US 2010/0148648 A1Published application

Anti-Tip System For Adjacent Drawers

AssigneeBush Industries, Inc.

InventorJohn M. Green

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Abstract

An anti-tip system for a piece of furniture having adjacent drawers, including a center panel having an aperture extending therethrough, a left drawer, and a right drawer, wherein the drawers each have a control member attached thereto. The invention includes a shuttle pin extending through the aperture, wherein the shuttle pin has a left end extending from the left side of the center panel and a right end extending from the right side of the center panel. The invention also includes a left wedge and a right wedge associated, whereby the wedge associated with one drawer is adapted, when the drawer is opened, to move the shuttle pin within the aperture and into the path of the control member of the adjacent drawer, thereby blocking the travel of the adjacent drawer. The invention is also directed to a method of utilizing such an arrangement.

Claims19

Dependent claims

An anti-tip system for a piece of furniture having adjacent drawers comprising:

a center panel having a right side, a left side, and an aperture extending therethrough along a longitudinal axis generally perpendicular to each side;
a left drawer having an outside wall adjacent to the left side of the center panel, wherein the outside wall of the left drawer has a left control member attached thereto;
a right drawer having an outside wall adjacent to the right side of the center panel, wherein the outside wall of the right drawer has a right control member attached thereto;
a shuttle pin extending through the aperture, wherein the shuttle pin has a left end extending from the left side of the center panel and a right end extending from the right side of the center panel;
and
a left wedge secured to the left side of the center panel and a light wedge secured to the right side of the center panel, whereby when one drawer is open, the shuttle pin is displaced by the wedge associated with the open drawer through the aperture to engage a stop and prevent motion of the control member associated with the closed drawer, thereby blocking the travel of the closed drawer.

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