Facing (e.g., Drawer Front Or Face Plate) Patents (Class 312/348.4)
  • Patent number: 6234596
    Abstract: A fastening device for fastening a front panel to a metal drawer slide/side is provided which comprises a front panel, a dowel component, and a distance plate, adapted to be connected to a metal drawer slide/side, disposed between the front panel and the dowel component, and an adjustment device comprising an eccentric piece that is operated by a retractable or foldable adjusting lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Grass GmbH
    Inventor: Remo Egger
  • Patent number: 6231141
    Abstract: A knock-down file cabinet and in particular, a vertical file cabinet wherein both the cabinet housing and each of the drawers have a knock-down construction. The drawers use either separate components that are slidably fitted together, or a single sheet of material that defines the bottom, side and back walls. Each drawer construction is usable within the cabinet housing so as to define a complete knock-down vertical file cabinet which can be readily shipped in a relatively compact container or package and thereafter assembled together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick C. Liebertz, Mark A. Powell
  • Patent number: 6183053
    Abstract: A group of identical bezel plates having bilateral symmetry interchangeable, in a compound bezel assembly, with at least one other group of identical bezel plates having bilateral symmetry to produce multiple, bilaterally symmetrical, compound bezel configurations with different appearances using a minimal number of component plates; and method and apparatus for providing a venting bezel assembly with a plenum chamber formed between component plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Co.
    Inventors: Wayne E. Foslien, Joseph M. White, Seiya Ohta
  • Patent number: 6179399
    Abstract: A fastening device enables fastening of a front panel of a drawer to respective metal drawer side walls each having a vertical web having an opening. The fastening device has a fastening member having a holding plate to be attached to the front panel and a fastening device to extend perpendicularly to the drawer front panel. A clamping lever is mounted on the fastening plate by an axle and is tiltable on such axle between a locking position for securing the front panel to the drawer side wall and an unlocking position in which the front panel can be removed from the drawer side wall. A tightening member is slidably mounted on the fastening plate and is moveable by tilting of the clamping lever. The tightening member is provided with a lateral projection to be moved into the opening in the vertical web of the drawer side wall when the clamping lever is tilted into its locking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Klaus Br{umlaut over (u)}stle, Helmut Hollenstein