Sliding door fitting
AssigneeHettich-ONI GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsEduard Thielmann, Alexander Buschmann, Martin Nordieker
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Abstract
The invention relates to a sliding door fitting for the coupling of a door, which is fastened to at least one hinge, of a refrigerator to a door, which is fastened to at least one further single- or multi-axis hinge, of a furniture carcass in which the refrigerator is installed, wherein the sliding door fitting has a guide element and a slider guided by the guide element, and wherein the guide element can be arranged on one of the doors and the slider can be arranged on the other of the doors. The sliding door fitting is distinguished by having at least one damping device for damping a relative movement between the slider and the guide element over at least one defined portion of the relative movement.
Claims17
A sliding door fitting for coupling a first door of an appliance to a second door of a furniture body in which the appliance is installed, the first door fastened to the appliance by at least one first hinge having a first hinge axis and the second door being fastened to the furniture body by at least one second single axis or multiaxis hinge having at least a second hinge axis not coaxial with the first hinge axis, the sliding door fitting having a guide element (30) and a slide guided by the guide element, wherein the guide element is to be arranged on one of the first and second doors and the slide is to be arranged on the other of the first and second doors, wherein the sliding door fitting has at least one damping device for damping a relative movement between the slide and the guide element over at least one defined section of the relative movement;
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- wherein (1) a carrier plate is pivotally connected to one end of the slide, or (2) the slide has a flexible pushrod and a carrier plate is arranged at an angle at the end of the flexible pushrod.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.