Furniture hardware device

A mounting device for securing hardware to a furniture wall, comprising

• a fastening plate comprising on an underside thereof a bearing surface for bearing against a furniture wall,
• at least two spaced apart fasteners projecting from the bearing surface at substantially right angles thereto for insertion into associated bores in the furniture wall, at least one of the fasteners being a fastening stud having at its free end remote from the bearing surface at least one circumferential knife-edged projection, the fastening stud tapering conically at an angle towards its free end over approximately half the circumference of the fastening stud, while a remaining approximate half of the circumference is substantially semicylindrical, the knife-edged projection projecting from said semicylindrical half of the fastening stud,
• said fastening stud being mounted for displacement between two end positions such that in a first end position the at least one knife-edged projection cuts into a lateral wall of one of the associated bores in the furniture wall, and such that in a second end position the at least one knife-edged projection resides within the bore but does not cut into the lateral wall thereof,
• said fastening stud being disposed on a stud-holding element mounted pivotingly at a given angle on the bearing surface, which stud-holding element pivots along with the fastening stud between the first and second end positions thereof, and
• an operating means engaging the stud-holding element and the fastening plate for switching the stud-holding element between the first and second end positions.