Hinge for cabinet door mirror

Over-center hinge for relatively thin doors of cabinets, especially of bathroom mirrored cabinets, comprising:

• a relatively thin door-related part adapted to be fastened, in a mating recess provided on the inside of the door facing the cabinet and open at the door edge, said door-related hinge part being divided into an outer mounting plate adapted to be fastened in said recess and which mounting plate is likewise open at the end adjacent the open door edge, and a separate link holder adapted to be inserted into said mounting plate from the open edge, said link holder being articulately joined to a supporting arm fastenable to a supporting wall of the cabinet, said hinge having a projection extending from the inside of the door, a molded cap removably fastened to said projection, said cap carrying a tongue extending into the path of a contact surface provided on the supporting arm and resiliently compressible by said contact surface, and on which tongue the contact surface slides during a part of the closing movement of the hinge through a dead center position, on one side of which dead center position the tongue exercises on the supporting arm through the contact surface a force acting in the hinge-open direction, and on the other side of which said tongue exercises a force in the hinge-closed direction, said link holder having lateral projections engaging in grooves of the mounting plate which extend in inserting direction and open in the open end of the mounting plate, and fastening means for securing, in a form-locking manner, the link holder in proper installed position against withdrawal from the mounting plate against the insertion direction.