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US 4,067,632 AGranted
Drawer slide
AssigneeBuildex Incorporated
InventorMichael Sekerich
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AssigneeBuildex Incorporated
InventorMichael Sekerich
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A drawer slide structure includes a pair of slide mechanisms supporting the drawer in a cabinet, each mechanism including a pair of vertically spaced telescoping inner and outer relatively slidable channels, the inner channels being rigidly interconnected, the lower outer channel being mounted to the cabinet and the upper channel supporting the drawer. An angle member is secured to the drawer side wall and rests on the upper outer channel and is coupled thereto by a resilient latch element mounted on the upper outer channel front end and releasably engaging a front opening in the angle member horizontal web. Intercoupling is effected merely by lowering the drawer onto the channel member and uncoupling is effected merely by pressing the latch element and raising the drawer front end. A resilient loop depends from the latch element and frictionally engages the lower outer channel in the slide contracted position to prevent inadvertent withdrawal of the drawer. Balls are retained between each pair of channels by a nylon ball retainer including resiliently memory expanding ball holding wings disposed between the channel race defining flanges.
A slidable drawer structure comprising a support frame, an elongated first slide member carried by said support frame and movable between an extended and a retracted position, a drawer including a side wall, an elongated longitudinally extending bracket member including an elongated right angle member having a vertical web secured to said drawer side wall and a horizontal web resting on said first slide member and having a latch opening formed therein proximate its forward end and latching means disposed proximate the forward end of said first slide member for releasably interlocking said first slide member and said bracket member and including an upwardly directed resiliently flexible latch member mounted on said first slide member and projecting through said latch opening and having a downwardly facing shoulder normally registering with a border of said opening, said latch member being manually movable to a release position with said shoulder clearing said opening to permit the raising of the drawer carried bracket member out of engagement with said latch member.
A bearing ball retainer integrally formed of a memory possessing resilient synthetic organic polymeric resin and comprising a longitudinally extending medial section having parallel side edges and longitudinally extending wing members joined to said medial section along said side edges and delineated therefrom by self hinges, said wing members having longitudinally spaced ball engaging openings formed therein.
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