Hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide

• US 8,991,952 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2011
• Issued: 03/31/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Arturo Salice SPA
• Original Assignee: Arturo Salice SPA
• Inventors: Salice, Luciano
• Primary Examiner(s): ROHRHOFF, DANIEL J
• Application Number:
  US13/808,893
• Publication Number:
  US 20130113356A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,280 Days
• Field of Search: 312/333, 312/334.1, 312/334.2, 312/334.4, 312/334.5, 312/334.6, 312/334.7, 312/334.8, 312/348.4
• US Class Current: 312/334.4
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2088/4276 at drawer front via latch means or locking lever
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2088/4278 Quick-release clip
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 88/427 at drawer side

Abstract

The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide, comprises a support body fixable to a front and/or a bottom of the drawer and is provided with an oscillating command lever of a hooking organ of the support body to the guide, the support body exhibiting a first part of body fixable to the drawer and at least one second part of body slidably connected with the first part of body and adjustably positioned at least in the longitudinal direction of the guide, the lever and the hooking organ being solidly constrained to said second part of body in displacement thereof in the longitudinal direction of the guide, at least first adjustment means being further provided for varying a position of said second part of body with respect to the first part of body in the longitudinal direction of the guide for adjusting the position of the drawer with respect to the guide in the longitudinal direction of the guide.

Claims

1. A hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide, comprising a support body fixable to a front, a bottom, or the front and the bottom of the drawer and provided with an oscillating command lever of a hooking organ of the support body to the guide, wherein said support body exhibits a first part of body fixable to the drawer and at least a second part of body connected slidably to the first part of body and adjustable at least in a longitudinal direction of the guide, said longitudinal direction being a direction in which said drawer moves in and out of a piece of furniture, said lever and said hooking organ being solidly constrained to said second part of body in displacement thereof in the longitudinal direction of the guide, at least first adjustment means being further provided for varying a position of said second part of body with respect to the first part of body in the longitudinal direction of the guide for adjusting a position of the drawer with respect to the guide in the longitudinal direction of the guide.

2. The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide of claim 1, wherein said second part of body comprises second adjustment means destined to vary a position of the support body in a first direction which is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the guide for height-regulating the position of the drawer with respect to the guide.

3. The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide of claim 2, wherein said second adjustment means comprise a wedge-shaped element hinged to said second part of body with a rotation axis orientated in said first direction.

4. The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide of claim 3, wherein said second adjustment means further comprise a manual gripping element for activating said wedge-shaped element.

5. The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide of claim 2, wherein said second adjustment means are positioned on an opposite side to said first adjustment means with respect to the fulcrum of oscillation of said lever.

6. The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide of claim 1, wherein said support body exhibits at least a third part of body connected slidably to the said first part of body and positionable adjustably in a second direction both parallel to a plan of the drawer and perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction of the guide, said second part of body being further slidably connected to the third part of body and positionable adjustably in the longitudinal direction of the guide, third adjustment means further being provided, destined to vruy the position of an assembly comprising said second part of body and third part of body with respect to the said first part of body in the said second direction for laterally adjusting the position of the drawer with respect to the guide.

7. The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide of the claim 6, wherein said third adjustment means are positioned on a same side as said first adjustment means with respect to the fulcrum of oscillation of the lever.

8. The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide of claim 6 wherein said first adjustment means comprise a cylindrical pin constrained rotatably in a cylindrical guide hole afforded on said third part of body and a cam supported by said pin in an eccentric position and engaged in a slot afforded on said second part of body.

9. The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide of claim 8, wherein said first adjustment means further comprise a manual gripping element for activating said cam.

10. The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide of claim 6, wherein said third adjustment means comprise a cylindrical pin constrained rotatably in a cylindrical guide hole afforded on said first part of body, and a cam supported in an eccentric position by said pin and engaged in a slot afforded on said third part of body.

11. The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide of claim 10, wherein said third adjustment means further comprise a manual gripping element for activating said cam.

12. The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide of claim 6, wherein the first part of body exhibits a plate having guide ribs which are perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the guide and which cooperate with front and rear edges of a plate of the third part of body.

13. The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide of claim 6, wherein the third part of body exhibits a projection which develops in the longitudinal direction of the guide and is slidably engaged in a recess having a complementary shape thereto and afforded in the second part of body.

14. The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide of claim 1, wherein said first adjustment means comprise a wheel screwed coaxially on an endless screw, wherein the wheel is constrained to said first part of body such as to exhibit a single rotational degree of freedom about an axis thereof, said endless screw is fixed to said second part of body and oriented in the longitudinal direction of the guide.

15. The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide of claim 14, wherein said wheel is positioned in a seating afforded in said first of body on which an access window is superposed, afforded in said second part of body for manually activating the wheel.

16. The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide of claim 1, wherein the second part of body exhibits a base plate having perpendicular tabs that are parallel to one another and which slidably engage with corresponding perpendicular tabs of the first part of body for sliding the second part of body in the longitudinal direction of the guide.