Abstract: The invention relates to an adaptor for a braking deceleration device for doors or movable furniture parts, which essentially comprises a plunger which can be pushed into a housing against a braking force, with an adaptor body. According to the invention, the adaptor body comprises at least one accommodation recess for accommodating the housing of the braking deceleration device, and the adaptor body comprises suitable means by way of which it can be fixed to an attachment plate and via it to the frame or furniture carcass.

Abstract: The invention relates to a damping device for movable furniture parts, for example for doors or drawers, comprising a piston or plunger which is slidably guided in a hollow body, e.g. a cylinder, with said piston or plunger being impinged upon by spring force into its pushed-out position. According to the invention, the hollow body comprises at least one section of a spiral-shaped stay of the internal screw thread, and/or the piston or plunger comprises at least one section of a spiral-shaped stay of the external screw thread. The stays of the screw threads are glidingly supported one on top of the other, or cams or journals of the hollow body or of the piston or plunger are supported on a screw-thread section of the other component. The pitch of the stays of the screw threads is greater than the pitch at which self-locking occurs.

Abstract: The invention relates to an adaptor for a braking deceleration device for doors or movable furniture parts, which essentially comprises a plunger which can be pushed into a housing against a braking force, with an adaptor body. According to the invention, in the adaptor body at least one accommodation recess for accommodating the housing of the braking deceleration device is made. The adaptor body comprises at least one smooth external surface by way of which it can be fixed to the frame or furniture carcass by means of a suitable adhesive.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for the fastening of a fitting, preferably the support arm of the hinge, to a panel of a piece of furniture or the like and formed of a base plate fastenable to the panel, for example, by dowels or screws. The fitting or a part connected thereto can be fastened to the base plate. More particularly, the base plate and the fitting are provided, on one end thereof, with protrusions and/or bends which can be hooked together and on opposite end regions, with a device for interlocking the base plate and fitting together.

Abstract: An apparatus to mount a support rail of a drawer guide to a wall of a piece of furniture, the apparatus having a base plate for mounting to the wall of the piece of furniture and a connecting piece, connectable to the rear end of the support rail, which is guided in a limitedly displaceable but not raisable manner on the base plate. The base plate has at least one upper groove and a cam disposed beneath the groove, and the connecting piece includes a plate-like part with an elongate aperture therein that is generally parallel with an upper edge of the plate-like part. The upper edge of the plate-like part fits within the upper groove of the base plate, and the cam projects through the elongate aperture of the plate-like part. A fastening element such as a screw can be screwed into a bore of the cam to retain the connecting piece against the base plate.

Abstract: The invention relates to a hinge comprising a moveable hinge section and a hinge section consisting of a fixed stop section, which are interconnected by at least one joint axis, and comprising a damping device mounted on one of the hinge sections whose translationally or rotatably moveable damping member is acted upon at least in the closure region of the hinge via gear means from the other hinge section. According to the invention for adjustment of the moveable damping member depending on the tilt of the moveable hinge section relative to the at least one joint axis, there is provided at least three moveable gear members are provided, of which one is the damping member itself.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for connecting a draw-out rail of a drawer-guide to a drawer, comprising an installation fitting which is connectable to the bottom and/or to the front or to the front panel of the drawer, with a catch which can be swivelled against spring force, with said catch being interlockable with the draw-out rail and being releasable from its locking position by a two-armed lever, held at the installation fitting, with one arm of said two-armed lever being shaped as a handle. According to the invention, for releasing the locking connection, the other arm of the lever directly engages the locking catch and a force transmission element connected to said locking catch in the region of said locking catch.

Abstract: An apparatus to mount a support rail (29) of a drawer guide to a wall of a piece of furniture (3) comprises a base plate (1) having means for mounting to the wall of the piece of furniture (3) on which a connecting piece (15) connectable to the rear end of the support rail (29) is guided in a limitedly displaceable but not raisable manner. To provide such an apparatus which can be manufactured and mounted more easily the connecting piece (15) is a plate-like part (16) which is guided between at least one upper groove (9) of the base plate (1) in which the upper edge (17) of the plate-like part (17) lies and a cam (12) of the base plate (1) disposed beneath the groove (9). The base plate (1) engages into an elongate aperture (18) of the plate-like part (16) parallel to the upper edge (17). The screw (20) can be screwed into the cam (12) and the head of this screw engages over the edges (21) of the elongate aperture (18).

Abstract: The invention relates to a hinge, preferably a furniture hinge, comprising a hinge arm which is pivotally connected, at one end, via a joint axle to a hinge part and, at the other end, via holding means to a base element, preferably to a base plate. Provision is made in accordance with the invention for the holding means to comprise a first eccentric adjustment, preferably retained by friction, for displaceable holding which allows a displacement parallel to the joint axle.

Abstract: A closing device for sliding portions of pieces of furniture, such as drawers and the like, consisting of a container fastened to the fixed or to the sliding portion of the piece of furniture wherein there are housed a mechanical energy accumulator and an actuation member that is sliding into a guide of the container, and of a pulling member, respectively fastened to the other side of the piece of furniture, which interacts with the actuation member. The actuation member is directly or indirectly slowed in its movement by a deceleration device based on the use of high-viscosity greases.

Abstract: A device for adjusting the height of a drawer, which, by way of a draw-out guide connected to said drawer on the side of said drawer, is guided by means of draw-out rails on supporting rails on the carcass side, comprises an adjustment device by means of which the drawer is raiseable and lowerable relative to the supporting rails. On the draw-out rails of the draw-out guide, at right angles to these, sliders are guided in guides, with said sliders comprising supports for the underside or the bottom of the drawer. The sliders are movable in height by way of the adjustment device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a damping apparatus for moving furniture parts, for example doors, flaps or drawers. Such a damping apparatus of a compact construction which avoids a possible springing back movement of the furniture parts is provided in accordance with the invention in that the damping apparatus has at least two damping stages each having a cylinder having a piston longitudinally displaceable therein which exert a damping action of different strengths.

Abstract: A housing fixed to a piece of furniture adjacent a slidable portion thereof is formed with an upwardly open slot in which is engageable a pulling member fixed to the slidable portion and projecting downward in the slot such that on movement of the slidable part the pulling member enters and exits the housing. An actuation member displaceable in the housing is engageable with and coupled to the pulling member only when the pulling member is engaged in the slot. A spring coupled between the housing and the actuation member urges the slidable portion into one of the end positions. A body of a high-viscosity grease in the housing engages the actuation member and retards movement of the movable portion into the one end position.

Abstract: An apparatus for the damping of impacts, preferably the impacts of furniture doors or drawers, consists of a cylinder with a piston whose piston rod sealingly guided out of a cylinder side forms a ram absorbing the impacts which divides the cylinder space filled with a liquid into two chambers and has perforations and/or, together with the cylinder wall, bounds a passage gap. A guide bushing guiding the piston rod is arranged in the region of the discharge end of the cylinder. A compression spring is clamped between the piston and the cylinder bottom. To ensure a smooth and quiet running with a compact construction, the guide bushing has a central shaft part of reduced diameter. A widened end part of the guide bushing is supported on a step or annular flange constricting the inner diameter of the cylinder and the guide bushing is supported at the other end on a cover closing the cylinder. The shaft part of the guide bushing is encompassed by a tube-section-like part made of elastic material.

Abstract: A hinge, in particular for pieces of furniture, piece of furniture, with an arm fixable to the body of the connected to a portion of hinge that oscillates through two equalizers housed on transversal pins, of which—in the portion of one of its oscillation axes'—one equalizer has a projecting part forming a lever arm, and with an elastic member that stresses, the projecting part of the equalizer so as to cause a thrust in the closing direction on the oscillating hinge portion. In order to obtain the slowed closing of the door, one of the equalizers is provided with a second projecting part on which a second elastic member acts so as to exert a thrust that, for an oscillation portion close to the closed position of the oscillating hinge portion counteracts the thrust exerted by the first elastic member.

Abstract: The invention relates to an air damper for mobile furniture parts, such as drawers or doors, consisting of a cylinder that is open at one end and a piston with seal that is movable in the longitudinal direction in this cylinder and that is connected to a ram. According to the invention, there is a small drilled hole provided in the outer wall of the cylinder near the closed end section of the cylinder.

Abstract: The invention relates to a fastening plate to fasten a hinge arm of a furniture hinge to a carrier wall consisting of an elongated base plate having at least two boreholes to receive fastening elements, of a cover plate covering the base plate at least in part and being guided in a transversely displaceable manner thereon, and of an eccentric to displace the cover plate with respect to the base plate. In accordance with the invention, the base plate has in its central region at least one lower tang bent down through 180 degrees whose lateral edges are supported at the inner lateral edges of tangs bent down through 180 degrees at the cover plate.

Abstract: A damping device for movable furniture parts, such as doors or drawers, includes a cylinder filled with a free-flowing medium which is compressed by a piston which has a spring applied to it in its extended position. In order to provide a damping device of this type of smaller length, the cylinder includes a telescopic cylinder having at least two stages. A pressure spring is clamped between the bottom of the outer cylinder of the last stage and the piston of the first stage.

Abstract: The invention relates to a fastening plate to fasten a hinge arm of a furniture hinge to a carrier wall consisting of an elongated base plate having at least two boreholes to receive fastening elements, of a cover plate covering the base plate at least in part and being guided in a transversely displaceable manner thereon, and of an eccentric to displace the cover plate with respect to the base plate. In accordance with the invention, the base plate has in the region of its boreholes, which serve to receive fastening elements, collar-like edges which connect to tang-like extensions. The collar-like edges penetrate elongate apertures provided in the cover plate and the tang-like extensions are bent down with respect to the collar-like edges so that they overhand the lateral edges of the elongate apertures.

Abstract: A braking retardation apparatus for doors, windows or the like has a piston pressable into a cylinder against the force of an expelling spring, with the element to be braked acting on the piston rod of said piston. To provide such a braking retardation apparatus with a reduced effort, a grease with high viscosity is applied to the wall of the cylinder.