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)