Hinge for a glass door

• US 20050150079A1
• Filed: 10/21/2003
• Published: 07/14/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dorma GmbH + Company KG (dormakaba Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Dorma GmbH + Company KG (dormakaba Holding AG)
• Inventors: Ginzel, Lothar
• Application Number:
  US10/509,792
• Publication Number:
  US 20050150079A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 16/252
• CPC Class Codes: E05D 11/00 Additional features or accessories of hinges edge protecting devices E06B3/88
• CPC Class Codes: E05D 5/0246 for attachment to glass panels
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2800/106 Lighting
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2800/12 Sealing
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/20 for furnitures, e.g. cabinets

Abstract

A door hinge includes a body received in a cutout provided in the edge of a glass door, a pair of plates which grip the glass door and hold the body in the cutout, and lights on an edge of the body received in the cutout.

Claims

1-7. -7. (canceled)

8. A fitting for a glass door provided with a cutout, the fitting comprising:

a body which can be received in the cutout, the body having opposed sides and a front edge;

a strip tab and a counter plate which can be fixed to respective said sides of the body in order to grip the glass door and hold the body in the cutout; and

lights arranged on the body so that the lights can be received in the cutout.

9. The fitting according to claim 8 further comprising lights arranged on the front edge.

10. The fitting according to claim 8 wherein the fitting has an upper edge and a lower edge, the lights comprising lights arranged on at least one of the upper edge and the lower edge.

11. The fitting according to claim 8 wherein the fitting and the cutout form a cavity, the lights being received in the cavity.

12. The fitting according to claim 8 further comprising an electrically insulating seal between the body and the lights.

13. The fitting according to claim 8 wherein the lights are LEDs.

14. The fitting according to claim 13 further comprising at least one board to which the LEDs are connected, the board being received between the body and the glass door.