US3179214A - Hinge connection for doors - Google Patents

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US3179214A
US3179214A US152815A US15281561A US3179214A US 3179214 A US3179214 A US 3179214A US 152815 A US152815 A US 152815A US 15281561 A US15281561 A US 15281561A US 3179214 A US3179214 A US 3179214A
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05D—HINGES OR SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS
    • E05D5/00—Construction of single parts, e.g. the parts for attachment
    • E05D5/02—Parts for attachment, e.g. flaps
    • E05D5/04—Flat flaps
    • E05D5/046—Flat flaps specially adapted for cabinets or furniture
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05D—HINGES OR SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS
    • E05D5/00—Construction of single parts, e.g. the parts for attachment
    • E05D5/02—Parts for attachment, e.g. flaps
    • E05D5/0215—Parts for attachment, e.g. flaps for attachment to profile members or the like
    • E05D5/0223—Parts for attachment, e.g. flaps for attachment to profile members or the like with parts, e.g. screws, extending through the profile wall or engaging profile grooves
    • E05D5/023—Parts for attachment, e.g. flaps for attachment to profile members or the like with parts, e.g. screws, extending through the profile wall or engaging profile grooves with parts extending through the profile wall
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05D—HINGES OR SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS
    • E05D5/00—Construction of single parts, e.g. the parts for attachment
    • E05D5/02—Parts for attachment, e.g. flaps
    • E05D5/06—Bent flaps
    • E05D5/065—Bent flaps specially adapted for cabinets or furniture
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05Y—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES E05D AND E05F, RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION ELEMENTS, ELECTRIC CONTROL, POWER SUPPLY, POWER SIGNAL OR TRANSMISSION, USER INTERFACES, MOUNTING OR COUPLING, DETAILS, ACCESSORIES, AUXILIARY OPERATIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, APPLICATION THEREOF
    • E05Y2900/00—Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof
    • E05Y2900/20—Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof for furniture, e.g. cabinets

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  • the invention relates to a hinge connection for doors of cupboards or cabinets of the type comprising a hinge portion fixed to the cupboard or cabinet casing and a hinge portion carried by the door having a thin-walled outer panel with an inwardly bent edge portion and a thinwalled door double.
  • door double designates in this case the lining of the door which faces the side of the cupboard.
  • Doors having an outer wall and a door double made of thin-walled material, for example of sheet metal or synthetic material, are generally known.
  • the bent edge portion of the outer wall serves as stiffening means for the door and at the same time imparts a neat and pleasing outside appearance to the door.
  • hinge constructions are known in which one hinge portion is screwed i of the cupboard. The stresses imposed on the door to the cupboard casing, while the other hinge portion is secured to the door double. In this case the door hinge portion which is fixed on the cupboard is extended through an opening into the door double.
  • the drawback of this construction consists in that the door double then must have sufficient strength, in order to be able to transmit the forces acting on the door.
  • the sheet metal used for the door mainly serves as lining or facing. In this construction, moreover, it is not possible to transmit the hinge forces entirely in the corner of the door, which results in the disadvantage that more material will be required for equal strength of the door.
  • Screw connections are mostly employed for securing the hinge to the casing of the cupboard.
  • thin-walled cupboard casings which may be produced for example from sheet metal or synthetic material in an especially cheap manner
  • reinforcing elements must be provided at the casing of the cupboard, which elements enable a perfect transmission of forces from the door over the hinge to the casing without occurrence of any deformations on the cupboard casing.
  • the mounting of the hinges is very cumbersome, particularly when heavy doors are involved, for example the main doors of refrigerators, since the screwing operation has to be carried out partly with the door opened,
  • Hinges fastened to the cupboard casing from the outside have the disadvantage that they project beyond the casing and thus are not adapted for the insertion into given openings; in addition they do not have a nice appearance, even when the fastening section is also encased in known manner.
  • Hinge constructions are further known, in which the hinge portion is in serted into the casing of the cupboard and tightly clamped by spring force.
  • this type are not suitable for mass production or are too expensive. possible that dilferent doors may be selectively combined with various cupboard casings by mounting the door of the cupboard in the last moment on the desired cupboard, since the production tolerances are too great for ensuring a reliable functioning.
  • said hinge portion carried by the door is retained in the door corner between said outer panel and said door double by the edge of an aperture formed by cutting a part out of the edge of the door double, the hinge portion fixed tothe casing carrying a hinge pin, and said hinge portion carried by the door having two hub members bearing on said hinge pin, one of said hub. members fitting into a hole provided in said door corner.
  • the strength of the thin-Walled door is only immaterially impaired by the said hole in the corner of the door.
  • the hub of the door hinge portion which is positioned in the hole of the door corner projects only little beyond the outer contour of the door. Cupboards having such hinges thus can be laterally joined together or super-posed to form fronts of cupboards with little spacing required between adjacent doors.
  • the door hinge portion may be formed so as to simultaneously line or fill the recess provided at the point of the opening between door and door double. A design of pleasing appearance is thus obtained even with the cupboard door opened.
  • the door hinge portion may advantageously consist of a resiliently yieldable material, such as a polyamide.
  • the spring tensioning pin takes then care of supporting the spacer spring and after completion of the assembly the door may be taken out again by pushing the spring tensioning pin out through a hole provided in the casing.
  • the tolerance compensation required for the reliable functioning of the spacer spring is obtained by the spring ring inserted be tween the abutment and the casing of the cupboard.
  • the stresses exerted upon the door then mainly produce bearing support forces in the opening of the thin-walled cupboard casing, so that deformations of the cupboard casing can be avoided.
  • FIGURE 1 is a fragmentary front elevational view of a door
  • FIGURE 2 shows a view of the inner side of the door when the door is opened
  • FIGURE 3 is a horizontal plan view of FIGURE 2 partly drawn in section;
  • FIGURE 4 is a view of a cupboard front
  • FIGURE 5 is a front elevational view of a thin-walled easing of a cupboard
  • FIGURE 6 is a partial section on the line VIVI of FIGURE 5, drawn to an enlarged scale;
  • FIGURE 7 is a section on the line VIIVII of FIG- URE 6, drawn to a smaller scale than FIGURE 6.
  • the casing of a cupboard 1 carries a fixed hinge portion 2 with a hinge pin 3.
  • the hinge pin 3 enters into a door hinge portion 4 which consists of resiliently yieldable material, for example of polyamide.
  • the door hinge portion 4 forms two hub portions 5, one of which engages in a suitable hole in a portion which extends substantially perpendicularly to the outside Wall 7, which in the embodiment shown is the bent over edge 7' of the outside wall 7 in the corner of the door.
  • the edge of the hole may be flanged or headed for reinforcing purposes.
  • the door double 6 of the door has an aperture cut out of the edge thereof adjacent the portion '7', which in the present embodiment is an aperttue 8 in the corner of the door double the edge portion of which engages a shoulder d'of the door hinge portion 4 and retains this portion 4 in the door corner.
  • the door hinge portion 4 is formed so that it lines or covers the space provided between the outer wall 7 and the door double 6 at the place of the aperture 8.
  • FIGURE 3 shows by dot and dash lines next to the cupboard 1 an adjacent cupboard 10 having a door 9. As it will be seen, the door can be easily opened in spite of the small door spacing 11.
  • FIGURE 4 A front of cupboards is illustrated in FIGURE 4, comprising seven cupboards, the doors of which being provided with door handles 13. As evident, a small door spacing 11 is provided between all adjacent doors and the hinge pins '12 may at will be provided in the door corners at the right hand or left hand side of the cupboard.
  • FIGURE 5 shows the front view of a thin-walled cupboard casing having two openings 22 for inserting the hinge parts to be fixed to the casing.
  • FIGURES 6 and 7. An example of securing the fixed hinge portion in the thin-walled cupboard casing is illustrated in FIGURES 6 and 7.
  • the hinge portion 2 carries the hinge pin 3 and has an abutting portion 23 and an insertion member consisting of two legs 14 and a rib 14, the sectional area of said member corresponding to that of the opening 22, so that this insertion member can be pushed into an opening 22 until it bears against the abutment 23.
  • a spacer spring 15 is located between the legs 14 of the hinge portion 2, and a flat spring ring 17 surrounds the legs 14 and is used for compensating the tolerance between the abutment 23 and the casing 1.
  • the spacer spring 15 is retained in its position by a spring tension pin 18 connecting the ends of the legs 14 and by the rib 14 provided between the legs'14.
  • the ends of the spring 15 project into the spring ring 17, whereby the spring 15 is prevented from dropping out of the hinge portion 2. prior and during the assembly thereof.
  • An angle plate 19 has a cut-out and bent-up backing portion 20 which abuts at both sides and below against the legs 14 and laterally as Well as downwardly supports the insertion member formed by the legs 14.
  • the angle plate 19 is connected for instance at the points 21 to the casing 1, for example by welding.
  • the casing thereby is stiffened at its corners and heavy loading stresses of the hinges can also be reliably met. A more advantageous solution with respect to costs and a perfect transmission of force is thereby obtained, also for heavy load stresses.
  • a hinge and door construction comprising a door having an outside wall with bent over edges which come together to form a door corner, one of said edges having a hole therein at said corner, said hole being entirely within the material of said one edge, a door double forming the inside wall of said door and having an aperture in the corner thereof corresponding to said door corner and opening inwardly of said door, a door hinge portion positioned in said aperture and bearing against the edges of said door double which defines said aperture and being supported by said edges, said door hinge portion having two hub portions, one of said hub portions extending through and being retained in supporting relationship in said hole in said bent over edge at said door corner, and a fixed hinge portion adapted to be secured to a cabinet or the like, said fixed hinge portion having a hinge pin engaged and retained by said hub portions, whereby when said fixed hinge portion is secured to a cabinet or the like, the bearing forces which arise during the swinging of the door on the hinge pin bear mostly on the edge of the hole in the door corner.
  • a hinge and door construction as claimed in claim 1 in which said door hinge portion has a projecting portion thereon having an outside contour which fills the aperture in said door double at said door corner, and said door hinge portion has a shoulder along the edges thereof which are toward the center of said door, which shoulder bears against the face of the door double opposed to the back of the outside wall of the door adjacent the edges of the aperture.
  • a hinge and door construction as claimed in claim 5 in which said door corner has a flange around said hole.
  • a hinge construction adapted to be mounted in a door having an outside wall with bent over edges which come together to form a door corner, one of the edges having a hole therein at the corner, and a door double forming the inside wall of the door and having an aperture in the corner thereof corresponding to the door corner
  • said hinge construction comprising a door hinge portion having a projecting portion thereon having an outside contour adapted to fill the aperture in the door double so that it will be supported by the edges of the door double which define the aperture, said door hinge portion further having a shoulder along the edges thereof which are adapted to be toward the center of the door, which shoulder is adapted to lie against the face of the door double opposed to the back of the outside wall of the door adjacent the edges of the aperture, said door hinge portion having two hub portions, one of said hub portions adapted to extend through and be retained in the hole in the bent over edge at the door corner, and a fixed hinge portion adapted to be secured to a cabinet or the like, said fixed hinge portion having a hinge pin engaged and retained by said hub portions, whereby

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US3294448A (en) * 1965-06-21 1966-12-27 Jr Joseph Palma Kneeling rail for church pews
US3386207A (en) * 1966-11-04 1968-06-04 Richard J. Brown Hinge, door assembly and method for making said assembly
US4123822A (en) * 1977-09-26 1978-11-07 Ncr Corporation Pinless hinge structure
FR2647319A1 (fr) * 1989-05-25 1990-11-30 Oreal Perfectionnements apportes aux boitiers, en particulier pour le maquillage
US5075928A (en) * 1990-08-17 1991-12-31 The Stanley Works Concealed architectural hinge assembly
US20040195942A1 (en) * 2003-04-01 2004-10-07 The Vendo Company Hidden door hinge for vending machine

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US2169691A (en) * 1938-12-20 1939-08-15 United Metal Box Co Inc Impositive lock
US2345004A (en) * 1941-02-27 1944-03-28 George E Gagnier Fastener
US2835359A (en) * 1955-05-09 1958-05-20 American Radiator & Standard Door and hinge structure
US2845320A (en) * 1957-05-10 1958-07-29 Gen Motors Corp Refrigerator cabinet construction
US2972166A (en) * 1958-08-27 1961-02-21 Stanley Works Hinge
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US1948775A (en) * 1931-01-24 1934-02-27 Teller Stove Designing Corp Concealed hinge for refrigerators
US1935107A (en) * 1932-05-02 1933-11-14 Roy E Bartimore Hinge
US2169691A (en) * 1938-12-20 1939-08-15 United Metal Box Co Inc Impositive lock
US2345004A (en) * 1941-02-27 1944-03-28 George E Gagnier Fastener
US2835359A (en) * 1955-05-09 1958-05-20 American Radiator & Standard Door and hinge structure
US2845320A (en) * 1957-05-10 1958-07-29 Gen Motors Corp Refrigerator cabinet construction
US3015839A (en) * 1958-03-21 1962-01-09 Weather Seal Inc Continuous engagement type elongate hinge
US2972166A (en) * 1958-08-27 1961-02-21 Stanley Works Hinge

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US3294448A (en) * 1965-06-21 1966-12-27 Jr Joseph Palma Kneeling rail for church pews
US3386207A (en) * 1966-11-04 1968-06-04 Richard J. Brown Hinge, door assembly and method for making said assembly
US4123822A (en) * 1977-09-26 1978-11-07 Ncr Corporation Pinless hinge structure
FR2647319A1 (fr) * 1989-05-25 1990-11-30 Oreal Perfectionnements apportes aux boitiers, en particulier pour le maquillage
US5075928A (en) * 1990-08-17 1991-12-31 The Stanley Works Concealed architectural hinge assembly
US20040195942A1 (en) * 2003-04-01 2004-10-07 The Vendo Company Hidden door hinge for vending machine

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