Latchable drawer slide

US6386659B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Westfalia Metallformtechnik GmbH & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Torsten Müller · Berlin, DE
• Rudiger Thomas · Haiger, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 9, 2000
• Grant date: May 14, 2002
• Expiry date: Nov 9, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A47B2210/0056
• WIPO field: Furniture, games
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A drawer slide has an outer rail forming a plurality of parallel and inwardly open tracks, an inner rail fitting in the outer rail and having a plurality of flat surfaces each confronting and extending parallel to a respective one of the tracks, and a respective row of balls in each of the tracks and riding on the respective inner-rail surface. The outer rail has a normally horizontal bight portion having outer edges, respective planar lower side portions extending upward from the outer edges and forming therewith corners in turn forming tracks, respective planar upper side portions extending upward from upper edges of the lower side portions, and respective planar upper end portions extending inward from upper edges of the upper side portions and forming therewith corners in turn forming tracks. Similarly, the inner rail has a normally horizontal bight portion having outer edges, respective planar upper side portions extending downward from the outer edges and forming upper outer surfaces confronting the corners between the respective outer-rail upper end portions and outer-rail upper side portions, and respective planar lower side portions extending downward from lower edges of t…