Patents by Inventor Klaus Brustle

Klaus Brustle 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).

  • Publication number: 20010008037
    Abstract: A closure device (4) for movable furniture parts is combined with a closure damping mechanism, which is formed by a fluidic damper. The fluidic damper is either a rotation damper (20) or a linear damper. The closure device, together with the closure damping mechanism, is constructed highly compactly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2001
    Publication date: July 19, 2001
    Inventor: Klaus Brustle
  • Patent number: 6032333
    Abstract: A hinge to mounted door on an article of furniture includes a base plate to be mounted on the article of furniture. An intermediate member is mounted on the base plate by a spring mechanism in the form of a tilting lever mounted on the intermediate member by a pivot and a spring biasing the tilting lever to pivot in a direction to lock the intermediate member on the base plate. A hinge arm is connected to the intermediate member for adjustment relative thereto. A mechanism to selectively adjust the hinge arm relative to the intermediate member in a direction longitudinally of the intermediate member includes plural projections on the intermediate member, the projections being spaced longitudinally of the intermediate member. Such mechanism further includes a disk rotatively mounted on the hinge arm and having an upper side to be engaged by an adjusting tool and a lower side having a cam in the form of a spiral web in engagement with the projections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Klaus Brustle
  • Patent number: 5988780
    Abstract: A pull-out guide assembly includes a support rail to be mounted on an article of furniture, a pull-out rail to be mounted on a drawer, and an intermediate rail positioned between the support rail and the pull-out rail. A driving roller is mounted on the intermediate rail and runs on running flanges of the support rail and pull-out rail. A locking device on the intermediate rail couples the intermediate rail to the pull-out rail during a rear portion of displacement movement of the pull-out rail into the article of furniture. A closing device is provided on one of the rails to move the intermediate rail and the pull-out rail that is coupled thereto by the locking device to a rearmost position. A clearance is defined and created between the driving roller and the running flange of the support rail to prevent operation of the driving roller during a rear portion of movement of the pull-out rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Klaus Brustle
  • Patent number: 5860718
    Abstract: The front panel of a drawer is attached to a side wall of the drawer by a device including a support part secured to the side wall and a holding part secured to the front panel, the support part and holding part being coupled together. A rocker element has a shank that mounts the rocker element to the support part. A spring acts on a stop on the shank to bias the rocker element in a direction to be toward a rear of the drawer side wall. The rocker element thus is moved to a coupling position coupling the holding part to the support part. The support part is capable of limited movement toward the rear of the side wall relative to the holding part against a biasing force of the spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1999
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Klaus Brustle
  • Patent number: 5807013
    Abstract: A connecting fitting releasably connects two platelike furniture members. The connecting fitting comprises two connecting member which are adapted to be secured to respective ones of the furniture members. A first connecting member is pin-like and has a head and a shank, and the second connecting member is in the form of a casing with a cylindrical shell. A spring loaded locking member is situated within the casing. The casing has an opening in its cylindrical shell through which the head of the first connecting member is insertable. The locking member is adapted for releasably engaging the head of the pin-like connecting member when in the inserted position. A latch is situated in the casing to obstruct movement of the locking member biased by the spring. The latch is provided with a resilient abutment lever which the pin-like member strikes when it is inserted into the casing and by means of which the pin-like member moves the latch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Klaus Brustle, Erich Rock
  • Patent number: 5611637
    Abstract: A furniture fitting for connecting parts of an article of furniture includes a dowel to be inserted into a hole in one furniture part and an expansion member movable relative to the dowel between a relaxed position, enabling the dowel to be inserted into the hole, and an expanded position, enabling the dowel to be locked in the hole. A holding member is mounted with respect to the expansion member for rotatable movement relative to the dowel to actuate the expansion member to move to or from the expanded position thereof upon such rotatable movement relative to the dowel. The holding member is to be connected to another furniture part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1997
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Klaus Brustle, Emanuel Netzer, Edgar Huber
  • Patent number: 5556183
    Abstract: A drawer includes drawer side walls and metal pull-out rails attached to the drawer side walls. Each metal pull-out rail has a vertical web, an upper horizontal running flange and a lower horizontal flange supporting a drawer bottom plate. The bottom plate has parallel lateral edges and a pair of longitudinal grooves extending parallel to such lateral edges. A number of flaps are punched out of each lower horizontal flange and extend into a respective groove to fix the bottom plate to the flange. Cover strips are arranged on the drawer side walls and cover the lateral edges of the bottom plate. A further number of flaps is stamped out of each lower horizontal flange. Such further flaps abut the bottom plate at the sides of the respective groove, thus thrusting the bottom plate to the respective cover strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1996
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Klaus Brustle, Edgar Huber, Erich Rock
  • Patent number: 5540515
    Abstract: An apparatus for securing a front panel of a drawer to a drawer frame includes a holding part to be secured to the front panel and a support part to be secured to a drawer frame, one such assembly being provided for each side of the drawer. The holding part can be coupled to the support part, and a spring, preferably a helical spring, acts in the longitudinal direction of the drawer frame between the support part and the holding part. When the front panel is mounted, a limited relative movement of the holding part with respect to the support part in opposition to the spring action is possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Klaus Brustle, Fredi Dubach
  • Patent number: 5536083
    Abstract: A pull-out guide for drawers, having a carcass-side bearing rail (3) and a drawer-side pull-out rail (6) at each side of the drawer. Load-transmitting rollers (4, 16, 17) are mounted on the rails (3, 6). The rails (3, 6) have running webs for the rollers (4, 16, 17) and the rollers (4, 16, 17) of the bearing rails (3) and of the pull-out rails (6) are offset perpendicular with respect to the pull-out direction of the pull-out rails (6) such that the pull-out rails (6) are guided in two tracks. At least one bracket (13, 30) is mounted at the rear end of the pull-out rail (6) the bracket (13, 30, 31) having a horizontal web (33) abbuting the running web (22) of the pull-out rail (6) or a support block (12) of plastics being inserted between the horizontal web (23) of the bracket (13) and the running web (22) of the pull-out rail (6). There are mounted on the bracket (13, 31) two rollers (16, 17) which are arranged one above the other and which receive between them the running web (18) of the bearing rail (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1996
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Klaus Brustle, Helmut Hollenstein, Erich Rock, Fredi Dubach
  • Patent number: 5463796
    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: February 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1995
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Klaus Brustle, Helmut Rupprechter
  • Patent number: 5375922
    Abstract: A pull-out guide fitting for a drawer, having two drawer frames (2) to which a respective pull-out rail (6) of the two pull-out rails (6) and a drawer guide fitting comprising two carcass-side support rails (5) is detachably secured. Each pull-out rail (6) has in the region of its rear end a hook by means of which it can be suspended in the drawer. There are provided, projecting transversely with respect to the pull-out direction of the pull-out rails (6), latching parts (9) which fix the pull-out rail (6) to the drawer frame (2) in the direction of displacement of the drawer guide fitting. There is assembled on the pull-out rails (6) a cam body (1) which is rotatable about a horizontal axis and on which the drawer bears. The cam body (1) is mounted in a cutout (4) in the upper horizontal web (6') and the drawer base (3) bears on the cam body (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Klaus Brustle, Emanuel Netzer
  • Patent number: 5364179
    Abstract: On each side of a drawer is a pull-out rail secured to the drawer and a support rail secured to a furniture body. Load-transmitting rollers are mounted between the rails. Provided on one side of the drawer is a closing device including a guide housing mounted on the body and having a guide groove to guide a plate-shaped tilt segment which is acted upon by a spring. The tilt segment is displaceable along the guide grooves by guide pegs extending into the guide groove. An entrainer peg on the drawer couples to the tilt segment. The guide groove is arranged in the guide housing on a side thereof facing the support rail. The tilt segment projects laterally from the guide housing and has two laterally projecting stabilizing pegs which, in end positions of the tilt segment, fit on and abut support surfaces of the guide housing on a side thereof remote from the guide groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Klaus Brustle, Helmut Hollenstein
  • Patent number: 5312201
    Abstract: A connecting fitting for securing a rail of a drawer to a rear or side wall thereof. A supporting member supports a rear end of the rail. A securing element is screwed into the rear end of the rail and includes a locking device by which the securing element is suspended in the supporting member. The supporting member has an open slot which widens in the manner of a keyhole into a receiving opening. A spring ring is located in the receiving opening, or the securing element is lockable in the receiving opening by friction or by locking elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1994
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Klaus Brustle, Andreas Tofferl
  • Patent number: 5284399
    Abstract: A connecting fitting for securing a rail of a drawer to a rear or side wall thereof. A supporting member supports a rear end of the rail. A securing element is screwed into the rear end of the rail and includes a locking device by which the securing element is suspended in the supporting member. The supporting member has an open slot which widens in the manner of a keyhole into a receiving opening. A spring ring is located in the receiving opening, or the securing element is lockable in the receiving opening by friction or by locking elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1994
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Klaus Brustle, Andreas Tofferl
  • Patent number: 5281021
    Abstract: A drawer has two drawer side frames to each of which a pull-out rail of a drawer guide assembly is releasably fastened. Each pull-out rail has at its rear end a hook by means of which it is engageable in the drawer. The drawer is provided with catch elements which engage on each side in a recess of the pull-out rail and abut on a catch edge of the pull-out rail. Each drawer frame has a hook member which receives the front end of the pull-out rail. Further, a number of stop surfaces staggered in a direction inclined to the pull-out direction of the drawer are formed on the catch elements. One of these stop surfaces abuts on the catch edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1994
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Klaus Brustle
  • Patent number: 5265953
    Abstract: A drawer includes two parallel metal drawer side walls, each being provided with a side wall rail for a runner roller of a pull-out guide. A front wall is releaseably connectable to the drawer side walls and lies in a mounted position between the drawer side walls. A connecting fitting member is premounted to the front wall for each drawer side wall. The fitting member has a stop which lies laterally beside the front wall and is pullable towards the front side of the respective drawer side wall to obtain a firm connection between the front wall and the drawer side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1993
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Josef Brunner, Klaus Brustle
  • Patent number: 5207526
    Abstract: A connecting fitting for securing a rail of a drawer to a rear or side wall thereof. A supporting member supports a rear end of the rail. A securing element is screwed into the rear end of the rail and includes a locking device by which the securing element is suspended in the supporting member. The supporting member has an open slot which widens in the manner of a keyhole into a receiving opening. A spring ring is located in the receiving opening, or the securing element is lockable in the receiving opening by friction or by locking elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1993
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Klaus Brustle, Andreas Tofferl
  • Patent number: 5159740
    Abstract: A hinge includes a hinge arm mounted on a base plate by an intermediate member having a U-shaped cross-section. The hinge arm is retained on the intermediate member by depth and joint adjustment devices, e.g. clamping and adjusting screws. Retaining elements of the intermediate member engage corresponding retaining elements of the base plate at two points staggered over the length of the base plate. The retaining elements are rigid at one such point, and the other point one retaining element is resilient. The hinge arm and the intermediate member engages the base plate with the rigid retaining elements and snaps only the base plate due to the resilient retaining element, in the form of a leaf spring. A rear end the intermediate member is provided with a bridge which defines a gap into which is inserted the leaf spring. A flap is punched from the leaf spring and engages in a recess of the intermediate member arranged underneath the bridge, thus locking the leaf spring to the intermediate member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1992
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Klaus Brustle, Andreas Tofferl, Erich Rock
  • 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
  • Patent number: D334680
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1993
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Erich Rock, Klaus Brustle