Retaining fastening for a flap hinged around a horizontal swivel axis to a top panel of a cupboard

• US 5,882,099 A
• Filed: 03/07/1997
• Issued: 03/16/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Arturo Salice SPA
• Original Assignee: Arturo Salice SPA
• Inventors: Salice, Luciano
• Primary Examiner(s): Cuomo, Peter M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): TRAN, HANH VAN
• Application Number:
  US08/813,600
• Time in Patent Office: 739 Days
• Field of Search: 312/328, 312/327, 312/326, 312/329, 312/325, 312/322, 312/319.2, 160/199, 160/207, 160/189, 160/190, 49/339, 49/346
• US Class Current: 312/328
• CPC Class Codes: E05D 15/262 folding vertically
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/20 for furnitures, e.g. cabinets

Abstract

The invention relates to a retaining fastening for a flap pivotable around a horizontal swivel axis hinged to a top panel of a cupboard and having a lever pivotably connectable to a body part of the cupboard. A free end of the lever is guided in a rail which can be fixed to an inside of the flap at right angles to the swivel axis. The lever is acted upon by a spring-loaded device preferably having a rod which can be travelled into or out of a spring housing by pneumatic or elastic force.

In accordance with the invention, the lever is a two-armed bent lever (8) whose swivel axis (7) is situated between the lever arms (9, 10), whose longer lever arm (10) is guided in the rail (17) and onto whose shorter lever arm (9) extending into the inside of the cupboard in the closed state of the flap (16, 32), one end of the spring-loaded device (5, 12) is hinged with other end being pivotably connected to the furniture body.

Claims

1. A retaining fastening comprising

a lever pivotably connectable to a body part of a cupboard,

a free end of said lever being guided in a rail which can be fastened to an inside of a flap at a right angle to a swivel axis of the flap, and

said lever pressurized by spring-loaded means, wherein

said lever comprises a two-armed bent lever (8) having a longer arm (10) and a shorter arm (9) and whose swivel axis (7) lies between the lever arms (9, 10), with the longer lever arm (10) being guided in the rail (17) and on the shorter lever arm (9), extending in a closed state of the flap (16, 32) to an inside of the cupboard, one end of the spring-loaded means (5, 12) is hinged with another end of the spring-load means (5, 12) being pivotably linked to the body part, and

the bent lever (8) and a housing (5) for the spring-loaded means (5, 12) are pivoted between protruding limbs (2) of a fastening plate (1) which can be attached to a top panel of the cupboard.

2. A retaining fastening in accordance with claim 1, wherein the two lever arms (9, 10) form an oblique angle and a line of action of spring force extends above the swivel axis (7) of bent lever (8) with the flap (16, 32) closed.

3. A retaining fastening in accordance with claim 2, wherein the longer lever arm (10) can be adjusted in length.

4. A retaining fastening in accordance with claim 1, wherein the longer lever arm (10) can be adjusted in its length.

5. A retaining fastening in accordance with claim 1, wherein a detent pin (20) for the bent lever (8) is held between the limbs (2) above the swivel axis (7) of the bent lever (8).

6. A retaining fastening in accordance with claim 5, wherein the detent pin (20) is pivoted and possesses an eccentric shaft (21).

7. A retaining fastening in accordance with claim 1, wherein said fastening is structured and arranged to be attached to the flap (16) which is an upper wing of a two-wing folding flap (16, 32) having a lower wing (32) hinged to a support part (36) which is guided in a guide rail hinged in a side panel of the body part.

8. A retaining fastening in accordance with claim 7, wherein the support part comprises an elongated slide part which is provided in a middle section thereof for interlocking in a C-shaped guide rail, with a hammer-shaped head which can be rotated through an axis at right angles to the guide rail by a bolt,

a width of said head being smaller and a length of said head being greater than width of a longitudinal slot formed between arms angled from limbs of the guide rail, and

a retaining part connected to the slide part to fasten a fastening part supporting a door wing.

9. A retaining fastening in accordance with claim 8, wherein the slide part is provided with a bearing part penetrating the longitudinal slot in which the bearing part is pivoted around an axis extending laterally to the slide part.

10. A retaining fastening in accordance with claim 8, wherein the fastening part is constituted by a hinge arm (108).

11. A retaining fastening in accordance with claim 1, wherein the shorter lever arm of the two-armed bent lever can be adjusted in length.

12. A retaining fastening in accordance with claim 11, wherein the shorter lever arm of the two-armed bent lever can be adjusted in its angle position to the longer lever arm.

13. A retaining fastening in accordance with claim 11, wherein on the shorter lever arm (45), an adjustment part (43) is movably guided which is provided with a borehole (50) for hinging of the spring-loaded means (5).

14. A retaining fastening in accordance with claim 13, wherein the shorter lever arm (45) is provided with two oblong holes (46), the adjustment part (43) encloses the shorter lever arm (45) in a U shape and pins are held in the limbs (47, 48) of the adjustment part (43) which penetrate and are guided in the oblong holes (46).

15. A retaining fastening in accordance with claim 14, wherein the oblong holes (46) are inclined towards each other in such a way that the adjustment part (43) is pushed onto the shorter lever arm (45) on a circle arc (54).

16. An adjustment part in accordance with claim 13, wherein on the bent lever a pivotable eccentric disc (52) is supported which engages a borehole or an oblong hole (51) of the adjustment part (43) and which is provided for turning with a slot or intersecting slots.

17. A retaining fastening in accordance with claim 1, wherein said fastening is structured and arranged to be fastened to the flap which is hinged around a vertical swivel axis to the body part of the cupboard.

18. A retaining fastening in accordance with claim 1, wherein said spring-loaded means comprise a rod which can extend into and out of the spring housing by means of pneumatic or elastic force.

19. A retaining fastening comprising a lever pivotally connectable to a body part of a cupboard,

a free end of said lever being guided in a rail which can be fastened to an inside of a flap at a right angle to a swivel axis of the flap, and

said lever pressurized by spring-loaded means, wherein

said lever comprises a two-armed bent lever (8) having a longer arm (10) and a shorter arm (9) and whose swivel axis (7) lies between the lever arms (9, 10) with the longer arm (10) being guided in the rail (17) and on the shorter lever arm (9), extending in a closed state of the flap (16, 32) to an inside of the cupboard, one end of the spring-loaded means (5, 12) is hinged, with another end of the spring-loaded means (5, 12) being pivotably linked to the body part, and

a detent pin (20) for the bent lever (8) is held between limbs (2) of a fastening plate above the swivel axis (7) of the bent lever (8).

20. A retaining fastening comprising

a lever pivotally connectable to a body part of a cupboard,

a free end of said lever being guided in a rail which can be fastened to an inside of a flap at a right angle to a swivel axis of the flap, and

said lever pressurized by spring-loaded means, wherein

said lever comprises a two-armed bent lever (8) having a longer arm (10) and a shorter arm (9) and whose swivel axis (7) lies between the lever arms (9, 10), with the longer lever arm (10) being guided in the rail (17) and on the shorter lever arm (9), extending in a closed state of the flap (16, 32) to an inside of the cupboard, one end of the spring-loaded means (5, 12) is hinged with another end of the spring-load means (5, 12) being pivotally linked to the body part,

the shorter lever arm (9) of the two-armed bent lever (8) being adjustable in length, and

the shorter lever arm (9) of the two-armed bent lever (8) can be adjusted in its angle position to the longer lever arm (10).

21. A retaining fastening comprising:

a lever pivotally connectable to a body part of a cupboard,

a free end of said lever being guided in a rail which can be fastened to an inside of a flap at a right angle to a swivel axis of the flap, and

said lever pressurized by spring-loaded means, wherein

said lever comprises a two-armed bent lever (8) having a longer arm (10) and a shorter arm (9) and whose swivel axis (7) lies between the lever arms (9,

     10), with the longer lever arm (10) being guided in the rail (17) and on the shorter lever arm (9), extending in a closed state of the flap (16,

     32) to an inside of the cupboard, one end of the spring-loaded means (5,

     12) is hinged with another end of the spring-load means (5,

     12) being pivotally linked to the body part,

the shorter lever arm (9) of the two-armed bent lever (8) being adjustable in length, wherein

on the shorter lever arm (45), an adjustment part (43) is movably guided and which is provided with a borehole (50) for hinging of the spring-loaded means (5).