Snap-action closure suitable for a thin-walled cabinet

A snap closure suitable for a thin-walled cabinet such as a sheet-metal cabinet, particularly for drawers, plug-ins, or doors, which can be pushed into or swiveled into a sheet-metal cabinet, comprising:

• a housing which can be mounted in an opening of the cabinet sheet metal by a snap fastening;
• an outer side of the housing having a handle which forms a closure actuating means;
• and
• a closure hook proceeding from an inner side of the housing so as to be swivelable about an axis against a first spring force so as to be rotable in a rotation plane, which closure hook is connected to the actuating means, the closure hook comprising:
• a hook end adapted to engage a surface of the cabinet;
• and
• a receiving position positioned in either a) an opposed end of the closure hook, or b) in a surface opposite the closure hook end;
• and
• a spring member position on the receiving portion of the closure hook for exerting the first spring force;
• wherein said actuating means, which is formed by the handle is mounted in the housing so as to be swivelable around an axis;
• wherein said axis is coaxial to the of the closure hook;
• wherein said closure hook is connected to the actuating means by a coupling with a free wheel;
• wherein said snap fastening has two slides running in opposite directions which are mounted in the housing so as to be displaceable parallel to a fastening plane against a second spring force exerted by biasing members positioned within each slide, each slide forming a holding surface which is at an acute angle of less than 90 degrees but greater than zero degrees to the fastening plane and being supported on the inner edge of the opening in the cabinet sheet metal;
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• wherein the opposite directions in which the two slides run are both parallel to the rotation plane of the closure hook.