Dowel Mounting And Half Overlay Fit

This Grass Tiomos concealed hinge is built for half overlay doors on face-frame and frameless cabinets, with a dowel-mounted cup that drops into pre-bored dowel holes for a fast, screw-free door-side install.

Key Features

• Dowel mount cup presses into pre-bored dowel holes in the door, eliminating cup screws at the door side.
• Half overlay, half crank arm positions the door to cover the cabinet side partially, the geometry two doors use on a shared center partition.
• Self-close spring pulls the door shut automatically from the last few degrees of travel.
• 110 degree opening delivers standard everyday swing for cabinet access.
• Three-way adjustment moves the door up to 3mm in height, side, and depth after installation.
• Works on face-frame and frameless cabinets when paired with the matching Grass Tiomos base plate, sold separately.

Where Dowel Mounting Earns Its Place

In a CNC-equipped shop or production environment, the door arrives with dowel holes already bored. The Tiomos dowel cup presses straight into those holes and seats without cup screws, keeping installation steps to a minimum on a full run of doors. This is the hinge configuration that pairs with production boring, where speed per door is what holds the job on schedule.

The half overlay geometry handles the most common shared-partition scenario: two doors meeting on one center divider, each covering about half the panel edge. A single 35mm cup boring in each door is all the prep the door side needs.

Steel Build in a Nickel Finish

The hinge is steel with a nickel finish. The Tiomos platform is built to hold adjustment over a long service life, and the three-way cam system is where that shows up in the field. Height, side, and depth are each adjustable up to 3mm after the door is hung, so an installer can walk a full run of doors to a consistent reveal without pulling hardware. The arm snaps to the base plate without tools, and releases the same way when a door needs to come down for refinishing or replacement.

The Right Shop and Application

This hinge suits cabinet shops running doors through CNC boring, production remodelers, and contractors who want a Grass Tiomos hinge dialed to the dowel workflow. It fits standard doors up to 24mm thick on both face-frame and face-frameless boxes. For doors thicker than 24mm, a thick-door hinge is the right choice. If the project calls for a cushioned, damped close rather than a spring pull, the Tiomos soft-close version is the configuration to specify instead.

Common Questions

Production Speed, Consistent Results

Specify this hinge when CNC-bored doors need a half overlay self-close solution that installs fast, adjusts precisely, and holds its alignment across a full production run.