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US 3,940,828 AGranted
Snap hinge
AssigneeKarl Lautenschlaeger KG Mobelbeschlaegfabrik
InventorKarl Lautenschlaeger
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Abstract
A snap hinge for use in connecting furniture doors, for example, to a furniture wall utilizing a pair of pivotally mounted link members and including a spring biased mechanism and a cam control unit associated with said link members for assuring positive closing of a door with which the snap hinge is associated.
Claims12
A snap hinge for furniture doors having a carrier arm adapted to be mounted on the carrier wall of a piece of furniture and a housing adapted to be mounted in a door portion comprising:
- a quadrilateral link mechanism including outer and inner longitudinally extending link members each having ends pivotally supported in the carrier arm and the housing thereby pivotally interconnecting the carrier arm and housing;
- a lever arm having one end pivotally mounted on said carrier arm and the free end thereof being oscillatable in a plane perpendicular to the pivotal axis of said link members;
- cam control means fixed on the end of said inner link member which is pivotally mounted in the carrier arm;
- cam engaging means on said lever arm engaging said cam control means;
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- biasing means urging said cam engaging means into engagement with said cam control means.
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