Vertically oriented drawer slide
AssigneeSiemens Transmission Systems, Inc.
InventorCarl R. Tarver
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Abstract
A drawer slide device for suspending and supporting a drawer which permits the drawer to be opened and closed and limits the travel of the drawer includes a guide bar ridgedly attached to a drawer holder and having a slot therein, and a slide bar suspended from the guide bar slot by screws such that the screw heads can not pass through but may slide within the slot while holding the slide bar. The slide bar has a slot from which a drawer is suspended by screws that are similarly free to slide within the slide bar slot while holding the drawer. Friction reducing washers are interposed between bearing surfaces to permit ease of operation. The travel of the drawer is limited to a portion of the total of the slot lengths.
Claims21
A drawer slide for suspending and supporting a drawer from a drawer holder comprising:
- (a) a guide bar rigidly affixed to said drawer holder and having a slot therein;
- (B) primary suspension means passing through said slot upon which a drawer load may be attached, said drawer load hanging from and below said primary suspension means where said primary suspension means passes through said slot, said primary suspension means being slidable within said slot;
- (C) a slide bar having a slot therein;
- (D) additional suspension means;
- wherein
- (E) said primary suspension means attach to said slide bar and said additional suspension means pass through said slide bar slot and attach to said drawer, said drawer load hanging from and below said additional suspension means where said additional suspension means passes through said slide bar slot, and said additional suspension means are slidable within said slide bar slot.
A drawer slide for suspending and supporting a drawer from a drawer holder comprising:
- (A) a guide bar rigidly affixed to said drawer holder and having a slot therein extending medially along a substantial portion of the length of said guide bar;
- (B) primary suspension means passing through said slot upon which a drawer load may be attached, said primary suspension means being slidable within said slot;
- (c) a slide bar having a slot therein extending medially along a portion of the length of said slide bar;
- (D) additional suspension means, said primary suspension means attaching to said slide bar by removeable slide bar attachment means disposed on said slide bar proximate an end thereof, said slide bar slot extending from a point proximate said slide bar attachment means to a point proximate another end of said slide bar, said additional suspension means passing through said slide bar slot and attaching to said drawer by removeable drawer attachment means disposed on a surface of said drawer to permit said drawer to extend from said drawer holder further than said slide bar extends therefrom, said additional suspension means being slideable within said slide bar slot, said slide bar slot being disposed within a recess such that said additional suspension means do not protrude above said recess.
A drawer slide system for suspending and supporting a drawer from a drawer holder comprising:
- (A) a first drawer slide having
- (i) a guide bar rigidly affixed to said drawer holder and having a slot therein;
- (ii) primary suspension means passing through said slot upon which a drawer load may be attached, said primary suspension means being slidable within said slot;
- (iii) a slide bar having a slot therein;
- (iv) additional suspension means, said primary suspension means attaching to said slide bar by removeable slide bar attachment means, said additional suspension means passing through said slide bar slot and attaching to said drawer by removeable drawer attachment means, said additional suspension means being slideable within said slide bar slot;
- (B) a second drawer slide having the same construction as said first drawer slide, affixed to a bottom portion of said drawer distal to said first drawer slide, said guide bar of said second drawer slide being rigidly affixed to said drawer holder below said drawer and in vertical alignment with said first drawer slide.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.