Joints and connections – With adjunctive protector – broken parts retainer – repair,... – Holding means or protector functioning only during...
Patent
1994-10-18
1996-04-09
Dorner, Kenneth J.
Joints and connections
With adjunctive protector, broken parts retainer, repair,...
Holding means or protector functioning only during...
403199, 403245, 3123482, 411 84, 411551, B65D 5900
Patent
active
055055540
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a hardware device for the adjustable fastening of a drawer front to its sides, with a fastening member attachable to the drawer front and a mounting member which can be releasably joined to the fastening member and is provided on the corresponding drawer side, the fastening part of which has a fastening lug with flat sides running parallel to the drawer side and projecting substantially at a right angle from the inside surface of the drawer front, in which a slot running perpendicularly and substantially parallel to the inside surface and open at the bottom end is provided, and the mounting member has a mounting stud projecting from the outside surface of the drawer side and having a diameter slightly smaller than the width of the slot measured horizontally, and whose height projecting beyond the outside surface of the drawer side is slightly smaller than the thickness of the fastening lug, a threaded bore being provided in the front end of the mounting stud, into which the shaft of a fastening screw is driven, which can be driven into the stud with a washer disposed on its head into gripping contact of its head with the outside surface of the fastening lug.
Drawers today are mostly provided on their visible front with drawer fronts which overlap the actual drawer box in height and width and which therefore, when in the position fully withdrawn into the corresponding cabinet carcase, lie snugly, like lipped doors, against the carcase; in the case of the top and bottom drawers of a chest of drawers, their projecting top and bottom margins lie against the edges of the carcase. The problem then arises that the drawer fronts have to be aligned with the drawer fronts of laterally or vertically adjacent drawers and/or the cabinet side walls such that, in the closed state, they will have an aesthetically pleasing exact alignment. Whenever false facings were placed on the actual drawer fronts and screwed thereon, such alignment was relatively easy to achieve by making the hole for the screws driven from the inside of the drawer through the drawer front into the drawer facing larger than the shaft of the screws, so that the facing could be shifted by loosening the screws and moving it within the space allowed by the oversized holes. By tightening the screws after completing the alignment, the facings were then affixed to the drawer front. In recent times drawers are increasingly being made without a false facing, i.e., the facings simultaneously constitute the drawer front and therefore they have to be able to be affixed to the drawer box in order to stabilize the drawer at its forward area. On the other hand, however, the described alignment must nevertheless be possible. Mounting hardware of various kinds have been developed for this purpose, some of which additionally serve to mount the front end of the rail of the drawer slide holding the drawer on the cabinet carcase (DE-OS 36 32 442). This mounting hardware is disposed on the inside surface of the drawer side under the drawer bottom. But then, to enable the drawer front to be fastened tightly to the drawer sides--at least in the case of drawers of great vertical depth--additional fastening means in the nature of corner fasteners must be provided above the bottom level, which likewise must permit adjustment of the drawer front and also must be inconspicuous. In recent times, in the case of drawers with hollow sides made of plastic or metal and used for certain applications, mounting hardware disposed inside of the hollow drawer sides has been used for drawer fronts (e.g., EP-OS 0 267 477), in which a mounting member is fastened to the drawer front, which can be hung on a leaf spring which in turn is disposed for adjustment in the vertical and closing direction of the drawer in a supporting member disposed in the interior of the hollow drawer side. For the transverse adjustment of the drawer front, the mounting member itself is again so subdivided that these members are transversely adjustable relative to on
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Dorner Kenneth J.
Kim Harry C.
MEPLA-Werke Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
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