Hydraulic hinge with door closing mechanism

• US 4,358,870 A
• Filed: 08/14/1980
• Issued: 11/16/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Chang H. Hong
• Original Assignee: Chang H. Hong
• Inventors: Hong, Chang H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Reynolds, Wm. Carter
• Application Number:
  US06/177,938
• Time in Patent Office: 824 Days
• Field of Search: 16/52, 16/53, 16/54, 16/58, 16/68, 16/DIG. 9
• US Class Current: 16/53
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 3/20 in hinges
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/132 Doors

Abstract

A hydraulic hinge, which can close automatically a door and firmly hold the door at a certain open position without any conventional door closer or door checking device, comprises a casing, a seat having a hexagonal opening therein, a buffer hydraulic mechanism and a spiral reversing spring installed in the casing, and a piston mounted on the buffer hydraulic mechanism and having a hexagonal piston stem extending through the spiral reversing spring to move reciprocatively within the hexagonal opening of the seat.

Claims

1. An apparatus capable of closing automatically a door on which the apparatus is mounted, which comprises:

a cylindrical casing having at least one protrusion thereon and a first stop device thereon, said casing preferably being mounted on one side of the door;

a cover mounted on the top of said casing and having an opening therein;

a piston in said casing having a hexagonal piston stem extending through the opening in said cover, and a piston head provided with a second stop device and at least one inclined groove thereon for receiving the protrustion on said casing, the lower portion of said inclined groove having an upwardly curved portion acting as a non-return device;

a spiral reversing spring whose upper and lower ends are fixed on the first and second stop devices of said casing and said piston respectively;

hydraulic means attached integrally to said piston head and placed in the lower portion of said casing for buffering the movement of said piston during the operation; and

a seat having a hexagonal hole therethrough for slidably receiving said hexagonal piston stem, said seat preferably being mounted on the frame of the door, whereby during closure of said door said hexagonal piston stem slides axially relative to said seat but does not rotate relative thereto.

2. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein said casing comprises a hydraulic cylinder, an annular guiding member and a protective sleeve.

3. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein said piston has a longitudinal through hole therein.

4. An apparatus as claimed in claim 3 and further comprising an adjusting rod received in and extending through said longitudinal through hole of said piston to adjust the flowing of the fluid stored in said hydraulic means.

5. An apparatus as claimed in claim 4 wherein said hydraulic means substantially comprises a hydraulic chamber having a horn-shaped through hole for receiving the lower end of said adjusting rod, an inlet and an outlet, and a damper provided at the underside of the hydraulic chamber.