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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 08, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Paul Hettich GmbH & Co., Kirchlengern, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
31233431 ; 3123191 ; 31233444 ;
Abstract
A track assembly for a pull-out member, such as a drawer for a piece of furniture or an oven tray for cooked food, includes a stationary guide rail, a runner slidable with respect to the guide rail in an operating direction between extracted and retracted positions and coupled to a pull-out slide member, and a spring-biased brake mechanism mounted transversely to the operating direction of the runner and bearing upon at least one flank of the runner, to thereby impede a smooth run between the runner and the guide rail of the track assembly in cases in which a certain degree of sluggishness is desired.