Pull-out guide assembly for drawers or the like

Claim 1

In a pull-out guide assembly for use on each of opposite sides of a drawer in an article of furniture of the type wherein the drawer is slidably insertable into and removable from a furniture body, said assembly being of the type including a supporting rail to be mounted on a respective side of the body, a pull-out rail to be mounted on a respective side of the drawer, a roller carrier mounted between said supporting and pull-out rails, load transmitting rollers carried by said roller carrier and running on horizontal flanges of said supporting and pull-out rails, and compensating rollers carried by said roller carrier and running on vertical flanges of said supporting and pull-out rails for providing lateral stability to said assembly, the improvement comprising: stop means on a front end of said supporting rail and on a rear end of said pull-out rail for preventing disassembly of said supporting and pull-out rails and said roller carrier by relative longitudinal movement therebetween, and thereby for forming said supporting and pull-out rails into an inseparable unit which may be mounted on the respective side of the furniture body; said supporting and pull-out rails, said roller carrier and said load transmitting and compensating rollers being dimensioned and positioned for relative longitudinal movement substantially without lateral or vertical clearance; and means for, after said inseparable unit has been mounted on the respective side of the furniture body, connecting said pull-out rail to the respective side of the drawer without the use of screws or bolts, said connecting means comprising a locking member including a resilient latch member having a catch fitting onto said pull-out rail and at least one integral member extending laterally from said locking member for removable friction fit into a hole provided in the respective drawer side.