Can we distinguish high quality cabinet soft close hinge from the one with bad quality via intuition？

Can we distinguish high quality hydraulic soft close hinge from the one with bad quality via intuition？

Yesterday, I met a boss whom I’ve known him since 2001 and we’ve done business for four or five years.
He was so happy to meet me at the gate of his factory as soon as I got off the car. “Glad to see you again,Kingwen”, He said.
“Yeah, long time no see”, I answered him with a smile. After 2006, we have not seen each other nearly for 6 years, due to the fact that clients demanded much higher level products，so that they changed cabinet hinge supplier.
After greetings and knowing recent situation between us, he showed me our kav brand hydraulic hinge and said “The soft close function is a little fast. It seems that the furniture hinges we use now are better. Is the buffering effect not enough? It is better that the door can soft close at angle of 30 degree and will not produce noise.
“It does not matter, and we can adjust its speed as long as you put forward your demands. I am here now, and we can solve all problems right away. Or if you have any new requirements, extra function or new design, maybe I can help you out.  Also you can ask a technologist to install this soft close hydraulic hinge with me and compare it with your previous ones and which one is better can be found out soon” I said. They readily agreed, after finishing installation, he looked at it and said the effect is almost the same.
Moreover, when he pulled the door at 35°Angle and then loosened his hands, the hydraulic hinge they used before didn’t have the function of buffering and made a big noise, while our kav brand hydraulic hinge soft closed with great buffering function and without any noise.
Now customer is very satisfied with our soft closing hinge, and he knew some of his friends also have been using our hinges for years. He suggested that he will place order for our soft close hydraulic hinge and soft close slide in a few days.

So, here underline again by Kingwen, I already uploaded lots of articles about how to distinguish hinges. Currently, with the increasing requirement of customers and development of domestic hydraulic hinges technology, it is difficult to distinguish soft close hinge of bad quality from the one with good quality, if only with our eyes and several close-open movement. We have to try to use them and as the time goes by， there will show up the differences.

What do you think?

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With half overlay hinge, how to solve the collision when cupboard open?

With half overlay hinge, how to solve the collision when cupboard open?

By Kingwen Liang

This is the question from a friend online at eleven o’clock.

F(for friend ): Hello, here is the question, the two cupboards of the cabinet share the side panel, using the half overlay cabinet hinge, but when I open one of the cupboard, it will hit the other, so, how to solve the problem? The gap of the two doors is about 2 to 3mm.

Kingwen Liang: About the question, firstly we should consider whether the door is too thick (Now many people use the 25mm cupboard), if you choose the ordinary 18mm kitchen hinge, then the collision is inevitable, because the door is too thick, its corners will produce an arc. If this is the issue, I suggest you to use the hinge which is made for the thick cupboard. The holes of thick door hinge are generally 40mm, 5mm longer than regular hinge, within using the thick door hinge, can be very good to avoid the angle problem caused by the door is too thick. Secondly, if it is only the ordinary 15mm or 18mm cupboard, and the door hinge is the conventional product ,then you can try to down the adjusting screw a little bit, about 1mm or 2mm on both sides, it may can solve the problem.(You can see how to adjust on the picture above)

Note: Half overlay hinge, the so-called half-cover hinge, hinge in bending; the ordinary thickness is 9mm.

PS: I got a message below in nine thirty on 23th, September, 2008

Thank you a lot. The door is too thick indeed, and it is aluminum frame doors. I have replaced the half overlay removable hinge to the half overlay ordinary hinge, then the problem solved. Thank you very much, I often read your blog, throughout your blog , I have a better understanding of cupboard hinge, and have been interested in it, hope can be your agent in the future. 

American-style cabinet, damping soft close hinge demand to follow the trend

American-style cabinet, damping soft close hinge demand to follow the trend

By Kingwen Liang

Damping, the pursuit of high-end household, about the application of damping, Kingwen Liang has been mentioned in the previous article.

And recently, more and more customers made an inquiry about soft close hinge, the quantity that customer need is also growing rapidly.

Originally, the U.S. market has always been the top priority of China's furniture exports. However, due to different tastes of American customers, the short arm hinge has a majority used in the U.S market in order to maintain the high-end of American furniture. American furniture and cabinet factory are fond of Blum hinges, hettich hinges and other international brands, while the domestic cabient hinges are rarely used.

But in recent years, more and more manufacturers which produce American-style cabinet have emerged in mainland of China; the domestic manufacturers have a better understanding of hinge that made in China, knowing that it is getting better and better, thus make the manufacturers trend to choose domestic hinge in order to save time and cost and maintain the quality at the same time.

While the hinge hydraulic system appears, attract a large number of American-style cabinet manufacturers.

Since last year, there have been dozens of American-style cabinet manufacturers, both at home and abroad came to Long Sheng hinge factory in person, or call to inquire whether the American hinge damping effect can be integrated.

Now, in order to meet the market demand, has developed an integrated damping kitchen hinge, hoping to really fill a gap in the market. (Such as the opening title picture above)

How to choose the bathroom cabinet (about hinge ) Original

How to choose the bathroom cabinet (about hinge ) Original

By Berry

Most of the consumers focus on the style and color of the bathroom cabinet when they choose the cabinet, pays little attention to the selection of cabinet hardware accessories. Actually the accessories is one of the most important part of modern bathroom furniture, it will directly affect the overall level and the function of the bathroom cabinet.

Bathroom cabinet hardware accessories mainly include: furniture hinges, drawer slides, hydraulic and the anchor. Today we mainly discuss how to choose the cupboard door hinges.

Hinge, is an important part of the bathroom cabinet, is most used in the cupboard switching process. At current market, hinge is mainly include: soft close hinge, common hinge, two-way hinge, two-dimensional hinge and three-dimensional hinge by function. By material, hinge mainly include: cold-rolled sheet and stainless steel hinge.

Now there are two kinds of hinge: clip on and fixed. The clip-on hinge is divided into base and pedestal two parts, of course, it is easier to install and disassemble for the clip-on hinge. The hinge usually use the two-dimensional and three-dimensional eccentric displacement to adjust , the three-dimensional hinge is of course better. In addition, you should choose the hinge with a hydraulic buffer ,which makes the door is easy to open and closed slowly, so as to ensure the safety and avoid the noise when you close the door, guarantee the life more comfortable and quite.

Actually the most significant part of hinge is the material that made of the hinge , if the material is not good, the door may be dropped out after a period of time. It is better to use the stainless steel material in the bathroom, its thickness and toughness is perfect. Finally, suggest you to choose the hinge which made by brands, it will ensure the high quality and longer service life.

304 Stainless steel hinge

Three-dimensional hydraulic hinge

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Want to choose a good cupboard Come to see the important factors that affecting the life of a cupboard

Want to choose a good cupboard

Come to see the important factors that affecting the life of a cupboard

cupboard hinge, the main component that linked the cabinet and the door plate, is most used in daily life, so the quality of the door hinge is very important for the use of a cabinet. 90 degrees to 95 degrees is the common opening angle of a cabinet hinge, once it has opened, the shape is a right angle. The hinge with a particular angle, such as 165 degree hinge, the opening angle is 165 degrees, better to get things from the cabinet. At present, the hinge has a one-way hinge and two-way hinge. The one-way hinge can basically meet the usual use, of course, the two-way hinge is better. The difference between one-way hinge and two-way hinge has been referred in the article. On the market, most of the hinges are removable, are divided into the hinge base and hinge body. When you choose the cabinet, you can remove the door and the hinge body so that you can check the hinge inside, while the non-removable hinge is hard to install, the methods of how to use it is the same.

The steel that make of the hinge is important, if the steel is not good, after a period of time, the door plate may have some problems in closing the cabinet. Almost all the cabinet brands use the cold-rolled steel, its thickness and toughness are perfect. Stainless steel is also useful, damp places will soon show signs of rust when use the ordinary steel, while the use of stainless hinge can make up for the problem, can make the furniture live longer. The thickness of the steel has a great influence on the quality of the hinge, which decide whether can bear the weight of the door, must be paid attention to in the purchase of the cabinet.

In addition, you should choose slow close hinge. So-called slow close hinge, refers to when the door is closed, it will leave a certain angle to slow the speed of closing the cabinet, avoid the noise of the hinge, so the cabinet will not be closed suddenly. Except the slow close hinge, push open hinge is the leader when people have rivals full of hands. Once stall the push open hinge, when you touch the door lightly, it can open automatically, which make a great convenience for the daily use.

Finally, the hinge must be able to adapt to the wet, smoke and many other factors in the kitchen. Its quality is key to the normal use and the life of the cabinet, so the hinge is very important. It is not only the connection between the cabinet and the door plate, but also bear the weight of the door plate, in addition to, it must keep the door arranges unchanged, otherwise, after sometime, it will be loose. In the design of the drawer, the most important part is the drawer slide. Due to the special environment of the kitchen, even though low-quality slide you will feel good in a short term, for a long time it will be hard to push-pull, for any product, especially the large one. So “The furniture hinge is the heart of the cabinet, drawer slide is kidney” This sentence is not exaggerated. Furniture hardware accessories must be paid more attention when you ordering the cabinet.

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The development history and current situation of Chinese cabinet hinge

The development history and current situation of Chinese cabinet hinge

By Kingwen Liang

Kingwen Liang write this article from the perspective of personal understanding . He wants to make more friends who has a well understanding about the cabinet hinge industry through the article, hoping to let the people who are unfamiliar with the hinge will be interested in the hinge industry at the same time. In this article, kitchen hinge is particular divided into concealed hinge and spring hinge which are used to link the furniture cupboard door. Rather than copper hinge or in other industries such as automotive and industrial hinge etc. Please pay attention to it and welcome to communicate with us if you have any questions..

It is said that in the eighties, the first hinge production factory is in Qingdao, Shandong, which is founded by the Japanese. Later a boss from Shunde, Guangdong found the hinge industry is promising, invited a master from the Japanese company with high salary, and then here comes the Chinese hinge industry.

In the next decade, with the rapid development of the Chinese hinge factory, the Japanese factory was forced to be out the hinge industry in China.

China stared from the cup hinge to the alloy hinge, then to the iron hinge, with the development of the hinge, the production quantity has increased and the price is more reasonable. There are thousands of factories that produce the hinge, from the real sense; it has become the hinge-produced country. But want to become the expertise in the hinge production; there is still a long way to go.

Behind the article, I will analyze the basic situation about Chinese hinge production and the innovation in the furniture hinge industry. And say something about operating situation of foreign brands in China, Just pay attention to it.