Patent ID: 7325844

Claim:
Opening and closing latch device, adapted to facilitate closing and/or opening of a movable part of furniture with respect to the furniture, comprising: a container defining an internal cavity with at least one open side; a sliding guide; a sliding element, placed in the sliding guide and comprising a rigid hook at a first end, suitable to catch a hooking element integral with said movable part, an elastic device, placed between the sliding element and the container, so that the elastic device exert an elastic force on the sliding element suitable to make it slide, reacting on said container, a track, placed on one side of the sliding guide, with surface of the bottom defining a cam path, a tappet device, integral with the sliding element, suitable to travel along the cam path, so as to define a number of positions of the sliding element, corresponding to a release position, a lock position and two intermediate opening and closing positions of said movable part, wherein substantially all of the sliding guide is inclined of an angle (α) with respect to the direction along which a closing and opening movement takes place between the movable part and the furniture.