Including A Carriage Patents (Class 312/334.13)
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Patent number: 11992123Abstract: A device for guiding a movable furniture part on a furniture carcass. The device includes a carcass rail arranged on the furniture carcass and a movable rail movable in the opening and closing direction relative to the carcass rail. The carcass rail and the movable rail each have a flat running web and load-transmitting rolling elements are each arranged between a running web of the carcass rail and a running web of the movable rail. During relative movement between the rails, the rolling elements move along the running webs. The running webs are uninterrupted, and the rolling elements between the rails are configured such that, in the mounted state, the running web of the movable rail is always oriented obliquely relative to the running web of the carcass rail.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Grass GmbHInventor: Markus Albrecht
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Patent number: 11825943Abstract: A telescopic slide rail support pulley structure includes a first rail provided with multiple mounting holes and a first rolling carriage, a second rail include notch, a positioning hole and a second rolling carriage, a support pulley assembly provided with an upper roller, a lower roller, a support holder and a connecting portion, and a third rail. The connecting portion of the support pulley assembly is mounted to the notch of the second rail. The support pulley assembly also has an upper roller groove and a lower roller groove. The upper roller is arranged in the upper roller groove. The lower roller is arranged in the lower roller groove. The third rail is connected to the second rail through the second rolling carriage. The second rail is connected to the first rail through the first rolling carriage.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Nan Juen International Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xin-Hong Wei, Wei-Liang Liao, Ke-Yi Ku
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Patent number: 11497381Abstract: A basket for an appliance such as a dish washing appliance. A rack may be positionable between a stowed position and a deployed position. The rack may include a secondary rack positionable between a stowed position and a deployed position relative to the rack. The secondary rack may include the basket. The basket may be positionable to one or more walls of the dishwasher tub between a stowed position and a deployed position. The basket may be removable from one or more racks and/or the one or more walls of the dishwasher tub.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Joel Boyer, Robert Digman
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Patent number: 10974657Abstract: A rack system for a vehicle includes a first rack member rotatably coupled to a support element in a cargo bed of the vehicle, a second rack member rotatably coupled to the first rack member, and a third rack member coupled to first rack member so as to be rotatable with respect to the first rack member independently of the second rack member. The rack members may be stowed when not in use, and deployed when the vehicle is stationary to enable various accessories to be mounted from the rack members. This enables the accessories to be spatially arranged for use according to user preferences and convenience.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventor: David Wentworth
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Patent number: 10884210Abstract: A drawer slide having first and second rails interconnected by a center rail. The center rail includes a spool configured to provide half-speed travel of the center rail relative to the travel of the first rail. The drawer slide is configured for use with a drawer assembly having a drawer and a chassis. The drawer assembly further includes a radius limiter secured to the center rail. The radius limiter travels at half-speed relative to the drawer. The radius limiter also automatically rotates relative to the travel of the drawer. The chassis includes sides including threaded backing plates, and mounting brackets. The mounting brackets include tri-lobed holes for receipt of a reciprocally shaped washer and a fastener for mounting the brackets to the chassis sides.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventors: Kathleen M. Barnes, Justin R. Horton, Thomas C. Tinucci, Thomas L. Barnes
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Patent number: 10598885Abstract: A drawer slide having first and second rails interconnected by a center rail. The center rail includes a spool configured to provide half-speed travel of the center rail relative to the travel of the first rail. The drawer slide is configured for use with a drawer assembly having a drawer and a chassis. The drawer assembly further includes a radius limiter secured to the center rail. The radius limiter travels at half-speed relative to the drawer. The radius limiter also automatically rotates relative to the travel of the drawer. The chassis includes sides including threaded backing plates, and mounting brackets. The mounting brackets include tri-lobed holes for receipt of a reciprocally shaped washer and a fastener for mounting the brackets to the chassis sides.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventors: Kathleen M. Barnes, Justin R. Horton, Thomas C. Tinucci, Thomas L. Barnes
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Patent number: 10588410Abstract: A drawer system including: a drawer cabinet and a drawer mounted in said cabinet for forward and backward travel relative thereto; said cabinet having two opposed spaced apart side walls and at least two lower wheels mounted to each side wall and spaced apart in the intended direction of travel of the drawer; said drawer having two opposed spaced apart side panels and at least two lower wheels mounted to each side panel and spaced apart in the intended direction of travel of the drawer; and a runner mounted on said lower cabinet wheels of each side wall for forward and backward travel relative to said cabinet via a first track and each runner including a second track engaged by said spaced apart lower drawer wheels for forward and backward travel for said drawer relative to said runner.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Inventor: Shane Miles
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Patent number: 10226123Abstract: A drawer slide having first and second rails interconnected by a center rail. The center rail includes a spool configured to provide half-speed travel of the center rail relative to the travel of the first rail. The drawer slide is configured for use with a drawer assembly having a drawer and a chassis. The drawer assembly further includes a radius limiter secured to the center rail. The radius limiter travels at half-speed relative to the drawer. The radius limiter also automatically rotates relative to the travel of the drawer. The chassis includes sides including threaded backing plates, and mounting brackets. The mounting brackets include tri-lobed holes for receipt of a reciprocally shaped washer and a fastener for mounting the brackets to the chassis sides.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2017Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventors: Kathleen M. Barnes, Justin R. Horton, Thomas C. Tinucci, Thomas L. Barnes
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Patent number: 10192667Abstract: An enclosure for electrical equipment is provided. The enclosure includes a frame, a first plate, and a first member coupled to the frame and configured to receive the first plate. The first plate is configured to receive a transformer, movable between a first position and a second position, at least partially supported by the first member when the first plate is in the first position, and offset from the first member when the first plate is in the second position.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2014Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Hubbell IncorporatedInventor: Joseph P. Gerovac
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Patent number: 10058176Abstract: A sliding assembly includes two pull-out guides which can be secured to opposite side walls and each of which includes a stationary guide rail, a middle rail movably mounted on the guide rail, and a running rail movably mounted on the middle rail. A first slidable element is retained on the two running rails of the two pull-out guides, and a second slidable element is retained on the two middle rails of the two pull-out guides. By moving one slidable element, the other slidable element can also be moved.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2015Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Paul Hettich GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Daniel Rehage
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Patent number: 9844266Abstract: A drawer slide having first and second rails interconnected by a center rail. The center rail includes a spool configured to provide half-speed travel of the center rail relative to the travel of the first rail. The drawer slide is configured for use with a drawer assembly having a drawer and a chassis. The drawer assembly further includes a radius limiter secured to the center rail. The radius limiter travels at half-speed relative to the drawer. The radius limiter also automatically rotates relative to the travel of the drawer. The chassis includes sides including threaded backing plates, and mounting brackets. The mounting brackets include tri-lobed holes for receipt of a reciprocally shaped washer and a fastener for mounting the brackets to the chassis sides.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2017Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventors: Kathleen M. Barnes, Justin R. Horton, Thomas C. Tinucci, Thomas L. Barnes
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Patent number: 9565938Abstract: A drawer slide having first and second rails interconnected by a center rail. The center rail includes a spool configured to provide half-speed travel of the center rail relative to the travel of the first rail. The drawer slide is configured for use with a drawer assembly having a drawer and a chassis. The drawer assembly further includes a radius limiter secured to the center rail. The radius limiter travels at half-speed relative to the drawer. The radius limiter also automatically rotates relative to the travel of the drawer. The chassis includes sides including threaded backing plates, and mounting brackets. The mounting brackets include tri-lobed holes for receipt of a reciprocally shaped washer and a fastener for mounting the brackets to the chassis sides.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2015Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventors: Kathleen M. Barnes, Justin R. Horton, Thomas C. Tinucci, Thomas L. Barnes
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Patent number: 9125491Abstract: A pull-out guide for furniture or household appliances includes a guide rail mountable on a body of the furniture or the household appliance, a central rail displaceably mounted on the guide rail, and a running rail displaceably mounted on the central rail. The central rail includes a double profile formed as a trapezoid along a displacement direction of the central rail.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2011Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: PAUL HETTICH GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Daniel Rehage
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Patent number: 8845043Abstract: An arrangement for a drawer pull-out guide (1) that has at least two rails (5, 6, 7) that are guided on one another in a telescopic manner is provided. The arrangement has at least one roller (2), at least one roller axis (3), and at least one roller support body (4). The roller (2) is rotatably mounted on the roller axis (3), and the roller axis (3) is arranged on the roller support body (4), in particular in a fixed manner. The roller support body (4) is a separate component from all the rails (5, 6, 7) of the drawer pull-out guide (1), and the roller support body (4) has at least one first connecting device (8) for fixing the roller support body (4) on the rails or on one of the rails (5, 6, 7) of the drawer pull-out guide (1).Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2011Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: FULTERER Gesellschaft mbHInventor: Gunter Bonat
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Patent number: 8690270Abstract: A rolling body of a moving carriage cage for drawer guides has an internal core part and a separate casing part surrounding the core part. The core part is preferably composed of a first plastic, and the casing part is preferably composed of a second plastic. The plastics of the core part and of the casing part have different indentation hardnesses.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2012Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Julius Blum GmbHInventors: Hermann Hämmerle, Albert Bösch
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Publication number: 20130293078Abstract: The invention relates to a device for detachably coupling a drawer to an extendable rail of a pull-out guide, having an adjusting device by which a position of a drawer connected to the rail is adjustable relative to the rail in a lateral direction, wherein the device comprises a fastening part that can be fastened to the drawer and a coupling part that can be coupled to the rail. The fastening part is linearly movable by the adjusting device relative to the coupling part and the adjustment device comprises a setting wheel mounted on the coupling part or on the fastening part so as to rotate about an axis, wherein the adjustment device comprises at least two axially spaced devices for converting a rotary movement of the setting wheel into a linear movement of the fastening part relative to the coupling part.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Inventors: Kurt HAEMMERLE, Andreas HOLZER
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Patent number: 8534918Abstract: A semiautomatic slide mechanism includes a slide board and a slide seat slidably connected therewith. The slide board is formed with a slide rail divided into a first slot and a second slot for early half and later half of the sliding travel. Two racks are disposed on different sides of the first and second slots. The slide seat is formed with a guide slot. A guide member is slidably disposed on the slide seat corresponding to the guide slot. An elastic member is disposed in the guide member. A driving spring member is disposed on the slide seat for driving the guide member. A gear is disposed between the slide board and the slide seat and engaged with one of the racks. The gear has a shaft member connected with the driving spring member and the elastic member and slidably extending through the guide slot and the slide rail.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2011Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: First Dome CorporationInventors: An Szu Hsu, Chien Cheng Mai, Chien Yu Lin
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Patent number: 8474926Abstract: A fully extendable telescopic drawer guide for furniture components that can be extended from the body of an item of furniture, with a guide rail facing the body, a running rail associated with the extendable furniture component, and an intermediate rail arranged between these two rails. Rolling elements are provided which are supported in cages and transfer the load of the extendable furniture component by way of rolling surfaces disposed on the rails. At least one rotatably supported supporting roller for the running rail is provided on the front end of the intermediate rail. The intermediate rail is implemented as a profile rail which encompasses the region of the guide rail provided with the rolling surfaces and which has on the bottom side an elongated opening for insertion of the support region of the guide rail to be secured to the body wall of an associated item of furniture.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2010Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Alfit AGInventor: Christian Prentner
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Patent number: 8167388Abstract: A pull-out guide for drawers including a first rail and at least one second rail, and at least one carriage is arranged between the two rails. The carriage includes a bearing group containing load-transmitting elements, preferably rollers, rolling bodies and/or balls. The load-transmitting elements guide the bearing group in the vertical direction and in the horizontal direction. At least one additional load-transmitting element is arranged on a bracket, at a distance from the bearing group. When the second rail is pulled out, the additional load-transmitting element can at least partially move out over the end of the first rail, such that it no longer lies on the first rail.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2009Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Julius Blum GmbHInventor: Hermann Hämmerle
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Patent number: 7866772Abstract: A sliding rail coupling structure includes an outer rail, an intermediate sliding rail slidable in and out of the outer rail and having two longitudinal sliding grooves at two sides, sliding bearing bushes coupled to and movable along the intermediate sliding rail, each sliding bearing bush holding a plurality of roller cylinders that are kept in contact between the top wall of the intermediate sliding rail and the top wall of the outer sliding rail and a plurality of rolling balls that are respectively kept in contact between the longitudinal sliding grooves of the intermediate sliding rail and the sidewalls of the outer sliding rail, a roller holder affixed to the intermediate sliding rail to support two support rollers that are respectively in contact with two bottom flanges of the outer sliding rail.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2008Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: GSlide CorporationInventor: Yung-Liang Chen
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Patent number: 7309115Abstract: A pull-out guide assembly for drawers, having on both sides of the drawer a support rail on the carcass and a pull-out rail on the drawer. The load of the drawer is transmitted between the rails by rollers that are borne in running carriages. The running carriages may be moved between a front end position and a rear end position in a differential manner. Locking means are provided for the running carriages and, in the event of a deviation from the differential running between the rails, they lock the running carriage on one of the rails at predetermined points between the two end positions. This locking is releasable by the movement of the rails with respect to one another.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2003Date of Patent: December 18, 2007Assignee: Julius Blum Gessellschaft m.b.H.Inventors: Egon Blum, Ingo Gasser, Herbert Isele
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Patent number: 7240979Abstract: An improving structure of adjustable sliding device that can be stretched and shortened in its length, comprises a base, an upper frame, a middle frame and a sliding device. The base further comprises a flat horizontal unit and two side plates which are formed perpendicularly to the flat horizontal unit. One of side plates is a vertical plate formed perpendicularly on one side of the flat horizontal unit and another side plate is a L-shaped plate formed perpendicularly on another side of the flat horizontal unit. The sliding device comprises an upper unit and a bottom unit. A slot is formed at a middle part of the upper unit and the bottom unit, wherein a plurality of horizontal rotating units are located on the upper unit and the bottom unit so that the upper frame, the base and the middle frame can be correspondingly assembled together.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2005Date of Patent: July 10, 2007Assignee: Nan Juen International Co., Ltd.Inventor: I Hsiang Chiu
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Patent number: 6848760Abstract: A slide has a pair of identical longitudinally extending and profiled rails each having at least one flange forming two longitudinally extending tracks. The rails are interfitted with the tracks of one rail transversely confronting the tracks of the other rails. Respective longitudinally extending rows of balls engaged in the tracks between the rails.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2003Date of Patent: February 1, 2005Assignee: Westfalia Profiltechnik GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Rüdiger Thomas, Torsten Müller
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Publication number: 20040212284Abstract: An extension guide fitting for drawers comprising an extension rail (4) at the drawer side, a carrier rail (2) at the furniture body side and a middle rail (3) which runs between those two rails (2, 4) at both sides of the drawer. The load between the rails (2, 3, 4) is transmitted by means of running rollers which are mounted in separate carriages (5). Mounted in the front region of the carrier rail (2) are at least two stationary support rollers (8) at which the extension rail (4) runs with a running limb and is supported at least in the closed condition of the drawer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2004Publication date: October 28, 2004Inventor: Helmut Fitz
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Patent number: 6619772Abstract: A ball bearing roller and ball bearing slide assembly for use in an article of manufacture, for example a toolbox having drawers, is disclosed. The ball bearing slide assembly can comprise a first slide element, a second slide element and a carriage, wherein the carriage couples, in combination with a ball bearing roller, the first slide member to the second slide member such that the second slide member moves relative to both the first slide member and the carriage. The ball bearing roller is swaged on a side of the roller that is attachable to the article of manufacture. The ball bearing slide assembly can be used, for example, as a drawer slide assembly. The ball bearing slide assembly enhances lateral stability. The likelihood of bearing fatigue, and ultimate bearing failure, due to lateral movement is decreased. A cost effective way to align, for example, shelves or drawers, with respect to the article of manufacture is provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2001Date of Patent: September 16, 2003Assignee: Oconomowoc Manufacturing CorporationInventor: Bruce E. Dierbeck
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Patent number: 6454372Abstract: A drawer rail includes an outer rail fixed to a furniture item, a sliding rail slidably contained in the outer rail, a ball rail slidably contained in the sliding rail, and an inner rail slidably contained in the outer rail and fixed to the drawer or a keyboard supporter. The sliding rail has a front end extending towards an outermost side of the drawer by which it is pulled outward. A positioning device is fixed on the sliding rail near the front end of the sliding rail. The positioning device has a body and a head having a pair of side slopes that are able to respectively engage with a pair of side walls of a groove defined in a bottom of the ball rail. The positioning device of the invention is able to provide a stable positioning effect for the inner rail, and thus the drawer, when the drawer is pulled to an outermost position.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2000Date of Patent: September 24, 2002Inventor: Jun-Long Yang
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Patent number: 6325473Abstract: A pull-out guide for a drawer includes a carcass-side supporting runner and a drawer-side pull-out runner on each side of the drawer. A respective roller is supported on each runner. Running flanges of the pull-out runners cover running flanges of the supporting runners. The pull-out runners have horizontally projecting fins which are disposed below the running flanges of the pull-out runners and which have free ends projecting to below the running flanges of the corresponding supporting runners in such a way that the pull-out runners are secured against unintentional lifting off from the supporting runners.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 1996Date of Patent: December 4, 2001Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.Inventors: Klaus Brüstle, Helmut Hollenstein, Erich Röck
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Publication number: 20010035704Abstract: A ball bearing roller and ball bearing slide assembly for use in an article of manufacture, for example a toolbox having drawers, is disclosed. The ball bearing slide assembly can comprise a first slide element, a second slide element and a carriage, wherein the carriage couples, in combination with a ball bearing roller, the first slide member to the second slide member such that the second slide member moves relative to both the first slide member and the carriage. The ball bearing roller is swaged on a side of the roller that is attachable to the article of manufacture. The ball bearing slide assembly can be used, for example, as a drawer slide assembly. The ball bearing slide assembly enhances lateral stability. The invention decreases the likelihood of bearing fatigue, and ultimate bearing failure, due to lateral movement. The present invention provides a cost effective way to align, for example, shelves or drawers, with respect to the article of manufacture.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2001Publication date: November 1, 2001Inventor: Bruce E. Dierbeck