Drawer

Abstract

A drawer configured to be extended from and retracted into a furniture body. The drawer includes a bottom part; a front panel; two lateral frames; and a back wall connected via a corner joint to an end region formed with one of the lateral frames. Each corner joint including a first connecting part and a second connecting part pivotably connected to the first connecting part. The second connecting part includes detent means for connecting the second connecting part to either the first connecting part or the back wall. The first connecting part is connected to an adapter associated with the end region formed by the back wall with one of the lateral frames.

Description

[0001]This application is a national stage of International Application PCT / EP2010 / 058895, filed Jun. 23, 2010, and claims benefit of and priority to German Patent Application No. 20 2009 004 982.5, filed Jul. 2, 2009, the content of which Applications are incorporated by reference herein.BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY[0002]The present disclosure relates to a drawer which can be extended from and retracted into a furniture body. The drawer includes a bottom part, a front panel, two lateral frames and a back wall which is positively or non-positively connected to the end regions formed by the lateral frames via corner joints.[0003]Such a drawer is known. In current industrially produced drawers, the lateral frames consist of hollow profile sections in which adapters are introduced for absorbing and transferring the forces to the pull-out guides. Corner joints are arranged at the end of the adapters which face the back wall. The back wall also often has to transfer forces to the lateral frame...

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Benefits of technology

[0004]In the case of a prior known corner joint, mounting journals spaced from one another are applied to the side associated with the back wall, on which the back wall is then inserted. For this purpose, the back wall is provided with boreholes arranged in a correctly positioned manner, which need to be adjusted precisely to the width of the drawer. The back wall is secured by means of hooks which are arranged in groups and which have a different length, so that respective hooks will engage behind the back wall on the outside depending on the actual thickness of the back wall. As a result of the only partly engaging hooks, the transfer of forces via the back wall is reduced and the precisely produced boreholes in the back wall increase the production costs per back wall.

[0007]The present disclosure further relates to providing a drawer of the kind described but having corner joints configured to be used both for plate-like back walls as well as for back walls that include shaped sheet-metal parts, with the transmission of forces being improved and the handling being as simple as possible.

[0015]In an embodiment of the present disclosure, it is provided for fixing the height of the back wall arranged as a shaped sheet-metal part on the second connecting part that the first connecting part includes at least one recess in the corner region facing away from the pivot axis. Into the at least one recess a projection is arranged on the second connecting element that will engage in an interlocking fashion. The projection simultaneously engages into a notch on the edge side of the back wall. This will also help prevent movement resulting from forces that act on the latching webs, which forces act perpendicularly on the latching webs.

Problems solved by technology

As a result of the only partly engaging hooks, the transfer of forces via the back wall is reduced and the precisely produced boreholes in the back wall increase the production costs per back wall.

These corner joints are complex from a constructional viewpoint as a result of the relatively high number of hooks, despite the fact that the joint consists of a single component.

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