US1681032A - Hinged connection - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to hinged connections and has for its object the provision of a hinge particularly adapted for the hinged attachment of one part to another, such as a box body and its cover, formed of molded material, or in other situations where it is desirable to avoid the use or the visible externalevidence of pins, screw or other similar fastenings for securing the hinge to the hinged parts.
- Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a boxwith its cover attached thereto by a hinged connection embodying one form of the invention
- Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the box body taken on the line 22 in Fig. 1, with the hinge removed, showing the slots formed to receive the hinge;
- Fig. 3 is a plan view ofthe box body as shown in Fig. 2;
- Fig. 4 is a plan view similar to Fig 3, showing one leaf of the hinge installed in position;
- Fig. 5 is an elevation of one leaf of the hinge before insertion
- Fig. (3 is a plan view of the same.
- molded articles In the case of molded articles the usual type of hinge connection is not well adapted for use in hinging a cover to its box body. Because a thickwall takes longer to cure than a thin wall, molded articles of this nature are customaril made with walls so thin that it is impracticable to use screws or other fastenin s without breaking through the outside walls and renderin the external appearance of the box unsightly.
- a hinged attachment between the box and its cover may be provided without the use of externally visible fasteners or the external appearance of parts of the hinge itself other than the knuckle.
- the body In prearing the box body 7 for installing the hinge, the body is molded in the usual manner but is provided with a molded recess 8 formed on the inside of the side 1927. Serial No. 197,067.
- Such recess extends from the top edge of the .side wall downwardly for a substantial distance, preferably terminating short of the bottom of the side wall.
- longitudinal slots 9 which as initially molded may extend from the top edge to the bottomof the recess 8, leaving the overlapping edges 11.
- the top edge of the box body is also slightl recessed at 13, forming a depression exten ing from the outeredge of one slot 9 to the outer ed e of the opposite slot 9 to accommodate t e hinge knuckle.
- the formation of the vertical recess 8, horizontal recess 13 and vertical slots 9 may be effected in the molding operation.
- the box body After the box body has been initially formed by the molding operation as described, the lower ends of the overhanging side walls or edges 11 at the bottom of the Vertical recess 8 and a small amount of the adjacent molded material in the box body wall are removed to form lateral slots 15 to serve as transverse locking recesses for the hinge.
- the box cover 17 may be prepared for the reception of its hinge leaf in the same manner described in connection with the box body.
- the hinge itself is formed of two cooperating leaves 19 and 21 which may be similar in construction except for the interlock ing position of their knuckles 23. They may be installed in the box either assembled and fastened by the hinge pin or installed separately and there afterwards connected by the hinge pin.
- Each leaf is of a width greater than the width of the recess 8, but somewhat less than the space formed by the vertical slots 9 so as to fit and be entered into that space.
- At the bottom of the leaf there are provided two tangs 25 which, when bent inwardly at substantially right angles, will pass between the overhanging side walls 11 of the recess 8 and allow the leaf to be pushed down into position in the slots, but when bent fiatwise into the plane of the leaf project somewhat beyond the opposite edges thereof.
- This construction and these proportions permit the leaf with its inwardly projecting tangs, as shown in Fig.
- a hinged connection for a box comprising a leaf hinge, the leaf thereof being provided with a pair of oppositely arranged tangs, the hinged connected wall of the box having formed in its face a recess of lesser width than the leaf, the opposite side walls of the recess having slots opening to the edge of the wall whereby the leaf with the tangs bent may be inserted in said slotted recess from the edge of the wall inwardly, and transverse locking recesses in the side wall of the box into which each tang may be bent back to hold the leaf in place after insertion in the recess.
- a hinged connection for a box comprising a leaf hinge, a leaf thereof being provided with a tang, said box having a slot through which the leaf of the hinge may be inserted with said tang, and a locking recess into which said tang may be bent to hold the leaf after insertion in the recess.
- a box comprising a box body and a cover, both of molded plastic material, and a leaf hinge, the leaves of which are provided with tangs, an open-ended slotted recess in both a wall of the box and a wall of the cover in which the leaves of the hinge with their tangs are adapted to be entered, and locking recesses formed in the wall of the cover and the wall of the box into which the tangs may be bent to hold the leaves in place.
- a hinged connection for a body of molded material comprising a leaf hinge having tangs, said material having an openended slot molded therein adapted to receive the leaf with said tangs, and an undercut recess formed transverse to said slot into which said tang may be bent to hold the leaf in position.
- a hinged connection for a box comprising a leaf hinge, a recess in the side wall of the box adapted to receive the leaf of the hinge, and an under-cut locking recess formed transversely with relation to the leaf receiving recess. said leaf having a portion adapted to be bent into said under-cut locking recess to hold the leaf in position.
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J c FULLER HINGED CONNECTION Filed June 7, 1927 Aug. 14, 1928.
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Patented Aug. 14, 1928.
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JOSEPH C. FULLER, OF WEST NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS ASSIGNOR TO NORTHERN INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.
HINGED CONNECTION.
Application filed June 7,
This invention relates to hinged connections and has for its object the provision of a hinge particularly adapted for the hinged attachment of one part to another, such as a box body and its cover, formed of molded material, or in other situations where it is desirable to avoid the use or the visible externalevidence of pins, screw or other similar fastenings for securing the hinge to the hinged parts.
The invention will be best understood by reference tothe following description when taken in connection with the accompanying illustration of one specific embodiment thereof, while its scope will be more particularly ointed out in the appended claims.
In t e drawings:
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a boxwith its cover attached thereto by a hinged connection embodying one form of the invention;
Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the box body taken on the line 22 in Fig. 1, with the hinge removed, showing the slots formed to receive the hinge;
Fig. 3 is a plan view ofthe box body as shown in Fig. 2;
Fig. 4 is a plan view similar to Fig 3, showing one leaf of the hinge installed in position;
Fig. 5 is an elevation of one leaf of the hinge before insertion; and
Fig. (3 is a plan view of the same.
In the case of molded articles the usual type of hinge connection is not well adapted for use in hinging a cover to its box body. Because a thickwall takes longer to cure than a thin wall, molded articles of this nature are customaril made with walls so thin that it is impracticable to use screws or other fastenin s without breaking through the outside walls and renderin the external appearance of the box unsightly.
In the hinged connection illustrated in the drawings, a hinged attachment between the box and its cover may be provided without the use of externally visible fasteners or the external appearance of parts of the hinge itself other than the knuckle.
In prearing the box body 7 for installing the hinge, the body is molded in the usual manner but is provided with a molded recess 8 formed on the inside of the side 1927. Serial No. 197,067.
wall of the box to which the hinge is to be applied. Such recess extends from the top edge of the .side wall downwardly for a substantial distance, preferably terminating short of the bottom of the side wall. in the opposite side walls of the recess 8 there are also provided longitudinal slots 9 which as initially molded may extend from the top edge to the bottomof the recess 8, leaving the overlapping edges 11. The top edge of the box body is also slightl recessed at 13, forming a depression exten ing from the outeredge of one slot 9 to the outer ed e of the opposite slot 9 to accommodate t e hinge knuckle. The formation of the vertical recess 8, horizontal recess 13 and vertical slots 9 may be effected in the molding operation.
After the box body has been initially formed by the molding operation as described, the lower ends of the overhanging side walls or edges 11 at the bottom of the Vertical recess 8 and a small amount of the adjacent molded material in the box body wall are removed to form lateral slots 15 to serve as transverse locking recesses for the hinge. The box cover 17 may be prepared for the reception of its hinge leaf in the same manner described in connection with the box body.
The hinge itself is formed of two cooperating leaves 19 and 21 which may be similar in construction except for the interlock ing position of their knuckles 23. They may be installed in the box either assembled and fastened by the hinge pin or installed separately and there afterwards connected by the hinge pin.
Each leaf is of a width greater than the width of the recess 8, but somewhat less than the space formed by the vertical slots 9 so as to fit and be entered into that space. At the bottom of the leaf there are provided two tangs 25 which, when bent inwardly at substantially right angles, will pass between the overhanging side walls 11 of the recess 8 and allow the leaf to be pushed down into position in the slots, but when bent fiatwise into the plane of the leaf project somewhat beyond the opposite edges thereof. This construction and these proportions permit the leaf with its inwardly projecting tangs, as shown in Fig.
Formed 6, to be inserted into the space provided by the slots 9 and pushed down into the position shown in Figs. 2 and 4. The inwardly projecting tangs are then bent back and forced into the transverse locking recesses, as shown in Figs. 1 and t. This brings the upper shouldered part 27 of the leaf into interfitting relation with the recess 13, with the knuckles suitably located and the hinge leaf held inthe molded box so that it cannot move in any direction.
This provides a hinged connection inexpensive in construction and simple in its application, but requiring neither the use of pins, screws or the like, nor any other visible, external evidence of the hinge except the knuckle itself.
While I have herein shown and described for the purpose of illustration one specific embodiment of the invention, it is to be understood that the same is submitted for illustrative purposes only and that extensive deviations and modifications may be made in the form and relative arrangement of parts and in the adaptation or use to which the invention is applied, all without departing from the spirit thereof.
Claims:
1. A hinged connection for a box comprising a leaf hinge, the leaf thereof being provided with a pair of oppositely arranged tangs, the hinged connected wall of the box having formed in its face a recess of lesser width than the leaf, the opposite side walls of the recess having slots opening to the edge of the wall whereby the leaf with the tangs bent may be inserted in said slotted recess from the edge of the wall inwardly, and transverse locking recesses in the side wall of the box into which each tang may be bent back to hold the leaf in place after insertion in the recess.
2. A hinged connection for a box comprising a leaf hinge, a leaf thereof being provided with a tang, said box having a slot through which the leaf of the hinge may be inserted with said tang, and a locking recess into which said tang may be bent to hold the leaf after insertion in the recess.
3. A box comprising a box body and a cover, both of molded plastic material, and a leaf hinge, the leaves of which are provided with tangs, an open-ended slotted recess in both a wall of the box and a wall of the cover in which the leaves of the hinge with their tangs are adapted to be entered, and locking recesses formed in the wall of the cover and the wall of the box into which the tangs may be bent to hold the leaves in place.
4. A hinged connection for a body of molded material comprising a leaf hinge having tangs, said material having an openended slot molded therein adapted to receive the leaf with said tangs, and an undercut recess formed transverse to said slot into which said tang may be bent to hold the leaf in position.
5. A hinged connection for a box comprising a leaf hinge, a recess in the side wall of the box adapted to receive the leaf of the hinge, and an under-cut locking recess formed transversely with relation to the leaf receiving recess. said leaf having a portion adapted to be bent into said under-cut locking recess to hold the leaf in position.
In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.
JOSEPH C. FULLER.
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US2510643A (en) * | 1946-02-01 | 1950-06-06 | Adrian L Long | Plastic suitcase sections having embedded-hinge and meeting-edge gasket |
US2605925A (en) * | 1949-03-02 | 1952-08-05 | Felmore Company Inc | Hinged box |
US2670872A (en) * | 1950-06-03 | 1954-03-02 | Motorola Inc | Hinge for plastic housings |
US3545134A (en) * | 1968-06-24 | 1970-12-08 | Amerock Corp | Cabinet frame and door for use with quickly attachable and detachable hinges |
US3809305A (en) * | 1971-11-01 | 1974-05-07 | Sprinter Pack Ab | Coupling or lock between two sheets of different materials such as carton and plastic |
US3903566A (en) * | 1972-10-14 | 1975-09-09 | Praemeta | Hinge assembly for butt-closing door leaves |
US6209739B1 (en) * | 1999-02-01 | 2001-04-03 | Delta Consolidated Industries | Storage chest with integral handle in reinforced lid |
US20050118545A1 (en) * | 2003-11-28 | 2005-06-02 | Wong Chi L. | Lighter |
US9976328B2 (en) * | 2015-06-05 | 2018-05-22 | Lg Electronics Inc. | Refrigerator hinge and manufacturing method thereof |
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US2510643A (en) * | 1946-02-01 | 1950-06-06 | Adrian L Long | Plastic suitcase sections having embedded-hinge and meeting-edge gasket |
US2605925A (en) * | 1949-03-02 | 1952-08-05 | Felmore Company Inc | Hinged box |
US2670872A (en) * | 1950-06-03 | 1954-03-02 | Motorola Inc | Hinge for plastic housings |
US3545134A (en) * | 1968-06-24 | 1970-12-08 | Amerock Corp | Cabinet frame and door for use with quickly attachable and detachable hinges |
US3809305A (en) * | 1971-11-01 | 1974-05-07 | Sprinter Pack Ab | Coupling or lock between two sheets of different materials such as carton and plastic |
US3903566A (en) * | 1972-10-14 | 1975-09-09 | Praemeta | Hinge assembly for butt-closing door leaves |
US6209739B1 (en) * | 1999-02-01 | 2001-04-03 | Delta Consolidated Industries | Storage chest with integral handle in reinforced lid |
US6464095B2 (en) | 1999-02-01 | 2002-10-15 | Delta Consolidated Industries | Storage chest with integral handle in reinforced lid |
US20050118545A1 (en) * | 2003-11-28 | 2005-06-02 | Wong Chi L. | Lighter |
US7223096B2 (en) * | 2003-11-28 | 2007-05-29 | Chi Lam Wong | Lighter |
US9976328B2 (en) * | 2015-06-05 | 2018-05-22 | Lg Electronics Inc. | Refrigerator hinge and manufacturing method thereof |
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