Patent ID: 7010832

Claim:
A side pivot hinge for pivotally mounting a side edge portion of a glass structure to a border frame, wherein said side pivot hinge comprises: a joint body comprising two spaced apart glass holding walls defining a securing cavity therebetween for securely sandwiching said side edge portion of said glass structure between said glass holding walls; a joint seat, having a joint sleeve, adapted for securely mounting to said border frame; and an angular adjustment arrangement, comprising: a joint housing securely mounted between said glass holding walls within said securing cavity; a supporting shaft rotatably supported by said joint housing within said securing cavity, wherein said supporting shaft is rotatably inserted into said joint sleeve to pivotally connect said joint body with said joint seat for pivotally mounting said glass structure to said border frame; and an angular adjustment locker provided at an outer side of said joint body to securely lock up said supporting shaft within said joint housing in a rotatably movable manner such that when said joint body is angularly moved with respect to said joint seat for adjustably aligning said glass structure with respect to said border frame, said supporting shaft is locked up at said joint housing in a rotatably movable manner via said angular adjustment locker for retaining an alignment of said glass structure in position with respect to said border frame, wherein said supporting shaft has a central portion rotatably received in said joint sleeve of said joint seat and two end portions rotatably engaged with said joint housing such that said two end portions of said supporting shaft are locked up at said joint housing via said angular adjustment locker for retaining said alignment of said glass structure in position with respect to said border frame, wherein said joint housing has two locking slots coaxially aligned with said joint sleeve of said joint seat at two ends thereof respectively to rotatably receive said two end portions of said supporting shaft so as to pivotally connect said joint seat with said joint body, wherein said two end portions of said supporting shaft are respectively locked up at said two locking slots via said angular adjustment locker for retaining said alignment of said glass structure in position with respect to said border frame, wherein said angular adjustment locker comprises two locking members and has two adjustment slits longitudinally formed on said joint housing to respectively communicate with said locking slots and two locking holes transversely formed on an outer side of said joint housing though said adjustment slits respectively, wherein each of said locking members is rotatably engaged with said respective locking hole to adjustably reduce a width of said respective adjustment slit so as to lock up said end portions of said supporting shaft within said locking slots respectively.