Dowel Mounting And Half Overlay Soft-Close, Built for Production Work

This Pro Value Series concealed hinge combines dowel-mount cup attachment with half overlay geometry and integrated soft-close, for face-frame and frameless cabinets where two doors share a center partition or a partial overlay is specified.

Key Features

• Dowel-mount cup presses into pre-bored dowel holes in the door, eliminating cup screws for faster CNC and production installs.
• Integrated soft-close damps the door over the final degrees of closing so it settles without slamming.
• Half overlay, half crank arm positions the door at a partial overlay, the standard geometry for two doors meeting on a shared partition.
• 110 degree opening angle delivers the everyday swing for standard cabinet access.
• 35mm cup, 45mm bore pattern fits the standard concealed hinge boring found on production cabinet doors.
• Nickel finish on steel coordinates with other nickel hardware across a run of cabinets.

Where the Dowel Mount Earns Its Place

The defining feature here is the cup attachment method. Rather than driving screws through the cup to anchor it in the door bore, this hinge uses pre-attached dowels that press into corresponding holes bored alongside the 35mm cup. In a CNC or production shop where doors come off the line pre-bored, the dowel mount cuts the per-door install time at the cup. The arm connects to a base plate on the cabinet, which is ordered separately and matched to your cabinet construction. Plates are brand-specific, so use plates designed for this hinge series.

The half overlay geometry handles the two-door scenario: where a pair of doors meets on a single center partition, each door needs a half-crank hinge so the arms do not collide inside the cabinet. A full-overlay hinge in that position pushes the door too far out; the half crank pulls it back to the right overlap.

Steel Construction and a Quiet Finish to the Close

The hinge body is steel in a nickel finish. Soft-close is built into the mechanism, not added on, so every door on the run gets the same damped close without a separate adapter. That consistency matters on multi-door projects where a mix of damped and un-damped closes is noticeable. The nickel finish keeps the hardware visually consistent when the hinge is visible during installation or on open-frame cabinets before doors are hung.

The Right Fit for CNC Shops and Production Runs

This hinge is a practical choice for cabinet shops running pre-bored doors through a CNC, multi-unit residential projects, and renovation contractors working with either face-frame or frameless boxes. The dowel mount removes a step from the cup installation, which adds up across a full kitchen or a volume order. For a standard screw-mount cup on the same half-overlay, soft-close geometry, other variants in this series cover that. For doors thicker than 22mm or thinner than 16mm, a different hinge is needed. Soft-close operates correctly within the standard door thickness range.

Common Questions

Production-Ready Soft-Close for Every Shared Partition in the Run

When the job calls for half overlay doors on a pre-bored production line, this hinge removes friction at the cup and delivers a consistent, quiet close on every door, face-frame or frameless.