Patents by Inventor Erich Rock

Erich Rock 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).

  • Patent number: 4576506
    Abstract: A joining device for connecting two furniture parts includes a dowel casing which is insertable into a bore in the side face of one furniture part and a screw that is screwed into the front face of the other furniture part. The screw is held in the dowel casing by a holding member which is a clamping element. The dowel casing is made of one piece and is open at its bottom. The holding member has an annular rim by which it is held by lateral projections of the dowel casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1986
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Helmut Hollenstein
  • Patent number: 4564306
    Abstract: A fitting for furniture parts includes a dowel casing and a screw or the like. The screw has a head extending into the dowel casing where it is held tight by a locking member. To facilitate the insertion of the screw into the dowel casing conical guide surfaces are provided on the dowel casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1986
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Helmut Hollenstein
  • Patent number: 4558485
    Abstract: A hinge includes two hinge links connecting a hinge casing and a hinge arm. In the hinge casing both hinge links are pivotable on a common member having the form of a C. One hinge link is mounted on an intermediate part, an the other hinge link is conducted on two outer ends of the C that constitute pivot pins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1985
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Klaus Brustle
  • Patent number: 4558908
    Abstract: A pull-out guide assembly for a drawer is mounted below the drawer bottom. Slides are provided for the transmission of load between pull-out rails and supporting rails. The slides have vertical marginal slots in which vertical marginal flanges of the supporting rails are guided to obtain good lateral stability for the drawer. At the front ends of the pull-out rails resilient clamping members are provided which engage in the slides of the supporting rails, when the drawer is in the inserted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1985
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Josef Brunner
  • Patent number: 4557531
    Abstract: A pull-out guide assembly includes, for each side of a drawer, a pull-out rail, a support rail and an intermediate roller carrier together forming an inseparable unit. A locking member is provided on each drawer side wall and has a catch which secures the pull-out rail on the drawer side wall. The locking member also keeps the closed drawer in the closed position by clamping the support rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1985
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Helmut Hollenstein
  • Patent number: 4556205
    Abstract: A gauging tool for use in mounting the rails of a drawer pull-out guide assembly to furniture side walls includes a holding member for supporting the body rail. The body rail can be screwed onto the furniture side wall while held by the holding member of the gauging tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1985
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Josef Brunner
  • Patent number: 4554706
    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: June 28, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1985
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Helmut Rupprechter
  • Patent number: 4551883
    Abstract: Hinge links of a hinge are mounted on a thin-walled hinge casing. An outer hinge link rests on pivot pins which are part of two axle members positioned to be mirror images of each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1985
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Klaus Brustle
  • Patent number: 4543686
    Abstract: A hinge with a closing mechanism includes a hinge arm connected with a hinge casing by two hinge links. The internal hinge link is a two-arm lever pivotable around a hinge axle on the hinge arm. A pressure member is pivotably mounted on an arm of the internal hinge link which extends into the hinge arm, such pressure member pressing on a pressure surface on the hinge arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1985
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, BruKlaus
  • Patent number: 4536917
    Abstract: A hinge is urged into a closed position by a spring. The hinge includes a hinge arm and a hinge casing which are linked by internal and external outer hinge links. The internal hinge link is a two armed lever and a pressure member is mounted on an end of an arm thereof extending into the hinge arm. The pressure member and a spring which acts thereon abut hinge axles which connect the hinge links to the hinge arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1985
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Klaus Brustle
  • Patent number: 4530547
    Abstract: A pull-out guide assembly mounted beneath a drawer includes a supporting rail on each side of the drawer with a roller mounted on its front end and a pull-out rail on each side with rollers or a slide on the rear end. On one side of the guide assembly the pull-out rail is held laterally on the roller of the support rail while on the other side the pull-out rail has no lateral guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1985
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Josef Brunner
  • Patent number: 4508394
    Abstract: A drawer guide assembly for use on each side of a drawer includes a roller carrier. The roller carriers run in grooves in the drawer side walls, and there are only two support rails but no pull-out rails. To prevent the roller carriers from being unintentionally pushed over the rear ends of the support rails, two stops are provided on each rail. One stop extends vertically and the other extends laterally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1985
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Erich Rock
  • Patent number: 4505610
    Abstract: A device for connecting two furniture parts includes a dowel casing which is insertable into a bore in the side face of one furniture part and a screw that is screwed into the front face of the other furniture part. The screw is held in the dowel casing by a holding member which is a clamping element. Opposite the holding member there are ribs on the inner wall of the dowel casing into which the head of the screw is pressed by the holding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1985
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Helmut Hollenstein
  • Patent number: 4494803
    Abstract: A pull-out guide assembly is positioned underneath the floor of a drawer and includes two pull-out rails, two supporting rails and two carriages in which rollers are supported between respective pull-out rail supporting rails. Each pull out rail embraces the respective supporting rail on four sides, and there are rollers with horizontal axles as well as rollers with vertical axles in each carriage. The supporting rails have both vertical and horizontal running flanges for the rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1985
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Josef Brunner
  • Patent number: 4488762
    Abstract: A pull out guide for drawers includes a stationary rail and a slideable rail on each side of the drawer. A mobile roller carrier is placed between each pair of rails. The roller carriers carry rollers that transmit the weight from the slideable rails to the stationary rails. The roller carriers are resiliently bendable by the slideable rails when the drawer is taken completely out of the cabinet and when it again is introduced into the cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1984
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Erich Rock
  • Patent number: 4465324
    Abstract: A pull-out guide for drawers where each carrier rail consists of two parts, i.e. a fastening member and a runner member. Rollers are held in roller cages which run in the drawer rails. The runner members can be assembled with the fastening members without tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1984
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Josef Brunner
  • Patent number: 4445726
    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 19, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1984
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
  • Patent number: 4436357
    Abstract: A pull-out guide assembly for drawers includes on each side of the drawer, a supporting rail and a pull-out rail. A roller carrier is situated between each such pair of rails. The supporting rail on one side of the drawer has an open U-shaped profile, and the supporting rail on the other side has a -shaped profile with an outer vertical flange. Guide rollers are situated in the roller carrier. At least one guide roller runs on the outer vertical flange of the supporting rail and on a vertical flange of the pull-out rail. At least one other guide roller runs between an inner vertical flange of the supporting rail and another vertical flange of the pull-out rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1984
    Assignee: Julius Blum Ges. m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Josef Brunner
  • Patent number: D272124
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1984
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Klaus Brustle
  • Patent number: D272211
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1984
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Klaus Bustle