Supports: cabinet structure – With external guides or trackways
Patent
1976-07-16
1978-10-10
Gilliam, Paul H.
Supports: cabinet structure
With external guides or trackways
308 36, 312341R, 312347, A47B 8810
Patent
active
041193776
ABSTRACT:
A drawer slide having a pair of parallel slide members, one of the slide members having a roller at the end opposite the roller of the one member.
The slide members are channel-shaped and oppositely arranged, with the roller of one slide member received in the channel of the other slide member, the rollers carrying each respective slide member. A resilient tab is lanced out of one of the slide members adjacent an end. When the slides are installed in a drawer or cabinet, one slide member is attached to the side of a drawer while the other slide member is attached to an adjacent part of the desk or cabinet drawer opening. The tab is turned inwardly of the slide member opposite the slide member having a roller at that end. The free end of the tab is at the free end of the slide member from which it is lanced out; and, when the slide members are retracted, the tab frictionally and yieldingly engages a part of the adjacent roller to take up any play between the two slide members. This also causes frictional engagement to releasably restrain longitudinal extended movement of the slide members. There are slides at each side of the drawer and the tabs are at the front end of the drawer, and together take up any play between the drawer and the cabinet as well as any play between the slide members.
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patent: 3328106 (1967-06-01), Mullin
patent: 3387907 (1968-06-01), Wall
patent: 3574437 (1971-04-01), Stein
patent: 3981553 (1976-09-01), Gutner
Barber Lloyd L.
Koppelman Alan J.
Baisch J. C.
Gilliam Paul H.
Grosz Alex
Standard Precision, Inc.
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