Patent ID: 8015664

Claim:
A twin-wheel caster comprising a housing having an essentially vertically oriented, top-side pin opening receiving a pivot pin which connects the caster to an item of furniture or to another object, a shaft-shaped, bottom-side slide opening in the housing which is offset laterally with respect to the pin opening and receives a slide which is supported in the slide opening via a spring and can be displaced between a rolling position and a braking position, a passage opening provided in the slide, oriented essentially transversely with respect to the slide opening and containing an axle pin bearing wheels, and recesses provided in the housing wall bounding the slide opening for passage of the axle pin, characterized in that the housing has, in its lower region, two projections which adjoin the slide opening, protrude laterally from the housing wall and frictionally support the hubs of the wheels in the braking position.