Suction Cup Glass Door Hinge GF862

GF862 Suction Cup Glass Door Hinge In Six Photographed Positions

This listing is written from the six frames on this page, and what they show is a suction cup glass door hinge in an iron stamped arm with a round suction head at one end and a two-hole mounting foot at the other: the 85x32mm drawing frame in the folded pose where the suction head, the arm and the foot read in one line, the 97x32mm drawing frame in the flat open pose where the foot stands up to the camera, the 85x32mm drawing frame in the foot-up open pose where the swing of the arm reads at its clearest, the four piece group frame where both pad finishes of the suction head appear together, and the two four panel sheets that show the gold disc and the mirror silver disc faces of the suction head. Three honesty points govern the whole page. First, the drawings state the material as iron and the two size figures as 85x32mm and 97x32mm, so those two facts are carried on the page as drawing facts, with the hole spacing callouts of 14mm and 11mm that the drawings carry, and every other material question about the head shell and the pad is answered on the order rather than guessed here. Second, no damper is readable as a part in any of the six frames, so this glass hinge is carried as a free swinging hinge and the closing is the fact confirmed on the sample rather than on the page. Third, no glass door installation is photographed in this set, so the bathroom glass door, the mirror door and the shower door applications are carried as the product class applications of a suction cup glass door hinge of this form, not as photographed facts of this listing.

The frames prove the structure directly: a round suction head with a black shell and a flat pad face in the gold or the silver finish, an iron stamped arm that carries the swing, a barrel knuckle where the head meets the arm, a threaded setting in the body, and a two-hole mounting foot at the end that fixes the hinge to the door frame or the cabinet edge. That is the suction cup form of the glass door hinge: the pad grips the face of the glass and the foot screws to the frame, so the hinge joins a frameless glass leaf to its frame without any drilling into the glass itself. A glass hinge of this class is the member of the glass fitting range cut for the door that is a sheet of frameless glass, and the suction head is the part that answers to that glass.

The Round Suction Head, As The Frames Show It

The suction head is the part that makes this glass hinge what it is, and the frames show it in every pose. The head is a round black shell that carries the swing of the hinge, with a recessed pocket on the top face where the arm meets the head and the fixing sits, and a flat round pad on the face that grips the glass. The pad is finished in the gold or the silver, and the four piece group frame on this page shows both finishes in one shot: the two hinges with the gold pad face and the two hinges with the silver pad face, which is the finish choice of the head that the buyer makes on the order. The gold disc sheet and the mirror silver disc sheet at the end of the gallery are the two finish families of the pad read straight on, and that is the whole of the finish question of the head on this page: the pad face is the finished face, the shell is the black shell the frames show, and nothing else of the head is stated beyond what the six frames carry.

Because the pad grips the glass by the suction of the pad rather than by a clamp that bites the edge of the glass, the glass of a door hung on this glass door hinge is the flat sheet of a frameless door: the pad needs the flat face to hold on, and the head sits on that face the way the frames show it sitting on the surface of the set. The edge of the glass is never touched by the hinge, which is the difference between this suction cup glass hinge and the clamp members of the glass hinge range that grip the edge of the glass between two plates, and the buyer who has frameless glass with a clear face is the buyer this head is cut for.

The Iron Arm And The Two-Hole Foot, As The Drawings State It

The drawings of the three dimension frames state the material of the hinge as iron, and the arm of the frames is the iron stamped arm the statement refers to: a stamped leaf that runs from the knuckle at the head to the two-hole foot at the end, with the swing carried on the barrel knuckle where the two leaves of the hinge meet and the threaded setting in the body that the fitter works when the hinge is trimmed at the frame. The foot is the member that screws the glass door hinge to the frame of the door or the edge of the cabinet, and the drawings carry the two hole callouts of the foot: the 14mm spacing in the 85x32mm foot-up frame and the 11mm callout in the 97x32mm flat frame, which are the fixing figures the fitter lays out against, and they are the only foot figures on this page because they are the only foot figures the drawings carry.

The threaded setting in the body is the second adjustment of the hinge after the foot fixing: the foot screws take the hinge to the frame and the threaded setting trims the head against the glass once the hinge is on, so a door hung on this shower door hinge member is adjusted at the frame with the foot screws and at the glass with the threaded setting, and the two adjustments together are what keep the glass leaf of the door square through the swing. The arm of the frames is a stamped iron leaf rather than a machined one, and the stamped form is the form the drawings state: the iron is the material of the arm and the foot, the head shell and the pad are the members the frames show without the material statement, and the order is where the material of the head is confirmed rather than where the page guesses it.

The Two Sizes Of The Drawings, 85 And 97

The three dimension frames of this set carry two size figures, and the two sizes are the size question of this glass hinge on the page. The 85x32mm figure appears in the two 85 frames, the folded pose and the foot-up open pose, both of them with the gold pad finish under the head, and the 97x32mm figure appears in the flat open frame with the silver pad finish under the head. The 32mm of the figures is the width of the suction head as the drawings call it, and the 85 and the 97 are the overall lengths of the hinge from the face of the head to the end of the foot as the drawings lay them out. A buyer who orders this glass door hinge orders one of the two sizes against the door, and the choice between the 85 and the 97 is a door question: the shorter hinge for the shorter leaf of glass, the longer hinge for the leaf that runs longer, and the drawing of the size that is ordered is the document the fixing is cut against.

The two sizes are otherwise the same hinge: the same round suction head with the gold or silver pad, the same iron stamped arm, the same barrel knuckle, the same threaded setting and the same two-hole foot, and the difference between them is the length the drawings state rather than a difference of form. The hole spacing callouts of the two sizes are the 14mm and the 11mm figures the frames carry, and those two callouts are the fixing figures that differ between the sizes as the drawings show them. What the drawings do not carry is any figure of the glass the hinge is meant for, so the thickness of the glass a door hung on this glass hinge is meant to carry is confirmed on the order against the pad of the head and the arm of the hinge rather than read from this page.

What The Photographs In This Listing Prove

Every structural claim on this page can be pointed at in one of the six frames: the suction head with the gold pad in the folded 85 frame, the suction head with the silver pad in the flat 97 frame, the swing of the arm in the foot-up 85 frame, both pad finishes together in the four piece group frame, the gold disc face straight on in the gold disc sheet, and the mirror silver disc face straight on in the silver disc sheet. The figures the page carries are the drawing figures: the 85x32mm and the 97x32mm size figures and the 14mm and 11mm hole callouts, all of them read from the dimension frames rather than from the photographs of the hinges themselves. What the frames do not prove is any installation: no glass door, no bathroom, no mirror is in any of the six frames, and the applications of this glass door hinge are carried on the page as the product class applications of the suction cup form of the glass hinge, which is the honest position for a set that is entirely studio frames.

The staged set also omits, on purpose, the remaining frames of the folder that repeat the same positions from nearer or farther, the second 97 dimension frame and the two further four panel sheets of the pad finishes, and the video of the set, which the page keeps out of the gallery so that each of the six positions on the page is a distinct view rather than a repeat of one. What remains is six different views: three dimension frames of the two sizes, one group frame of both finishes, and two finish sheets of the pad face, and each of the six views is used once in the image gallery on this page.

Counted against the gallery of the page, the six frames of the listing hold the hinge in its six distinct states: the hinge folded, the hinge open flat, the hinge open with the foot up, the hinge in its group of four, the hinge pad in the gold face and the hinge pad in the silver face. Each frame is used once, each hinge state is shown once, and the hinge on the page is the hinge of the frames rather than a hinge the page invents. The size of the hinge in the two drawings is the size of the hinge the buyer orders, the finish of the hinge in the two sheets is the finish of the hinge the buyer picks, and the swing of the hinge in the open frames is the swing of the hinge the sample confirms on the buyer's own glass before the hinges of the order are cut.

Where A Suction Cup Glass Door Hinge Is The Right Call

A suction cup glass door hinge of this form belongs on the door that is a flat sheet of frameless glass and that swings on a hinge rather than sliding on a runner: the bathroom glass door, the mirror door of a cabinet or a vanity, the glass door of a display case that hangs on the frame of the case, and the glass leaf of a shower enclosure that opens on the hinge at the frame. The shower door hinge buyers and the frameless glass door buyers reach for this form where the glass must not be drilled and the edge of the glass must stay free of the clamp, and the pad of the head is the member that answers to that requirement: it grips the face of the glass and the glass keeps its edge as the hinge swings. The two-hole foot of the arm is the member that answers to the other side of the question, the frame or the cabinet edge that takes the screws, and the glass door hinge of this form is the member that joins the two without touching the glass at all except through the pad of the head.

It is the wrong call for a door that is not a flat sheet of glass, because the pad of the suction head needs the flat face to hold on and a frame of wood or of profile is not a face the pad grips. It is the wrong call for a glass that runs in a runner rather than swinging on a hinge, because this is a swinging glass hinge and the slide of a runner door is a different member of the range. And it is the wrong call for the door where the glass is to be clamped at the edge by the hinge rather than gripped at the face, because the clamp members of the glass hinge range are the members for that mounting and the suction head of this hinge is the member for the face of the glass. The three are told apart by the glass and the frame rather than by the finish of the head, and the order is where the mounting is confirmed before the hinges are cut.

Free Swing, As The Frames Show It

No damper is visible as a part in any of the six frames, so the page carries the closing the honest way: this glass door hinge is a free swinging hinge. The glass leaf of the door opens on the barrel knuckle at the head and closes by its own weight of the leaf and the hand of the person at the door, not by a damping mechanism in the head or in the arm. The head of the frames is a round shell with the pad and the pocket and the knuckle, and nothing in the head reads as a damper, and the arm of the frames is a stamped leaf with the threaded setting, and nothing in the arm reads as a damper either, so the closing of the hinge is the free swing that the absence states, and the sample is where the swing is worked and the closing is confirmed rather than the page. A buyer who wants the quiet landing on the glass leaf of the door asks for the damped member of the range on the order, and the member that is ordered is the specification the factory works from.

Gold Or Silver Pad, As The Frames Show It

The frames show the pad of the suction head in two finished faces, the gold and the mirror silver, and the finish of the pad is the finish choice the buyer makes on the order. The four piece group frame is the frame where the two finishes read together, the two hinges with the gold pad and the two hinges with the silver pad in one shot, and the two four panel sheets are the frames where each finish is read straight on, the gold disc sheet for the gold and the mirror silver disc sheet for the silver. The black shell of the head is the shell in both finishes, and the finish is the face of the pad rather than a finish of the whole head, which is the position the frames state. The arm of the hinge is the iron stamped arm in both finishes as the drawings state it, and the finish of the arm is the finish the iron of the drawings carries. Where the finish of the order runs beyond the two faces of the frames, the order is where the finish is confirmed against the range rather than where the page guesses it.

How This Hinge Sits In Our Range

Within our own range, a buyer choosing a glass door hinge is choosing between the mounting of the hinge and the form of the head, in that order. The mounting sets the member: the suction head of this hinge is the member for the glass that must not be drilled and the clamp members of the range are the members for the glass that is clamped at the edge, and the two are told apart by the glass rather than by the finish of the head. The form of the head sets the behaviour: the round pad of this glass hinge grips the face of the glass and the leaf swings on the barrel at the head, and the two sizes of the drawings set the length of the leaf the hinge carries. The finish of the pad sets the look: the gold and the mirror silver of the frames are the two faces the range shows, and the order is where the face of the pad is chosen against the hardware already in the room. A buyer comparing this suction cup glass hinge against the clamp members of the range should compare the mounting first, because the pad of the head is the part that answers to the glass and the mounting is where it shows up.

It also sits against the rest of the glass hinge range of the company, and the honest position is the one on the specification table: the suction head and the iron arm are the comparison that matters, the finish of the pad is what the frames show, the closing is what the frames state by the absence of a damper, and the size figures are what the drawings carry rather than what the page guesses. A buyer who needs the same mounting in a different size or the same size in a different pad face says so on the order, because the line is built around those choices and the drawing of the size is what ties the choice to the part number of the hinge.

Specification Summary

How Each Hinge Batch Is Checked Before Packing

Every hinge batch is sampled on four points before packing. Assembly: the head is checked to open true on the barrel knuckle, the arm is checked to run straight from the knuckle to the foot rather than twisted, the two holes of the foot are checked to run clear for the fixing screws and the threaded setting is checked to run in its place rather than proud of the body. Appearance: the iron of the arm and the foot is checked for handling marks and any scratch that runs across the stamped leaf, the shell of the head is checked to run even and black across the shell face, and the pad of the head is checked to sit flat in its seat with the gold or the silver face of the order on it. Function: each sampled glass door hinge is worked through its full swing by hand, opened on the barrel and closed on the free swing, so a binding knuckle or a swing that runs short shows up before the carton closes, and the pad is checked to seat flat on a test face so the suction of the head reads as the frames show it. Packing: carton quantity, inner bag, marking and the model number on the label are checked against the order rather than the previous job, the finish of the pad is checked against the order in the same pass, and the documents a buyer needs at their own customs are issued with the proforma.

Who Supplies This Hinge

This hinge is supplied by Guangzhou Gorgeous Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., a furniture and architectural hardware business whose range covers hinges, drawer slides, handles, stays, legs, castors, locks and the fitting sets that go with them. The company works to export orders: quantities, carton marking, barcodes and shipping documents are agreed before production rather than after it, and a buyer who specifies the size, the pad finish and the mounting on the order gets those things made, because that is the only specification the factory works from. The glass hinge line of the range is part of the architectural side of the house, and the factory that builds the glass door hinge of this page builds it against the same drawing and sample discipline as the rest of the architectural line.

Terms Worth Agreeing Before Two Hinges Are Compared

• Glass door hinge: a door hinge whose one member grips the glass of the door and whose other member screws to the frame of the door, the form of this listing in its suction head expression.
• Glass hinge: the class of the range that joins a glass leaf to a frame, this member of the class in its suction cup form with the round pad head and the iron stamped arm.
• Shower door hinge: the application of this glass hinge to the glass leaf of a shower enclosure that swings on the frame, the member of the application where the glass must not be drilled and the pad grips the face of the glass.
• Frameless glass hinge: the form of the glass hinge for the door that is a bare sheet of glass without a frame around it, the form the suction head of this listing is cut for.
• Suction head: the round head of the hinge, the black shell with the flat pad that grips the face of the glass, the gold or the silver pad face as the frames show it.
• Two-hole foot: the foot of the arm that screws the hinge to the frame or the cabinet edge, the hole callouts of the foot 14mm and 11mm per the dimension frames.
• Free swing: the closing of this member, no damper part readable in any frame, the glass leaf of the door closing by the weight of the leaf rather than by damping.
• Size: the length figure of the hinge per the dimension drawings, the two sizes of this listing 85x32mm and 97x32mm, the size the buyer orders against the leaf of the door.
• Hinge size: the 85 or the 97 of the hinge the buyer orders, chosen against the leaf of the door and stated on the order as the size of the hinge.
• Hinge drawing: the dimension frame that turns a photograph of the hinge into a specification of the hinge, the document the fixing of the hinge is cut against.
• Hinge count: the number of hinges on the door of the hinge, one per standard door height and the second hinge where the leaf of the hinge runs long.

The Parts Of The Hinge, Named As The Frames Show Them

• Suction head: the round head at the end of the arm, the black shell with the flat pad face that grips the glass; the folded 85 frame and the flat 97 frame are the frames where the head reads at its best, and the two finish sheets are the frames where the pad face reads straight on.
• Pad: the flat face of the head that holds on the glass, finished in the gold or the mirror silver; the four piece group frame is the frame where the two pad finishes read together.
• Pocket: the recessed pocket on the top face of the head where the arm meets the head and the fixing sits; the folded 85 frame is the frame where the pocket reads to the camera.
• Arm: the iron stamped leaf that runs from the knuckle at the head to the foot at the end; the drawings state the iron as the material of the arm, and the three dimension frames are the frames where the arm reads in the three poses.
• Barrel knuckle: the knuckle at the head that carries the swing of the glass leaf; the foot-up 85 frame is the frame where the knuckle and the swing of the arm read at their clearest.
• Threaded setting: the setting in the body that the fitter works when the head is trimmed against the glass; the flat 97 frame is the frame where the setting reads at its best.
• Foot: the two-hole foot at the end of the arm that screws the hinge to the frame or the cabinet edge; the 14mm callout of the foot-up 85 frame and the 11mm callout of the flat 97 frame are the fixing figures of the foot as the drawings carry them.
• Swing: the arc the glass leaf works on the knuckle from the closed face of the door to the open position; the swing is carried by the barrel at the head, and the sample is where the swing is worked through its full arc on the buyer's own glass.
• Free swing: the closing the member carries by the absence of a damper; the closing is by the weight of the glass leaf, the frames show the head and the arm rather than a damping mechanism, and the sample is where the closing is confirmed.
• Finish: the gold or the mirror silver face of the pad as the frames show it, the finish the buyer chooses on the order; the finish of the arm is the finish the iron of the drawings carries.
• Fixing: the screws that take the foot to the frame; the fixing is sized to the frame and the edge on the order, and the drawing of the size lists the specification we would ship so the screws match the holes of the foot of the hinge.

Common Glass Door Faults And What They Actually Mean

A glass leaf that drifts on a suction cup glass door hinge is almost always a pad question rather than a hinge question. The hinge is the strongest part of that joint; the glass and the face behind the pad are not. On a frameless door the holding power depends on the pad of the head against the face of the glass and the screws of the foot at the frame, and a hinge that has been set and reset while a fitter chases the line of the frame loses grip at the pad, which shows up later as the glass leaf sagging at the free edge while the hinge itself is still sound. On a suction head hinge of this form the drift can look like the glass not reaching the frame, and the answer is still the pad and the face and the foot fixing of the hinge, not a heavier hinge.

A glass leaf that will not reach its frame is usually a layout question before anything else: the head of the hinge, the foot of the hinge and the face of the glass have to be built to the size the drawings state, and a door of the hinge that meets the frame early is the classic sign of a leaf cut wide or a frame built narrow. The dimension frames on this page show the hinge at the two sizes the drawings carry, and the check is to work the glass against the hinge before the foot of the hinge is fixed, because correcting a door that was never cut to the frame after the fixing of the hinge is done costs more than the hinge. A swing that feels tight on the knuckle of the hinge is a different question: it is the alignment of the head against the glass and the foot against the frame, it is checked on the sample of the hinge in the buyer's own door, and it is the fault a fitter notices before a buyer does.

The faults that actually do come from the hinge are the head of the hinge, the knuckle of the hinge and the foot of the hinge: a head set crooked on the glass, a knuckle that seats cross loaded through the swing, a foot that runs proud of the frame, and foot screws driven over the top instead of home. None of those is a hinge defect, but they all show up as one, and the way to keep a suction cup glass hinge working is the same as the way to keep any hinge working, which is to set the hinge true the first time with the head of the hinge on its glass and the foot of the hinge square to the frame.

Questions Buyers Ask About This Hinge

• Is this a suction cup hinge or a clamp hinge? It is the suction cup member of the glass hinge range: the round head of the hinge grips the face of the glass with the flat pad and the two-hole foot of the arm screws to the frame. The clamp members of the range are the glass hinges that grip the edge of the glass between two plates, and the two are told apart by the glass rather than by the finish of the head, and the frames of this listing show the suction form only.
• What glass is this glass door hinge for? The flat sheet of frameless glass that swings on a hinge: the bathroom glass door, the mirror door, the display case glass door and the glass leaf of a shower enclosure. The pad of the head needs the flat face of the glass to hold on, and the thickness of the glass is confirmed on the order against the pad of the head and the arm of the hinge, because the frames of this listing carry no figure of the glass.
• What are the two sizes of this hinge? The 85x32mm and the 97x32mm figures of the dimension drawings: the 85 in the two gold pad frames of this set and the 97 in the silver pad frame. The 32 is the width of the suction head as the drawings call it and the 85 and the 97 are the overall lengths of the hinge, and the buyer orders one of the two sizes against the leaf of the door with the drawing of the size as the document the fixing is cut against.
• Is this hinge soft close? No damper is readable as a part in any frame of the hinge, so the page carries the closing of the hinge as free swing: the glass leaf of the door closes by the weight of the leaf. A damped member of the range is available where the quiet landing is wanted, and a buyer who wants it on this suction head form says so on the order and that member of the hinge is the specification.
• What is the material of this glass hinge? The dimension drawings of this listing state the material as iron, and the iron is the material of the arm and the foot the drawings refer to. The head shell and the pad are the members the frames show without the material statement, so the material of the head is confirmed on the order against the range rather than read from the page, and the order is the document that carries it.
• How many do I need on a glass door? The count follows the length and the mass of the glass leaf, the usual working rule being one hinge per standard door height and a second hinge where the leaf runs long or carries the weight of a run. The figures that govern the count of the hinge come from the drawing of the size and the sample worked in the buyer's own door, not from the photograph of the hinge.
• Which size and which finish do I order? The size against the leaf of the door, the 85 for the shorter leaf and the 97 for the longer leaf as the drawings lay the two sizes out, and the pad finish against the hardware already in the room, the gold or the mirror silver face as the frames show the two. Both are stated on the order, and the drawing of the size with the finish of the order is the specification the factory works from.
• Can I use this shower door hinge on a sliding door? No: this is a swinging glass hinge and the leaf of the door works on the barrel knuckle of the head from the closed face to the open position. The slide of a runner door is a different member of the range, and a door that slides on a runner wants the runner member rather than the hinge member of this listing.
• What does the threaded setting in the body do? It is the trim of the head against the glass once the hinge is on: the foot screws take the hinge to the frame and the threaded setting works the head against the face of the glass, so the door is adjusted at the frame with the foot and at the glass with the setting, and the two together keep the glass leaf square through the swing of the hinge.
• Do the fixing screws come with the hinge? The frames do not show screws staged with the hinge, so the copy carries it that way: the fixing screws of the hinge are agreed on the order, sized to the frame and the edge of the door, and the drawing of the size lists the specification we would ship so the screws match the holes of the foot of the hinge.

Sign-Off Checklist Before You Order This Hinge

• Size of the hinge confirmed as the 85x32mm or the 97x32mm of the drawings against the leaf of the door, the drawing of the size agreed before the fixing is cut.
• Glass confirmed as the flat sheet of a frameless door that swings on a hinge, the face of the glass the pad of the head holds on and the thickness of the glass confirmed on the order.
• Hinge count confirmed against the length and the mass of the glass leaf, the second hinge where the leaf of the door runs long.
• Free swing closing confirmed in writing against this member of the hinge, the damped member of the range selected where the quiet landing is wanted, the closing to be confirmed on the sample.
• Pad finish confirmed as the gold or the mirror silver face of the frames of the hinge, the finish of the order stated against the hardware of the room.
• Sample of the hinge worked through the full swing on the buyer's own glass before the production order is cut, the knuckle of the hinge and the pad of the hinge both checked.
• Foot fixing sized for the frame and the edge of the door, so the foot of the hinge sits true and the screws of the foot hold through the swing.
• Mounting confirmed as the suction head on the face of the glass and the foot on the frame, the two members of the mounting stated on the order rather than assumed.

Ordering

Send the model number GF862 with the size of the order, the pad finish, the quantity, the destination port and the carton marking you need. Samples are available before a production order so the swing of the hinge can be worked on your own glass, the free swing closing of the hinge confirmed against the leaf, and the pad of the hinge checked at the face of the glass, which is the fastest way for both sides to agree that the head, the knuckle and the foot of the hinge are right. The drawing of the size, the fixing sheet and whatever test documentation we hold for this glass hinge model are issued on request, and delivery and payment terms are agreed order by order on the proforma rather than assumed from a previous order.