Drawer guide for supporting a moveable structure such as a drawer in a furniture article
AssigneeGrass America, Inc.
InventorGeorg Domenig
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Abstract
A drawer guide for supporting a moveable structure such as a drawer in a furniture article includes a guide rail having a rotatable guide rail roller, which guide rail is mountable to the furniture article in a generally horizontally disposed position, and a pull-out rail for carrying the moveable structure, which pull-out rail has a pull-out rail upper ledge in rolling contact with the guide rail roller enabling forward and rearward horizontal movement of the pull-out rail and carried structure, and the pull-out rail is provided with a pull-out rail retaining member engaging the guide rail roller in a rearward position of the pull-out rail resisting forward movement of the pull-out rail.
Claims10
Drawer guide for supporting a moveable structure such as a drawer in a furniture article comprising:
- a guide rail having front and rear ends and mountable to a furniture article in a horizontally disposed position of the guide rail, the guide rail having a guide rail roller rotatably mounted;
- a pull-out rail having front and rear ends for carrying the moveable structure in a horizontally disposed position of the pull-out rail, the pull-out rail having a pull-out rail upper ledge in rolling contact with the guide rail roller enabling movement of the pull-out rail and carried structure between forward and rearward positions relative to the guide rail, the pull-out rail having a pull-out rail retaining member engaging the guide rail roller in the rearward position of the pull-out rail resisting forward movement of the pull-out rail relative to the guide rail, the pull-out rail upper ledge including a bend spaced from the pull-out rail front end and having an obliquely disposed pull-out rail upper ledge roll-in slope extending from the bend toward the pull-out rail front end in an upwardly inclined direction, the pull-out rail retaining member being formed in said pull-out rail upper ledge roll-in slope as a downwardly extending protrusion spaced between the bend and the pull-out rail front end, and the pull-out rail retaining member engaging the guide rail roller in the rearward position of the pull-out rail with the guide rail roller disposed between the pull-out rail retaining member and the pull-out rail front end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.