Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7364245 | Lateral alignment device A telescoping slide rail assembly including interconnected mounting, intermediate and stationary slide rails movable relative to one another to extend and retract the mounting and intermediate slide rails relative to the stationary slide rail between fully extended ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7308184 | Slide arrangement for cable drawer 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 a... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7204379 | Crane A crane has at least one telescopic crane arm with at least two sliding arms that are moveable against each other. At least one gliding element, which is housed in a frame in a detached and unfastened manner, is arranged between the sliding arms. The gliding element... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7171099 | Slide arrangement for cable drawer 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 a... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7111853 | Transportable container for electrical devices A transportable container for electrical devices having aluminum bottom, top and end panels. The top and bottom panels are configured having spaced apart interior and exterior sheet members laser welded to a corrugate stiffener. Each end panel is structured with an ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 6848761 | Pullout guide for a drawer 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 sup... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6848760 | Drawer slide 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. Res... | 02/01/2005 |
| 5692817 | Shelf device for a refrigerator A shelf device for a refrigerator comprising a bracket or a guide rail horizontally mounted on a back wall of a refrigerating chamber, and a shelf assembly coupled to the bracket or the guide rail so that a user can horizontally displace or slide the asse... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5681102 | Cassette for the construction of drawer cabinets A kit is provided for cassettes for a drawer cabinet. The kit includes two pairs or guide rails (28, 28'; 29, 29') which are provided as supplements and are mountable when so required. A first U-shaped rail (28, 28') is connectable at a rear end with the ... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5520452 | File cabinet drawer slide disconnect A file cabinet drawer slide assembly comprises a slide arm which is fitted with rotatable rollers, the rollers being dimensioned and configured to support a hem of a cabinet drawer. The slide arm is cooperable with a generally C-shaped track fixed to an i... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5490724 | Drawer guide for supporting a moveable structure such as a drawer in a furniture article A drawer guide for supporting a moveable structure such as a drawer in a furniture article includes a guide rail having a rotatable guide rail roller, which guide rail is mountable to the furniture article in a generally horizontally disposed position, an... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5484198 | Drawer guide assembly A drawer guide assembly for use on each side of drawer includes an elongate guide rail for guiding associated rollers during relative movement between a drawer and an associated article of casement furniture, the relative movement is limited by a step str... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5464280 | Sewing article storage apparatus A new and improved sewing article storage apparatus includes a housing assembly which includes a bottom wall, a first side wall and a second side wall, a top wall, and a back wall connected to each of the other walls. A set of wheels is connected to the b... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5449231 | Drawer suspension mechanism A drawer includes two side portions, two tracks fixed to the side portions, and two channels slidably engaging with the tracks. A groove and a depression are formed in the bottom of each of the side portions. A lower flange is laterally extended from each... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5345959 | Rack support roller for dishwashing machine and method of assembly therefor An article support rack rests on wheels fastened to walls of a washing machine tub. An axle having a partially knurled shaft is inserted through each wheel. A washer is placed over the axle to engage the knurled part and hold the wheel on the axle. The ax... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5344228 | Thin offset drawer slide with progression roller A thin profile drawer slide apparatus for slidably supporting a heavy drawer in furniture, comprising symmetrical, identical channel members for slidably attaching the apparatus to a drawer and an article of furniture, a plurality of bearings slidably ret... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5292192 | Guide rail for roller drawer guides Profiled rail of metal plate with an approximately U-shaped cross-section provided as a guide rail (10) for roller drawer guides in articles of furniture which may be screwed with its web surface (14) onto the support wall of a cupboard carcass. The runni... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5209555 | Drawer and roller slide combination There is a drawer having a bottom, front, rear and left and right side walls. A continuous rim defines left and right upper edge flanges that extend along and connect to the respective upper edges of the left and right side walls. The left and right rim-f... | 05/11/1993 |
| 4942329 | Cantilevered drawer slide arrangement A cantilevered drawer slide arrangement for supporting drawers where the slide hardward is entirely hidden inside the drawer cabinet. A pair of individual tracks are mounted on each side of the cabinet inside the front face. A square bracket having roller... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4666221 | Multidrawer cabinet A cabinet with a plurality of stacked drawers has an outer frame and a plurality of first track members carried on opposed inner walls of the frame. Each first track member defines a pair of inwardly extending, spaced arms. A plurality of drawers carry at... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4447095 | Self-leveling drawer slide The present invention relates to a self-leveling drawer slide assembly. The assembly incorporates roller assemblies intended to be attached to the opposed faces of a cabinet and channel assemblies adapted to be affixed to the cabinet-adjacent faces of the... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4438994 | Drawers and drawer runners A drawer runner comprises a mounting member adapted to be mounted in a cabinet in which a drawer is to be supported in use, a pair of spaced bearing members mounted on the mounting member for engagement in the runner recess in the drawer side, and a fixed... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4304449 | Drawers A drawer assembly comprising a drawer slidably supported on a pair of drawer runners each comprising an elongated member of angle section having a mounting flange by means of which the runner may be mounted at a suitable location in a drawer cabinet or li... | 12/08/1981 |
| 4232921 | Drawer suspension assembly This invention relates to an assembly for supporting a drawer in a desk or cabinet wherein the drawer is provided with C-shaped guide channels recessed in grooves provided in the drawer side walls. The channels cooperate with guide rollers positioned at p... | 11/11/1980 |
| 4199200 | Roller bracket assembly for drawers A bracket assembly for supporting rollers to be received in tracks on a drawer includes a vertical wing and a horizontal wing integral with and projecting laterally from the lower edge of the vertical wing. At least two rollers are journaled on the vertic... | 04/22/1980 |
| 4186979 | Drawers A drawer having longitudinal tracks formed in the opposite side walls thereof and a pair of guide members mounted at the rear corners of the drawer and movable between retracted positions in which the guide members are clear of the rear ends of the associ... | 02/05/1980 |
| 3980364 | Roller bracket assembly for drawers A roller bracket assembly includes a first and second generally planar wings connected perpendicular to each other by a narrower intermediate panel slanted at forty-five degrees with respect to both wings. Two horizontally spaced rollers are journaled on ... | 09/14/1976 |
| 3973814 | Drawer slide assembly for self-closing drawer Tracks are secured to the sides of a drawer and ride along sets of front and rear rollers at the front of a cabinet to guide the drawer for back and forth sliding in the cabinet. Downwardly inclined ramps are formed intermediate the ends of the tracks and... | 08/10/1976 |
