Opening and closing latch device for furniture
AssigneeArturo Salice S.p.A.
InventorLuciano Salice
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Abstract
Latch device composed of a container (51) in which there is a slider (52), inserted in a guide (60), controlled in translation by a spring (53) and comprising a hook (68) to catch a hooking element (59) placed on a door. A track (40), with the bottom defining the profile of a cam on one side of the guide (60), is travelled along by a ball (73) placed on the slider (52) and held pressed by a spring (72) against the bottom of the track (40) to determine the four open, closed, released and locked positions of the door according to the position of the ball in the track.
Claims5
Opening and closing latch device (T), adapted to facilitate closing and/or opening of a movable part (58) of furniture with respect to the furniture (57), comprising a container (51, 81) defining an internal cavity with at least one open side and comprising a sliding guide (60, 90),
- characterised in that it also comprises:
- a sliding element (52), placed in the sliding guide and comprising a hook (68) at a first end, suitable to catch a hooking element (59) integral with said movable part (58),
- elastic means (53), placed between the sliding element (52) and the container (51), so that the elastic means (53) exert an elastic force on the sliding element (52) suitable to make it slide, reacting on said container (51),
- a track (40), placed on one side of the sliding guide (60, 90), with surface of the bottom defining a cam path and the plan layout of which forms a closed geometrical figure,
- tappet means (73), integral with the sliding element (52), suitable to travel along the cam path, so as to define a number of positions of the sliding element (52), corresponding to a release position, a lock position and two intermediate opening and closing positions of said movable part (58),
- and in that the sliding guide (60, 90) is inclined of an angle (a) with respect to the direction along which a closing and opening movement takes place between the movable part (58) and the furniture (57).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.