Patent ID: 8449051

Claim:
A drawer assembly comprising: a drawer and a sliding guide rail system for slidably opening and closing the drawer within an article of furniture; the drawer comprising a drawer side member ( 2 ) comprising a cover piece ( 2 A) and a support bracket ( 2 B), said cover piece fitting over said support bracket; the sliding guide rail system comprising a mounting bracket ( 10 ) for fixing the drawer to the article of furniture, said mounting bracket having a fixed rail ( 20 ) for receiving an intermediate rail ( 30 ), an intermediate rail capable of sliding back and forth relative to said fixed rail, an outer pull out rail ( 40 ) operatively attached to said support bracket ( 2 B) and being capable of sliding back and forth on said intermediate rail relative to said intermediate rail and said fixed rail, said support bracket ( 2 B) configured to be static relative to the outer pull out rail; a contact piece ( 80 ) provided on said support bracket ( 2 B) of said drawer side member ( 2 ); a damping device ( 70 ) and a channel guide ( 50 ) disposed along the mounting bracket ( 10 ) adjacent said fixed rail ( 20 ), said damping device being resiliently compressible in a lengthwise direction and said channel guide having a sliding member ( 60 ); the sliding member ( 60 ) comprising an inner portion ( 61 ) that travels within the guide and an outer portion ( 62 ) that extends from the guide so as to be contactable by said drawer side contact piece ( 80 ), said inner portion locating an end of the damping device ( 70 ) that can be pushed inwardly to provide damping, wherein, during a closing action of the assembly, both the drawer and the outer pull out rail ( 40 ) is caused to slide in a drawer-closing direction and when said drawer side contact piece ( 80 ) reaches and engages the sliding member outer portion ( 62 ), the sliding member ( 60 ) travels within said channel guide ( 50 ) against the resilience of said damping device ( 70 ) and causes deceleration of the drawer-closing motion.