US 4,151,681 A · Arrangement for mounting hinge pin sockets to cabinet doors

Abstract

An arrangement for mounting hinge pin sockets within cabinet doors, particularly adaptable to reversible door refrigerators, including an anchor plate frictionally secured within each door corner, and formed with a hole pattern for receiving threaded fasteners used to mount the cabinet door handles and the door stop with a common hole location allowing a reverse assembly of the door handle and the door stop on either side of the cabinet door. The anchor plates serve to mount a hinge pin socket at each corner of the door, the sockets extending into opposed lateral sides of the cabinet door in corresponding location to reversibly mounted hinge pin assemblies secured to the cabinet. The hinge pin sockets are mounted to the anchor plates by a thread mount comprised of an external thread formed on each hinge pin socket engaging a pair of threading strips formed on each anchor plate, the threading strips extending radially inward with an intermediate space therebetween aligned with clearance bores in the door edge and the anchor plate. The hinge pin sockets are driven at assembly into the anchor plates by a tool drive recess formed at one end of the hinge pin receiving bore in each of the hinge pin sockets.

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Dependent claims

An arrangement for reversibly mounting a door on a cabinet by means of hinge pins mounted on said cabinet, said door being formed with an outer panel, lateral edges and reentrant flanges creating an interior space, said door further having a door handle with at least one end secured to one of said door edges at at least one of said corners, the arrangement comprising:

a plurality of anchor plates, one of each of said plurality of anchor plates mounted at each corner of said door within said interior space against the inside surface of a lateral edge;
a hinge pin socket mounted in each of said corners of said door, each hinge pin socket having a bore formed therein to slidably receive a hinge pin, each of said hinge pin sockets extending into opposite lateral edges of said door through a clearance opening formed therein;
means mounting each of said hinge pin sockets to a respective one of said plurality of anchor plates;
means securing said at least one end of said door handle to said anchor plate mounted at said at least one of said corners, whereby said at least one end of said door handle and said hinge pin sockets are mounted to said anchor plates;
means detachably mounting said hinge pins to said cabinet along either side of said door aligned with and received within a respective hinge pin socket extending into opposite edges of said door, to thereby pivotally mount said door on said cabinet along either side of said door.

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In a cabinet having at least one door mounted by means of hinge pins secured to said cabinet and extending into hinge pin sockets mounted to opposite edges of said door, said door being formed so as to have an interior space, an arrangement for mounting said hinge pin sockets within said interior space of said door at locations corresponding to said hinge pins comprising:

a plurality of anchor plates, one of said plurality of anchor plates mounted within said door adjacent said opposide edges at each location whereat said hinge pin sockets are located;
a clearance opening formed in said opposite edges of said door through which said hinge pin sockets extend;
a corresponding clearance opening in each of said anchor plates aligned with said door clearance openings receiving said hinge pin sockets;
means producing a threaded engagement between said anchor plate and each of said hinge pin sockets, whereby said hinge pin sockets are mounted to said door by means of said anchor plates.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Arrangement for mounting hinge pin sockets to cabinet doors

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Arrangement for mounting hinge pin sockets to cabinet doors

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Abstract

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