Household appliance and guide rail assembly

Abstract

A household appliance has a storage compartment, a container, and a pair of guide rail assemblies. The storage compartment has a front opening and a pair of side walls; the container includes an accommodating cavity and a cover used for closing an upwardly open access opening of the accommodating cavity. The cover may slide from front to back to expose the access opening; the pair of guide rail assemblies respectively include a first rail and a second rail, where the second rail is adapted to slide relative to the first rail; and the guide rail assembly includes a locking mechanism. When the container is pulled out and reaches a predetermined position, the locking mechanism locks the first rail and the second rail to prevent the container from moving backward driven by the cover pushed backward.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.