Patents by Inventor Luciano Salice

Luciano Salice 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: 20030052579
    Abstract: The quick assembly draw guide comprises a shaped body which has a device for connection to the wall of the draw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2002
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Applicant: ARTURO SALICE S.P.A.
    Inventor: Luciano Salice
  • Publication number: 20030029125
    Abstract: An extruded section which preferably serves the production of a frame or of an edge for parts of furniture such as doors or drawers is provided with at least two webs which bound the side flanks of a groove. To give the extruded section an appealing and aesthetic appearance and to protect it against contamination, the webs are provided with supports or holding devices for a cover rail covering the groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2002
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Inventor: Luciano Salice
  • Publication number: 20020190618
    Abstract: A pullout guide for a drawer consists of two carrier rails on the body side which carry rollers rotatably supported around horizontal axes and having two pullout rails on the drawer side whose horizontal runways bent from the upper sides of the vertical webs are supported at their lower support surfaces on at least the two rollers of the carrier rails disposed in the region of the front side of the body part. To allow a vertical adjustment of the front board of the drawer in a simple manner, the horizontal runways are provided at their front end regions with sections which can be pivoted or vertically moved by adjustment devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2002
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Inventor: Luciano Salice
  • Publication number: 20020178554
    Abstract: For securing a fitting to any point of an extruded section by a clamping device, the extruded section has two spaced apart parallel webs between which a holding part of the fitting can be inserted which is supported on the edge faces of the webs facing one another. The holding part has support flanges which can contact the outer sides of the webs. The holding part is provided with at least one bore in which a pin carrying the clamping element is rotatably held such that as a result of its turning the clamping element engages at the inner sides of the webs and tensions the support flanges against the outer sides of the webs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2002
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Inventor: Luciano Salice
  • Publication number: 20020170234
    Abstract: A guide device for a folding door consisting of a carriage which is displaceably guided at a web part of a section rail and which surrounds the web part with rollers or slides. So that the guide device can easily be put into its longitudinally displaceable connection with the web part of the section rail from the side, the rear roller disposed behind the web part relative to the door is supported at an arm which is in pivoted connection with the carriage and which can be pivoted between an assembly position where it is pivoted out and a position of use where it is pivoted in, in which the rear roller contacts or almost contacts the front side of the web part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2002
    Publication date: November 21, 2002
    Inventor: Luciano Salice
  • Publication number: 20020141815
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2002
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Applicant: Arturo Salice S.p.A.
    Inventor: Luciano Salice
  • Patent number: 6446306
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a spacer for a hinge, the spacer being connected to a base plate and formed as an essentially U-shaped part of plate steel having legs provided with hooks on ends opposite the oblong hole. The bridging part of the spacer comprises, between the hooks, a resilient tongue having an actuating piece on the end side. The actuating piece is provided, in the region of the hooks, with a transverse flat flute. Journals or pins disposed at an end region of the legs of the hinge arm can be pushed in against the force of the resilient tongue in a manner such that the journals or pins are locked between the base of the hooks and one flank of the flat flute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Arturo Salice S.p.A.
    Inventor: Luciano Salice
  • Publication number: 20020108311
    Abstract: A lifting apparatus for a two-leaf folding flap, whose upper leaf is hinged to a top or partition wall of a cupboard around a horizontal first axle and whose lower leaf is pivotally connected to the upper leaf around a second axle parallel to the first axle, comprises at least one two-armed lever which is pivotally mounted to a side body part around a horizontal pivot axle and whose longer arm is linked to the lower leaf. One end of the compressing spring element is pivotally connected to the body part and the other end is pivotally connected to the lever. To prevent the leaf from coming into contact with the end surfaces of body parts of the cupboard closed by the folding flap, the lever is guided in a longitudinally displaceable manner on its pivot axle and the shorter lever arm is guided in a cam guide fixed to the body via a slide block or a roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2002
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Inventor: Luciano Salice
  • Patent number: 6418589
    Abstract: An apparatus for fastening of a fitting is provided, preferably the support arm of a hinge, to a panel of a piece of furniture or the like and form of a base plate fastenable to the panel, for example, by dowel 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 that can be hooked together and on opposite end regions, with a device for interlocking the base plate and fitting together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Arturo Salice S.p.A.
    Inventor: Luciano Salice
  • Patent number: 6408483
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a simply designed and easy-to-operate brake retardation apparatus in which a push rod is moveable in guides of a housing and possesses a section formed as a gear rack which meshes with a pinion of a shock absorber also retained in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Arturo Salice S.p.A.
    Inventor: Luciano Salice
  • Publication number: 20020050025
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hinge, in particular for pieces of furniture, with an arm fixable to the body of the piece of furniture, 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 exhibits 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2001
    Publication date: May 2, 2002
    Applicant: ARTURO SALICE S.P.A.
    Inventor: Luciano Salice
  • Publication number: 20020041797
    Abstract: A drill gauge for the drilling of blind boreholes of a pre-determined depth in board-shaped parts, preferably into furniture parts, has end faces forming reference edges. An abutment body, which can be applied to the end faces and which is provided with devices for fastening to the board-shaped parts, is provided so as to be able to apply blind boreholes of a pre-determined depth at pre-determined points of board-shaped parts. The abutment body has a borehole flush with the blind borehole to be drilled for the insertion of the drill at whose outer rim an abutment part applied to the shaft of the drill is supported which determines the penetration depth of the drill.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2001
    Publication date: April 11, 2002
    Applicant: Arturo Salice S.P.A.
    Inventor: Luciano Salice
  • Patent number: 6360401
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a hinge in which a fixed end of a leaf spring is inserted into a slot of a side wall of a cup-shaped hinge part near the bottom, the leaf spring encompassing with an opening, a cam or a protruding of the bottom of the cup-shaped hinge part. The hinge arm is slidably supported on a elastic end of the leaf spring by a tongue or cam bent out of its rolled end and encompassing the hinge axle, the elastic end located in a section of the bottom of the cup-shaped hinge part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Arturo Salice S.p.A.
    Inventor: Luciano Salice
  • Publication number: 20020033658
    Abstract: The present finding relates to 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2001
    Publication date: March 21, 2002
    Applicant: ARTURO SALICE S.P.A.
    Inventor: Luciano Salice
  • Publication number: 20020010977
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2001
    Publication date: January 31, 2002
    Inventor: Luciano Salice
  • Patent number: 6336253
    Abstract: A fastening plate for the fastening of a fitting to a supporting wall including a bottom plate, provided with two boreholes for fastening screws and with two base-like elevations, and a top plate, at least partially covering the bottom plate, and having an elongated center piece with devices for the fastening of the fitting and at the sides wing-like protrusions provided with oblong holes whose center lines are at right angles to the center line of the center piece and which are also penetrated by the fastening screws with base-like elevations engaging the oblong holes of the top plate as guide pieces. The boreholes lie on the center line of the bottom plate with a spreading dowel-like extension being formed on one borehole and with the other borehole bearing in its base-like elevation a pre-mounted screw sized so that its thread cuts into the wall of the borehole provided in the supporting wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2002
    Assignee: Arturo Salice S.p.A.
    Inventor: Luciano Salice
  • Patent number: 6332660
    Abstract: A piece of furniture with a body part closeable by a two-wing folding sliding door (2,6) is provided, the upper wing (2) of this body part being hinged around a horizontal swivel axis to the top panel (1) of the body part and the lower wing (6) being connected in an articulated manner to the upper wing (2) and guided in guide rails (7) of side panels (8) of the body part by support parts (15) mounted in the region of its outer corners, wherein the guide rails (7) are mounted to the narrow front sides of the side panels (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Assignee: Arturo Salice S.p.A.
    Inventor: Luciano Salice
  • Publication number: 20010047566
    Abstract: A fastening plate to fasten a hinge arm of a furniture hinge 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2001
    Publication date: December 6, 2001
    Inventor: Luciano Salice
  • Patent number: 6289556
    Abstract: A hinge, preferably a furniture hinge, is provided which comprises a hinge arm (1) pivoted on a hinge axle (3) held with a cup-shaped hinge part (4) and provided with a tongue extending over the hinge axle (3) or a cam eccentric to the hinge axle (3) or a metering notch which slide on a part pivoted or movably guided in the hinge part (4) and charged by at least one spring (28) and provided with a slide surface in a way such that a closing moment to the hinge part (4) in the closing region, is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Arturo Salice S.p.A.
    Inventor: Luciano Salice
  • Patent number: 6257796
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a connection fitting for the detachable connection of two parts, preferably two furniture parts, including a cup-shaped casing (1) which can be inserted into a channel of the first part, in which casing (1) a bolt (4) is pivoted with a tenon (14,15) protruding over the first part (24), which tenon can be introduced into a borehole of the other part and locked in the same by turning. A radial actuating lever (16) is connected to the bolt (4) and penetrates a hole (21) of the casing (1). Furthermore, an actuating lever (16) which is held in a radially moved manner at the bolt (4) and which is interlocked in a non-twist manner with the same in the inserted position is pivotable relative to the same in a pulled-out position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Arturo Salice S.p.A.
    Inventor: Luciano Salice