Drawer for furniture

Claim 1

In a drawer for an article of furniture, comprising a bottom portion, two guide rails laterally engaged with said bottom portion; a front sheeting; a pair of fastening means for fastening said front sheeting to a respective guide rail; a pair of parallel side portions laterally covering said guide rails; a back portion; said side portions each having substantially a U-shaped cross-section and overlapping and engaging with a respective guide rail, said back portion extending transversally of said side portions; and a pair of caps each mounted to a respective side portion at a front end thereof and engaged therewith, said side portions each having a front end and a rear end and having at the rear end a first recess which accommodates an end portion of said back portion, the improvement comprising that said side portions are mirror-inverted relative to a central longitudinal axis of the drawer and each has the same shape so that the positions of one side portion and the other side portion in the drawer can be interchanged, each side portion including at the front end a second recess formed identically to said first recess, the second recess of each side portion accommodating each of said fastening means, said caps being releasably connected to said front sheeting and entirely enclosing said second recesses and the fastening means received therein, each of said side portions at the front and rear end thereof having the cross-section of a rectangular hollow profile, each hollow profile opening towards said bottom portion and also at one side thereof, each side portion further including an outer wall, an upper wall of the same length as said outer wall, and an inner wall parallel to said outer wall and of the length shorter than that of the outer wall, at least one of said outer wall and said inner wall having an arm extended normally to said wall and formed at a free end of said wall, said outer wall having two free ends and said inner wall having two free ends, said outer wall further including two arms at free ends thereof and said inner wall further including two arms at free ends thereof, the arms of the outer wall projecting in the same direction as the arms of said inner wall, the arms of said outer wall and the arms of said inner wall of each side portion extending inwardly of the drawer, each arm of the outer wall defining with each arm of the inner wall in a direction of elongation of said side walls an opening, said outer wall and said upper wall of each side portion limiting said first and second recess at sides of the drawer and from above of the drawer, respectively.