US 12,290,169 B1
Drawer guide and furniture with drawer guides
Jeremy Thomas Herrick, Whitehall, WI (US); and Karl Joseph Fegi, Holmen, WI (US)
Assigned to Ashley Furniture Industries, LLC, Arcadia, WI (US)
Filed by Ashley Furniture Industries, LLC, Arcadia, WI (US)
Filed on Sep. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/957,685.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/251,422, filed on Oct. 1, 2021.
Int. Cl. A47B 88/43 (2017.01)
CPC A47B 88/43 (2017.01) 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A molded drawer guide for aligning a center mounted drawer within a cabinet, the drawer guide being elongate with an elongate axis, the drawer glide comprising:
an attachment portion on one end and a spacing portion on an opposite end with a gliding portion extending therebetween, the attachment portion, spacing portion, and gliding portion being unitary and having a common downwardly facing planar surface for mounting on an upwardly facing surface of a cabinet that defines a drawer opening in the cabinet;
wherein the attachment portion defines a pad with an upwardly facing surface with a central aperture for receiving a screw and further has an upright side surface extending about the pad from the upwardly facing surface to the common downwardly facing planar surface;
wherein the gliding portion has an upwardly facing convex surface such that a cross section through the gliding portion taken perpendicular to the elongate axis has a smooth upper convex curvature extending a length of the gliding portion, the convex surface of the gliding portion extending to the upright side surface of the attachment portion, a portion of the upright side surface of the attachment portion facing in a direction toward the spacing portion, and wherein the gliding portion having a length in the range of from 15 to 38 mm and the attachment portion having a length in the range of 12 to 15 mm,
and wherein the spacing portion defines an upwardly projecting drawer contact face that faces towards the attachment portion, the upwardly projecting drawer contact face extending upwardly from the upwardly facing convex surface of the gliding portion, the spacing portion further having a cabinet panel contact face perpendicular to the downward facing planar surface and opposite from the upwardly projecting drawer contact face.