Alfit Aktiengesellschaft

Alfit Gesellschaft M.b.h.

Alfred Albiez

In a furniture element, in particular a drawer, in which at least two long flat structural elements form a corner with their long ends and are secured to each other by connectors that form a push connection with at least one structural element, in order to simplify assembly and make it possible to use prefabricated structural elements, the structural element that is intended for the push connection as a profile element is provided with an insertion guide for a supporting element of the connector element formed from profile projections that are moulded onto at least one flat side and that run the length of the element, and that when this element is in the inserted position it can be fixed in the insertion guide so as to ensure a form or force fit.

Furniture element

A drawer is limited on its sides by metal side walls provided at their top with guide rails and at the bottom with a carrying flange for supporting a bottom plate of the drawer. The carrying flange is formed with stamped-out, flat retaining lugs bent up to extend from below into openings of the bottom plate, which drawer also comprises a rear wall mounted between the side walls. In order to permit a reliable, simple and optionally automatic mounting of the bottom plate, the retaining lugs extend transversely to the longitudinal direction of the flange and into the openings to hold the bottom plate against longitudinal and transverse displacements. A hook-shaped holding-down member is stamped out from the forward end portion of the carrying flange and extends into a recess provided in the front end face of the bottom plate, and the rear wall of the drawer is secured to the side walls and is arranged to hold down the bottom plate at its rear end portion, which extends under the rear wall.

Drawer

The drawer comprises metal side walls, which define the drawer on its sides and are provided each at its bottom with an angled carrying flange for supporting a bottom plate of the drawer, wherein retaining elements which have been lanced from the carrying flanges extend into receiving recesses of the bottom plate. To permit a simple mounting of the bottom plate in the correct position and a simple machining of the bottom plate for the provision of retaining recesses in the bottom plate by a simple machining process, the retaining elements comprise two holding-down hooks, which serve to retain the bottom plate at one end face thereof and are provided in respective ones of the carrying flanges, the retaining recesses comprise a continuous groove, which extends in one end face of the bottom plate between the side edges thereof, and two inguiding surfaces are provided, which extend from the bottom surface of the bottom plate and as far as to the bottom side face of the groove and are adjoined by respective ones of the holding-down hooks, each of which is adapted to assume a final retaining position, in which a hook arm at the top of each hook extends from the inguiding surface into the groove.

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Langen, Austria

Alfred Albiez