Mounting plate for furniture hinges

• US 5,343,595 A
• Filed: 10/06/1992
• Issued: 09/06/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mepla-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
• Original Assignee: Mepla-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
• Inventors: Lautenschlager, Gerhard W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bradley, P. Austin
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mah, Chuck Y.
• Application Number:
  US07/957,226
• Time in Patent Office: 700 Days
• Field of Search: 16/257, 16/271, 16/272, 16/DIG. 43
• US Class Current: 16/257
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2230/11 Attachment fittings mounted in blind holes
• CPC Class Codes: E05D 5/0276 for attachment to cabinets or furniture, the hinge having two or more pins E05D5/046, E05D5/065, E05D7/125 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E05D 7/125 the hinge having two or more pins
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/20 for furniture, e.g. cabinets

Abstract

Mounting plate (10) composed of an upper portion and a lower portion for adjustably securing the support wall abutment portion of a furniture hinge to the support wall of a cupboard carcass in which the mounting plate lower portion (12) may be secured directly to the support wall and the mounting plate upper portion (14) is slidable parallel to the support wall onto the mounting plate lower portion through a sliding guide defined between the portions from the interior of the carcass in the direction out of the cupboard carcass until in engagement with abutments which come into engagement with one another in the predetermined end position secured against lifting away from the mounting plate lower portion.

Claims

1. A mounting plate composed of an upper portion and a lower portion for adjustably securing a support wall abutment portion of a furniture hinge to a support wall of a carcass in which the mounting Upper portion is slidable from a rear end of the lower portion onto the mounting plate lower portion along a sliding guide defined between the portions, said upper portion of said mounting plate being held in a predetermined assembled position such as to prevent a lifting away of the upper portion of the predetermined assembled position on the mounting plate lower portion in the region situated below the mounting plate upper portion (14) in the predetermined assembled position, the mounting plate lower portion (12) has a resilient tongue (22) which is directed opposite to an interior end of the lower portion and said tongue having a free end which projects beyond an upper surface of the mounting plate lower portion (12), said mounting plate upper portion (14) having a lower surface which is directed towards the mounting plate lower portion (12), and said lower surface having a recess, said recess having arranged a transversely extending locking edge and, said free end of the resilient tongue (22) and said locking edge on the mounting plate upper portion (14) being positionable such that the free end of the resilient tongue (22) inserted into the recess in the predetermined assembled position of the mounting plate upper portion (14) on the mounting plate lower portion (12) engages the locking edge, the mounting plate upper portion (14) is made of stamp-pressed metal plate and has an inverted U-shaped cross-section having lateral cheeks with free ends and edge strips (28), said strips are bent out at right-angles from said free ends of said lateral cheeks, and the mounting plate lower portion (12) is provided with two elongate, bar-like projections (18) which accommodate the upper portion (14) fittingly between said two elongate, bar-like projections (18), said elongate, bar-like projections having side surfaces which are directed towards the lateral cheeks of a mounting web and said side surfaces having a respective elongate groove (20) which is open and fittingly accommodates one of the edge strips associated therewith (28).

2. Mounting plate as claimed in claim 1, wherein the resilient tongue (22) is an integral injection moulded plastics component.

3. The mounting plate according to claim 1, wherein the elongate grooves (20) are open at one end and closed at the other end.

4. The mounting plate according to claim 1, wherein the resilient tongue (22) is an integral part of the mounting plate lower portion (12).

5. The mounting plate according to claim 4, wherein the mounting plate lower portion (12) including the resilient tongue (22) which is an integral injection moulded plastics component.

6. The mounting plate according to claim 5, wherein the mounting plate lower portion (12) has at least one fastening peg (16) which projects from a lower surface therein.

7. The mounting plate as claimed in claim 6, wherein at least a portion of at least one of the fastening pegs (16) is oversized with respect to a respective associated bore in the support wall.

8. The mounting plate according to claim 6, wherein at least a portion of at least one of the fastening pegs (16) is expandable as a straddling dowel expands.

9. The mounting plate according to claim 6, wherein said at least one fastening peg (16) is provided with retaining ridges which extend substantially in the peripheral direction and are pointed in cross-section in the manner of saw teeth.

10. The mounting plate according to claim 1, wherein the resilient tongue (22) is manufactured separately and is secured to the mounting plate lower portion (12).

11. The mounting plate according to claim 1, wherein said mounting plate lower portion (12) is shaped to serve as a low fastening plate and said low fastening plate having an upper surface, and said bar-like projections (18) projecting from said upper surface.

12. The mounting plate according to claim 1, wherein a rear end of the mounting plate upper portion (14) has at least one abutment which projects downwardly and comes into engagement in the predetermined assembled position with the mounting plate lower portion (12) in a mounting plate lower portion'"'"'s rear end region.

13. The mounting plate according to claim 1, wherein in a front end region of the mounting plate lower portion (12) between the elongate bar-shaped projections (18) there are constructed upwardly projecting engagement surfaces (24) which engage the inner surfaces of said lateral cheeks of the upper portion (14) in the predetermined assembled position of the upper and lower portions.

14. The mounting plate according to 13, wherein the locking edge on the upper portion is defined by two flanges (30) cut at the free edges of the lateral cheeks of the upper portion and which are bent inwardly substantially at right-angles thereto.