Patents by Inventor Bernhard Mages
Bernhard Mages has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 4445726Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 19, 1982Date of Patent: May 1, 1984Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
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Patent number: 4352222Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 7, 1980Date of Patent: October 5, 1982Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m. b. H.Inventors: Bernhard Mages, Erich Rock
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Patent number: 4351575Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 15, 1980Date of Patent: September 28, 1982Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m. b. H.Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
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Patent number: 4320934Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 4, 1979Date of Patent: March 23, 1982Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
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Patent number: 4310948Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 17, 1979Date of Patent: January 19, 1982Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
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Patent number: 4304028Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 31, 1979Date of Patent: December 8, 1981Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
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Patent number: 4294499Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 4, 1979Date of Patent: October 13, 1981Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
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Patent number: 4255002Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 20, 1979Date of Patent: March 10, 1981Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
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Patent number: 4236848Abstract: A furniture connector consists of two parts, one a dowel pin or a screw, and the other a dowel casing of wider diameter than the pin or screw. The pin or screw is insertable and securable in the casing thereby bracing or welding the casing into a hole of the furniture part.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 1978Date of Patent: December 2, 1980Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
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Patent number: 4227750Abstract: 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, one each disposed on a respective of the fixed structure sides, two guide rails, one each disposed on a respective external side of the drawer, and two mobile units. Each mobile unit includes at least two rollers. Each of the rollers is supported between a corresponding guide and support rail for taking up vertical forces. The support rails and/or the guide rails have a stop for the mobile units and the rail in which the mobile unit is held has a cut-out. Each mobile unit is formed with at least one stop forming a fixed part of the mobile unit, and the stop may be engaged with the cut-out in 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: GrantFiled: October 31, 1978Date of Patent: October 14, 1980Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
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Patent number: 4196943Abstract: A drawer guide assembly includes supporting rails and rollers running on the supporting rails, the rollers being held in a roller-carrier and on the side of the drawer running in a member which is insertable into the side-wall of the drawer.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 1978Date of Patent: April 8, 1980Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
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Patent number: 4188685Abstract: Dowels holding a mounting plate, e.g. for furniture hinges, include relatively soft dowel parts and a hard expansion member.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 1978Date of Patent: February 19, 1980Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
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Patent number: 4176422Abstract: A furniture hinge includes a mounting plate, a hinge arm and a hinge casing, the hinge arm and the casing being connected by means of hinge links. The hinge arm is held on the mounting plate by screws, one screw being an inclined adjusting screw.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 1978Date of Patent: December 4, 1979Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
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Patent number: 4176424Abstract: A hinge includes a hinge casing made of plastic material and a cover plate made of metal which is securable on the hinge casing to cover the top of the casing such that when the latter is mounted in a furniture door there is given the impression that the casing is made of metal.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 1978Date of Patent: December 4, 1979Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
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Patent number: 4176496Abstract: A guide rail assembly for furniture doors includes slide rails fixed to doors, supporting rails fixed to a body and roller-carriers interdisposed between such slide and supporting rails.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 1978Date of Patent: December 4, 1979Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
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Patent number: 4172316Abstract: Attachment holes are formed in a first piece of furniture, and a dowel hole is formed in a second piece of furniture. A hinge unit includes a hinge arm having attached thereto a mounting plate, a cup-shaped dowel dimensioned to fit within the dowel hole, and a pair of toggle joints connecting the hinge arm and the cup-shaped dowel to form a quadrangular hinge linkage, with the mounting plate having extending therefrom rods dimensioned to fit in the attachment holes. First pins having first hook members are permanently mounted within and rotatably extended through the mounting plate at positions eccentric to the longitudinal axes of the rods. Second pins having second hook members are permanently mounted within and rotatably extended through the cup-shaped dowel at positions adjacent the edge thereof. The hinge unit is positioned in the closed position thereof, and the rods of the mounting plate are inserted into the attachment holes of the first piece of furniture.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 1978Date of Patent: October 30, 1979Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
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Patent number: 4167802Abstract: A hinge mounting plate is held by clamping screws on a furniture wall. The position of the mounting plate is adjustable while the plate is secured by the screws which are not fully screwed into the furniture wall, whereby the screws hold the mounting plate in an intermediate position before final clamping of the plate.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 1977Date of Patent: September 18, 1979Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
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Patent number: 4166307Abstract: A furniture hinge includes a a hinge casing and a hinge arm which are connected by hinge links. A snapping mechanism consisting of a spring and a tipping lever are located in the hinge arm and act on a hinge link to urge the hinge into a closed position.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 1978Date of Patent: September 4, 1979Assignee: Julius Gesellschaft m.b.H.Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
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Patent number: 4165907Abstract: A pull-out guide for drawers and the like includes a stop that makes it possible to correct the position of the drawers. The stop is located at the front end of the rail attached to the drawer or to the rear end of the rail attached to the cabinet. An arrangement for tilting the stop is provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 1977Date of Patent: August 28, 1979Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
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Patent number: 4143846Abstract: An adjustable bracket for wall units in which a casing is fastenable to the interior of a piece of furniture. A bracket element is hangable on a wall hook and is held in the casing by an adjusting element. The bracket element is pivotally mounted in the casing, and an adjusting screw is provided with a head having a convex support on a side of the casing. This convex support conforms to a seat for the adjusting screw in the casing. A spacer is mounted in the screw seat in the casing and abuts against a mounting panel. The spacer and the bracket extend through an opening in a rear plane of the casing for concealing the bracket. The piece of furniture is accurately positionable by interaction of the bracket and the spacer so that any change in position of the spacer, results in a change of the angle of the bracket to the wall.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 1977Date of Patent: March 13, 1979Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages