Hinge with a safety shield plate unit

A hinge for mounting on a piece of furniture comprising

• a fixing member for fitting to a fixed plate of the piece of furniture,
• a cup-shaped fixing member for fitting with and being held in engagement with a movable plate of the piece of furniture, and
• a movable link arm and a movable rear arm rotatably fitted to a fixed front shaft of said fixing member and a fixed rear shaft of said fixing member, respectively, said movable rear arm being adapted to pivot on a movable intermediary arm on an intermediary rear shaft of said movable intermediary arm, said movable intermediary arm being adapted to pivot on an intermediary cup-side shaft located inside of a cup-shaped space of said cup-shaped fixing member, said movable link arm and said movable intermediary arm being linked together by an intermediary shaft,
• a linking front shaft at a linking front end of said movable link arm and a front cup-side shaft arranged within said cup-shaped space of said cup-shaped fixing member being linked by a movable front arm so as to allow said cup-shaped fixing member to be swung open and closed relative to said fixing member,
• a safety shield plate unit having a base section held to said fixed front shaft of said fixing member so as to be rotatable in a gap located between said movable intermediary arm and said movable link arm and resiliently urged toward the cup-shaped fixing member by a resilient member so that a hazardous space defined by the movable link arm, the movable front arm and the movable intermediary arm is hidden to make it non-hazardous when the movable plate is made to swing open and closed relative to the fixed plate while a free end of the safety shield plate unit is so dimensioned as to prevent the safety shield plate unit from falling into the cup-shaped space of the cup-shaped fixing member from an outer edge side thereof in order to restrict the movement of the safety shield plate unit entering the cup-shaped space of said cup-shaped fixing member.