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: 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: 4236848
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1980
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
  • Patent number: 4227750
    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, 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: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1980
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
  • Patent number: 4196943
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1980
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
  • Patent number: 4188685
    Abstract: Dowels holding a mounting plate, e.g. for furniture hinges, include relatively soft dowel parts and a hard expansion member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1980
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
  • Patent number: 4176496
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1979
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
  • Patent number: 4176424
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1979
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
  • Patent number: 4176422
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1979
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
  • Patent number: 4172316
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 30, 1979
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
  • Patent number: 4167802
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1979
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
  • Patent number: 4166307
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1979
    Assignee: Julius Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
  • Patent number: 4165907
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1979
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
  • Patent number: 4143846
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1979
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
  • Patent number: 4138766
    Abstract: A hinge for furniture doors includes a hinge casing and a hinge arm which are interconnected by means of hinge links. A locking device is integrated in the hinge and has a pressure member which by the force of a spring is pressed to one side of the hinge arm the, direction of movement of the pressure member being parallel to the axles of the hinge links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1979
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
  • Patent number: 4112543
    Abstract: A furniture hinge comprises a hinge casing and a hinge arm, each adapted to be mounted on different furniture parts and connected by means of hinge links, a pressure spring acting on one hinge link, and a guiding lever interpositioned between the spring and such one hinge link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1978
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft M.B.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
  • Patent number: 4109344
    Abstract: A hinge for furniture doors with one hinge axle includes a closing mechanism which is situated in the hinge arm. The closing mechanism has a slidable member into which a part of the hinge casing engages when the door is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1978
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages
  • Patent number: 4104762
    Abstract: A hinge comprising a mounting plate, a hinge arm connected to a hinge casing by links and an intermediate part positioned between the hinge arm and the mounting plate whereby the intermediate part is clamped onto the mounting plate by means of a set-screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1978
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Bernhard Mages