Patents by Inventor Eberhard Thomas

Eberhard Thomas has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4252382
    Abstract: Drawer slide for drawers and other such drawer-like furniture parts, consisting of preferably two tracks of approximately channel-shaped cross section and different web height, and fastened to opposite sides of the drawer and to the fixed furniture part respectively, stops being provided at the ends of the tracks, which are engaged by a ball cage in the maximum outdrawn position and thereby prevent any unintentional separation of the tracks. The cage has limbs projecting into the interstices between flanges of the tracks, in which openings holding the balls of the ball cage are provided. The web section has a resiliently deformable tongue section projecting, in the maximum outdrawn position, at least partially beyond the end of the track fastened to the fixed furniture part, and having at least one detent projection projecting towards the track fastened to the drawer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1981
    Assignee: Karl Lautenschlager KG, Mobelbeschlagfabrik
    Inventor: Eberhard Thomas