Abstract: A device with enhanced long-term cleanliness for storing products includes a frame, pairs of supporting structures, and trays. The pairs of supporting structures are connected to opposite walls of the frame, and positioned in a receiving cavity of the frame. Each supporting structure includes a slide rail. The trays are detachably connected to the supporting structure. Each tray includes a mounting plate and two supporting portions, the mounting plate is connected to the two supporting portions, two supporting portions of each tray are positioned on the two slide rails of one supporting structure pair and are movable along two slide rails. The supporting structure in the frame and the supporting portion of the tray reduces connecting areas between the tray and the frame, the slide rails allowing easy movement of the trays, reducing metal and other debris generated over long usage of the facility.

Abstract: A piece of furniture, such as a lectern, has a shell with an opening. A rack for electronic equipment is mounted within the shell. The rack can be slid between a stowed position in which the rack is entirely within the furniture and an access position in which the rack extends through the opening and is partially outside the shell.

Abstract: A self-lubricating slide module is provided. The slide module comprises a rail and a slider. The slider includes a metal member and a plastic member, wherein the metal member includes at least one engaging structure. The plastic member binds to the metal member by injection molding, so as to cover at least a portion of the metal member, and be embedded into the engaging structure to firmly engage to each other.

Abstract: A method and structures are provided for implementing a low profile sliding drawer used in information technology equipment (ITE). A low-profile slide mechanism having a substantially horizontal cross section telescopes outwardly a predefined length and includes a plurality of rail sections that are interconnected with shouldered T pins, with sliding of the rail sections occurring on the T pin shoulders spacing apart the rail sections from an associated base pan and drawer. Each of the rail sections is movable a set amount of an overall length of the slide mechanism. The low-profile slide mechanism is friction based and includes different predefined selected materials forming the shouldered T pins and the rail sections to prevent galling and having predefined rigidity and strength.

Abstract: A pull-out guide for furniture or household appliances. The pull-out guide includes a guide rail configured to be mounted 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 is configured to include a double profile that is formed as a trapezoid along a displacement direction of the central rail.

Abstract: A movable rail body is fastened to a movable body and has a first space. Movable rail bearings are disposed in the first space at diagonally facing corners of the movable rail body. A stationary rail body is fastened to a stationary support and has a second space. Stationary rail bearings are disposed in the second space at diagonally facing corners of the stationary rail body. A slider has an upper end in rolling contact with the movable rail bearings, and a lower end in rolling contact with the stationary rail bearings. An angle between a center line parallel to the movable body and a connection line connecting centers of the movable rail bearings ranges from 40 degrees to 50 degrees. An angle between the center line and a connection line connecting centers of the stationary rail bearings ranges from 130 degrees to 140 degrees.

Abstract: A guide device for a sliding unit in a mobile terminal is provided. The guide device includes a lower slide including latch portions formed to open outwards, guide rails manufactured independently to be assembled with the latch portions, wherein the guide rails are disposed to extend in a longitudinal direction of the lower slide, and a guide plate comprising rack portions coupled with the guide rails, wherein the guide plate is disposed to face the lower slide.

Abstract: The bearing rings 1 and 2 of a rolling bearing is formed of one kind of titanium alloys of &bgr; type titanium alloys, near &bgr; type titanium alloys and &agr;+&bgr; type titanium alloys. The titanium alloy has a surface hardness of Hv 400 or more and less than Hv 600 for increasing the corrosion resistance and wear resistance of the bearing ring. Spherical rolling elements 3 rolling on the raceway surfaces 1a and 2a of the bearing rings 1 and 2 are formed of ceramics such as silicon nitride. When &bgr; type titanium alloys or &agr;+&bgr; type titanium alloys after a solution treatment and applied with an oxidation treatment at a low temperature of 400 to 600° C. are used as the material for the bearing ring, a bearing ring made of titanium alloy suitable to use under a circumstance requiring corrosion resistance is obtained.

Abstract: A keyless entry system for use with a mobile transmitter for transmitting an ID code specified therefor along with a command for vehicle door lock/unlock remote control to a control unit. The control unit is operable in an ID code registration mode for registering an ID code transmitted from the mobile transmitter. The transmitted ID code is compared with the registered ID code to permit the remote control specified by the transmitted command when the transmitted ID code is identical with the registered ID code. Upon completion of a first predetermined procedure including a plurality of sequential events of at least one first movable vehicle member provided on the vehicle, a second movable vehicle member is changed from a first position to a second position.

Abstract: A combination linear and circular motion roller bearing assembly have a rail and a pair of tracks, each located along a side wall of the rail. The rail forms a contiguous path having both linear and circular portions. A slider bearing assembly is movably attached to the rail. The slider bearing assembly has internal continuous paths that correspond to the tracks. Each internal path has a plurality of ball bearings therein. Each internal path has an opening adjacent the corresponding track and a tapered insert therein for exposing a predetermined number of ball bearings to the track to allow rolling movement with a respect to the track as the slider bearing assembly moves along the rail.

Abstract: A bearing includes a bearing component, such as a bearing race, having a bearing contact surface. A region at the bearing contact surface is made of titanium aluminide, preferably an alpha-2 or gamma titanium aluminide. A case-hardened layer present at the surface of the titanium aluminide region increases the hardness and wear resistance of the titanium aluminide at elevated temperature. The case-hardened layer is preferably formed by diffusing carbon into the surface of the titanium aluminide from a gaseous medium, at elevated temperature land at ambient or reduced pressure.

Abstract: The invention lies in a solid bearing drawer slide with an innovative reinforced plastic intermediate channel resulting in smooth, silent operation. The new low cost slide has the action and durability of a ball bearing and drawer slide while costing a fraction of the price to make. The plastic intermediate slide is made of mixtures of new innovative durable plastics. A lubricant supplied between bearing surfaces produces smooth sliding action.

Abstract: A damper assembly includes anti-rattle tracking devices or components for preventing rattling and play when a sliding tray is moved into and out from a stationary housing by a damper device. The damper device further includes a fail-safe locking device so as to maintain the assembly of the locking device for the sliding tray regardless of either a pushing or pulling motion.

Abstract: A sliding assembly for a furniture drawer including a C-shaped metal slide in combination with a T-shaped wooden guide, the slide being equipped with an integral, depending detent while the guide is equipped with a spring clip in a top groove receiving the slide detent so as to provide an overcomeable stop against drawer removal from an associated dresser, the bottom of the slot being generally U-shaped.

Abstract: A drawer slide device for suspending and supporting a drawer which permits the drawer to be opened and closed and limits the travel of the drawer includes a guide bar ridgedly attached to a drawer holder and having a slot therein, and a slide bar suspended from the guide bar slot by screws such that the screw heads can not pass through but may slide within the slot while holding the slide bar. The slide bar has a slot from which a drawer is suspended by screws that are similarly free to slide within the slide bar slot while holding the drawer. Friction reducing washers are interposed between bearing surfaces to permit ease of operation. The travel of the drawer is limited to a portion of the total of the slot lengths.

Abstract: A container, like an ashtray, particularly for use in a vehicle. A housing with an open side and a drawer like insert slidably guided for movement into and out of the housing. A plurality of guide members fastened to each of the opposite sidewalls of the housing past which the insert is moved. Each guide member includes a plate at the housing sidewall and outward projections on the plate, which are received in a respective guide groove defined on the respective opposite sidewall of the insert. Each projection includes a forwardly bent portion and a curved fillet connection to the respective plate. The outward projections are integral with the plate of the guide member and of the same resilient material as and is resiliently movable both generally parallel to the plane of the plate of the guide member and also perpendicular to that plate. The guide projections are engaged with vertical and horizontal tension in the guide grooves.

Abstract: A prefabricated metal drawer-slide assembly for mounting in a cavity of a furniture unit, comprising a female channel-shaped guide member terminating in ends on a common level, the member adapted to be mounted in the cavity and to extend between front and back side of the furniture unit, for guiding a complementary male component affixed to a bottom side of a slideable drawer adapted for reciprocally movement in the cavity. The assembly further comprises an elevated reinforcing rib extending along the major length of a bottom side of the female guide member between the ends, and downwardly sloping terminal portions extending from opposite ends of the elevated rib for mergence with the opposite ends.

Abstract: The preferred latch device consists of two elements, attached to interfitting longitudinally movable slide members in a relationship to pass adjacent to one another as the slide members move longitudinally. The elements each carry stops which are positioned to engage one another as the elements come into an adjacent relationship to limit further travel of the slide members. One of the elements is pivotally attached to its slide member, and movable both clockwise and counter clockwise, to displace the stops sufficiently to clear its stops on the other element and permit the slide members to be disconnected. Preferably the rear faces of the stops on one element are sloped in parallel planes to engage the stops on the other element as the slide members are being reconnected, and to cam the pivotal element sufficiently to cause the stops to clear one connection, permitting the slide members to be easily reconnected.

Abstract: A glide apparatus for an assembly, such as a vehicle interior accessory, includes a first member disposed for slidable relative movement with respect to a second member. The first member has a longitudinally-extending, generally channel-shaped portion defined a base and a pair of spaced-apart legs protruding laterally outwardly from the base. A glide member preferably includes a number of serially-arranged arcuate slide portions at least partially fixed relative to a backing plate and curving laterally outwardly from the backing plate for relative slidable engagement with at least one, or both, of the legs on the channel-shaped portion of the first member. Preferably, a number of second arcuate slide portions are at least partially fixed relative to the backing plate and curve laterally outwardly from the backing plate for relative slidable engagement with the base of the channel-shaped portion of the first member.

Abstract: A drawer slide set includes a two part guide and a two part slide. The guide is made of a first plate which is formed into a guide-connector having a roller rotatably mounted thereon. The guide-connector has a profiled end which extends into a correspondingly shaped channel in a one piece guide rail. Screws or rivets fasten the guide-connector to the guide-rail. The two part slide comprises a one piece slide rail which defines a channel that receives the profiled end of a plate formed into a slide-connector. A roller is rotatably mounted to one end of the slide-connector.

Abstract: A conventional dovetail slot is formed in a wooden guide which is attached to the bottom of a drawer. A rubber or plastic wedge is secured in one end of the slot and tapers outwardly towards the end of the slot. A runner having a dovetail-shaped tongue moves relative to the guide and slides in the slot. The inner surface of the tongue is concave so that the tongue can slide over the wedge. However, a screw or other projection on the tongue contacts the wedge to form a stop when the drawer reaches the full open position.

Abstract: A drawer with integral drawer slides is roll formed from a drawer blank.

Abstract: A drawer has metal drawer frames or side walls and a front plate connected thereto by holding devices. At least one strip of plastics material or the like is fastened to the outer side of each of the drawer frames. The strips cover holes in the drawer frames, such holes providing access for a tool such as a screw driver to the front plate holding devices.

Abstract: A filing cabinet includes a safety interlock that prevents more than one drawer from being opened at a time. The safety interlock comprises a column of endwise abutting catches mounted to the cabinet wall for vertical reciprocation thereon. The ends of the catches are formed with tabs. The tabs of adjacent catches cooperate to define gaps of predetermined spacing. Actuator means on each cabinet drawer are aligned with the catch gaps. When a selected drawer is opened, the actuator means thereon enters the associated gap and displaces upwardly any higher catches. Upward displacement causes the gaps between higher adjacent catches to be displaced into the paths of the actuator means of any higher drawers, thereby preventing any higher drawers from being opened. The retainer of an open drawer blocks upward displacement of any lower catches, thereby preventing lower drawers from being opened. A slide is reciprocably mounted on each retainer.

Abstract: A glide (10) for a shelf (25) of a mini-load warehouse rack has a bearing plate (12) held in place on the shelf by a detent (24) raised up from the upper surface (26) of the shelf and fitting a hole (18) in the bearing plate. A clip (14) on an edge (15) of the guide fitting around an inner edge (27) of the shelf resiliently engages an underside (28) of the shelf to hold the bearing plate in its locked position on the detent. Trays (30) can slide in and out on the shelf glides without dislodging the bearing plates from the detents.

Abstract: A slidable support system is formed of two rails having opposed channels. The rails have flat mounting surfaces adapted to be affixed to a support and an element to be slidably mounted, and at least two bearings are provided extending into the channels of both of the rails. The bearings have generally cruciform cross sections, and may be affixed to one of the respective rails, or free-floating with respect to both of the rails.

Abstract: A guide for drawers, cutting boards and other such retractable furniture parts, having a guide rail which can be fastened to a cabinet wall, and a running rail which can be fastened to the retractable furniture part and is mounted for movement along the guide rail with the interposition of rolling bearings held in a cage. The running rail is a hollow rail that is open on one side in a slot running in the direction of movement and has rolling-bearing tracks disposed in a triangle with one another in a cross section through their longitudinal central axes, one of the tracks being provided opposite the slot and the other two tracks being provided on opposite sides laterally of the slot, and the guide rail being provided on its end reaching through the slot into the interior of the running rail with three tracks which confront the tracks of the running rail in the same arrangement.

Abstract: A nested plastic slide is disclosed having three pieces that fit together with very little spacing between parts. The vertical dimension of all parts is greater than the horizontal dimension. The part most subject to damage is the inner piece, which is removable and thereby replaceable by the removal of a single peg. Except for a few individual ball bearings included in approriate recesses, no metal parts are required.

Abstract: In a pull-out guide assembly for drawers there are arranged at each side of the drawer a supporting rail at the side of the body and a pull-out rail at the side of the drawer. A roller carrier with rollers is mounted between the rails at each side. The supporting rail on one side of the drawer is rigidly fastened to the furniture side wall, while the supporting rail on the other side is mounted resiliently. The rails laterally support the rollers. Thus, lateral clearance of the drawer is prevented.