Patents by Inventor Markus Kampl
Markus Kampl 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).
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Patent number: 11766120Abstract: A holding device including a fastening device for fixing the holding device to a front panel or to a drawer rear wall, and at least two mutually spaced holding limbs between which a decorative plate can be partially received. The at least two holding limbs are part of a clamping device for applying a clamping force to the decorative plate received between the at least two holding limbs in a direction extending transverse to a longitudinal direction of the decorative plate. The clamping device includes at least one adjustment device for adjusting the clamping force that can be applied to the decorative plate between the at least two holding limbs.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2022Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBHInventors: Marcel Leitner, Markus Riezler, Markus Kampl, Marcel Madlener
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Publication number: 20230097170Abstract: A holding device including a fastening device for fixing the holding device to a front panel or to a drawer rear wall, and at least two mutually spaced holding limbs between which a decorative plate can be partially received. The at least two holding limbs are part of a clamping device for applying a clamping force to the decorative plate received between the at least two holding limbs in a direction extending transverse to a longitudinal direction of the decorative plate. The clamping device includes at least one adjustment device for adjusting the clamping force that can be applied to the decorative plate between the at least two holding limbs.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Marcel LEITNER, Markus RIEZLER, Markus KAMPL, Marcel MADLENER
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Patent number: 11464333Abstract: A drawer rail for a drawer pull-out guide, including a first rail configured to be fixed to a drawer, and a second rail configured to be arranged on a carcass rail or on a central rail of a drawer pull-out guide. The first rail and the second rail are configured to be connected to one another by sliding onto each other, and a spring member is arranged on the first or second rail. A protrusion is arranged on the other rail, the position of which on and/or the extension of which along the other rail is chosen such that the protrusion, in a connected condition of the first and second rail, co-operates with the spring member so as to limit transverse movements of the two rails to one another.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBHInventors: Marc Meusburger, Markus Kampl
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Patent number: 11457738Abstract: A drawer sidewall includes a carrier body, a sidewall profile, and a holding device for fastening a drawer rear wall. Each of the sidewall profile and the holding device is fixed to the carrier body, and the holding device, at least in an unfixed condition of the drawer rear wall, is aligned inclined relative to a longitudinal direction of the carrier body.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Julius Blum GmbHInventors: Markus Irgang, Markus Kampl
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Patent number: 11304523Abstract: A front panel includes a decorative plate and a frame for receiving the decorative plate. The decorative plate is received at least partially within the frame in a mounted condition, and the frame includes a locking portion for releasably locking the front panel to a drawer sidewall. A holding device is arranged on an end portion of the decorative plate for receiving the end portion of the decorative plate. The holding device is configured so as to be: (i) separate from the decorative plate and the frame; and (ii) releasably connected to the frame.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBHInventor: Markus Kampl
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Patent number: 11246411Abstract: A drawer side wall has an outer wall which has an exterior viewing surface and a rear side facing away from the exterior viewing surface, and has a cover which has a fastener, by which the cover can be fastened to the rear side of the outer wall. A rear side of a viewing section of the cover is configured to bear against the outer wall, and two separate recesses are spaced apart from each other on the rear side of the outer wall. The fastener includes two separate elastic clamping lugs, each of which is configured to engage in an associated recess in order to fasten the cover in position to the drawer side wall.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBHInventor: Markus Kampl
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Patent number: 11219312Abstract: A rail bar for a drawer includes an end to be connected to a wall element, in particular a front panel or a rear wall, of a drawer, and a length adjustment element which is movable relative to the rail bar in the longitudinal direction of the rail bar in order to cover a gap occurring between the end of the rail bar and the wall element in a connected state of the rail bar to the wall element. A spring element is supported on a stationary part of the rail bar and pushes the length adjustment element towards a maximum position, in which the length adjustment element lengthens the rail bar to a maximum extent.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2020Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBHInventor: Markus Kampl
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Patent number: 11202505Abstract: A drawer arrangement includes a drawer sidewall having a locking device including a locking lever pre-stressed by a spring, and a wall element to be transversely connected to the drawer sidewall. The wall element, in a connected condition with the drawer sidewall, includes a fastening surface facing towards the drawer sidewall, and a bearing surface facing away from the fastening surface. A furniture fitting separate from the wall element connects the wall element to the drawer sidewall, and the furniture fitting is to be releasably locked to the locking lever of the locking device of the drawer sidewall. The furniture fitting, when the wall element is connected with the drawer sidewall, bears at least partially against the bearing surface of the wall element so that the wall element is held on the drawer sidewall by the locking of the furniture fitting with the locking device of the drawer sidewall.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBHInventor: Markus Kampl
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Patent number: 11122895Abstract: A railing strut includes an end region to be connected to a wall element of the drawer. The railing strut, on the end region, includes a locking device having a locking element to be engaged with the wall element for locking the railing strut. The railing strut further includes a movably mounted actuating element, and the locking element can be moved by applying a force to the actuating element into a release position in which the locking between the railing strut and the wall element can be released when the railing strut is in a locked condition with the wall element. The actuating element, when the railing strut is locked to the wall element, is accessible for manual actuation and can be directly actuated, so that the locking between the railing strut and the wall element can be released by manual actuation of the actuating element.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Julius Blum GmbHInventor: Markus Kampl
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Patent number: 10966523Abstract: A connecting pin for fastening a first furniture part to a second furniture part, includes a fastening portion for fastening the connecting pin to the first furniture part, and a holding portion for connecting the connecting pin to the second furniture part. The holding portion of the connecting pin includes a connecting portion facing the fastening portion, the connecting portion being a protrusion or a recess for connecting the second furniture part to the connecting pin in a form-locking manner. A head portion is spaced from the connecting portion along a longitudinal direction of the connecting pin by a neck portion. In a condition in which the connecting pin is fixed to the first furniture part via the fastening portion, at least two different second furniture parts can be alternatively connected to the connecting pin by the connecting portion in a form-locking manner and/or by the head portion in a force-locking manner.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Julius Blum GmbHInventors: Markus Kampl, Markus Irgang, Gerald Sperger, Guenter Schwarzmann
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Publication number: 20200352327Abstract: A drawer rail for a drawer pull-out guide, including a first rail configured to be fixed to a drawer, and a second rail configured to be arranged on a carcass rail or on a central rail of a drawer pull-out guide. The first rail and the second rail are configured to be connected to one another by sliding onto each other, and a spring member is arranged on the first or second rail. A protrusion is arranged on the other rail, the position of which on and/or the extension of which along the other rail is chosen such that the protrusion, in a connected condition of the first and second rail, co-operates with the spring member so as to limit transverse movements of the two rails to one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2020Publication date: November 12, 2020Inventors: Marc MEUSBURGER, Markus KAMPL
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Publication number: 20200352328Abstract: A drawer sidewall includes a carrier body, a sidewall profile, and a holding device for fastening a drawer rear wall. Each of the sidewall profile and the holding device is fixed to the carrier body, wherein the holding device, at least in an unfixed condition of the drawer rear wall, is aligned inclined relative to a longitudinal direction of the carrier body.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2020Publication date: November 12, 2020Inventors: Markus IRGANG, Markus KAMPL
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Publication number: 20200345141Abstract: A front panel includes at least one decorative plate and frame for receiving the decorative plate. The decorative plate is received at least partially within the frame in a mounted condition, and the frame includes at least one locking portion for releasably locking the front panel to a drawer sidewall. At least one holding device is arranged on an end portion of the decorative plate for receiving the at least one end portion of the decorative plate. The at least one holding device is configured so as to be separate from the decorative plate and the frame, and the separate holding device is configured to be releasably connected to the frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2020Publication date: November 5, 2020Inventor: Markus KAMPL
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Publication number: 20200315346Abstract: A drawer side wall, in particular a double-walled drawer side wall, has an outer wall which has an exterior visible surface and a rear side facing away from the visible surface, and has a cover which has a fastening means, by which the cover can be fastened to the rear side of the outer wall. The rear side of a viewing section of the cover contacts the outer wall, and there are two separate recesses spaced apart from each other on the rear side of the outer wall. The fastening means of the cover comprise two separate elastic clamping lugs, each of which engages in an associated recess in order to fasten the cover cap in position to the drawer side wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventor: Markus KAMPL
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Publication number: 20200315347Abstract: A rail bar for a drawer includes an end to be connected to a wall element, in particular a front panel or a rear wall, of a drawer, and a length adjustment element which is movable relative to the rail bar in the longitudinal direction of the rail bar in order to cover a gap occurring between the end of the rail bar and the wall element in a connected state of the rail bar to the wall element. A spring element is supported on a stationary part of the rail bar and pushes the length adjustment element towards a maximum position, in which the length adjustment element lengthens the rail bar to a maximum extent.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventor: Markus KAMPL
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Publication number: 20200297111Abstract: A railing strut includes an end region to be connected to a wall element of the drawer. The railing strut, on the end region, includes a locking device having a locking element to be engaged with the wall element for locking the railing strut. The railing strut further includes a movably mounted actuating element, and the locking element can be moved by applying a force to the actuating element into a release position in which the locking between the railing strut and the wall element can be released when the railing strut is in a locked condition with the wall element. The actuating element, when the railing strut is locked to the wall element, is accessible for manual actuation and can be directly actuated, so that the locking between the railing strut and the wall element can be released by manual actuation of the actuating element.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventor: Markus Kampl
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Publication number: 20200288865Abstract: A drawer arrangement includes a drawer sidewall having a locking device including a locking lever pre-stressed by a spring, and a wall element to be transversely connected to the drawer sidewall. The wall element, in a connected condition with the drawer sidewall, includes a fastening surface facing towards the drawer sidewall, and a bearing surface facing away from the fastening surface. A furniture fitting separate from the wall element connects the wall element to the drawer sidewall, and the furniture fitting is to be releasably locked to the locking lever of the locking device of the drawer sidewall. The furniture fitting, when the wall element is connected with the drawer sidewall, bears at least partially against the bearing surface of the wall element so that the wall element is held on the drawer sidewall by the locking of the furniture fitting with the locking device of the drawer sidewall.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventor: Markus KAMPL
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Patent number: 10772421Abstract: A drawer wall includes a shell with an opening arranged on a shell surface of the drawer wall, a movably supported cover portion which covers the opening in a closed position and unblocks the opening in an open position, and a spring element by which the cover portion is pre-stressed in an operating (closing) direction of the spring element toward the closed position. The cover portion is arranged so as to be stationary in a direction parallel to the shell surface, and is movably supported in a direction approximately perpendicular to the shell surface against the operating direction of the spring element, and the cover portion is arranged within the shell of the drawer wall in all operating positions.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBHInventors: Markus Kampl, Guenter Schwarzmann
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Publication number: 20200000226Abstract: A drawer wall includes an opening arranged on a shell surface of the drawer wall, a movably supported cover portion which covers the opening in a closed position and unblocks the opening in an open position, and a spring element by which the cover portion is pre-stressed in an operating direction of the spring element in a direction of the closed position. The cover portion is arranged so as to be stationary in a direction parallel to the shell surface, and is movably supported in a direction approximately perpendicular to the shell surface against the operating direction of the spring element, and the cover portion is arranged within the drawer wall in all operating positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Markus KAMPL, Guenter SCHWARZMANN
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Patent number: D904864Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2018Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: Julius Blum GmbHInventors: Markus Kampl, Tobias Hornikel