Hooking device for connecting a drawer to a longitudinal guide

Abstract

The hooking device ( 1 ) for connecting drawer ( 3 ) to a longitudinal guide ( 3 ) comprises a support body ( 4 ) fixable to a front ( 5 ) and/or a bottom ( 6 ) of the drawer ( 2 ) and provided with an oscillating command lever ( 12 ) for a hooking member ( 13 ) of the support body ( 4 ) to the guide ( 3 ), the hooking member ( 13 ) being moveable between a hooking position and an unhooking position, the lever ( 12 ) exhibiting a first surface zone ( 16 ) and respectively a second surface zone ( 17 ) for manual gripping configured in such a way as to be selectively subjectable to a first manual activating force (F 1 ) or respectively to a second manual activating force (F 2 ) in reciprocally transversal directions and destined to generate an oscillation torque of the said command lever ( 12 ) in a same direction in order to bring the hooking member (13) into the unhooking position.

1 . A hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide, comprising a support body fixable to a front and/or to a bottom of the drawer, and a hooking member movable between a hooking position and an unhooking position of the support body from the guide, said support body being provided with an oscillating command lever for said hooking member, wherein said lever has a first surface zone extending in a substantially parallel direction to the longitudinal direction of the guide and respectively a second surface zone extending in a substantially perpendicular direction to the longitudinal direction of the guide, said first and said second surface zone being configured in such a way as to be selectively pressable by fingers to exert a first manual activating force or respectively to a second manual activating force in reciprocally transversal directions and destined to generate an oscillation torque of the said command lever in a same direction in order to bring the hooking member into the unhooking position. 
     
     
         2 . The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide according to  claim 1 , wherein said second surface zone is distinct from the said first surface zone. 
     
     
         3 . The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide according to  claim 1 , wherein said first surface zone and said second surface zone are provided on converging sides of an angled portion of the lever. 
     
     
         4 . The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide according to  claim 1 , wherein said first surface zone is configured such as to subject said lever to said first activating force in a substantially perpendicular direction to the longitudinal direction of the guide, and said second surface zone is configured in such a way as to subject said lever to said second activating force in a substantially parallel direction to the longitudinal direction of the guide. 
     
     
         5 . The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide according to  claim 1 , wherein said first surface zone and said second surface zone are provided on a same arm of said lever. 
     
     
         6 . The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide according to  claim 1 , wherein said first surface zone and the said second surface zone are positioned on a part of said lever which is opposite to said guide with respect to a fulcrum of oscillation of said lever. 
     
     
         7 . The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide according to  claim 6 , wherein said first surface zone extends from a side of said second surface zone which side faces towards the support body. 
     
     
         8 . The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide according to  claim 1 , wherein said lever has a hinge axis relative to said support body. 
     
     
         9 . The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide according to  claim 8 , wherein said first surface zone extends on the lever in a direction of the front of the drawer, on an opposite side to the hooking member with respect to the hinge axis of the lever. 
     
     
         10 . The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide according to  claim 8 , wherein said second surface zone extends on the lever on an opposite side to the longitudinal guide with respect to the hinge axis. 
     
     
         11 . The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide according to  claim 8 , wherein said hooking member is made in a single piece with the lever. 
     
     
         12 . The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide according to  claim 8 , wherein said hooking member is supported slidably perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction of the guide. 
     
     
         13 . The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide according to  claim 1 , wherein said lever and said support body are realised in a single piece exhibiting at least an elastically yielding portion configured to enable oscillation of said lever. 
     
     
         14 . The hooking device of a drawer to a longitudinal guide according to  claim 13 , wherein said elastically yielding portion comprises a first tab and at least a second tab for connecting the said lever to said support body.