Patents by Inventor Willi Pittasch

Willi Pittasch 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: 4361931
    Abstract: The invention relates to a furniture fitting in the form of a cup-shaped hinge housing which can be anchored into a bore of a furniture door and used as a door side pivot carrier for a furniture hinge. The hinge housing has a locking element which can be rotated about an axis at right angles to a circumferential wall and which has a section for holding the locking element when it is in a locked position. In a preferred embodiment of the hinge housing, two swivelling locking elements are provided which are connected to each other by a bracket shaped element so that when the bracket shaped element is swivelled to a given position by hand the locking element is moved into a locking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1982
    Assignee: Firma Richard Heinze GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Manfred Schnelle, Manfred von Reden, Willi Pittasch, Peter Busse
  • Patent number: 4293976
    Abstract: Cabinet hinge for the articulated connecting of two cabinet parts, and particularly for pivoting a cabinet door to a cabinet body, having a first hinge which is adapted to be fastened in a recess of the first cabinet part and having a second hinge part which is adapted to be fastened to the second cabinet part, to which second hinge part a preferably tang-shaped hinge arm is pivoted, characterized by the fact that the first mentioned hinge part consists of an outer anchoring part and of an inner part arranged in a first opening of said anchoring part, said inner part being adjustable along a first axis extending perpendicular to the surface of the first cabinet part; that a guide, preferably a second opening, is provided on the inner part to receive the hinge arm; and that means are provided to fasten the hinge arm in continuously adjustable manner to the first hinge part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1981
    Assignee: Firma Richard Heinze
    Inventors: Willi Pittasch, Johannes Dalbert
  • Patent number: 4286352
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hinge for suspending a door, especially a glass door, on an item of furniture, with a hinge arm fastened on the furniture and a hinge part to be fastened on the door, in which, when the door is closed, this hinge part is situated within a first surface of a second surface of the hinge arm. The invention is characterized by the fact that one of the surfaces has a ratchetting face and the other surface is provided with a spring loaded ratchetting element which snap fits behind this ratchetting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1981
    Assignee: Richard Heinze GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Willi Pittasch
  • Patent number: 4270240
    Abstract: A metallic cup shaped insert is anchored within a plastic anchoring piece. The anchoring piece is pressed or hammered into an opening in a furniture panel and, hooking anchoring ribs retain the insert and anchoring part in position in the furniture panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1981
    Assignee: Richard Heinze GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ernst Zernig, Willi Pittasch
  • Patent number: 4159557
    Abstract: Cabinet hinge for the articulated connecting of two cabinet parts, and particularly for pivoting a cabinet door to a cabinet body, having a first hinge which is adapted to be fastened in a recess of the first cabinet part and having a second hinge part which is adapted to be fastened to the second cabinet part, to which second hinge part a preferably tang-shaped hinge arm is pivoted, characterized by the fact that the first mentioned hinge part consists of an outer anchoring part and of an inner part arranged in a first opening of said anchoring part, said inner part being adjustable along a first axis extending perpendicular to the surface of the first cabinet part; that a guide, preferably a second opening, is provided on the inner part to receive the hinge arm; and that means are provided to fasten the hinge arm in continuously adjustable manner to the first hinge part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1979
    Assignee: Firma Richard Heinze
    Inventors: Willi Pittasch, Johannes Dalbert
  • Patent number: 4122581
    Abstract: A hinge for mounting a door in an opening of a piece of furniture, with a hinge part receiving a door between spaced arms with an arm visible on the door outside face when the door is closed, and with a holding component having a flat bracket for attachment to an interior face of the furniture, and with the holding component pivotally mounted to the hinge part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1978
    Assignee: Richard Heinze
    Inventor: Willi Pittasch
  • Patent number: 4099293
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cabinet hinge for pivotally connecting two cabinet parts, and particularly for pivoting a cabinet door to a cabinet body, the hinge having a first hinge part adapted to be attached to the first cabinet part and having a second hinge part which is adapted to be connected to the second cabinet part and bears, pivoted to it, a hinge arm which can be locked in a recess of the first hinge part, preferably by the engagement of at least one locking element. The first hinge part of this hinge is a body which can be anchored in a borehole of the first cabinet part and has a recess to receive the hinge arm or tang the first hinge part being held displaceably and adjustably in the direction perpendicular to the surface of the first cabinet part, preferably in a recess of an intermediate body of, for instance, bushing-shaped development. The bushing-shaped intermediate body is, in this connection, anchored in the borehole of the first cabinet part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1978
    Assignee: Firma Richard Heinze
    Inventor: Willi Pittasch