Patents by Inventor Reinhard Lautenschlager

Reinhard Lautenschlager 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: 5664288
    Abstract: A furniture hinge (10) with a door-related hinge member, which is constructed as a hinge pot (18) that can be inserted countersunk in a recess (16) on the inside of the door leaf (12) and is composed of a pot part (20), lying within the recess, and a fastening flange (22), which can be placed upon the region of the inside of the door leaf, adjoining the door leaf recess (16), and can be fastened to the back side of the door leaf (12) by fastening means engaging the material of the door leaf (12) in the specified fastening position of the door leaf (12), the pot part (20), engaging the recess (16), being dimensioned smaller than the recess (16) in the door leaf (12) in such a manner, that, in the unfastened state, it can be shifted in the recess by a specified amount at least at right angles to the border edge of the door leaf (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: MEPLA-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Horst Lautenschlager, Reinhard Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 5632064
    Abstract: Hinge for hanging a door on a cabinet carcase. The door-related hinge member has a cup which can be inserted into a mortise which is created in the back of the door near its adjacent edge and cuts through that edge. A joint-bearing component can be easily and quickly snapped into and removed from the door-related hinge member. A linkage mechanism enabling the door to rotate relative to the cabinet carcase is disposed between the joint-bearing component and the door-related hinge member affixed to the wall of the carcase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1997
    Inventor: Reinhard Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 5561888
    Abstract: A furniture hinge (10) with a carcase-related part (12) which can be fastened adjustably on the carcase of a furniture piece, which is coupled to a door-related part by a linkage mechanism, and which is configured as a hinge cup (14) of metal. The cup part (18) of the hinge cup (14) can be mounted sunken in a mortise in the door and has a flange (20) lying on the inside of the door and projecting from the edge of the cup part. From the bottom of the flange protrude at least one, and preferably two, studs (32) provided with a number of anchoring ribs of pointed cross section, which can be mounted in associated, separate holes in the door. The stud (32) or studs are made expandable by a screw (30) in the manner of an expansion plug and are premounted on the flange by means of the screw being driven in only partially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1996
    Assignee: MEPLA-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Reinhard Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 5557827
    Abstract: A cabinet-wall member of a cabinet hinge in the form of an elongate arm which is stamped from initially flat sheet metal and shaped so that a flange is bent at a substantially right angle from each of its longitudinal edges such that the arm has an inverted channel-shaped cross section over most of its length. The flanges are additionally stiffened over at least a portion of their length--e.g., by embossing at least one bead running lengthwise of the arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1996
    Assignee: MEPLA-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co.KG
    Inventors: Horst Lautenschlager, Reinhard Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 5465463
    Abstract: Hinge for hanging the free panel of a bipartite corner-cabinet door on the panel that is hinged to the supporting wall of the carcase. The hinge has two leaves associated one with each of the door panels and the leaves can pivot relative to one another on a pivot pin passing through aligned bores provided at the meeting arrises of the door. Each of these hinge leaves has at least one angular appendage running across the front edge of the associated door panel to a point near the door's arris, and the bores for the hinge pins are provided in the staggered knuckles of the hinge leaves. The two hinge leaves are in the form of elongated supporting arms to each of which the end of one link of a pair of links is articulated, the other ends of the links being articulated to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1995
    Assignee: Mepla-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Reinhard Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 5412841
    Abstract: A furniture hinge (10) for hanging a door (12) on a cabinet carcase, whose door-related member (18) is configured as a hinge cup which can be set into a mortise (16) in the inside of the door (12), the hinge cup being composed of the actual cup part (20) lying within the mortise and a mounting flange (22) which can be placed on the area of the inside of the door adjoining the door mortise. In the mounting flange at least one slot (24) running at right angles to the adjacent edge of the door is provided for a mounting screw which can be driven into the door. The cup part (20) engaging in the mortise (16) is undersized with respect to the door mortise such that, when the mounting screw is loosened it can be shifted in the mortise by a given amount at right angles to the door edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1995
    Assignee: MEPLA-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Horst Lautenschlager, Reinhard Lautenschlager, Gerhard Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 5218739
    Abstract: Single-joint hinge (10) for the pivotable attachment of a door element (12), which comes to rest against a cabinet body, with a hinge (16), which is visible in the closed position of the door element and the door element contact part (20) of which has a press-in pot (38), which can be inserted into a recess (36) machined in the edge region in the back of the door element (12), breaking through to the adjacent edge border of the door element, and in which an offset joint component (sliding piece 44), which can be inserted from the edge border parallel to the flat sides of the door element, is attached and which carries the part of the hinge that is assigned to the door element, in the form of a bearing link (54) accommodating the hinge pin, at the end of a projection (52) that is bent at right angles and is extended to the outside of the door element (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1993
    Assignee: Karl Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Reinhard Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 5195214
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hinge housing in the form of a cup which can be sunk in a mortise in the back of the door of a piece of furniture and which has a cup portion made of metal from whose upper margin a mounting flange projects integrally in the position properly mounted on a door and overlaps areas of the inside of the door adjoining the mortise in the door, and whose margin is curved toward the inside of the door, so that in the mounting flange there is formed a shallow recess open on the inside of the door, and having a socket plate of plastic disposed between the mounting flange and the inside of the door, which can be releasably joined to the mounting flange and the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1993
    Assignee: Karl Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Horst Lautenschlager, Reinhard Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 5058238
    Abstract: A crosslink hinge for hanging a door on a cabinet has two crosslink arms attached in the middle in a scissors-like manner. One end of one of the crosslink arms is coupled directly to the cabinet-related part of the hinge, which can be fastened on a mounting plate to the cabinet, and one end of the other crosslink arm is coupled directly to the door-related part which is a cup which can be set in a mortise in the door, and at the other end they are coupled indirectly each by a link to the other part of the hinge. The crosslink arm that is directly pivoted at one end on the door-related hinge part is formed by two flanges disposed parallel to one another at a distance apart and joined together at least section-wise by a web to form a channel shape. The hinge furthermore contains a closing mechanism urging it resiliently into the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1991
    Assignee: Karl Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Reinhard Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 4819298
    Abstract: Self-closing hinge for hanging the free leaf of a two-leaf corner cabinet door on the leaf that is hung on the carcase of the cabinet. The hinge has two members, one associated with each of the door leaves, which can turn by about 90.degree. on hinge pins passing through aligned bores provided in the area of the meeting edges of the door leaves, from the position at approximately right angles to one another when the corner cabinet is closed to a position in which they are aligned substantially parallel to one another when the corner cabinet is open. The hinge members are coupled together by an elongated, strap-like connecting element which is pivotally fastened to the one member and is mounted so as to be longitudinally displaceable on the other member. This strap-like connecting element acts on the one hand as a door stop which prevents the door leaves from turning relative to one another beyond a given angle, and on the other hand it forms part of a self-closing mechanism acting when the door is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1989
    Assignee: Karl Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Reinhard Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 4810045
    Abstract: Fitting for holding the front-drawer end of the runner of a drawer slide. The fitting has a runner holding clip which can be fastened behind the drawer front under the bottom of the corner of the drawer and grips the end of the runner between two resilient legs. The runner holding clip is made integral with a corner body which in turn is integral with a mounting arm which can be fastened to the inside face of the drawer front. The area where the runner clip joins the corner body, and the area where the corner body joins the mounting arm, are made so as to be resiliently deformable, and a perpendicular threaded bore is provided in the corner body, through which the threaded shaft of an adjusting screw can be driven whose free end is in contact with the underside of the drawer bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1989
    Assignee: Karl Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Reinhard Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 4584738
    Abstract: The supporting-wall-related part of the hinge is composed of a bottom piece and a top piece borne on the bottom piece and displaceable relative to the latter, horizontally into and out of the carcass interior. One of the link arms of the crosslink mechanism is directly pivotable on the front end of the top piece, i.e., the doorleaf end thereof, and one end of a lever is articulated on its rearward end portion pointing into the carcass interior while its other end is articulated to the rearward end of the other link arm. On the end of the lever that is articulated to the top piece a gear segment is formed, which meshes through an opening in the top piece with a rack provided on the bottom piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1986
    Assignee: Karl Lautenschlager KG, Mobelbeschlagfabrik
    Inventor: Reinhard Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 4329759
    Abstract: Over-center hinge for thin-walled doors of cabinets, especially of bathroom mirrored cabinets, having a shallow, door-related hinge part which is articulately joined to a supporting arm fastenable to the supporting walls of the cabinet, and which can be fastened, preferably by cementing, in a matching recess provided on the inner side of the door. A molded piece (36) is removably fastened to the door-related hinge part (12) and bears a tongue (34) which, upon the hinge's closing movement, extends into the path of an engaging surface (pivot eye 15) provided on the supporting arm (18) and can be displaced resiliently against a spring force by this engaging surface, and on which the engaging surface slips during a part of the closing movement beyond a dead-center position on one side of which the tongue (34) exerts on the supporting arm (18) a force in the hinge-opening direction and on the other side of which it exerts thereon a force acting in the hinge closing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1982
    Assignee: Karl Lautenschlager KG
    Inventor: Reinhard Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 4297763
    Abstract: A hinge for the pivotable linking of a door leaf or lid to the carcass of a furniture piece having a door-related part attachable to the door leaf or lid and a supporting-wall-related part, which parts are pivotingly joined together in the manner of a four-joint hinge by two hinge links pivotingly attached to the door-related part on the one hand to the supporting-wall-related part on the other hand. The outer hinge link farther from the supporting wall is linked on the supporting wall side to a pivot piece pivotingly linked to the supporting wall-related part. The pivot piece is coupled operatively to the inner hinge link nearer the supporting wall such that the pivot axis of the outer hinge link on the supporting wall end has in the hinge-open position a minimum distance and the the hinge-closed position a maximum distance from the pivot axis of the inner hinge link at the supporting wall end thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1981
    Assignee: Karl Lautenschlager KG
    Inventor: Reinhard Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 4251900
    Abstract: A crosslink over-center hinge having a supporting wall member and a door member which are joined together by a crosslink mechanism formed by two linkage arms coupled pivotingly together in their middle area, the end of one linkage arm being directly journaled on the supporting wall member and one end of the other being directly journaled on the door member, the other end in each case being coupled to the other hinge member for guidance on a curve in space. The hinge having an over-center mechanism is provided with a closing spring, which mechanism resiliently urges the hinge to the hinge end position at least in the vicinity of the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1981
    Assignee: Karl Lautenschlager KG, Mobelbeschlagfabrik
    Inventor: Reinhard Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 4210980
    Abstract: A hinge for cabinet doors or lids, especially for period furniture, having two visible sleeve-like hinge parts which can be fastened to the supporting wall of the cabinet and to the cabinet door or lid, respectively, and which are swingable relative to one another about the longitudinal axis of a pintle held in one of the hinge parts and engaging a complementary bore in the other hinge part. The pintle is made in one piece with a mounting pin added at approximately right angles to its end held in the hinge part and fastenable in a bore of the associated cabinet part. The visible, sleeve-like hinge part holding the pintle has on the side facing the associated cabinet part an aperture through which the pivot pin can be passed during assembly and from which the mounting pin protrudes. The pintle and the mounting pin are held in the position correctly aligned with the sleeve-like hinge part by a plug pushed onto the mounting pin and plugging up the aperture in the hinge part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1980
    Assignee: Karl Lautenschlager KG Mobelbeschiageabrik
    Inventors: Karl Lautenschlager, Jr., Horst Lautenschlager, Reinhard Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 4193163
    Abstract: A knuckle joint hinge having a supporting-wall and a door part which are joined together by a knuckle joint mechanism formed by two link arms coupled pivoting together in their middle area, one end of the one link arm being articulated to the supporting-wall part and one end of the other link arm to the door part, the other end in each case being guided along a curve in space and coupled to the respective other part. In the portion of the knuckle joint mechanism that is formed by the door-side lever arms of the link arms, a filler piece is mounted so as to be variable in position. This filler piece is biased into a position covering the variable gaps which form between the door-side lever arms and between the lever arms and the door during the opening and closing movement, and it supports itself against the door or the door part, as the case may be, by means of a cam on its side facing the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1980
    Assignee: Karl Lautenschlager KG, Mobelbeschlagfabrik
    Inventor: Reinhard Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 4117569
    Abstract: A knuckle-joint over-center hinge, in combination with a first member for connection to a wall and a second member for connection to a door, and a first arm and a second arm, respectively, pivotaly linked to the first and second member, and an over-center mechanism forcing the hinge resiliently towards one of its end positions. The mechanism includes a closing spring having one end disposed and supported at the first arm which has a portion of U-shaped cross-section and a transverse wall. A pusher is displaceably mounted in the first arm, while the closing spring is disposed within the U-shaped portion and supports itself with its one end on the transverse wall, while the other end of the spring engages the pusher. The first member has a cam projection in the vicinity of the point where the first arm is pivotally linked to the first member, and the pusher supports itself on the cam projection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1978
    Assignee: Karl Lautenschlager KG
    Inventors: Karl Lautenschlager, Jr., Reinhard Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 4091498
    Abstract: A cabinet hinge whose door part is joined pivotingly by a linkage to an elongated support arm which is fastened in a longitudinally adjustable manner to a mounting plate disposed on the door-supporting wall of the cabinet, wherein the support arm has, adjacent to its door-side front end, a stop projecting at approximately right angles to the supporting wall and having a bearing surface which faces rearwardly and can be brought to bear against a face end surface of the supporting wall, the disposition of the stop being such that its bearing surface is located substantially in the plane of the inside of a door fastened to the door-part of the hinge when the hinge is in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1978
    Assignee: Karl Lautenschlager KG Mobelbeschlagfabrik
    Inventor: Reinhard Lautenschlager