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Abstract

The invention concerns a cabinet hinge with an automatic opening device, especially for cabinet doors with a hinge cup, which is connected with a hinge to a hinge arm, which is, being adjustable and lockable, connected to a base plate, which is connected to a cabinet body; whereby, the hinge includes an inner and outer joint lever, which are fastened to the hinge cup, as well as the hinge arm, with each one pivoting joint pin, which causes a kind of parallelogram-joint to be formed between the hinge cup and the hinge arm, by which means the cabinet door relative to the cabinet body can be swung out; whereby, at least one elastic resilient spring element directly affects at least one joint pin of outer and/or inner joint lever and causes a torque for opening of the cabinet door from the closed position through a defined opening-angle area, and; whereby, the resilient spring element is fastened to the hinge cup, whereby, at least one resilient spring element affects through a sliding wedge directly or indirectly at least one join pin of the outer and/or inner joint lever. Specifically, the spring element is contained totally inside the hinge cup and includes at least one one-step piston rod-cylinder unit, which allows a relative movement of the sliding wedge towards the hinge cup and its top part during the opening process of the door by means of a spring and during the closing process by means of the strength of the user. The advantage of the spring element position on or in the hinge cup is that considerably more room is available for a heavy spring and heavy doors can be equipped with the automatic opening device, according to the invention.

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First Claim