Patent ID: 8152253
Filing Date: 2012-04-10
Classification: A47B,B62B

Abstract:
1. An anti-falling apparatus to prevent a cabinet standing on a supporting surface from tilting forwards, the anti-falling apparatus comprising: a receiving member attached to a bottom of the cabinet; an extending arm telescopically mounted to the receiving member; the extending arm comprising a first end and a second end opposite to the first end, and slidable in a direction slanting to the supporting surface, between a first position in which the extending arm is received in the receiving member, and a second position in which the extending arm extends forwards out of the receiving member; a supporting sub-assembly attached to the first end of the extending arm and operably resting on the supporting surface in response to the extending arm being in the second position; wherein a first distance from the first end to a top of the receiving member is greater than a second distance from the second end to the top of the receiving member; wherein the receiving member is bounded by a bottom plate, two trapezoidal-shaped perpendicularly sidewalls extending up from opposite sides of the bottom plate; one of the sidewalls comprises a locating portion extending inward therefrom, and the extending arm is located under the locating portion when in the first position.