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US 5,310,255 AGranted
Adjustable drawer guide mounting apparatus
OwnerPaul A. Ranalloinventor
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Abstract
There is provided a drawer guide mounting assembly including a mounting bracket and an selectably positionable carriage that is slidingly engageable with the mounting bracket and that supports a drawer guide.
Claims16
A mounting apparatus useable with a cabinet and drawer for mounting the drawer for sliding movement relative to the cabinet, the cabinet having a plurality of interior wall surfaces, said apparatus comprising:
- a pair of drawer track assemblies, each said assembly including at least first and second members, said first member attachable to the drawer and said second member supportable within the cabinet and slidingly engaged with said first member for supporting the drawer and for sliding movement relative to said first member, said assemblies useable to support the drawer on opposite sides thereof;
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- means for supporting each said second member within the cabinet, each said means for supporting including:
- a mounting bracket, said bracket having a pair of arms angularly disposed relative to each other, a first one of said arms including means for mounting said bracket to the interior wall surface of the cabinet such that said second arm of said bracket extends inwardly from the cabinet interior wall surface;
- a carriage for supporting said second member in spaced relation to the cabinet interior wall surface, said carriage being slidably engaged with said second arm;
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- means for selectively securing said carriage to said second arm at a predetermined position.
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A drawer guide mounting apparatus for mounting a drawer guide within a cabinet having a plurality of interior wall surfaces, said apparatus comprising:
- a mounting bracket, said bracket having first and second arms angularly disposed relative to each other, said first arm being mountable to an interior wall surface of the cabinet such that said second arm of said bracket extends inwardly from the cabinet interior wall surface;
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- drawer guide retention means slidably mounted to said second arm to hold said guide at a predetermined distance from said first arm, said drawer guide retention means including:
- means for selectively securing said guide retention means to said second arm, wherein said clamping means includes:
- a body portion including a flexible passage configured to slidably receive said second arm;
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- means for clamping said flexible passage about said second arm to rigidly affix said drawer guide retention means to said second arm, wherein said means for clamping comprises:
- slot means intersecting said channel such that said passage is flexible;
- first and second flanges extending from said body portion substantially transversely to said passage, said flanges including respective first and second through holes;
- first and second threaded fasteners insertable through said first and second through holes from opposite directions;
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- a threaded coupler engageable at opposite ends by said first and second threaded fasteners,
- whereby turning said first and second threaded fasteners into said threaded coupler causes said passage to flexibly engage said second arm by causing said slot means to narrow in size.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.