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US 5,507,571 AGranted
Drawer slide assembly
AssigneeKnape & Vogt Manufacturing Company
InventorKeith A. Hoffman
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Abstract
A drawer slide assembly for supporting a drawer on a cabinet in which the slide channels include in-stop elements at the outer ends to facilitate positioning and assembly of the drawer slide assembly. At least one anti-scrape polymeric guide bushing is located at the outer ends of the channels in order to reduce binding and scraping of the slide channels.
Claims5
A drawer slide assembly, comprising;
- a cabinet channel adapted to be assembled to a cabinet:
- a drawer channel adapted to be assembled to a drawer;
- at least one center channel supported between the drawer channel and the cabinet channel and telescopically engaged therewith to be movable between a retracted closed position and an extended open position;
- said channels each having an inner and outer end;
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- cooperative in-stop elements on each of said outer ends of said channels to set the positions of said channels in said retracted closed positions, a first in-stop element assembled to said center channel and a second in-stop element assembled to said cabinet channel, said second in-stop element having a contact surface carried on said cabinet channel for engaging a contact surface of said first in-stop element, said second in-stop element generally C-shaped for positioning inside said cabinet channel and facilitating movement of said center channel therethrough.
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A drawer slide assembly, comprising:
- a cabinet channel adapted to be assembled to a cabinet;
- a drawer channel adapted to be assembled to a drawer;
- at least one center channel supported between the drawer channel and the cabinet channel and telescopically engaged therewith to be movable between a retracted closed position and an extended open position;
- said channels each having an inner and outer end;
- cooperative in-stop elements on each of said outer ends of said channels to set the positions of said channels in said retracted closed positions, a first one of said in-stop elements assembled to said center channel, a second in-stop element assembled to said cabinet channel, and a third in-stop element having a member integral to said drawer channel, said second in-stop element having a contact surface carried on said cabinet channel for engaging a contact surface of said first in-stop element;
- an end bumper carried on said cabinet channel for contacting said inner end of said drawer channel, said inner end of said drawer channel including a recess for receiving and engaging said end bumper.
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A drawer slide assembly, comprising:
- at least two channel members, one of said channel members being connectable to a drawer and another one of said members being connectable to a cabinet, said channel members having inner and outer ends and telescopically engaged to enable said drawer slide assembly to move between a retracted closed position and an extended open position;
- a center channel member supported between said one and said another channel members, said center channel member having an inner and an outer end, and including an in-stop member supported at the outer end thereof;
- a first resilient, non-scratch polymeric in-stop element supported on the outer end of a first of said channel members and a second polymeric in-stop element supported on a second of said channel members for engaging said first resilient in-stop element when said channel members are in laid retracted closed position, said second polymeric in-stop element positioned between said center channel member and said another channel member to prevent abrasive contact therebetween.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.