Including Roller Or Ball Bearing Patents (Class 312/334.26)
  • Patent number: 11684156
    Abstract: A drawer assembly for an appliance includes a front drawer guide fixed to a frame of the appliance including a front slide, the front slide defining a first sliding surface and a first receiving channel, a drawer body in slidable contact with the front drawer guide, and a rear drawer guide coupled to the drawer body, the rear drawer guide including a hook and a rear slide provided over the hook along the vertical direction, the rear slide defining a second sliding surface and a second receiving channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Lydia Stempky, John Adam Yantis
  • Patent number: 10499735
    Abstract: A desk with a slidable drawer assembly is disclosed herein. The desk includes at least one pair of spaced-apart leg members; a desk tabletop supported on the leg members, the desk tabletop having a top surface and a bottom surface oppositely disposed relative to the top surface; at least one suspended rail member, the at least one suspended rail member supported by the leg members, the at least one suspended rail member being spaced apart from the bottom surface of the desk tabletop by a gap; and a drawer assembly adjustably supported on the at least one suspended rail member, the drawer assembly comprising a support carriage with one or more slidable drawer members, the support carriage configured to be slidably displaced on the at least one suspended rail member so as to enable a user to selectively adjust a position of the drawer assembly of the desk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Sunjoy Industries Group Ltd.
    Inventor: John David Cooper
  • Publication number: 20140167589
    Abstract: A drawer guide is provided for displaceable arrangement of a drawer configured to be pulled out from a carcass. The drawer guide has at least two guide rails, which are displaceable relative to one another by means of rolling elements, and at least one functional device for influencing a relative movement of at least one of the at least two guide rails relative to at least one further one of the at least two guide rails. At least two substantially C-shaped guide rails are provided, which each have a rail back which connects at least two legs to one another, on which, in each case, at least one rolling element track is configured. The at least two C-shaped guide rails are arranged with the rail backs facing away from one another. At least one receiving element is provided to at least partially receive the at least one functional device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: SCHOCK METALLWERK GMBH
    Inventor: Joachim Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20130069515
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: FULTERER GESELLSCHAFT MBH
    Inventor: Gunter Bonat
  • Patent number: 8201901
    Abstract: An apparatus including sliding supports and particularly sliding supports having two elongate members of channel section which slide one within the other. The apparatus addresses the problem of using such sliding supports in an orientation where the channels of the elongate members open vertically rather than horizontally. The sliding support preferably includes a damping mechanism for resisting relative sliding movement of the elongate members. The sliding support also preferably includes a mechanism for defining one or more intermediate positions between extended and shortened positions of the sliding support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Accuride International Limited
    Inventor: Andrew Neil Craddock
  • Patent number: 7475955
    Abstract: A storage cabinet (30, 216) has a number of drawers (38) with shelves (52) having cutout walls (78, 80) providing side support for stored modules (46). An alternative shelving unit (84) includes a spring member (96) with leaf springs (98) that press stored modules (46) against a lip (90) on the unit. The drawers (38) have roller apparatus (190,192) on a topmost surface which hangingly roll within curved holders (212, 214).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Inventors: Michael R. Dressendorfer, Bernard A. Higuera
  • 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
  • Patent number: 6637848
    Abstract: A fully pulled-out type mobile apparatus comprises an extractable device, two relay levers and two guide rails. The extractable device provides two opposite lateral sides with a respective proper slot at a bottom thereof being between at least two opposite guideposts extending downward from the bottom. Each of the relay levers provides an elongated groove for being passed through by the guideposts with a connecting piece engaging with at least one of the guideposts such that the guideposts can be received and displace in the elongated groove. Each of the guide rails provides an outer rail part, an inner rail part and a ball structure between the outer and the inner rail parts. The ball structure has a length at least equaling to a length between two guideposts at both ends of the extractable device and the inner rails of the guide rails connecting with the relay levers respectively so as to move with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Inventor: Chin-Chih Lin
  • Publication number: 20030168953
    Abstract: A fully pulled-out type mobile apparatus comprises an extractable deice, two relay levers and two guide rails. The extractable deice provides two opposite lateral sides with a respective proper spot at a bottom thereof being between at least two opposite guideposts extending downward from the bottom. Each of the relay levers provides an elongated groove for being passed through by the guideposts with a connecting piece engaging with at least one of the guideposts such that the guideposts can be received and displace in the elongated groove. Each of the guide rails provides an outer rail part, an inner rail part and a ball structure between the outer and the inner rail parts. The ball structure has a length at least equaling to a length between two guideposts at both ends of the extractable device and the inner rails of the guide rails connecting with the relay levers respectively so as to move with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2002
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Inventor: Chin-Chih Lin
  • Patent number: 6339532
    Abstract: A hard disk drive is damped in order to reduce tracking errors by isolating the drive from the enclosure it is mounted in using one or more pieces of adhesive viscoelastic material. The hard disk drive is mounted by means of a secondary mounting plate having ventilation holes. Vibrations introduced into the drive from the enclosure, as well as rotational vibrations introduced by the rotation of the drive itself, are substantially damped by the viscoelastic material. As a result, tracking errors are substantially reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2002
    Assignee: Compaq Computer Corporation
    Inventors: Steven G. Boulay, Stanley Walter Stefanick, Richard Ellis Mills