By Expandable Connector Patents (Class 16/383)
  • Patent number: 10382725
    Abstract: Provided is a camera used both outdoors and indoors and including a camera assembly, which is an indoor camera, a camera external package coupled to the indoor camera, and an outdoor camera, which is a camera used outdoors. The outdoor camera is formed by coupling the camera assembly and the camera external package. It is possible to extend functions of the camera assembly by coupling the camera assembly and the camera external package. Functions of using power over Ethernet (PoE) power, adding a video analytics (VA) function, being used outdoors, and the like are examples of such extended functions. Since the outdoor camera is provided with a configuration for coupling the camera assembly and the camera external package, it is unnecessary to separately provide a camera used indoors and a camera used outdoors. Also, it is possible to maintain a small size of the camera assembly adequate for being used both indoors and outdoors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: HANWHA TECHWIN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Chan Jung, Ji Hwan Bae
  • Patent number: 10352075
    Abstract: The invention relates to a furniture hinge (10) having a stop (11), which is associated with a hinge cup element (50) having a hinge cup (52) and with at least one fastening element, in particular a clamping jaw (72.1, 72.2) of a spreading element (72) or a fastening pin (84.1, 84.2), for fastening the stop on a piece of furniture, having at least one actuating element (40, 80.1, 80.2), which is operatively connected to the fastening element, and having a hinge arm (20), which is connected to the hinge cup element in a foldable manner via an articulation connection. Here, it is provided that the at least one actuating element is arranged in the movement direction of the hinge arm so that it is moved from a first position to a second position by the hinge arm when the hinge arm is folded into the hinge cup. The furniture hinge can be mounted on a piece of furniture without additional tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Samet Kalip Ve Maden Esya San. Ve Tic. A.S.
    Inventors: Artur Hirtsiefer, Bernd Rödder
  • Patent number: 9939001
    Abstract: Connection device for two furniture parts which have to be interconnected, with a first connection portion which is realized at least as a spreading system and which is intended for being provided in a recess in a first furniture part, with a second connection portion which is intended for extending outside of the recess for cooperating with a second furniture part in this manner, as well as an activation mechanism for activating the spreading system, wherein the spreading system comprises at least two mutually rotatable parts, a first part and a second part, respectively, wherein the mutual rotation of which, in function of the realized mutual angle position, effects a spreading effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: UNILIN, BVBA
    Inventors: Luc Deman, Luc Maertens
  • Patent number: 9820480
    Abstract: A thermal system for preserving tissue is disclosed. The cooling system comprises a base member, a temperature control sleeve constructed of a thermally conductive material, and a selectively removable lid member. The base member defines a reservoir and receives the temperature control sleeve. The temperature control sleeve at least partially defines a tissue collector chamber that is configured to receive a tissue collector. The temperature control sleeve is in communication with the reservoir. The reservoir is configured to receive a cooling medium. A slit formed within the tissue collection chamber that is sized to receive a tubing connected to the tissue collector therethrough. The lid member is configured to be selectively attached to the base member, and permit access to a tube mount for the tissue collector when the lid is attached to the base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Nico Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph L. Mark, Brian C. Dougherty, Mick Trompen
  • Patent number: 9456114
    Abstract: A video surveillance component includes a base and a camera. The camera includes a case and a camera lens module. The case is detachably assembled to the base. The camera lens module is installed on the case. Moreover, a video surveillance assembly includes two video surveillance components. Each of the two video surveillance components includes a camera and a base having a back plate. The camera includes a case and a camera lens module installed on the case. The two back plates of the two bases are attached to each other, so as to expand the field of view of the video surveillance assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: VIVOTEK INC.
    Inventor: Chung-Yon Huang
  • Patent number: 8943653
    Abstract: A hinge has at least one hinge part which can be mounted in an opening in a thin wall such as a sheet-metal cabinet door, a head part, such as a flange or hinge leaf, which overlaps the rim of the opening of the thin wall on its (outer) side, and a body part which proceeds from the head part and can be pushed through the opening in the thin wall, and a holding part which is carried by the body part, supported on the other (rear) side of the thin wall, and is separate from the body part. The holding part is formed by holding elements which project in a flexible manner from the body part in the direction of its outer surface and whose free end has an inclined surface for supporting the body part on the rim or edge of the opening without play.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Inventor: Dieter Ramsauer
  • Patent number: 8312597
    Abstract: A hinge cup for furniture hinges having a cup part which can be mounted in a bore in a furniture part such that it can be inserted in a recessed manner, and having, provided on the cup part in the state mounted in the bore, anchoring parts which can be spread open and have external bearing surfaces which are curved arcuately in a manner substantially corresponding to the radius of the bore and can be pressed via tension elements against the wall of the bore, wherein the tension elements can be moved via an eccentric mechanism in the insertion direction of the hinge cup at right angles to the mounting plane of the latter, and the anchoring parts are spread when the tension elements are moved in the direction from the insertion end of the hinge cup to the mounting surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Grass GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Steffen Gallasch, Karlheinz Sättler
  • Publication number: 20120060324
    Abstract: A hinge includes a fixing frame, a rotating frame, a support, and a connecting member. The rotating frame is pivotally joined to the fixing frame. The support includes a first connecting portion for joining to the base and a second connecting portion. The connecting member is mounted between the rotating frame and the support. Furthermore, the connecting member is operably moved between an extended position and a retracted position in response to two opposite pivoting directions of the rotating frame with respect to the fixing frame, and in addition, the support moves away from the rotating frame in response to the connection member moving from the retracted position to the extended position thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Inventor: Chao-Chi Lin
  • Patent number: 8006348
    Abstract: A hinge wing includes a cup intended for being fixed in a hole of a furniture component. The wing is provided with a pair of expandable teeth arranged on opposite sides of the cup. The teeth are fixed on an eccentric lever of the wing, by rotating which the teeth are moved in an opposite direction to the direction of insertion of the cup into the respective receiving hole. The wing includes for each tooth a cam that, upon rotation of the eccentric lever, causes the respective tooth to expand against a side wall of the receiving hole of the cup to fix the cup to the furniture component. Each cam is formed with a cam element of yieldable material interposed between a side wall of the cup and the respective tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Agostino Ferrari S.p.A
    Inventor: Adelchi Ferrari
  • Publication number: 20110099762
    Abstract: A hinge cup for furniture hinges having a cup part which can be mounted in a bore in a furniture part such that it can be inserted in a recessed manner, and having, provided on the cup part in the state mounted in the bore, anchoring parts which can be spread open and have external bearing surfaces which are curved arcuately in a manner substantially corresponding to the radius of the bore and can be pressed via tension elements against the wall of the bore, wherein the tension elements can be moved via an eccentric mechanism in the insertion direction of the hinge cup at right angles to the mounting plane of the latter, and the anchoring parts are spread when the tension elements are moved in the direction from the insertion end of the hinge cup to the mounting surface thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: Grass GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Steffen GALLASCH, Karlheinz SÄTTLER
  • Publication number: 20110030172
    Abstract: A connecting fitting includes a body having a cam surface and an inserting assembly which is pivotally connected with the body. The inserting assembly includes an inserting member and at least one expandable member mounted between the body and the inserting member. The expandable member includes an expandable portion and a lip portion extending from the expandable portion. A compressible space is defined by the expandable portion and the lip portion, and the expandable portion has a plurality of snap portions. When the body is axially turned relative to the inserting assembly at a certain angle to generate a push force, the snap portions will be expanded outwardly by the push force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: KING SLIDE WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: HSIU-CHIANG LIANG, KEN-CHING CHEN, CHUN-CHIANG WANG
  • Patent number: 7690083
    Abstract: The description is directed to a snap fastening for fast mounting of fittings such as socket wrench latches, swivel lever latches, hinge parts in openings in a thin wall, comprising a head part which is to be arranged on one, outer side of the thin wall and which overlaps the outer rim of the opening, and a body part which proceeds from the head part and projects through the opening in the mounted position, and holding elements which project from the body part and are flexible in direction of its outer surface, the free end of these holding elements being provided with a first inclined surface (run-in bevel) such that the holding element is pushed back in a spring-loaded manner by the opening edge and with a second inclined surface (stop bevel) for supporting the body part without play on the rim or edge of the opening of the other, inner side of the thin wall, which second inclined surface is substantially perpendicular to the first inclined surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Inventor: Dieter Ramsauer
  • Patent number: 7516518
    Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly comprising a door leaf (1), which has at least two undercut blind holes (26), and comprising at least two hinges (3) each consisting of a door-side and a wall-side hinge part (4,5). In order to fasten the door-side and/or wall-side hinge part, expanding plugs (20) are provided that have a distal expanding element (22) as well as a retaining and stop element (23). In addition, an expanding/fastening element (21) is provided that serves to expand the expanding elements and to fasten the hinge to the expanding plug. The expanding/fastening element can comprise a screw bolt (26) and a nut (28) or a mounting part (30) with a hole for accommodating a screw (31), with which the mounting part is screwed to the expanding plug. The invention also relates to a shower stall having one or more lateral walls and one or more assemblies of the aforementioned type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: NAOMI Rechte GmbH
    Inventor: Zoltan Anton Kiefer
  • Patent number: 7389564
    Abstract: A furniture fitting including frame sections which are preferably extruded and are intended to enclose furniture parts in the form of plates or panels, wherein the flame sections have an open groove extending in the longitudinal direction receive and retain a retaining part of the fitting. The groove is narrowed by two shoulders which are parallel to one another with end faces facing one another, wherein the retaining part has a flange portion which can be supported on the free upper face of the shoulders and in which there is provided at least one bore for rotatably retaining the shank, which engages in the groove, of a clamping element which selectively fixes the retaining part on the frame section or releases it for disassembly or longitudinal displacement in the longitudinal direction of the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: Mepla-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventor: Gerhard Wilhelm Lautenschläger
  • Patent number: 6904645
    Abstract: Furniture hinge (10) for pivotally mounting a door leaf (12) to a cupboard body whose door-side front is narrowed by a frame that projects inwardly at a right angle to the side walls. The hinge has a hinge arm (24) made of sheet metal and provided with a mounting plate (28) on the side facing the cupboard body. The mounting plate (28) can be releaseably secured in superposition with a fastening plate (34) disposed on the free end face (18) of a frame element (16) of the frame that faces away from the side wall. At least one slot-like elongated through opening (30; 36) is provided in the mounting plate (28) and in the fastening plate (34), through which opening the shank of a fastening screw (32) can be screwed into the frame element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Mepla-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Gerhard Wilhelm Lautenschläger
  • Publication number: 20020100143
    Abstract: Disclosed is a furniture hinge with an improved fastening object. In the furniture hinge, an offset fastening peg has a sectional shape corresponding to the shape of the through holes and protrudes from an underside of the fastening flanges. A fastening element includes a head having a tool inserting recess formed at an upper surface thereof, a shaft downwardly extending from an underside of the head to become one body with the head, and anchoring ribs laterally protruding from a lower end portion of an outer periphery surface of the shaft to become one body with the shaft. From this structure, the furniture hinge is capable of easily being mounted to and released from the door body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2002
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Inventor: Cheol-Soo Pyo
  • Patent number: 6415478
    Abstract: An attachment structure for attaching an assist grip to a vehicle body is provided wherein the assist grip has a contractible member formed integrally on its grip body such that the contractible member includes large-width portions and small-width portions. The large-width portions have a larger width than attachment holes of a ceiling base member and the vehicle body when the contractible member is in the normal state, but the width of the large-width portions may be reduced to be smaller than those of the attachment holes when the contractible member is contracted. The small-width portions have a smaller width than the attachment holes so as to be fitted in the holes. After fitting the contractible member into the attachment hole of the vehicle body, a lock pin is inserted into a space formed in the contractible member so as to restrict contraction of the contractible member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: Toyoda Boshoku Corporation
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Watanabe, Takumi Endo
  • 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: 6286186
    Abstract: Furniture hardware device (20) which can be fastened to the wall of a piece of furniture because it has fastening means projecting from its surface facing the furniture wall, which can be introduced into bores in the wall of the furniture and can be secured against withdrawal from the bores. At least one of the fastening means is configured as a fastening stud which has at least one knife-edged projection (60) running substantially circumferentially. The fastening stud or studs can be shifted between a mounting position in which the at least one knife-edged projection is withdrawn into the interior of the associated bore, and a fastening position in which they cut into the wall of the fastening bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: MEPLA-Werke Lautenschläger GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Horst Lautenschläger, Gerhard Wilhelm Lautenschläger
  • Patent number: 6279200
    Abstract: A hinge for furniture comprises a bowl (11) intended for being flush-recessed into a piece of furniture. Close to one side (20) of the bowl, arms (12) for hinge articulation are pivotally mounted. The bowl is provided with wings (13) having fastening dowels (14), the dowels having operating levers (16) movable between a position for dowel fastening and a position in which dowels are released. In the fastening position the lever (13) extends over a bowl edge (19) opposite to the side close to the arm pivoting point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Inventors: Franco Ferrari, Carlo Migli
  • Patent number: 6081970
    Abstract: In a rapid mounting hinge cup for furniture hinges, comprising a cup body (2) adapted for insertion into a cup bore (4) of a piece of furniture (6) and for being locked in the cup bore (4) by radially extending the diameter of the cup body, it is provided that said cylindrical cup body (2) comprises two mirror symmetric cup halves (8, 9) connected with each other on one side in the peripheral area, the plane of symmetry of the cup halves extending in a plane including the center axis of the cup bore (4), and further comprising a spreader element (14) spreading the cup halves (8, 9) apart and being provided between the cup halves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Prameta Gesellschaft fur Prazisionmetall-und Kuntstofferzeugnisse mbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Wladyslaw Wasilewski
  • Patent number: 6073311
    Abstract: A metal fitting for furniture, which can be installed without tools in a recess in a panel-shaped furniture part. The metal fitting for furniture has a holding part, at the upper, free edge of which a radially protruding flange is provided, which can be guided in contact with the outside of the furniture part, and is provided with a clamping element, which can be propped open by a handle in clamping contact with the wall of the recess. The clamping element is constructed as a hoop, which extends over a portion of the height and a portion of the periphery of the holding part and, in its extent, is adapted essentially to the contour of the recess. On both sides of the hoop, lever shoulders, which are linked at the flange or in the vicinity of the flange at the holding part so that they can be swiveled about a common axis, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Assignee: MEPLA-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Horst Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 6070299
    Abstract: A furniture hinge, includes a hinge part securable to a movable component of a furniture piece, a hinge arm pivotally mounted to the hinge part, a mounting plate connected to the hinge arm, and fastening screws for securing the mounting plate to a body-related component of the furniture piece, with the mounting plate having support studs for projection in a corresponding number of mortises formed in the body-related component of the furniture piece, wherein the fastening screws are arranged in a directly adjoining area of the support studs when threaded in for securing the mounting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Hettich-ONI GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Manfred Schnelle
  • Patent number: 5979017
    Abstract: A fastener system for mounting a furniture fitting includes a pair of spreader dowels supported in corresponding holes in the fastening flange of a furniture fitting. Each spreader dowel includes an expandable dowel with an inner notch and a noncircular spreader screw within the inner notch. The spreader screw expands the dowel with a 90-degree turn of the spreader screw, and each spreader screw is provided with a cover cap from which a crank extends. The respective dowels are expanded by rotating the respective cranks through a 90-degree turn from a position substantially parallel to one another to a position overlapping one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Grass AG
    Inventor: Reinhard Karl
  • Patent number: 5966779
    Abstract: A base plate for fixing a hinge arm on furniture is constituted by a support plate (2) which can be fixed to a support wall, a covering plate (3) at least partially covering the support plate and transversely guided thereon and having fixing devices for attaching the hinge arm. Pre-mounted fixing screws (23,23') are partially screwed in the holes (20,21) of the support plate (2) and go through oblong holes (15,16) provided in the covering plate (3). In order to let the covering plate be transversely moved, easily and by economical means, and in order to prevent the support plate from separating from the covering plate before the mounting of the base plate, one hole (20) of the support plate (2) is at least partially surrounded by guide sockets (24) that go through the corresponding oblong hole (15) of the covering plate and slightly protrude from its upper edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Arturo Salice S.p.A.
    Inventor: Luciano Salice
  • Patent number: 5946404
    Abstract: An audio/video surveillance recording system comprising both units having a video camera and units having a dummy lens is disclosed. The use of a dummy lens rather than tinted or mirrored glass on the camera housing provides a greater amount of light to the camera. A unique mounting assembly which lets the dummy units be substituted for the live units without removing the mounting brackets is also disclosed. Both the dummy and live units have illuminated indicators. The system uses weatherproof microphones manufactured using a novel plastic dipping and coating method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Assignee: Silent Witness Enterprises Ltd.
    Inventors: Rajeev K. Bakshi, Marcel Veronesi, Michael Wall
  • Patent number: 5839164
    Abstract: A hinge for mounting a door to a frame includes a mounting cup having an outer perimeter adapted for mounting within a recess formed in the door and a hinge member for being mounted to the frame and coupled to the mounting cup to allow selective pivotal movement of the door with respect to the frame. The mounting cup has an outer perimeter having a first portion with a first effective outer diameter and a second portion having a second effective outer diameter, the first outer diameter being larger than the second outer diameter, the first portion being adapted to provide an interference fit within the recess when the mounting cup is inserted into the recess. The first portion of the outer perimeter may be adapted to include at least one arcuate threaded section and at least one unthreaded section. The threaded sections may be removable segments that are coupled to the outer perimeter. The hinge may also include a compliant cup or ring that encircles at least partially the outer perimeter of the mounting cup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: Newell Operating Company
    Inventors: David R. Cress, Stephen M. Purcell
  • Patent number: 5829814
    Abstract: For the vertical alignment of a hinged covering flap, in particular of a glove-compartment cover, it is proposed to insert the hinge leaf on the cover side, accompanied by the spring-loaded engagement of teeth which protrude and engage into a row of teeth, into a channel fixedly disposed with respect to the vehicle body, and to secure the resulting alignment position with the use of a locking clip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AG
    Inventors: Harry Niessner, Santiago Duenas, Helmut Wagner
  • Patent number: 5715577
    Abstract: Door-related hinge member (26) having a cup part with flattened sides, which is to be driven into a mortise in the back of a door. A flange extending outward against the back of the door is integral with the rim of the cup part, and retaining members are provided at the flattened sides, which can be spread apart by means of a handle provided on the flange in order to drive them into the wall of the mortise. On the bottom of the flange one or more centering pins can be provided for engagement in holes adjacent the mortise. Each retaining member (52) reaches substantially across the height of the associated flat in the cup part and through an opening in the mounting flange, and can swing radially on the cup part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1998
    Assignee: MEPLA-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Horst Lautenschlager, Gerhard Wilhelm Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 5711054
    Abstract: A fitting part comprises a bushing adapted to be inserted into a pre-drilled hole in a supporting wall and secured in such a manner as to prevent relative rotation on the bottom side of a plate-like part, a holding pin mounted in a rotatable manner in the bushing and which after rotation thereof is adapted to engage the wall of the hole directly or by the intermediary of locking clamping parts, and whose widened out head is engaged with the top side of the attachment flange, and a flat actuating part connected with the head in a pivotal fashion, which actuating part may be folded over out of an inactive position essentially parallel to the attachment flange into an actuating position essentially parallel to the axis of the holding pin. The fitting part can be consequently fitted in place in a simple fashion without special tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: Arturo Salice S.p.A.
    Inventor: Luciano Salice
  • Patent number: 5669108
    Abstract: A unit for fastening iron fittings (43) to furniture parts, comprises an expansion plug (11) which axially receives a pin (12) rotatable between an insertion position and an expansion position of the expansion plug. The pin has a radial protrusion (34) designed to imprison an iron fitting between it and an opposing top end of the expansion plug. The radial protrusion defines a flat surface, substantially perpendicular to the axis of the pin, which extends partially over a coupling seat (35) formed in the opposing top end (14) of the expansion plug around the passage (13) for insertion of the pin in the expansion plug, the bottom (36) of the seat forming a surface facing the flat surface of the radial protrusion, the slot (35) having a side wall (38) facing a corresponding side wall (39) of the pin. The seat (35) can thus receive a substantially complementary portion provided on the iron fitting in correspondence with a hole in the latter for the passage of the pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1997
    Assignee: Franco Ferrari
    Inventors: Franco Ferrari, Carlo Migli
  • Patent number: 5632067
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a door-related hinge member having a cup-like portion to be sunk in a substantially circular mortise (28) in the back of a door (30) and having a flange (34) integral with the upper edge of cup-like portion. At least two centering studs (36) extend from the bottom of the flange and engage in two holes (38; 38') situated near the mortise. The hinge member is installable on at least two doors which are different as regards the position of the holes for the centering studs, the studs are provided in an area of the flange (34) in which the flange, when in the correctly installed position, covers the holes of the differently configured doors (30). The centering studs are of such shape and size that their outer periphery contacts the wall of each of the holes (38; 38') in at least along a line, in each of the differently configured doors (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1997
    Assignee: MEPLA-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Horst Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: 5586364
    Abstract: A fastening element for fastening hardware elements (31) to parts of furniture units (14) comprises an expansion plug (11) having an axial through housing (17) which can receive an expanded pin (23), which can rotate between a position in which the plug is not expanded, to enable it to be inserted in a hole (16) in the furniture unit (14), and a position in which the plug is expanded to anchor it in the hole. The walls of the axial housing (17) and of the pin (23) have reciprocal contacting surfaces in the expanded position which diverge in the direction of insertion of the plug. A cam plate (32) provided centrally with a polygonal hole (33) for coupling with a protrusion (30) of the pin (23) and peripherally with a raised edge (34) for guiding fingers (22, 22') of the plug (11) for reversibly guiding the expansion of the plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1996
    Assignee: Franco Ferrari
    Inventors: Franco Ferrari, Carlo Migli
  • Patent number: 5577297
    Abstract: A door fastening member of a furniture hinge having a hinge cup for installation sunk in a recess in the rear surface of a door leaf. The hinge cup has a fastening flange engaging the inner surface of the door leaf. Projecting from the underside of the fastening flange, spaced from the hinge cup, are offset fastening pegs which engage in associated bores in the door leaf and which may each be fixed in the associated bore by means of a fastening element which is rotatable relative to the fastening flange.Due to eccentric mounting of the rotatable fastening element, knife-like anchoring ribs provided on the fastening element of the fastening peg are movable out of a position of the bores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: MEPLA-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Horst Lautenschlager, Gerhard 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: 5513909
    Abstract: An appliance hinge connects a cabinet top to a cabinet base for pivotal movement therebetween. The hinge includes a first hinge member attached to the cabinet top and a second hinge member attached to the cabinet base. The first and second hinge members are pivotally connected to one another. One of the first and second hinge members includes a leg extending between the cabinet top and the cabinet base to prevent contact therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1996
    Assignee: Maytag Corporation
    Inventor: Daniel E. Teich
  • Patent number: 5463796
    Abstract: A hinge pot has a housing which can be inserted into a bore in a furniture part and dowel-type expandable clamping jaws which can be inserted in the bore and which can be pressed against the bore wall by way of expanding members constructed as tie rods. The expanding members are movable by way of an eccentric lever in the direction of insertion of the hinge pot perpendicular to the plane of mounting thereof. The clamping jaws are cylinder sections of visco-elastic material. The expanding members are metal, are located between the hinge pot and the respective clamping jaws, and have hooks at their free ends. Opposite the hooks are provided contact pressure cams which are supported against a housing wall of the hinge pot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1995
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Klaus Brustle, Helmut Rupprechter
  • 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: 5359752
    Abstract: A laterally adjustable mounting bracket for use on a desk or cabinet drawer maintained by a supporting surface and with a tongueless drawer guide having a base plate, a moveable drawer guide plate cooperatively receiving a tongueless drawer guide, and means for adjustably securing the drawer guide plate to the base plate. The adjustable securing means includes base plate spring members having a plurality of serrations, guide plate spring engaging members having a plurality of serrations cooperatively engaging the serrations of the base plate spring members to enable preselective lateral adjustment of the drawer, drawer guide and drawer guide plate with respect to the desk or cabinet housing the drawer. The drawer guide plate has a resilient stop and the base plate has an elongated slot and connecting ramp cooperatively receiving and engaging the stop to limit the preselected adjustment of the drawer, drawer guide and drawer guide plate with respect to the desk or cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1994
    Inventor: Georg Domenig
  • Patent number: 5353476
    Abstract: An improvement in a configured hinge having a hinge cup for mounting on a surface provided with a hinge cup bore hole comprising a spacer having a pre-selected thickness and a periphery substantially conforming to the configuration of the hinge cup for mounting beneath the hinge cup flange near the bore hole to compensate for the less than standard depth of the bore hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1994
    Assignee: Grass America Inc.
    Inventor: Georg Domenig
  • Patent number: 5349723
    Abstract: A laterally adjustable mounting bracket for use on a desk or cabinet drawer maintained by a supporting surface and with a tongueless drawer guide having a base plate, a moveable drawer guide plate having top, bottom, and side edges cooperatively receiving a tongueless drawer guide, and means for adjustably securing the drawer guide plate to the base plate. The adjustable securing means includes base plate spring members engaging the guide plate top and bottom edges to enable preselective lateral adjustment of the drawer, drawer guide and drawer guide plate with respect to the desk or cabinet housing the drawer. The drawer guide plate has a resilient stop and the base plate has an elongated slot and connecting ramp cooperatively receiving and engaging the stop to limit the preselected adjustment of the drawer, drawer guide and drawer guide plate with respect to the desk or cabinet. The base plate has top and bottom flanges cooperatively receiving the drawer guide plate for preselected adjustment therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1994
    Inventor: Georg Domenig
  • Patent number: 5337911
    Abstract: A container includes a main lid for closing the container and an auxiliary lid for closing an opening in the main lid. The auxiliary lid provides access to the container without opening the main lid. The auxiliary lid is hingedly attached to the main lid by a pair of hinges which extend through hinge openings in the main lid and which are releasably secured within the hinge openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1994
    Assignee: The Coleman Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy M. Holub
  • Patent number: 4862556
    Abstract: An adjustable base plate for fastening a hinge to a furniture part embodies a base plate having at least one fastening hole therein for receiving an insert which is displaceable in the lengthwise direction of the fastening hole. The insert has a center hole of a pre-determined diameter along the longitudinal axis of the insert adapted to receive a threaded fastening screw. The fastening screw has a collar of a pre-determined diameter which is smaller than the diameter of the center hole in the area of the fastening hole of the base plate. The insert has a top part for engagement in the fastening hole of the base plate and a bottom part joined to the top part by a breakable connection adaptable to be broken by the threads of the fastening screw. The bottom part is adapted to be inserted in a hole in the furniture part and to expand into frictional engagement with the side walls of the hole in the furniture part upon insertion of the fastening screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1989
    Assignee: Alfred Grass Ges.m.b.H. Metallwarenfabrik
    Inventor: Alfred Grass
  • Patent number: 4785497
    Abstract: A baseplate assembly for mounting a hinge bracket of a furniture hinge has a base plate, which is to be secured to a carrying wall or the like by fixing screws, and a cover plate, which covers or partly overlaps the base plate and is guided on the base plate transversely to the hinge bracket. The hinge bracket, which is connected to the base plate by a retaining screw or rivet and by a headed clamp screw, which is screwed into a tapped bore in the base plate and extends through a slot that is formed in the cover plate and is parallel to the direction in which the cover plate is guided on the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1988
    Assignee: Arturo Salice
    Inventor: Luciano Salice
  • Patent number: 4673087
    Abstract: A container is formed of a rigid, flat base, a rigid cover, and four vertically arranged, flat wall forming panels that are connected together along their adjacent vertical edges by hinge-like corner connectors and whose upper and lower edges are removably held in corresponding grooves formed in the base and cover. The panels are made of plastic extruded into parallel, spaced apart rigid sheets that are interconnected by numerous, spaced apart, transverse strips whose opposite ends are integral with the sheets. Each corner has a flat, sheet-like base strip that is integrally formed with a flexible center and rigid opposite edge sections that extend along the length of the connector base. Each of the opposite edge sections has an integral T-shaped rib extending along its length. The ribs are inserted endwise into elongated vertical slots formed in the endmost strips of the adjacent panel edges for fastening the connectors to the panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1987
    Assignee: Peninsula Plastics Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel D. Webb
  • Patent number: 4619016
    Abstract: A hinge attachment arrangement for mounting a door on a motor vehicle includes a pair of hinge wings interconnected by a hinge pin with one hinge wing to be secured to a vehicle door and the other to a fastening element secured to the door frame on the vehicle. The other hinge wing is secured to the fastening element by at least one bolt. The other hinge wing and the fastening element also have at least one continuous borehole for receiving a plug or bolt when the other hinge wing is attached to the fastening element. The borehole and the plug or bolt form guide surfaces which slide one relative to the other so that the guide surfaces afford self-centering and the elimination of play in the assembly of the hinge attachment arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1986
    Assignee: ED. Scharwachter GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Ernst Brockhaus
  • Patent number: 4574425
    Abstract: A hinge for swingably coupling at least different plate members, which comprises a first mounting portion having first detent protrusions for engaging with each corresponding hole formed on one of said plate member, a second mounting portion having at least a second detent protrusion for engaging with other hole formed on the other plate member, a thin flexible portion between the first and second mounting portion and integrally formed with the two mounting portions so as to bend the second mounting portion, at least two groups of ribs provided at said first and second mounting portions respectively, and engagement projections formed on the first mounting portion and capable of being engaged with the edge of one of said plate members. With this construction, the detent or engagement strength as well as the strength of the hinge unit itself can be increased, while easy access to the plate member such as a printed circuit board within an electric apparatus can be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1986
    Assignee: Kitagawa Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Haruyuki Sugiura
  • Patent number: 4569448
    Abstract: An expandable storage system for securely storing materials of various shapes and sizes in an organized, easily identifiable and accessible manner. One or more rows of support members are removeably secured upon a panel so that their positions on the panel may be easily changed in order to secure materials of varying sizes and shapes. A resilient upper support member applies downward pressure on stored materials so that they are held securely against the other support members in order to minimize movement. Additional panels may be quickly added to the system by snapping hinge members to the panel edge and connecting those hinge members, by gravity support, to hinge members on an adjacent panel. Locations are provided for labels and other information relating to stored materials, with no separate space required for the label location. The storage system may be removeably mounted on a structural surface during use and may be secured in a closed configuration similar to a suitcase for transporting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1986
    Assignee: C/H Research Associates
    Inventor: Charles H. Graham
  • Patent number: 4517706
    Abstract: Cabinet hinge having a supporting arm which can be snapped onto the mounting plate. The supporting arm (16) of the hinge is adjustably fastened to the mounting plate (14) that is previously mounted on the supporting wall (12) of a cabinet, and it has a slot (34) which is open at the end remote from the hinge articulation or is provided with an enlarged pass-through opening to admit the head (38) of a mounting screw (40) driven into the mounting plate (14). The mounting plate (14) is provided with a spring catch (wire spring 72) projecting beyond its lateral surface and associated with an abutment on the confronting inside surface of the supporting arm (16). The position of this abutment with respect to the tip (78) of the spring catch is selected such that the tip engages the abutment as soon as the shank of the mounting screw (40) reaches the area of transition from the slot (34) to the pass-through opening (36) or open end, as the case may be, of the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1985
    Assignee: Karl Lautenschlager KG, Mobelbeschlagfabrik
    Inventors: Karl Lautenschlager, Horst Lautenschlager, Gerhard Lautenschlager
  • Patent number: RE37236
    Abstract: A hinge pot has a housing which can be inserted into a bore in a furniture part and dowel-type expandable clamping jaws which can be inserted in the bore and which can be pressed against the bore wall by way of expanding members constructed as tie rods. The expanding members are movable by way of an eccentric lever in the direction of insertion of the hinge pot perpendicular to the plane of mounting thereof. The clamping jaws are cylinder sections of visco-elastic material. The expanding members are metal, are located between the hinge pot and the respective clamping jaws, and have hooks at their free ends. Opposite the hooks are provided contact pressure cams which are supported against a housing wall of the hinge pot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Inventors: Klaus Brüstle, Helmut Rupprechter