DRAWER WITH ILLUMINATION, ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND CURRENT COLLECTOR Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A47B88/00 

FIELD: construction.

SUBSTANCE: drawer with side constituent parts and a bottom includes a light source, a current collector electrically connected to the light source and having spring-loaded contacts to interact with current-carrying elements connected to a power supply source. The current collector has a housing with spring-loaded contacts installed internally in a movable way and providing an electric contact (at their being drawn out of the housing) with current-carrying elements installed on the structure of a furniture member, relative to which the drawer moves. Drawing-out of spring-loaded contacts out of the housing of the current collector is provided either due to mechanical action of the spring only, or due to magnetic force occurring at interaction of a magnetic element structurally connected to the above spring-loaded contacts, with a metal element or a magnetic element, which is installed so that spring-loaded contacts of the current collector can be brought into contact with current-carrying elements having the specified length at movement of the drawer.

EFFECT: creating a general-purpose structure of an illumination device and a current collector for drawers providing easy installation and maintenance.

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