Including Roller Or Ball Bearing Patents (Class 312/334.15)
  • Patent number: 11849902
    Abstract: A stowable dish drying rack system includes a mount for attachment to a bottom surface of a cabinet. A plate support is attached to the mount and is extendable vertically downwardly from the mount in a deployed position. The plate support receives vertically orientated plates such to facilitate drying of the plates. The plate support is positionable in a horizontal orientation in a stored position when the plate support is free of the plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Inventor: Michael Sanchez
  • Patent number: 10799020
    Abstract: A multi-level cabinet storage system includes a multi-level storage container that includes a number of shelves, each with horizontal planar surfaces, coupled between the vertical opposing members. The horizontal planar surfaces of respective shelves may be aligned vertically in parallel planes. The vertical opposing members may include a rear vertical member and a front vertical member. The multi-level cabinet storage system also includes a first slide member coupled with a base of the multi-level storage container and a second slide member coupled at a first end with the rear vertical member and extending parallel with, and along, a horizontal planar surface of an upper shelf included among the shelves. The multi-level cabinet storage system also includes an external frame formed as a contiguous rigid structure coupled with the first slide member and the second slide member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Rev-A-Shelf Company, LLC
    Inventors: Bryan Keith Tingle, Paul Franklin Chambers, Kevin M. Ward, Leeman Elliot Stevens
  • Patent number: 9182132
    Abstract: A modular, multi-piece, domestic appliance combination unit includes a lower appliance; an upper appliance; a universal connector bracket attached to the upper appliance; a support bracket attached to the lower appliance, the support bracket having a plurality of attachment locations that are positioned relative to each other in the horizontal direction; a slide mechanism having an upper slide member fixed to the universal connector bracket, and a lower slide member fixed to the support bracket and slidably attached to the upper slide member. The upper appliance moves relative to the lower appliance in a direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction when the upper slide member moves relative to the lower slide member, and the support bracket is attachable to the lower slide member at different ones of the plurality of attachment locations such that the lower slide member is positionable at different locations along the horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: BSH Home Appliances Corporation
    Inventor: Michael Penuel
  • Patent number: 8167388
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventor: Hermann Hämmerle
  • Patent number: 7889494
    Abstract: A holster provides a carrier for removable storing a portable electronic device, such as a cellular phone, PDA or MP3 player, and a fastener for securing the carrier to the user's clothing or bag. The holster includes a docking station inside the carrier and a pair of guide rails extending from the docking station to guide a device into electrical contact with the docking station. The docking station and rails are preferably pivotally mounted to the carrier to that they can be pivoted for convenient and easy insertion and removal of a device from aligned contact with the docking station. The dock equipped holster can then provide several power supply options for the user, including solar cells along an exterior surface of the carrier, wireless charging tags or pass through power cord ports, as well as data port and audio port pass through.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Inventor: Urs Stampfli
  • Patent number: 7597413
    Abstract: An extension guide fitting for drawers includes an extension rail at the drawer side, a carrier rail at the furniture body side, and a middle rail which runs between the extension and carrier rails at both sides of the drawer. The load between the rails is transmitted by running rollers which are mounted in separate carriages. Mounted in the front region of the carrier rail are at least two stationary support rollers on which the extension rail runs via a running limb so as to support the extended rail at least in the closed condition of the drawer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H
    Inventor: Helmut Fitz
  • Patent number: 7465001
    Abstract: A drawer guide rail for a stabilized and guided in and out movement of a drawer with respect to the furniture member, having at least one surface of the pull out channel mounted on the bottom surface of the drawer, and a fixed guide (20) adapted to be fastened on either side or both sides of the inner sidewalls of the respective furniture member. The guide rail assembly includes an outer pull out channel (50), intermediate pull out channel (30) and roller units (15, 25) for allowing the relative movement of the pull out channels. The essential part of the present invention is an additional stabilizer means (10), in the form of a metal plate adapted to provide a running surface and is disposed between two roller units (15, 25) accordingly, to facilitate absorbance of vertical forces and stabilized drawer motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Harn Marketing Sdn Bhd
    Inventors: Harn Lian Lam, Harn Yan Lam
  • Patent number: 7296863
    Abstract: A sliding guide rail assembly is provided for slidably mounting a drawer or equipment within a cabinet or chassis. The rail is formed from a sheet metal into a T-shaped section onto which a sliding means fits and slides smoothly thereon. Guides also formed from a sheet metal into C-sections fitting over the sliding means and operable to slide smoothly therewith. This enables the drawer/equipment mounted on the slide to be drawn in and out with little effort or wear and tear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Harn Marketing Sdn Bhd
    Inventors: Harn Lian Lam, Harn Yan Lam
  • Patent number: 7281774
    Abstract: As an arrangement to reduce an operational force to draw the drawer 3 forward from the drawer storage position 2, wherein at least a rear end side of a drawer 3 is supported in a drawer storage portion 2 in a manner movable along back and forth and a front end 3b side thereof is supported in a manner movable along back and forth by a floor F at least through a rolling supporting body, the rolling supporting body adopts a free motion rotating body 12 whose upper end 12b makes an abutting contact with a downward facing surface 3a of the drawer 3 and whose bottom end 12a contacts the floor F and the free motion rotating body 12 supports the front end 3b side of the drawer 3 with making a rolling movement at a half traveling speed of the drawer 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Kokuyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youichi Zenda, Yoshimasa Kato, Hiromi Iwamuro, Shinya Noguchi
  • Patent number: 7156478
    Abstract: A sliding guide rail assembly (20, 20a, 20b) is provided for slidably mounting a drawer or equipment (10) within a cabinet or chassis. The rail (33a) is formed from a sheet metal into a T-shaped section onto which a sliding means (40, 40a, 40b, 40c) fits and slides smoothly thereon. Guides (50, 120, 150, 160) also formed from a sheet metal into C-sections fitting over the sliding means (40,40a,40b,40c) and operable to slide smoothly therewith. This enables the drawer/equipment mounted on the slide (20,20a,20b) to be drawn in and out with little effort or wear and tear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Harn Marketing Sdn. Bhd.
    Inventors: Lian Lam Harn, Yan Lam Harn
  • Patent number: 6848761
    Abstract: A pullout guide for a drawer consists of two carrier rails on the body side which carry rollers rotatably supported around horizontal axes and having two pullout rails on the drawer side whose horizontal runways bent from the upper sides of the vertical webs are supported at their lower support surfaces on at least the two rollers of the carrier rails disposed in the region of the front side of the body part. To allow a vertical adjustment of the front board of the drawer in a simple manner, the horizontal runways are provided at their front end regions with sections which can be pivoted or vertically moved by adjustment devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Arturo Salice S.p.A.
    Inventor: Luciano Salice
  • Patent number: 6848760
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Westfalia Profiltechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rüdiger Thomas, Torsten Müller
  • Publication number: 20040085007
    Abstract: The present invention is a ball linear guide comprising a metallic component, the metallic component comprising a metallic flat plate base, the metallic flat plate base being formed by erecting thereon a pair of plate portions and connecting the pair of plate portions integrally with each other through a first flat plate portion, the pair of plate portions being respectively formed with dovetail grooves which respectively constitute loaded ball grooves; a first synthetic resin component disposed so as to cover the flat plate base in an inserted state of the pair of plate portions into the first synthetic resin component, the first synthetic resin component having one sides which connect to a third flat plate portion to form slits, also having a pair of unloaded ball holes, and further having grooves for forming direction changing U-shaped passages which connect the loaded ball grooves and the unloaded ball holes with each other at both ends; and a pair of second synthetic resin components mounted on the first
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2003
    Publication date: May 6, 2004
    Inventor: Mitsuo Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 6682160
    Abstract: A drawer sliding structure includes a track seat, an outer slide rail, and an inner slide rail. The track seat is fastened to the panel of a cabinet or the like and is provided with a guide portion. The outer slide rail is fastened with a drawer of the table. The inner slide rail is slidably fastened with the guide portion of the track seat in conjunction with a first roller seat. The outer slide rail is mounted on the inner slide rail in conjunction with a second roller seat which is provided with at least two vertical rollers and at least one horizontal roller, with the vertical rollers and the horizontal roller being located between the outer slide rail and the inner slide rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: Nan Juen International Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yung Sheng Kung
  • Publication number: 20020033658
    Abstract: The present finding relates to a closing device for sliding portions of pieces of furniture, such as drawers and the like, consisting of a container fastened to the fixed or to the sliding portion of the piece of furniture wherein there are housed a mechanical energy accumulator and an actuation member that is sliding into a guide of the container, and of a pulling member, respectively fastened to the other side of the piece of furniture, which interacts with the actuation member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2001
    Publication date: March 21, 2002
    Applicant: ARTURO SALICE S.P.A.
    Inventor: Luciano Salice