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US 5,626,405 AGranted
Universal travel slide
OwnerRidgway M. Banksinventor
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Abstract
A universal travel slide for two-way drawer travel including a pair of slide rails which are secured to the drawer and the cabinet and are interconnected by a sabot which permits the rails to reciprocate with respect to each other.
Claims9
A universal travel slide comprising
- a pair of parallel opposing slide rails, each of said rails having a pair of opposed recessed parallel grooves formed therein,
- a pair of sabots interconnecting said slide rails, each of said sabots having two pairs of projecting bearing members, each of said pairs of said bearing members being captured in sliding relation in one of said slide rails in the opposed grooves thereof whereby said sabots can slide in said grooves with respect to each of said rails and said slide rails can reciprocate longitudinally with respect to each other,
- stops disposed at each end of said slide rails preventing said sabots from sliding out of engagement therewith,
- detents formed in said slide rails at opposite ends thereof, and
- a reciprocating bolt disposed in each of said sabots and formed for engaging alternatively said detents in said opposing slide rails as said rails are reciprocated longitudinally with respect to each other.
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A universal travel slide comprising
- a pair of parallel opposing slide rails, each of said rails being a single integral element forming a channel having opposing grooves, each of said grooves being formed for capturing a bearing member having a cylindrical configuration,
- a pair of elongated sabots, having generally square cross-sections, interconnecting said slide rails, each of said sabots having two pairs of bearing members having cylindrical configuration, each of said pairs of said bearing members being formed for engaging the grooves of one of said channels in said slide rails whereby said sabots can slide with respect to each of said slide rails and said slide rails can reciprocate longitudinally with respect to each other,
- stops disposed at each end of said slide rails preventing said sabots from sliding out of engagement therewith,
- detents formed in said slide rails at opposite ends thereof, and
- a reciprocating bolt disposed in each of said sabots and formed for engaging alternately said detents in said opposing slide rails as said rails are reciprocated longitudinally with respect to each other, said stops and said detents in the same slide rail being positioned with respect to the ends of said rails whereby as the proximate sabot abuts said stop, said bolt in said sabot reciprocates to engage the respective detent when the slide rails are reciprocated with respect to each other.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.