Patents by Inventor Horst Lautenschlager

Horst Lautenschlager 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: 5671538
    Abstract: A jig for hanging doors with preinstalled hinges on the stiles of cabinet carcases, wherein the hinge has a mounting plate which is to be placed on the front edge of the stile and fixed in the correct position on the stile. The jig has a body which can straddle the edge of the stile and be held in place by a cam action. It has at least one recess in an end of its portion straddling the stile, the width of the recess being at least equal to the width of the mounting plate and its depth substantially equal to the thickness of the mounting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1997
    Assignee: MEPLA-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Horst Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 5664288
    Abstract: A furniture hinge (10) with a door-related hinge member, which is constructed as a hinge pot (18) that can be inserted countersunk in a recess (16) on the inside of the door leaf (12) and is composed of a pot part (20), lying within the recess, and a fastening flange (22), which can be placed upon the region of the inside of the door leaf, adjoining the door leaf recess (16), and can be fastened to the back side of the door leaf (12) by fastening means engaging the material of the door leaf (12) in the specified fastening position of the door leaf (12), the pot part (20), engaging the recess (16), being dimensioned smaller than the recess (16) in the door leaf (12) in such a manner, that, in the unfastened state, it can be shifted in the recess by a specified amount at least at right angles to the border edge of the door leaf (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: MEPLA-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Horst Lautenschlager, Reinhard Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 5664855
    Abstract: The present invention is a fitting for the adjustable-height mounting of drawers on the runner rails of drawer slides, which support them on the bottom. On the runner rail of each drawer slide a slider is provided with a bearing surface facing the drawer bottom, and can be shifted parallel to the runner rails by a given amount. The slides are inclined, however, such that the bearing surface of the slider will be substantially flush with the drawer bottom or even below the drawer bottom when the drawer is supported on the runner rail in the properly installed position. But in the other end position the slider is shifted upward by the amount desired for the adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: MEPLA-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Horst Lautenschlager, Horst Berger, Gerhard Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 5664857
    Abstract: A metal fitting (10) for holding a front face (12) of a drawer at its side walls (16). The metal fitting is composed of a holding part (14), which is to be fastened to the surface of the front face (12) on the inner side of the drawer, and of a receiving part (18) at each side wall of the drawer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: Mepla-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Horst Lautenschlager, Gerhard Wilhelm Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 5632067
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a door-related hinge member having a cup-like portion to be sunk in a substantially circular mortise (28) in the back of a door (30) and having a flange (34) integral with the upper edge of cup-like portion. At least two centering studs (36) extend from the bottom of the flange and engage in two holes (38; 38') situated near the mortise. The hinge member is installable on at least two doors which are different as regards the position of the holes for the centering studs, the studs are provided in an area of the flange (34) in which the flange, when in the correctly installed position, covers the holes of the differently configured doors (30). The centering studs are of such shape and size that their outer periphery contacts the wall of each of the holes (38; 38') in at least along a line, in each of the differently configured doors (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1997
    Assignee: MEPLA-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Horst Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 5577297
    Abstract: A door fastening member of a furniture hinge having a hinge cup for installation sunk in a recess in the rear surface of a door leaf. The hinge cup has a fastening flange engaging the inner surface of the door leaf. Projecting from the underside of the fastening flange, spaced from the hinge cup, are offset fastening pegs which engage in associated bores in the door leaf and which may each be fixed in the associated bore by means of a fastening element which is rotatable relative to the fastening flange.Due to eccentric mounting of the rotatable fastening element, knife-like anchoring ribs provided on the fastening element of the fastening peg are movable out of a position of the bores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: MEPLA-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Horst Lautenschlager, Gerhard Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 5557827
    Abstract: A cabinet-wall member of a cabinet hinge in the form of an elongate arm which is stamped from initially flat sheet metal and shaped so that a flange is bent at a substantially right angle from each of its longitudinal edges such that the arm has an inverted channel-shaped cross section over most of its length. The flanges are additionally stiffened over at least a portion of their length--e.g., by embossing at least one bead running lengthwise of the arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1996
    Assignee: MEPLA-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co.KG
    Inventors: Horst Lautenschlager, Reinhard Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 5556220
    Abstract: Fastening plug (10) made of plastic for fastening in a corresponding bore, especially for fastening furniture hardware on furniture, with an elongate stem portion (14) which can be releasably fastened on the associated hardware piece, from whose outer circumferential surface a number of annular projections (16) offset lengthwise on the stem having a triangular cross section tapering outwardly, each forming a knife-edge-like holding burr (18). The outside diameter of the holding burr is greater than the diameter of the corresponding bore, while the stem portion (14) has between the first annular projection (16) on the hardware end and the end facing the hardware a neck (20) whose diameter is smaller than the diameter of the corresponding bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1996
    Assignee: MEPLA-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Horst Lautenschlager, Gerhard Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 5511287
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a furniture hinge having a wall-related part shaped as an elongated supporting arm which can be mounted for adjustment in at least two coordinate directions on an associated mounting plate disposed on the wall of a cabinet carcase. The supporting arm is mounted and fastened on the mounting plate by a mounting screw driven into the mounting plate and passing through a slot provided at the inside end with an enlarged pass-through opening in the web of the supporting arm. A threaded spindle is screwed in a tap in the web of the supporting arm, which is situated further out from the carcase interior than the slot. At the bottom end of the spindle, on a neck of smaller diameter, is a head of larger diameter. This head is inserted into an open-ended slot provided in the mounting plate, which clutches the sides of the head, securing it against lifting away from the mounting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1996
    Assignee: Mepla-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Horst Lautenschlager, Gerhard W. Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 5487610
    Abstract: Wheel (10) for roller guides for drawers in furniture, having a wheel body (12) made of a shape-stable hard plastic which has a circumferential groove-like opening (28) in the rim with at least one recess and having a tire (20) of resilient material, preferably an elastomeric plastic protruding above the rim of the wheel body. The plastic is injected in fluid form into the groove-like opening (28) with the recess or recesses and in its elastically deformable final state it conforms to the groove-like opening and recess(es). In a side surface of the wheel body (12) an open-mouthed annular groove (26) is provided and the recess(es) issuing from the circumferential, groove-like opening (28) for the integrated tire (20) is (are) configured as a passage (22) going all the way to the annular groove (26) .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1996
    Assignee: MEPLA-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Horst Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 5466061
    Abstract: Corner connecting hardware for joining the cabinet-interior ends of the drawer sides (14) to their associated back (16) of drawers (10), in the form of a corner piece (30) made of plastic or metal, having structure for attachment to the drawer sides and extending substantially above the height of the drawer walls (14; 16), which can be fastened in the back end area of the drawer side and the associated end area of the drawer back. The corner piece (30) is made at least partially hollow, and a tenon (42) provided at the bottom end of a rail support (40) can be inserted through its upper end which is normally closed off by a top cover (36). In the upper end area of the rail support (40) the ends of rails (20; 22) can be fastened at a distance from and parallel to the drawer side and drawer back (14; 16), respectively, and their other ends can be fastened, one to the drawer front in the one case, and in the other case to the rail support (40) provided at the other end area of the drawer back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1995
    Assignee: MEPLA-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Horst Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 5439285
    Abstract: A system for fastening the bottom (14) of a drawer to the drawer's sides, in which projecting strips (26, 24) projecting integrally from the sides and running in the direction in which the drawer is opened overlap the top and/or bottom sides of the drawer bottom, and/or a projecting strip (28a ) enters into a longitudinal groove (30) made in the edge (32) of the drawer bottom facing the drawer sides. At least one anchoring projection is provided in the area of the drawer sides (12) facing the adjacent edge (32) of the bottom which when the drawer is assembled, penetrates into the material of the bottom (14), and which either overlaps the projecting strips (24, 26, 28a ) at right angles to the drawer-opening direction or is offset from them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1995
    Assignee: MEPLA-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Horst Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 5412841
    Abstract: A furniture hinge (10) for hanging a door (12) on a cabinet carcase, whose door-related member (18) is configured as a hinge cup which can be set into a mortise (16) in the inside of the door (12), the hinge cup being composed of the actual cup part (20) lying within the mortise and a mounting flange (22) which can be placed on the area of the inside of the door adjoining the door mortise. In the mounting flange at least one slot (24) running at right angles to the adjacent edge of the door is provided for a mounting screw which can be driven into the door. The cup part (20) engaging in the mortise (16) is undersized with respect to the door mortise such that, when the mounting screw is loosened it can be shifted in the mortise by a given amount at right angles to the door edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1995
    Assignee: MEPLA-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Horst Lautenschlager, Reinhard Lautenschlager, Gerhard Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 5412840
    Abstract: A furniture hinge has a door fastening member coupled via a joint mechanism to a carcase fastening member which is constructed as a support arm movably securable to a mounting member secured to the furniture carcase. Means are provided which allow the door fastening member to be vertically adjustable with respect to the carcase fastening member, even while the door fastening member is secured thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1995
    Assignee: MEPLA-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Horst Lautenschlager, LautenschlaGerhard W.
  • Patent number: 5375297
    Abstract: Furniture hinge for hanging a door on a cabinet carcase whose door-side front face is narrowed by a frame formed of stick-like frame members reaching inward at right angles from the side walls and at least partially overlapping the inside of the door in the closed position, the hinge having a hinge arm of sheet metal which has a fastening plate which can be placed on the free edge face of a member of the frame remote from the side wall, has a width substantially corresponding to the width of the edge face of the frame member, bears the actual arm section coupled by a linkage to the hinge part attached to the door, and is provided with a slot running in the longitudinal direction of the edge face of the frame member, the width of the slot being substantially equal to the diameter of the shaft of the fastening screw, and at least one tab being created on the back edge of the fastening plate pointing into the cabinet interior which is bent substantially at right angles against the cabinet-interior face of the fr
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Assignee: MEPLA-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Horst Lautenschlager, Gerhard W. Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 5327616
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cabinet hinge (10) for hanging a door on a cabinet whose front opening is narrowed by a frame reaching inward at right angles from the side walls, which is at least partially overlapped by the inside of the closed door. The hinge (10) has an arm (28) of sheet metal which has a mounting plate (32) which can be placed on the free edge (16) of a stile (14) of the frame and releasably fastened thereon, whose width corresponds essentially to the width of the edge (16) of the stile (14), and which bears the arm (28) coupled by a link mechanism to the hinge member (22) attached to the door. On the front and back margins of the mounting plate (32) there is created at least one tab (36; 38) bent substantially at right angles against the outer and inner faces of the stile (14). The inner tab or tabs (38) are provided with a pointed or knife-edged projection (40) extending toward the inner face of the stile (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1994
    Assignee: Mepla-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Horst Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 5308205
    Abstract: Dowel-like retaining peg (10) of plastics material--particularly for fastening furniture fittings to articles of furniture--which may be fitted by pressing or driven into a bore (16). The retaining peg has an elongate peg portion (18) from whose outer peripheral surface a number of peripheral projecting ribs (20) extend radially, offset in the longitudinal direction of the peg and with a triangular cross-section tapering towards the exterior and defining a respective knife blade-like retaining ridge. Over the major portion of its longitudinal extent the peg portion (18) has a substantially smaller diameter with respect to the diameter (d) of the associated bore (16) and the peripheral annular projections (20) are constructed as annular disc-shaped, elastically deformable fins (20) which are integrally connected to the peg portion (18) and whose external diameter (D) is larger than the diameter of the associated bore (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1994
    Assignee: MEPLA-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Horst Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 5306080
    Abstract: A mounting system for the carcase-interior end of the guide rail (10) of a drawer guide for drawers and the like in the carcase of a cabinet at a distance from the inside surface of the associated carcase side wall. The guide rail (10) is formed as a channel which is fitted from underneath into a corresponding runner rail which can be fastened to the drawer and is formed by an inverted channel inside of which tracks are formed for rolling bodies. In the portion of the guide rail (10) engaged in the runner rail, tracks are also formed for the rolling bodies, so that the runner rail is displaceable relative to the guide rail. The section of the guide rail (10) engaged in the runner rail is bent from the horizontally disposed web of the rail. In the carcase-interior end portion of the guide rail (10) a tab (16) stands up from its horizontal web and is aligned transversely of the length of the guide rail, and is provided with detent teeth (18) on its edge pointing away from the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1994
    Assignee: MEPLA-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Horst Lautenschlager, Horst Berger
  • Patent number: 5295282
    Abstract: In a mounting plate (10) configured as a wing plate for the adjustable mounting of the supporting arm of a furniture hinge, height adjustment is brought about by the fact that the mounting plate is divided into a bottom part (12) which can be affixed to the surface of the cabinet wall and a top part (14) which is displaceable in the direction of height on the bottom part and can be fixed at selected levels. In the mounting plate (10) one of the wings (20) is formed on the bottom part (12) and the other wing (18) on the top part (14), the bottom part reaching into an opening in the bottom of the wing (18) of the top part (14) and thus assuring guidance of the top part (14) on the bottom part (12) in the adjusting procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1994
    Assignee: MEPLA-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Horst Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 5292192
    Abstract: Profiled rail of metal plate with an approximately U-shaped cross-section provided as a guide rail (10) for roller drawer guides in articles of furniture which may be screwed with its web surface (14) onto the support wall of a cupboard carcass. The running roller of the profiled running rail which is to be mounted on the associated withdrawable furniture portion, for instance a drawer, runs on the strip-shaped limb sections (16; 18) projecting from the web surface (14). At its front end at the exterior of the carcass the profiled rail has a substantially flat surfaced fastening flange (20) as an extension of the web surface (14 from which the pivot pin (22) for the running roller (24) running on the running rail projects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1994
    Assignee: MEPLA-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Horst Lautenschlager