US 11,812,851 B2
Storage device with drawer retainer and stabilizer
Thomas J. Larkner, Noblesville, IN (US); Bryan T. Shannon, Fishers, IN (US); and Grant Balbach, Ferdinand, IN (US)
Assigned to HELMER SCIENTIFIC, LLC, Noblesville, IN (US)
Filed by HELMER SCIENTIFIC, LLC, Noblesville, IN (US)
Filed on Jul. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/859,640.
Application 17/859,640 is a division of application No. 16/967,002, granted, now 11,439,232, previously published as PCT/US2019/016292, filed on Feb. 1, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/625,546, filed on Feb. 2, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0338628 A1, Oct. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. A47B 88/57 (2017.01); A47B 88/43 (2017.01); A47B 88/477 (2017.01); A47B 88/417 (2017.01)
CPC A47B 88/57 (2017.01) [A47B 88/417 (2017.01); A47B 88/43 (2017.01); A47B 88/477 (2017.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A storage device comprising
an enclosure including a plurality of walls that cooperate to define an internal space within the enclosure and a storage-drawer support coupled to at least one wall in the internal space,
a storage drawer movable relative to the storage-drawer support along a path within the internal space from a closed position to an opened position, the storage drawer contained within the internal space in the closed position and the storage drawer having a portion located in the internal space and a portion located outside the internal space in the opened position, and
a drawer stabilizer coupled to the enclosure between the at least one wall and the storage-drawer support, the drawer stabilizer configured to provide an inward force on the storage drawer to minimize lateral movement of the storage drawer relative to the enclosure,
wherein the drawer stabilizer includes a mount system and a biasing system, the mount system includes a mount post coupled to the enclosure and arranged to extend through a mount post aperture formed in the storage-drawer support and a fastener coupled to the mount post and spaced apart from the storage-drawer support by the biasing system.