Fixing base for furniture accessories

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to an innovative fixing base for furniture accessories.

2. State of the Prior Art

Modern furniture-making technology provides for accessories of various types such as hinges, guides for drawers, shock absorbers, pull-push mechanisms, buffers, etc being able to be fitted on the side of a container. These accessories are mostly positioned using drilling systems with standard measures and fixed with screws directly on the wood of the side.

In order to mount these accessories, a quick-fixing system is often desired. However, usually screw and/or expanding plugs are used that require a certain time for mounting and the use of suitable tools. In order to avoid the use of tools, systems have been proposed that use plugs that expand through the action of a cam moved by the rotation of a suitable control lever that is operable by hand.

However, it is also often desired for the accessory to be easily removed whenever necessary, for example to reposition the accessory at another hole of a series of standard holes found inside the side of the piece of furniture. However, removing a screw-mounted and/or expanding plug mounted accessory leaves the original hole in view with the spoilt edges. It not only becomes difficult to ensure a future solid fixing in the hole, but the aesthetic appeal is in any case compromised, as the spoilt hole clearly stands out inside the piece of furniture. Further, in the case of expanding plugs, the plug that is removed is normally deformed and hardly reusable.

A further added feature is that of having stable and tough hooking also for those accessories that are intended to receive heavy blows during use, such as the accessories used to control the movement of other furniture elements such as buffers, pull-pushes and shock absorbers. However, this conflicts with the desire for a rapid, simple system that does not ruin the hooking system. The systems that have been proposed until now are not even satisfactory.

The general object of the present invention is to overcome the aforesaid drawbacks by providing a fixing base for furniture accessories that is easy and fast to mount and dismount without the use of tools, enables repositioning without problems and provides satisfactory hooking safety.

In view of this object, it was decided to devise, according to the invention, a fixing base for furniture accessories, comprising a base body intended to be connected to a surface of the piece of furniture by a mounting surface thereof from which there protrudes a tongue, intended for resting at an edge of the surface of the piece of furniture and at least a tooth that faces the tongue and is intended to be inserted into a hole on said surface of the piece of furniture, a hooking lever being rotatable on the base body from an unhooking position to a hooking position controlling means for moving tooth and tongue towards one another to cause the tooth to engage in the hole wall with a reaction on the tongue resting on the corner of the piece of furniture.