Supports: cabinet structure – With movable components – Horizontally movable
Patent
1997-09-18
1999-01-19
Cuomo, Peter M.
Supports: cabinet structure
With movable components
Horizontally movable
3123484, 3123301, A47B 8800
Patent
active
058607188
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a device for attaching the front panel of a drawer to side walls of a drawer. The device includes a holding part secured to the front panel and a support part secured to a drawer side wall on each side of the drawer, whereby the holding parts can be coupled with the supporting parts. A spring, preferably a helical spring, acts in the longitudinal direction of the drawer side wall between the support part and the holding part in such a way, that when the front panel is mounted, limited relative movement of the holding part with respect to the support part against the action of the spring is possible. A rocker element is mounted in the support part and engages the holding part.
Such a device is known, for example from EU-A1 0 636 327. Such a device provides, in addition to rapid fastening of the front panel to the drawer side walls, a shock absorbing resilience for the front panel when the drawer is pushed into the furniture carcass too rigorously and the front panel strikes the side walls of the carcass. In this way not only are rough jolts avoided, but also the hold of the dowels by which the holding parts of the device are held on the front panel is improved.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is the object of the invention to improve such a device and especially to reduce the effort and complexity of construction of a known such device.
The object of the invention is achieved in that the rocker element is mounted on the support part without an axle and that the rocker element includes a shank by which it is anchored on the support part, whereby the spring which struts the support part pushes or pulls the rocker element in the direction to the rear end (that is the end which is turned away from the front panel) of the drawer side wall. A good and simple attachment of the spring is achieved in that the spring is a pressure spring and a helical spring which is mounted on the shank and which presses on stops arranged at the sides of the shank. An inexpensive embodiment provides that the shank and rocker element is punched out of sheet iron and that the shank projects through a slot in a web of the support part.
To ensure secure locking and unlocking of the holding part in the support parts it is advantageously provided that the rocker element is provided with two hooks, one of which detains the holding part pushed into the support part the other of which is constructed as a stop for the holding part in the region of the support part, whereby the hook formed as a stop is provided with an oblique edge to abut the holding part.
The support part is provided with two horizontal webs between which the holding part is insertable. To improve the stability of the holding part in the support part there is advantageously provided that the hook which is formed as a stop projects into a slot in one of the horizontal guide webs of the support part when the holding part is released. The other horizontal web is provided with a slot open towards the rear and into which projects the rocker member, the borders of such slot providing a lateral guide for the rocker element.
To enable unlocking of the front panel, that is the holding parts from the support parts, it is advantageously provided in an embodiment of the invention that the rocker member is provided with a hole for the insertion of a screw driver for cross-slotted screws or the like, and that a rack profile is provided in the support part and is aligned perpendicularly to the front panel. The screw driver which is inserted into the hole of the rocker member meshes with the rack profile. The rack profile constitutes the edge of a slot the width of which corresponding approximately to the diameter of the hole in the rocker element. To provide that the rocker element is pushed slightly upwardly when unlocked, the rack profile has a curved portion at its end directed to the front panel.
To limit movement on the spring pressure of the holding part and therefore the front panel, the rocker element has a stop directed towards
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Cuomo Peter M.
Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Tran Hanh V.
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