US 5,172,971 AGranted

Drawer

AssigneeAlfit Aktiengesellschaft

InventorAlfred Albiez

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Abstract

A drawer is limited on its sides by metal side walls provided at their top with guide rails and at the bottom with a carrying flange for supporting a bottom plate of the drawer. The carrying flange is formed with stamped-out, flat retaining lugs bent up to extend from below into openings of the bottom plate, which drawer also comprises a rear wall mounted between the side walls. In order to permit a reliable, simple and optionally automatic mounting of the bottom plate, the retaining lugs extend transversely to the longitudinal direction of the flange and into the openings to hold the bottom plate against longitudinal and transverse displacements. A hook-shaped holding-down member is stamped out from the forward end portion of the carrying flange and extends into a recess provided in the front end face of the bottom plate, and the rear wall of the drawer is secured to the side walls and is arranged to hold down the bottom plate at its rear end portion, which extends under the rear wall.

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Dependent claims

A drawer comprising:

(a) two metal side walls laterally delimiting an interior of the drawer, each side wall having
(1) a top flange bent laterally outwardly to constitute a guide rail and
(2) a bottom flange bent laterally inwardly,
(3) the flanges extending in a longitudinal direction and the bottom flange having a plurality of stamped-out and upwardly bent, flat retaining lugs spaced from each other in the longitudinal direction and extending substantially perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction,
(b) a bottom plate extending between the side walls and having an underside supported on the bottom flanges, the bottom plate having a front face, a rear end and lateral portions extending between the front face and the rear end adjacent the bottom flanges of the side walls,
(1) the front face of the bottom plate defining recesses in alignment with the bottom flanges of the side walls,
(2) the bottom flanges having stamped-out and upwardly bent, hook-shaped holding-down members engaging the recesses in the front face of the bottom plate, and
(3) the lateral portions defining openings in the underside of the bottom plate, the openings extending substantially perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction and receiving respective ones of the flat retaining lugs in a clamping fit whereby the retaining lugs hold the bottom plate against displacement, and
(c) a rear wall extending between the side walls and secured thereto, the rear wall extending over the rear end of the bottom plate and holding the bottom plate rear end on the bottom flanges.

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