Guide wall assembly for drawers

• US 4,955,160 A
• Filed: 08/11/1989
• Issued: 09/11/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Julius BLUM GmbH (BLUM Verwaltung GmbH)
• Original Assignee: Julius BLUM GmbH (BLUM Verwaltung GmbH)
• Inventors: Rock, Erich
• Primary Examiner(s): Dorner, Kenneth J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Anderson, Gerald
• Application Number:
  US07/392,285
• Time in Patent Office: 396 Days
• Field of Search: 312/339, 312/334, 312/340, 312/341.1, 312/349, 384/18, 384/19
• US Class Current: 312/334.8
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2210/0032 Balls
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2210/0035 cages therefor, e.g. for telescopic slides
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2210/004 cages therefor, e.g. for telescopic slides
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2210/0043 Wheels
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2210/0056 Guide located at the bottom of the drawer
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2210/007 Three slide synchronisation
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 88/493 with rollers, ball bearings, wheels, or the like

Abstract

A guide rail assembly for a drawer includes, for each side of the drawer, a supporting rail on the side of an article or body of furniture and a pull-out rail slideably mounted on the supporting rail. The load of the drawer is transmitted by means of cylindrical runner rollers and/or balls. The runner rollers or balls are arranged substantially in a horizontal plate and adjacently mounted in carriages. The supporting rail has a guide flange with a U-shaped channel and outwardly projecting horizontal marginal flanges extending from both sides thereof. Central runner rollers roll in the U-shaped channel, and lateral runner rollers roll on the marginal flanges. The pull-out rail embraces the supporting rail. The pull-out rail has on each side thereof an outwardly projecting horizontal running flange which is spaced from the upper and lower edges of the pull-out rail. Balls, runner rollers and/or slides roll on the running flanges of the pull-out rail and carry on each side of the drawer a drawer rail which is fastened thereto.

Claims

1. A guide rail assembly for use on each of opposite sides of a drawer for guiding movement of the drawer into and out of an article of furniture, said assembly comprising:

a supporting rail to be mounted on a side of the article of furniture, said supporting rail having a U-shaped guide flange defining a U-shaped channel and having outwardly projecting horizontal marginal flanges on each of opposite sides thereof;

a generally C-shaped pull-out rail embracing said guide flange of said supporting rail, said pull-out rail having on each of opposite sides thereof a generally vertical flange, a lower horizontal flange extending inwardly from a lower end of said vertical flange, and a horizontal running flange extending outwardly from said vertical flange at a position between said lower end thereof and an upper end thereof;

carriage means supporting a plurality rolling means substantially in a horizontal plane for enabling sliding movement between said pull-out rail and said supporting rail, said rolling means comprising central rolling means located in said U-shaped channel and rolling on said U-shaped guide flange and said pull-out rail and lateral rolling means, on each of opposite sides of said central rolling means, and rolling on a respective said lower horizontal flange of said pull-out rail and a respective said horizontal marginal running flange of said guide flange of said supporting rail; and

a drawer rail to be mounted on a drawer and guided for sliding movement relative to said pull-out rail by means of guide means located at each of opposite sides of said drawer rail and slidably engaging both upper and lower surfaces a respective said horizontal running flange at a respective said side of said pull-out rail;

whereby the load of the drawer is transmitted from said drawer rail to said pull-out rail by said guide means and from said pull-out rail to said supporting rail by said rolling means.

2. An assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein said drawer rail has a substantially inverted U-shape and embraces said pull-out rail.

3. An assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein each said horizontal running flange of said pull-out rail has stop means to limit the extent of sliding movement of said pull-out rail relative to said supporting rail in a direction of extraction movement of the drawer.

4. An assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein each said guide means comprises slide means mounted on said drawer rail and abutting one of said surfaces of said respective horizontal running flange of said pull-out rail, and further rolling means mounted in carriage means and rolling on the other of said surfaces of said respective horizontal running flange of said pull-out rail.

5. An assembly as claimed in claim 4, wherein said slide means abut said lower surface of said horizontal running flange.

6. An assembly as claimed in claim 5, wherein said slide means is generally L-shaped.

7. An assembly as claimed in claim 5, wherein said further rolling means rolls on said upper surface of said horizontal running flange and on said drawer rail.

8. An assembly as claimed in claim 7, wherein said further rolling means comprise runner rollers.

9. As assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein each said guide means comprises ball members mounted in carriage means and rolling on both said upper and lower surfaces of said respective horizontal running flange of said pull-out rail.

10. An assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein each said horizontal running flange extends outwardly from the respective said vertical flange at a position substantially midway between said lower and upper ends thereof.

11. An assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein said rolling means comprise runner rollers.