Compact furniuture hinge

A compact furniture hinge having a wing and a cup interconnected with each other by a lower link rod and an upper link rod, each of said rods being pivoted at one end thereof to one of two parallel pivot pins secured to the cup and at the other end thereof to one of two further, parallel pivot pins secured to the wing, so that the wing and cup are reciprocally articulated so as to be movable between a closed hinge position and an open hinge position and a torsion spring having a thrust arm which acts on one of said link rods to push the hinge towards the closed position during the last section of its movement from the open to the closed position, and characterized by the fact that the spring is a double torsion spring wound intermediate its ends round a fifth pin mounted inside the wing and extending parallel to the pivotal axes of the upper and lower link rods, the pivot pin connecting the lower link rod to the wing being positioned substantially between the fifth pin supporting the spring and the pivot pin connecting the upper line rod to the wing, the end of the lower link rod which is pivoted to the wing having a portion thereof defining a cam protrusion facing towards said fifth pin, and the spring having formed intermediate its ends a central loop defining said thrust arm and being engaged with said cam protrusion to push said hinge towards the closed position.