Patents by Inventor Klaus Brüstle

Klaus Brüstle 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: 8579390
    Abstract: A supporting structure includes an outer body and an inner body that can be lowered. The supporting structure includes two side elements to be installed on the wall at a distance from each other, and at least one cross member detachably connecting the side elements to each other. The supporting structure also has separate fastening points for independently installing the outer body and the inner body on the supporting structure. Each side element has a preferably preinstalled, vertically movable supporting element on the inside facing the inner body, and the supporting elements have the fastening points for the inner body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Bruestle, Helmut Hollenstein
  • Patent number: 8109583
    Abstract: A device for ejecting a movable furniture part from a closed end position in or on a furniture body, includes an ejector with a motor-driven ejector lever. A power transmission device interacting with the ejector lever is provided such that the force exerted on the movable furniture part by the ejector lever can be transferred in the mounted state of the device in a furniture body, in which the movable furniture part in the closed end position is at a distance from the ejector lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Bruestle
  • Patent number: 8066341
    Abstract: A piece of furniture including a body and at least one flap that can be upwardly displaced by means of at least one actuating arm which is joined to the flap in an articulated manner and can preferably be pivoted about a horizontal axis. At least one actuating arm is subjected to the action of a spring device, and at least one electric drive acts on at least one actuating arm. A coupling device acts between the electric drive and the actuating arm, said coupling device having a free wheel for freely displacing the actuating arm into an open position and/or a closed position, in at least one rotary direction over a defined angular region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Brüstle
  • Publication number: 20110221317
    Abstract: The invention relates to a supporting structure for a furniture body which is to be installed on a wall and comprises an outer body and an inner body that can be lowered, comprising two side elements to be installed on the wall at a distance from each other and at least one cross member detachably connecting the side elements to each other, wherein the supporting structure comprises separate fastening points for independently installing the outer body and the inner body on the supporting structure, wherein each side element has a preferably preinstalled, vertically movable supporting element on the inside facing the inner body, wherein the supporting elements comprise the fastening points for the inner body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Inventors: Klaus Bruestle, Helmut Hollenstein
  • Patent number: 7810213
    Abstract: An actuating mechanism for a pivotably mounted actuating arm for driving a flap of a piece of furniture includes a spring device and a transmission mechanism. The spring device includes a spring-loaded setting member and the transmission mechanism converts the movement of the setting member into a pivoting movement of the actuating arm. The transmission mechanism includes at least one pivotably mounted interlever interacting between the setting member and the actuating arm so that interaction between the interlever and the setting member or the actuating arm occurs by a setting contour. The transmission mechanism includes at least one adjustment device to alter the transmission ratio between the movement of the setting member and the pivoting movement of the actuating arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Julius Glum GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Brüstle
  • Patent number: 7780251
    Abstract: A retracting device for a drawer, including a pulling device which can be connected to the drawer, a drive unit having an electric motor, and a roller drivable by the drive unit for winding up the pulling device, wherein the drive unit is activatable by a rotation of the roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventors: Fredi Dubach, Klaus Brüstle
  • Patent number: 7690739
    Abstract: A drawer (1) for a corner cabinet includes a front panel (4) angled inwards, two drawer side walls (2), a rear wall (5), and a drawer base (3). The front panel (4) has at least two plates (7?3?) which, when the drawer (1) is extended from within the corner cabinet, move relative to the drawer side walls (2) at the beginning of the opening process and at the end of the closing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Klaus Brüstle, Helmut Fitz
  • Patent number: 7500287
    Abstract: The invention relates to an actuating mechanism for a swivel-mounted actuating arm, especially for driving a lid of an item of furniture. Said mechanism comprises a spring device including a biased actuating element and a translatory mechanism which translates the movement of the actuating element into a swiveling movement of the actuating arm. Said translatory mechanism comprises at least one adjusting device for varying the translation ratio between the movement of the actuating element and the swiveling movement of the actuating arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Brüstle
  • Patent number: 7395580
    Abstract: A hinge with a hinge cup can be inserted into a boring in a furniture part. A damper housing is fixed onto the hinge cup, and the damper housing can be fastened onto or removably secured to the hinge cup. The damper housing is disposed at least partially outside the boring when the hinge cup is inserted into the boring in the furniture part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Klaus Brüstle, Fredi Dubach
  • Patent number: 7100907
    Abstract: A braking and damping device for movable pieces of furniture has a fluid-cylinder (1) in which two pistons (2, 5) are arranged in a linearly displaceable manner. One of the pistons (2) is displaceable by a piston rod (3). Arranged between the two pistons (2, 5) is an elastically deformable sealing member, which, when damping occurs, is deformed by being squeezed between the two pistons (2, 5) and pressed against a cylinder wall (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Helmut Fitz, Klaus Brüstle
  • Patent number: 6499818
    Abstract: A pull-out guidance assembly for drawers has one drawer-side pull-out rail and one body-side bearing rail on both sides of the drawer. A fluidic damper is provided as a rotation damper (20). Between the bearing rail (4) and the pull-out rail (6) is displaceably disposed a center rail (5). The pull-out rail (6) is set into a drawer side wall (3) and fixed therein. The fluidic damper, which is mounted on the pull-out rail (6) or the drawer side wall (3), includes a pinion (10), which meshes with a rack section (16) of a slider (8) movable relative to the pull-out rail (6), to the drawer side wall (3) and to the bearing rail (4). A stop (11) disposed on the bearing rail (4) is provided for the slider (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Klaus Brüstle
  • Patent number: 6325473
    Abstract: A pull-out guide for a drawer includes a carcass-side supporting runner and a drawer-side pull-out runner on each side of the drawer. A respective roller is supported on each runner. Running flanges of the pull-out runners cover running flanges of the supporting runners. The pull-out runners have horizontally projecting fins which are disposed below the running flanges of the pull-out runners and which have free ends projecting to below the running flanges of the corresponding supporting runners in such a way that the pull-out runners are secured against unintentional lifting off from the supporting runners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Klaus Brüstle, Helmut Hollenstein, Erich Röck
  • Patent number: RE37236
    Abstract: A hinge pot has a housing which can be inserted into a bore in a furniture part and dowel-type expandable clamping jaws which can be inserted in the bore and which can be pressed against the bore wall by way of expanding members constructed as tie rods. The expanding members are movable by way of an eccentric lever in the direction of insertion of the hinge pot perpendicular to the plane of mounting thereof. The clamping jaws are cylinder sections of visco-elastic material. The expanding members are metal, are located between the hinge pot and the respective clamping jaws, and have hooks at their free ends. Opposite the hooks are provided contact pressure cams which are supported against a housing wall of the hinge pot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Inventors: Klaus Brüstle, Helmut Rupprechter