Adjustable hinge for a switch cupboard
AssigneeRittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsMartina Köhler, Markus Neuhof
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Abstract
A hinge for a switch cupboard, having a first hinge part and a second hinge part. The first hinge part is arranged on a cupboard door and the second hinge part is arranged on the body of the switch cupboard. The hinge can be used on both left-mounted and right-mounted cupboard doors and has two fixing positions. Thus, the cupboard doors can be fixed to the body in two different positions at a distance from each other in the axial direction of the hinge.
Claims6
In a switchgear cabinet with a body (10) comprising horizontal profiled sections (12) connected to vertical profiled sections (11) constructed for receiving wall members and door members, and with a hinge having a first hinge element (17) which is attached to a cabinet door (13) and having a second hinge element (21) arranged on the body of the switchgear cabinet at one of the vertical profiled sections, the improvement comprising:
- the hinge having two preselected holding positions for fixing in place the cabinet door (13) on the body (10) in first and second positions, the first position being for a right hand opening of the cabinet door on a first vertical profiled section and the second position being for a left hand opening of the door on a second vertical profiled section, the first and second positions distanced from each other in an axial direction of the hinge;
- the holding positions being offset with respect to each other in the axial direction of the body by twice an amount corresponding to a distance of a center plane (M) of the body (10) from a center axis of the cabinet door (13) extending transversely with respect to a hinge axis;
- the hinge elements (17, 21) displaced with respect to each other in an axial direction of the hinge;
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- a spacer element (31) positioned between the two seating receptacles (25) and the seating opening (19) of the hinge elements (21, 17).
In a switchgear cabinet with a body (10) comprising horizontal profiled sections (12) connected to vertical profiled sections (11) constructed for receiving wall members and door members, and with a hinge having a first hinge element (17) which is attached to a cabinet door (13) and having a second hinge element (21) arranged on the body of the switchgear cabinet at one of the vertical profiled sections, the improvement comprising:
- the hinge having two preselected holding positions for fixing in place the cabinet door (13) on the body (10) in first and second positions, the first position being for a right hand opening of the cabinet door on a first vertical profiled section and the second position being for a left hand opening of the door on a second vertical profiled section, the first and second positions distanced from each other in an axial direction of the hinge,
- the holding positions being offset with respect to each other in the axial direction of the body by twice an amount corresponding to a distance of a center plane (M) of the body (10) from a center axis of the cabinet door (13) extending transversely with respect to a hinge axis,
- the hinge elements (17, 21) displaced with respect to each other in an axial direction of the hinge,
- one of the hinge elements (17, 21) having two seating receptacles (22) for receiving at least one hinge bolt (25),
- the seating receptacles (22) distanced from each other in the axial direction of the hinge,
- the other of the hinge elements (21, 17) having a seating opening (19) maintained between the seating receptacles (22) by the at least one hinge bolt (25), and
- the seating opening (19) displaced in the axial direction of the hinge between the two seating receptacles (25).
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