I'm sure I've seen these but I'm not sure what they're called. They're used on cabinet lids, posh furniture doors, etc. They are concealed (from the outside) but when you open the door/lid/whatever they extend a bit and allow opening further than would normally be the case.
Can anyone tell me what they're called?
cantilevered hinge?
Hmm, not sure, your link just took me to a description of standard kitchen door hinges. What I'm looking for definitely isn't an ordinary kitchen cupboard door hinge. It's more likely found on jewellery cases and antique writing desks and such.
Double cranked door/cabinet hinge?
That's a possible solution for what I want but it's not the sort of hinge I'm remembering/imagining still.
Would it be one of these, eg '165deg full overlay'?
One brand I found (of what I think you mean) is Gedotec Zysa and similar.
Thomas Prufer
As I said above they're mostly *kitchen* cabinet hinges and that's definitely not what I'm after. The hinges I'm thinking of (imagining?) are smaller and, if you like, floppier when open. They're not for holding the weight of a door, just for the lid of a small[ish] box or something like that.
Yes, that's more like it, thank you! I can now try a few more searches with a better chance of finding what I want.
Thanks again.
They usually also contain a little device to make them close when they are nearly shut. They do seen to come in various forms, many of them are meant to be embedded in a cupboard door recess and have fingers that rotate and protrude into the chipboard around the hole, that is fine unless like me you decide to hang a bin on the inside of one of them and they fall out!
Brian
Possibly Soss hinges? They mostly do posh heavy hinges for doors etc, but have some smaller cabinet types ...
Not quite. I've gone a slightly different route now anyway.
The hinges I'm remembering/imagining are not hidden like the above ones in the body of the door/panel. They mount on the back (like a kitchen concealed hinge) but when you open the box/whatever they extend and let you open the lid as far as you like, beyond what even a kitchen 170 degree on allows.
I think my grandparents had a cabinet with "scissor" hinges, probably today you'd get a gas strut instead
Okay.
"folding screen hinge"? goes nearly 360°...
or like this:
Thomas Prufer
THESE THINGS ARE CALLED OFFSET HINGES. Just google for a million examples
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