EP0468176B1 - Scharnier zur gelenkigen Verbindung zweier Teilflügel eines Türflügels - Google Patents

Scharnier zur gelenkigen Verbindung zweier Teilflügel eines Türflügels Download PDF

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EP0468176B1
EP0468176B1 EP91109298A EP91109298A EP0468176B1 EP 0468176 B1 EP0468176 B1 EP 0468176B1 EP 91109298 A EP91109298 A EP 91109298A EP 91109298 A EP91109298 A EP 91109298A EP 0468176 B1 EP0468176 B1 EP 0468176B1
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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
    • E05D15/00—Suspension arrangements for wings
    • E05D15/26—Suspension arrangements for wings for folding wings
    • E05D15/264—Suspension arrangements for wings for folding wings for bi-fold wings
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05D—HINGES OR SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS
    • E05D11/00—Additional features or accessories of hinges
    • E05D11/10—Devices for preventing movement between relatively-movable hinge parts
    • E05D11/1028—Devices for preventing movement between relatively-movable hinge parts for maintaining the hinge in two or more positions, e.g. intermediate or fully open
    • E05D11/105—Devices for preventing movement between relatively-movable hinge parts for maintaining the hinge in two or more positions, e.g. intermediate or fully open the maintaining means acting perpendicularly to the pivot axis
    • E05D11/1064—Devices for preventing movement between relatively-movable hinge parts for maintaining the hinge in two or more positions, e.g. intermediate or fully open the maintaining means acting perpendicularly to the pivot axis with a coil spring perpendicular to the pivot axis
    • 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
    • E05D5/0276—Parts for attachment, e.g. flaps for attachment to cabinets or furniture, the hinge having two or more pins
    • 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
    • E05D—HINGES OR SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS
    • E05D7/00—Hinges or pivots of special construction
    • E05D7/04—Hinges adjustable relative to the wing or the frame
    • E05D7/0407—Hinges adjustable relative to the wing or the frame the hinges having two or more pins and being 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 for the articulated connection of two partial wings of a door leaf, of which a partial wing or the like on a body part of a piece of furniture. is articulated, consisting of two stop parts which can be connected to each of the partial wings and which are provided with hinge arms connected to one another by a joint.
  • Such a hinge is usually used for the articulated connection of the partial wing of a two-part corner cabinet door wing and is known for example from DE-OS 37 29 531.
  • This known hinge consists of two cup-shaped fastening fittings forming the stop parts, which are let into their mounting in corresponding flat blind hole-like cutouts which are cut from the narrow end faces of the partial wings.
  • a fork-shaped hinge arm is integrally connected, which between its forked parts encloses an angled part of the other hinge arm, which is screwed to the other fastening fitting.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a hinge of the type specified, the manufacture and storage of which is simplified and which can be adjusted in a simple manner with simple assembly.
  • hinge according to the invention has identical base plates and hinge arms, both manufacture and storage are simplified.
  • the hinge according to the invention can be assembled in a simple manner in that its hinge arms are fastened to base plates which are screwed to the edge regions of the inner sides of the partial wings.
  • To attach the base plates only the usual mounting holes need to be drilled, into which the mounting holes of the base plates are then screwed.
  • the hinge arms are then attached to the base plates in a manner known from conventional furniture hinges.
  • the base plate expediently consists of a base plate and at least one intermediate plate which can be displaced or pivoted relative to the latter and can be fixed in a displaced or pivoted position and which carries the hinge arm.
  • Such base plates supporting a hinge arm are known from EP patent publication 0 348 656 A1, so that this is due to the closer design of the base plate and the base plate and the Intermediate plates can be referenced.
  • the base plates for fastening the hinge arms of the hinge according to the invention can in principle be designed in the same way as the base plates known from the EP publication. The hinge arms can thus be screwed to the base plate or an intermediate plate or connected to them by a snap connection.
  • each hinge arm has a simply angled part provided at the end with the joint, which extends in the assembled state over the narrow end face of the partial wing.
  • the simply angled part has, at the end, adjacent to a step-shaped recess formed by a shoulder, a lateral, projecting cheek which engages in the shoulder of the other angled part which is of the same mirror image; both cheeks are provided with an aligned bearing bore which passes through a bearing pin that connects them in an articulated manner.
  • the hinge known from DE-OS 37 29 531 is designed as a snap hinge, wherein the snap mechanism consists of a with a mounting bracket there is an articulated rod with a thickened head at the end and a locking step into which a nose of a spring-loaded lever which is pivotably mounted in the other fastening fitting engages.
  • each bearing bore in the region of the recess has a cam curve which partially surrounds it, on the circumferential surface of which a spring-loaded slider is supported, which is guided in a bore of the step formed by the extension.
  • the desired opening and closing characteristics of the hinge can be achieved by appropriate design of the peripheral surface of this cam curve.
  • the cam curve expediently has such a characteristic that the angled parts of the hinge arms tend to pivot starting from an angle which is slightly greater than 90 ° in the direction of a smaller pivoting angle.
  • a closing characteristic secures the closed position of the double-leaf door, in which the partial leaf of an corner cabinet is at an angle of approximately 90 °.
  • the closing characteristic is such that the angled parts of the hinge arms try to pivot them relative to one another in the direction of a larger swivel angle.
  • the closing characteristic can also be designed so that in the area of a pivoting angle of the door leaf, which is slightly less than 180 degrees, it tries to pivot it into an aligned position in which the angled parts of the hinge arms lie approximately parallel to one another and abut one another laterally.
  • the cam curve can have such a design that in a pivoting range of the angled parts of the hinge arms, which is approximately between 80 ° and 10 °, they do not exert a moment on the partial wings.
  • a nose can be provided in the end region of the cam curve, which in the angled position of the partial wings abuts against a counter-stop of the angled part of the other hinge arm and thus limits the smallest pivoting angle of the partial wings.
  • the hinge according to the invention can be mounted on the right and on the left, and simple adjustment is additionally ensured.
  • FIG. 1 shows a double-winged door of a corner cabinet consisting of the outer wing 1 and the inner wing 2, of which the inner wing 2 is articulated to a load-bearing side wall 4 of the corner cabinet by wide-angle hinges 3 of conventional design.
  • the door 1, 2 In the position shown in full lines, the door 1, 2 is in its closed position, in which the partial wings 1, 2 assume a perpendicular position to one another.
  • the two partial wings 1, 2 are connected to one another by hinges 5, one of which is described in more detail with reference to FIGS. 2-7.
  • the partial wing 1 is pivoted in the direction of arrow A into the dot-dash position 1 ', so that the partial wing 1 can be pivoted past the following door or wall without hindrance.
  • the opened door in which the partial wings 1 ′′ and 2 ′′ assume an aligned position, that is to say lie in one plane, is also shown in dash-dot lines.
  • the hinge 2 shows a one-piece hinge 5 which connects the partial wings to one another in an enlarged manner.
  • the hinge consists of identically designed base plates 6, 6 'on which identically designed hinge arms 7, 7' are held, so that only the base plate 6 and the hinge arm 7 are described in more detail below.
  • the base plate 6 consists of a base plate 8, which is provided in a manner not shown with mounting holes through which the mounting screws, not shown, grip, through which this is screwed to the wing part 2.
  • an intermediate plate 10 carrying the hinge arm 7 screwed to the hinge arm 7 is connected in basically the same way to the hinge arm 7 as the intermediate plate shown in FIG. 2 of the European patent publication 0 348 656 A1, so that this European one Patent publication is referred to the intermediate plate and the type of connection of the hinge arm 7 with this intermediate plate.
  • the base plate 6 can also have the structure shown in FIG. 2 of EP 0 348 656 A1, the intermediate plate 10 being screwed directly to the lower intermediate plate or, as can be seen from the EP publication, can also be locked with this by a snap connection .
  • the fastening screw 9 engages through a keyhole-like elongated hole 11 of the intermediate plate 10, so that the basic setting of the hinge arm 7 can be achieved in that the intermediate plate connected to the hinge arm is pushed back as far as the stop on the fastening screw 9.
  • the hinge arm 7 is shown in the Formed in a U-shaped profile and articulated by a hinge pin 12 to the rear end region of the intermediate plate 10, which is also U-shaped.
  • the intermediate plate 10 has elongated holes 13 in its front area, into which guide pins 14 engage, which are fastened to the inner flanks of the legs of the U-profile of the hinge arm 7.
  • the set screw 15 is provided with an annular groove which engages in a freely running elongated hole in the intermediate plate 10.
  • the base plate 8 can have an additional intermediate plate, which allows a height adjustment of the hinge.
  • the hinge arm 7 has a front angled part 20 which engages over the narrow end faces of the partial wings 2, 1 in the manner shown in FIGS. 2 and 3.
  • This angled part 20 has at its lower free end a recess 21 which is formed by a step-shaped shoulder.
  • a bore 23 opens into the step surface 22 and runs in the longitudinal direction of the angled part 20.
  • the outer part of this blind hole 23 has an elongated profile with opposite rounded sides, which corresponds to the cross section of the slider 24, which can be seen from Figure 8b. In this way, the slider 24 is held non-rotatably in the bore 23. Between the back of the slide 24 and the bottom of the bore 23, a compression spring 26 is clamped in the manner shown in FIG.
  • the cam curve 28 is provided on a projecting projection 29 which laterally delimits the recess 21.
  • the projection 29 has a bore 30 provided that is aligned with the bore 30 in the corresponding projection of the complementary hinge arm 7, the aligned bores of the hinge pins 31 being passed through for the articulated connection of the two hinge arms 7, 7 '.
  • the cam curve 28 has a section 35 which, in the closed position shown in FIG. 2, exerts a closing pressure on the partial wings 1, 2.
  • the section 35 is followed by a central curve section 36, which is curved concentrically around the hinge pin 31, that is to say has a constant radius, so that the cam curve lies in a region between the closed position and the open position of the partial wing in which it is located take an aligned position with each other, no moment is exerted on them.
  • a section 37 with a decreasing radius adjoins the concentric curve area and secures the open position of the partial wings 1 ′′, 2 ′′ shown in FIG.
  • the cam curve is provided at its outer end with a nose 38, which cooperates with the counter-stop 39 and limits the smallest angle that the partial wings 1, 2 can take. This angle can be seen from FIG. 1 and is given between the position of the partial wings 2, 1 '.
  • both the cam curves 28 provided on the projections 29 and the spring-loaded sliding pieces 24 are provided in duplicate, the spring-loaded sliding pieces 24 sliding on the cam curves are able to exert considerable closing and opening moments, due to the division the closing forces on each individual locking device show only slight wear.
  • the spring-loaded sliders cooperating with a cam curve are known per se from DE-OS 29 47 153 for a hinge of a different type.
  • hinge arms 7, 7 ' When installing the hinge arms 7, 7 ', they can be pushed back before tightening the fastening screws 9 until they abut the shaft of the fastening screw 9, which then ensures the basic position.
  • the elongated hole 11 allows the hinge arms to be adjusted in the longitudinal direction.
  • the base and intermediate plates 8, 10 possibly with the arrangement of a further intermediate plate, permit a height adjustment of the hinge arm 7, that is to say an adjustment of the hinge arm 7 parallel to itself.

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