  • Patent number: 8573720
    Abstract: The invention relates to a guide rail, which can be fixed to horizontal bars including angled end regions on a grid-type side part of an oven, a dishwasher or similar appliances and which has a rapid fixing device, including two retaining elements that are fixed in the end region of the guide rail and that can be detachably fixed to a bar on the grid-type side part. According to the invention, both the front and the rear retaining element have respective first and second clip-type retaining sections, the first partially encompassing the longitudinal extension of a bar and the second partially encompassing the angled end regions of said bar. The retaining section of the rear retaining element is open towards the rear of the guide rail, allowing the rail with its rapid fixing device to be pushed and fixed onto one of the bars from the front of the grid-type side part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Paul Hettich GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Achim Wittgrebe
  • Publication number: 20130142457
    Abstract: A component for one or more of a fitting, a piece of furniture, and a domestic appliance. The component includes a formed body including one or more of a hard-material-containing composite, a metal-ceramic composite, and a hard material. A method of producing the component includes providing the formed body and shaping it by thermal spraying or mechanical forming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: PAUL HETTICH GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Peter Jährling, Daniel Rehage, Uwe Sobolewski, Lars Schrubke, Willi Grigat, Arthur Krause, Björn Gebhardt
  • Publication number: 20130129265
    Abstract: A method of producing a fitting for domestic appliances or furniture. The fitting including a plurality of components connected to one another. The method includes the steps of providing the plurality of components by one or more of stamping and bending metal sheets, assembling the plurality of components to form a fitting, coating the fitting, at least in sections, by applying at least one coating, one or both of drying and burning-in the coating, treating a surface of plurality of components abrasively before the coating of the fitting, thereby setting a surface roughness of the plurality of components, and cleaning the surface of the plurality of components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: PAUL HETTICH GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Peter Jährling, Daniel Rehage, Kathrin Urban, Lars Schrubke, Arthur Krause, Friedrich Meyer, Andre Eckholt
  • Publication number: 20130108886
    Abstract: A metal component for one or more of a fitting, a piece of furniture and a household appliance. The metal component includes a coating, at least in sections, the coating including one of a hardness-containing composite material and a ceramic-metal composite material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: PAUL HETTICH GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Peter Jährling, Daniel Rehage, Uwe Sobolewski, Lars Schrubke, Willi Grigat, Arthus Krause, Björn Gebhardt