Drawer slide assembly

Claim 1

A drawer slide and guide assembly comprising a pair of elongated, nestable metal members, one of said members being attachable to the under side of the drawer for sliding movement therewith while the other of said members is attachable to a drawer-receiving structure, such as a dresser, for guiding the sliding movement of said one member, each of said members being channel-shaped and being equipped with longitudinally extending, laterally projecting wing means, the wing means of the sliding member being equipped with laterally inwardly extending projections laterally offset and constituting detent means, the walls of the guiding member being laterally outwardly upset to provide detent means cooperative with the detent means of said sliding member, the guiding member detent means also being laterally offset, each of said members being equipped with reenforcing rib means adjacent the detent means to limit wall flexure when the detent means are in engagement, the detent means of said sliding member being adjacent the rear end thereof while the detent means of said guiding member are adjacent the forward end thereof whereby the detent means are cooperative to prevent inadvertent removal of said drawer from said structure, the material of construction being sufficiently deformable to permit wall flexure whereby one set of detent means can pass over the other set of detent means and permit intentional removal of said drawer from said structure.