US 5,971,516 AGranted

Drawer with improved connection between drawer side and drawer base

AssigneeJulius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.

InventorEdgar Huber

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Abstract

A drawer includes a front panel and two drawer sides which are joined to the front panel by fixing devices and which have lateral U-shaped profiles with upper and lower horizontal flanges for accommodating a drawer base. The under side of the drawer base is provided, in regions of the U-shaped profiles with grooves into which fit projections of the lower horizontal flanges. The drawer has a rear wall. Each lower horizontal flange has only a single projection projecting into the respective groove thereabove. Such projection is at or close to a front end of the horizontal flange. During assembly of the drawer, the drawer sides are pushed laterally onto the drawer base, so that the projections of the lower horizontal flanges of the drawer sides project into the grooves thereabove in the drawer base. Rear ends of the drawer sides are diverged. The rear wall is then inserted between the drawer sides, and thereafter the drawer sides are pushed towards one another until the rear ends thereof snap into the rear wall. The projections serve as axes of rotation during these movements. The front panel is then anchored to the drawer sides by the fixing devices.

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Dependent claims

A drawer comprising:

a front panel;
a rear wall;
two drawer sides extending between said front panel and said rear wall, each said drawer side being connected to said front panel by a respective fixing device, each said drawer side having extending laterally inwardly thereof a lower horizontal flange and an upper horizontal lip defining therebetween a space, each said horizontal flange having extending upwardly therefrom only a single projection, said single projection of each said horizontal flange being located adjacent a front end thereof;
a drawer base having a bottom surface, opposite lateral edge portions and grooves formed in said bottom surface at respective said lateral edge portions;
said drawer base being mounted on said drawer sides with said lateral edge portions extending into respective said spaces, with said lateral edge portions being supported by respective said lower horizontal flanges therebeneath with said grooves facing downwardly, and with each said single projection fitting into a respective said groove thereabove;
and
each said fixing device including a non-rigid structure sufficient to enable, during assembly of said drawer and before mounting of said rear wall, tilting of said side walls away from each other without separation of said side walls from said front panel.

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