Furniture fitting
AssigneeFirma Richard Heinze GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsManfred Schnelle, Manfred von Reden, Willi Pittasch, Peter Busse
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Abstract
The invention relates to a furniture fitting in the form of a cup-shaped hinge housing which can be anchored into a bore of a furniture door and used as a door side pivot carrier for a furniture hinge. The hinge housing has a locking element which can be rotated about an axis at right angles to a circumferential wall and which has a section for holding the locking element when it is in a locked position. In a preferred embodiment of the hinge housing, two swivelling locking elements are provided which are connected to each other by a bracket shaped element so that when the bracket shaped element is swivelled to a given position by hand the locking element is moved into a locking position.
Claims21
A furniture fitting comprising:
- (a) a housing including a portion having a circumferential wall having a circumferential outline for fitting within a corresponding bore of a furniture component;
- (b) locking means including at least one locking element pivotally mounted on said housing for pivoting about a pivoting axis thereon, said pivoting axis extending through the circumferential wall of said portion;
- (c) said portion having an opening therein for receiving said locking element;
- (d) said locking element being pivotable from a position at least partially outside of said opening into a second position within said opening;
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- (e) means on the locking element for increasing the circumferential outline of said portion when the locking element is pivoted into said opening whereby said fitting is anchored in said bore when said portion is fitted into said bore and said locking element is pivoted into its second position within said opening.
A hinge housing comprising:
- (a) a cylindrical cup-shaped portion, having a circumferential wall, which portion is anchorable in an accommodating bore of a furniture component;
- (b) at least one locking element;
- (c) at least one pivot pin on said hinge housing for pivotally attaching said locking element, said pivot pin extending into the circumferential wall of said portion;
- (d) said locking element comprising a lever having a cutting edge;
- (e) at least one slot-shaped opening for accommodating said lever in said cylindrical cup-shaped portion;
- (f) said lever having a first unlocking position and a second locking position;
- (g) said lever having means for increasing the circumferential outline of said portion, when the locking element is swivelled from said first unlocking position into said second locking position, the locking element being positioned in said slot-shaped opening in said second position;
- (h) said means on the locking element for increasing the circumferential outline of said portion comprising:
- (i) a projection of the lever forming the locking element extending through said slot-shaped opening outside said cylindrical cup-shaped portion whenever the locking element is in the second, locking position;
- (ii) a radially outwardly moveable circumferential wall section on said cylindrical cup-shaped portion, said circumferential wall section bounding said slot-shaped opening toward the circumferential wall of said cylindrical cup-shaped portion;
- (iii) said lever having a wedge-shaped cross section whereby said circumferential wall section is expanded outward when said locking element is in the second position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.