Supports: cabinet structure – With movable components – Horizontally movable
Patent
1992-12-21
1994-10-18
Brown, Peter R.
Supports: cabinet structure
With movable components
Horizontally movable
31233442, 312333, A47B 8800
Patent
active
053562070
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a braking device for braking movement of a drawer. The braking device is effective only in one predetermined position of the drawer, preferably a completely pushed in position thereof. Each side of the drawer is guided for sliding movement by a guide fitting including a drawer side pull-out rail, a body side support rail, and rollers or the like rolling between such rails. The braking device includes one or more brake shoes to engage with a part that is moved relative to the brake shoes when the drawer is pushed into the body.
A braking device of this type is disclosed in DE-A1-37 16 923. Its task is to prevent the drawer from being pushed too strongly into a furniture body when the action drawer movement is very easy, and in particular to prevent a drawer pushed into the furniture body from rolling out of the furniture body owing to the excess energy.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, the object of the invention is to provide an improved braking device of the type described above.
This object is achieved according to the invention in an advantageous manner by providing that the brake shoe(s), which engage(s) with at least one well-known rail brake attached to the furniture body or to the drawer, can be moved in the sliding direction of the drawer both relative to the drawer and also relative to the furniture body and is (are) connected directly or indirectly to the rail brake by way of a spring. A stop or roller at the drawer or at the furniture body moves the brake shoes counter to the force of the spring. An advantageous arrangement provides that two brake shoes are mounted on a U-shaped support to envelop a single brake rail flange or can be spread apart between two brake rail flanges. An especially good braking action is obtained by connecting the brake shoes by means of a toggle joint, where a spring-loaded ram which is braced against the U-shaped support is hinged to the toggle joint and where the stop strikes the ram.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will be apparent from the following detailed description of preferred embodiments of the present invention, with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 is a transverse cross section through a furniture body and drawer schematically illustrating braking devices in accordance with the invention assembled on each of opposite sides of the drawer;
FIG. 2 is a schematic longitudinal cross section of the assembly of FIG. 1;
FIGS. 3 and 4 are views similar to FIGS. 1 and 2, respectively, but schematically illustrating a different placement of braking devices;
FIGS. 5 and 6 are views similar to FIGS. 1 and 2, respectively, but schematically showing a braking device located beneath a bottom of a drawer;
FIG. 7A is a side view of a braking device in accordance with one preferred embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 7B is an end view of a rail of the braking device of FIG. 7A;
FIG. 8 is an exploded perspective view of the braking device of FIGS. 7A-7B;
FIGS. 9A-10 are views similar to FIGS. 7A-8, respectively, but illustrating another embodiment of the present invention;
FIGS. 11A, 11B and 12 are views similar to FIGS. 7A-8, respectively, but showing a yet further embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 11C is a further side view similar to FIG. 11A but illustrating a clamped braking condition of the device thereof;
FIGS. 13A-14 are views similar to FIGS. 7A-8, respectively, but of a still further embodiment of the present invention;
FIGS. 15A-16 are views similar to FIGS. 7A-8, respectively, but of an even further embodiment of the present invention;
FIGS. 17A-18 are views similar to FIGS. 7A-8, respectively, but of a yet still further embodiment of the present invention;
FIGS. 19A-20 are views similar to FIGS. 7A-8, respectively, but of an even further embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 21 is a view similar to FIG. 8, but of a still further embodiment of the present invention; and
FIG. 22 is a view similar to
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patent: 4610487 (1986-09-01), Delmege et al.
patent: 4765699 (1988-08-01), Bessinger
patent: 5033805 (1991-07-01), Hobbs
Dubach Fredi
Rock Erich
Brown Peter R.
Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Mulcare N.
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