EP1367203A2 - Hinge - Google Patents

Abstract

The hinge, and preferably for use in furniture, has a hinge arm (1) which swings on a pivot axis (3) at a hinge section on one side, and is secured to preferably a base plate (50) by fasteners at the other side. The fastener system has a self-locking eccentric adjustment (55) which allows a sliding movement parallel to the pivot axis. The fastener system also has a holding arm (20) and a second self-locking eccentric adjustment (22), where the hinge arm slides on the holding arm and the eccentric adjustment allows a sliding movement (B) at right angles to the swing axis. An arm section (24) has a third self-locking eccentric adjustment (28), which allows a sliding movement (A) to the holding arm at the arm section, at right angles to the other two eccentric adjustments.

Description

The invention relates to a hinge, preferably a furniture hinge, with a Hinge arm, on the one hand via a hinge axis with a hinge part pivotally connected, and on the other hand holding means with a basic element, preferably a base plate is connected.

Such a generic hinge is described in US 6,360,401 B1. such Hinges are z. B. for attachment of doors to furniture walls used. The hinge of the prior art is a fixed one Screw connection provided between the hinge and the furniture wall. Desirable would be a fixture, which is a height adjustment of the hinge and thus allows the door to the furniture wall. In DE 299 20 945 U1, a fastening is provided for this purpose, which, when loosening a fixing screw, which serves to attach the hinge in the furniture wall, a height shift of the hinge along one in a base plate of the hinge provided long hole allows. Additionally, the citation describes the use of an eccentric adjustment for the displacement of the door leaf in Direction of the furniture body to the gap width between the door leaf and furniture body to change. The hinge described in DE 299 20 945 U1 has a Mechanism on which an adjustment of the door gap by means of the eccentric independently from the height adjustment along the slot allows. These are complicated decoupling elements necessary.

Object of the present invention is to provide a hinge that at small installation size a simple adjustment of the height of the door leaf with respect to of the furniture body allowed. This task is accomplished by a hinge with the Characteristics of the characterizing part of claim 1 solved. advantageous Embodiments are the subject of the dependent claims.

According to the invention, the holding means comprise an eccentric adjustment for displaceable Holder of the hinge arm with respect to the base element, the allows a shift parallel to the hinge axis.

Such eccentric adjustment allows even after installation nor a setting the height of the hinge and thus the furniture door opposite the carcass. In the present context, the term "height" is used to describe the invention the example of a vertical furniture door z. B. a cabinet understandable close. Of course, the invention can also be applied to flaps or other Be provided closures. The term "height" is here as the one Understood spatial direction in which the hinge axis extends without these necessarily aligned vertically in space.

The solution according to the invention allows a small installation volume at the same time very easy adjustment.

If the eccentric adjustment is also self-locking, the operation is further simplified.

In an advantageous development of the hinge according to the invention the holding means further comprises a holding arm and a second eccentric adjustment, the slidably supports the hinge arm on the support arm, wherein the second Exzenterverstellung a displacement perpendicular to the displacement by the first eccentric adjustment allows. With the help of such a second eccentric adjustment is the hinge not only in the "height", but also in another spatial direction easily adjustable and alignable, with the setting even only after the assembly can be made. Advantageously, the second eccentric self-locking configured.

In a further development, the holding means further comprise an arm portion, the displaceable with a third eccentric adjustment on the support arm is held, wherein the third eccentric adjustment a shift in each case essentially perpendicular to the displacement of the first and the second eccentric adjustment allows. In this embodiment is in all three spatial directions one easy adjustment of the hinge possible even after installation, with the Installation space is kept low.

In a particular embodiment, the first eccentric adjustment is in that one Part of the arm portion provided, the third Exzenterverstellung is removed, and serves to connect the arm portion with a base plate. This base plate is used for. B. for attaching the hinge to the furniture body. In such a development of the hinge arm, the z. B. with the door is connected via three Exzenterverstellungen with a base plate, the z. B. is attached to the piece of furniture.

Preferably, the hinge according to the invention of this embodiment, a guide in the base plate, which is arranged parallel to the hinge axis and cooperates with guide elements of the arm portion for guiding parallel to the hinge axis. By such a guide ensures that no tilting occurs when adjusting the hinge in the _" height".

A simple embodiment provides that the guide through slots in the Base plate is formed, engage in the guide lobes of the arm portion, to only one movement between arm and base parallel to the To allow the hinge axis.

An additional holding effect can be generated when the arm, arm portion or base plate having eye-like elements on a single transverse pin are stored. This common retaining pin ensures a secure mutual Alignment of the individual elements with a small size.

In order to further reduce the hinge according to the invention, can advantageously be provided that the individual sections insoluble over riveted eccentric connected to each other.

The hinge according to the invention can be made very small and compact and is therefore particularly suitable for use with furniture with frame. The clear width is greatly reduced compared to the known hinges and it Only a small space is required for the attachment. An embodiment of the The invention therefore relates to a small-sized or compact hinge for furniture Frame.

Figur 1:

einen Längsschnitt durch ein erfindungsgemäßes Scharnier im geschlossenen Zustand,

Figur 2:

eine Draufsicht auf den möbelkorpusseitigen Teil des Scharniers in Richtung II der Figur 1, wobei mit 1 der Schnitt bezeichnet ist, der in Figur 1 sichtbar ist,

Figur 3:

einen Schnitt durch den Haltearm des Scharniers nach Figuren 1, 2,

Figur 4:

eine Draufsicht auf den Haltearm in Richtung IV der Figur 3, wobei III den Schnitt bezeichnet, der in Figur 3 sichtbar ist,

Figur 5:

eine Querschnittsansicht entlang der Ebene V der Figur 4,

Figur 6:

einen Schnitt durch den Scharnierarm des erfindungsgemäßen Scharniers der Figuren 1, 2,

Figur 7:

eine Draufsicht auf den Scharnierarm der Figur 6 in Blickrichtung VII, wobei VI den Schnitt bezeichnet, der in Figur 6 sichtbar ist,

Figur 8:

einen Schnitt durch einen Armabschnitt des erfindungsgemäßen Scharniers der Figuren 1, 2,

Figur 9:

eine Draufsicht in Richtung IX der Figur 8, wobei VIII den Schnitt bezeichnet, der in Figur 8 sichtbar ist,

Figur 10:

einen Schnitt entlang der Ebene X der Figur 9,

Figur 11:

einen Schnitt durch eine Grundplatte eines erfindungsgemäßen Scharniers der Figuren 1, 2, und

Figur 12:

eine Draufsicht auf die Grundplatte der Figur 11 in Richtung XII der Figur 11, wobei Xl den Schnitt bezeichnet, der in Figur 11 sichtbar ist.

The invention will be explained in detail with reference to an embodiment, which is illustrated in the figures. Showing:

FIG. 1:

a longitudinal section through an inventive hinge in the closed state,

FIG. 2:

1 is a top view of the furniture body side of the hinge in the direction II of FIG. 1, wherein 1 denotes the section which is visible in FIG. 1,

FIG. 3:

3 shows a section through the holding arm of the hinge according to FIGS. 1, 2,

FIG. 4:

3 is a plan view of the holding arm in the direction IV, where III denotes the section which is visible in FIG. 3,

FIG. 5:

a cross-sectional view along the plane V of Figure 4,

FIG. 6:

3 a section through the hinge arm of the hinge according to the invention of FIGS. 1, 2,

FIG. 7:

6 is a plan view of the hinge arm of FIG. 6 in the viewing direction VII, where VI denotes the section visible in FIG. 6,

FIG. 8:

3 a section through an arm section of the hinge according to the invention of FIGS. 1, 2,

FIG. 9:

8 is a plan view in the direction IX, where VIII denotes the section which is visible in FIG. 8;

FIG. 10:

a section along the plane X of Figure 9,

FIG. 11:

a section through a base plate of a hinge according to the invention of Figures 1, 2, and

FIG. 12:

11 is a plan view of the base plate of FIG. 11 in the direction XII of FIG. 11, where Xl denotes the section which is visible in FIG.

The apparent from Figures 1 and 2 hinge consists of a with a Angled hinge arm 1, with its lower rolled end 2 a hinge axis 3 borders, which forms as it were a bearing bore for this. The hinge axis 3 is in the usual way in the side walls of the cup-shaped Hinge part 4 non-displaceably mounted. From the bottom 7 of the cup-shaped Hinge part 4, a tongue 31 is bent out by a corresponding free cut Service. As a result, a slot in the bottom 7 is formed, in which the rear End 9 of a leaf spring 10 is inserted. From the rolled-up part 2 of the Hinge 1 is a cam 15 bent out, the lever arm for the Leaf spring 10 forms. The cup-shaped hinge part 4 is in a conventional manner in a flat blind hole, for example, a furniture door 11 used and with this connected by a flange 29 which is part of the cup-shaped hinge part 4.

The hinge arm 1 is connected to the end face 19 of the holding arm 20 via an eccentric 22 connected in a conventional manner with the support arm 20. The holding arm 20 has a bend, which is achieved in that the cut-free Side walls 20 ', 20 "angled and against the central end face 19 by two in associated holes 39 riveted transverse pins 40 are held. The front End portions of the side walls 20 ', 20 "are parallel to the frame, from embossed protrusions existing grooves 41 provided the guides for form the hinge arm 1. Corresponding grooves 42 are in the end face 19 of the Haltearmes 20 provided in which corresponding shaped by debauching Ridges 43 of the hinge arm are guided.

The eccentric 20 is designed such that its rotation z. B. with a Screwdriver the side adjustment in the direction of arrow B along the grooves 41 and the grooves 42 causes.

The connection of the hinge arm 1 facing away from the end of the holding arm 20th is connected to the arm portion 24 through the eccentric 28 such that a Rotation of the eccentric causes the depth adjustment in the direction of arrow A. A guide of this movement is by the groove 44 of the arm portion 24 and the correspondingly formed rib 45 of the holding arm 20 ensures as best seen in Figures 5 and 10.

The arm portion 24 is on both sides of the end, the eccentric adjustment 28th away, provided with rolled-up eyes 25, the eyelet-like a transverse pin 27th holders. This cross pin 27 also passes through slots 26 in the side walls 20 ', 20 "of the holding arm 20 are provided.

The arm portion 24 is an eccentric adjustment 55 with the base plate 50th connected. For this purpose, a central bore 53 is provided in the base plate 50, in the eccentric shaft of the eccentric 55 is riveted, the subsequent Shank part is mounted in a slot 54 of the arm portion 24 and its Twist caused the height adjustment in the direction of arrow C.

In its front, middle region, the base plate 50 is curved upwards, partially rolled tongue 56 provided in the assembled state the transverse pin 27 hook-like overlaps. This tongue 56 improves the holder and the guide of the arm portion 24 on the base plate 50. The base plate is further provided with slots 57, the guides for lateral, downwardly curved Form flap 58 of the arm portion 24. These transverse slots and the bent tabs 58 prevent canting between the arm portion 24 and base plate 50. Another guide of the arm portion 24 at the Exzenterverstellung in direction C is formed by the angled edge 59.

The base plate 50 is finally equipped with side wing portions 51, which with usual fastening screws through the mounting holes 52 z. B. with a furniture wall 12 are connected.

The hinge thus comprises a hinge arm 1, which has an eccentric connection 22 is slidably connected in the direction B with a holding arm 20. This Holding arm 20 is displaceable via an eccentric 28 in the direction A with an arm portion 24 which in turn is connected via an eccentric connection 55 displaceable in direction C is connected to the base plate 50. To through the Eccentric 22 enabled displacement in the direction B are provided guides 41, 42, in which the hinge arm 1 or ribs 43 provided thereon engage. To guide the movement, with the help of the eccentric 28 in the direction A is allowed, a rib 45 is provided in the holding arm 20, which in the groove 44th the arm portion 24 leader engages. Finally, resort to the leadership of the movement, which is made possible by the eccentric 55 in the direction C, the bent Lobe 58 of the arm portion 24 in slots 57 of the base plate 50 a. These Movement continues through the angled edge 59 of the arm portion 24 stabilized.

Base plate 50, holding arm 20 and arm portion 24 are above the tongue 56, the Holes 26 and the eyes 25 are supported on the transverse pin 27, whereby the Stability of the hinge is guaranteed and in particular the guidance at the Movement of the arm portion 24 in the direction C with respect to the base plate 50 in addition to be led.

When using riveted eccentrics, which form a permanent connection, can the installation form keep very small.

Claims (9)

Hinge, preferably furniture hinge, with a hinge arm (1) which is pivotally connected on the one hand via a hinge axis (3) with a hinge part (4), and on the other hand via holding means (20, 22, 24, 28, 55) with a basic element, preferably a base plate (50) is connected,
characterized in that
the holding means comprise a preferably self-locking, first eccentric adjustment (55) for displaceable mounting, which allows a displacement (C) parallel to the hinge axis (3). Hinge according to Claim 1, characterized in that the holding means comprise a holding arm (20) and a preferably self-locking, second eccentric adjustment (22) which supports the hinge arm (1) displaceably on the holding arm (20), wherein the second eccentric adjustment comprises a displacement (20). B) perpendicular to the displacement (C) by the first eccentric adjustment (55). Hinge according to claim 2, characterized in that the holding means comprise an arm portion (24) and a preferably self-locking, third eccentric adjustment (28) which slidably supports the support arm (20) to the arm portion (24), the third eccentric adjustment (28). a displacement (A) substantially perpendicular to the displacements of the first and the second eccentric adjustment (55, 22) allows. Hinge according to Claim 3, characterized in that the base element (50) is formed by a base plate on which the arm portion (24) is displaceably held by the first eccentric adjustment (55). Hinge according to claim 4, characterized by at least one guide (56, 57) in the base plate (50), which is arranged parallel to the hinge axis (3) and with guide elements (25, 58, 59) of the arm portion (24) whose guide parallel to Joint axis (3) cooperates. Hinge according to claim 5, characterized by slots (57) arranged parallel to the hinge axis (3) in the base plate (50), into which guide tabs (58) of the arm section (24) engage only a movement between the base plate (50) and arm section (50). 24) allow parallel to the hinge axis (3). Hinge according to one of claims 5 or 6, characterized in that the holding arm (20), arm portion (24) and base plate (50) have eye-like elements (26, 25 and 56) which are mounted on a common transverse pin (27) , Hinge according to one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the eccentric adjustment (55) or eccentric adjustments (22, 28, 55) are permanently riveted. Small hinge for furniture with frame, where the hinge is a Hinge according to one of claims 1 to 8, in particular according to one of Claims 7 or 8, comprising.

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