Patent ID: 7207087

Claim:
A device for damping the movement of movable furniture parts in their closing region, preferably for damping the closing movement of doors, flaps or drawers, comprising: a housing ( 7 , 8 ) which can be fastened to a fixed wall part or carcass part ( 3 ), in which housing ( 7 , 8 ) a lever ( 6 ) is pivotably held or a plunger is slidably guided, with said lever or plunger being pivoted or slid to its closing region by the movable furniture part ( 1 ), thus by way of at least two stage gear means with a speed increasing ratio impinging on a rotation damper ( 14 , 15 ) or on a piston of a damping cylinder; wherein the lever ( 6 ), which is held in the housing ( 7 , 8 ), carries a toothed segment ( 23 ) concentrically to its bearing axis ( 17 ), with said toothed segment intermeshing with a pinion ( 20 ) which is held in the housing, which pinion interacts with a toothed wheel ( 18 ) which is attached to a front-end journal ( 16 ) of the rotation damper ( 14 ), and the pinion ( 20 ) comprises two toothed segments ( 21 , 22 ), of which one segment ( 21 ) of smaller radius intermeshes with the toothed segment ( 23 ) of the lever ( 6 ), while the toothed segment ( 22 ) of the pinion ( 20 ) of larger radius intermeshes with the toothed wheel ( 18 ) of the rotation damper ( 14 ).