The present invention provides an interactive drawer-fastening mechanism, comprising a driving shaft component and a fastening assembly; the driving shaft component including a seat and a driving arm; the fastening assembly including a fastening base, an upper limit block, a lower limit block, and a plurality of sliding block components, the sliding block component including a sliding block, a retaining shaft and a torsion spring, the retaining shaft including an arc plate, an immovable shaft and a movable shaft, wherein the retaining shaft has the immovable shaft. The present invention has the fastening assembly and the driving shaft component as separate modules, and has the slide guide working with the lock component to realize the interactively fastening mechanism. The modularized design on one hand structurally simplifies the fastening mechanism and allows easy installation, and on the other hand effectively enhances the reliability of both interaction and fastening.

A furniture securing device includes a furniture mount attachable to a top, rear, or side of a piece of furniture and a wall mount attachable to a surface, such as a wall. The furniture mount includes a mounting plate, a first connector attachment plate, and a second connector attachment plate. Each of the first and second connector attachment plates include an opening sized to receive a connector. The connector is attachable to the first connector attachment plate when the furniture mount is mounted to a top of the piece of furniture and is attachable to the second connector attachment plate when the furniture mount is mounted to a rear or side of the piece of furniture. The mounting plate is attached to and extends substantially perpendicular to the first connector attachment plate. The first connector attachment plate is attached to and extends substantially perpendicular to the second connector attachment plate.

Furniture anti-tipping mechanism integrated into a piece of furniture includes a bracket attachable to a vertical support, a substantially planar wall section situated in the furniture and having front and rear surfaces defining a thickness therebetween constituting a rear wall of the furniture, and attachment structure to connect the bracket to the wall section. The attachment structure may include at least one projection projecting from the bracket, at least one corresponding dimensioned aperture in the wall section, and at least one connector engageable onto a respective projection to enable the wall section to be tightened against the bracket.

A furniture retaining apparatus includes a cord, engaging component, and retaining component. The cord is flexible and coupled to the engaging component. The retaining component is rotatably and slidingly coupled to the cord opposite the engaging component. The engaging component includes an engaging end that is configured to be driven through sheet rock panel. The engaging end has an overall shape that is elongated and pointed. The cord couples the engaging component to the retaining component. The retaining component inserts through an insertion orifice of a furniture item and frictionally couples adjacent thereto via a taut knot formed within the furniture item using the cord.

An arrangement for tipping over prevention of a furniture (1) such as a chest of drawers or a cabinet comprising at least one drawer. The arrangement comprises a bar (300) and an attachment adapted to anchor the furniture (1) to a wall (W). The attachment comprises a guiding bracket (100) and an anchoring bracket (200) adapted to be movable between a first position and a second position in view of the guiding bracket (100). The anchoring bracket (200) has an anchoring portion (206) adapted to anchor the furniture (1) to a wall (W). The bar (300) is movable between a restriction position and a clearance position when acted upon by the anchoring bracket (200). When the anchoring bracket (200) is moved from the first position to the second position a wedge shaped support member (204) forces a projection (302) of the bar (300) to move along the wedge shaped support member (204) thereby moving the bar (300) from the restriction position to the clearance position, in which clearance position the drawer (4) is allowed to be pushed or pulled past a stop member (301) of the bar (300).

A piece of furniture includes a frame and drawers that move forward and backward between a position in which an interior space of the drawer is inaccessible and a position at least partly out of the frame in which the interior space of the drawer is accessible. A bottom front region of a lower section is more forward from a central vertical plane of the frame than a top front region of an upper section, and the lower section can have a greater front to back distance than the upper section. When the frame is in contact with a horizontal surface and the drawer is open, tipping of the frame from its position on the horizontal surface as a result of downward pressure exerted on the drawer is reduced by the lower section of the frame having the greater front to back distance than the upper section.

Furniture anti-tipping mechanism integrated into furniture includes a bracket attachable to a vertical support, a substantially planar wall section situated in the furniture and having front and rear surface defining a thickness therebetween constituting a rear wall of the furniture, and attachment structure to connect the bracket to the wall section. The attachment structure may include at least one bolt projecting from the bracket and having a height greater than the thickness of the wall section, at least one aperture in the wall section, and at least one wing nut threadable onto a respective bolt after the bolt projects through a respective aperture to enable the wall section to be tightened against the bracket.

An apparatus that may anchor and/or protect furniture includes a compressible element and an adhesive material on opposite sides of the compressible element. The compressible element, which may comprise an expandable polyurethane foam, and the adhesive material may enable the apparatus to be secured to a piece of furniture and a wall and, when secured in position, to withstand pulling forces of at least about 50 pounds. Thus, the apparatus may prevent furniture from tilting and falling away from the wall. The adhesive material may also be removable from the surface of a wall while leaving substantially no residue or no residue on the surface of the wall. Methods for securing furniture to walls are also disclosed, as are apparatuses and methods for preventing furniture from damaging walls.

A cabinet, for storing and conveniently deploying a box-like exercise apparatus, has a small footprint, and receives and secures the exercise apparatus on the inside surface of the cabinet's front wall. The exercise apparatus may be quickly and easily deployed from its storage position upright and inside the cabinet, to its in-use position, horizontally in front of the cabinet on top of the inside wall surface, while the outside wall surface of the cabinet, in turn, rests horizontally on the floor. Overhead rods are extendable from the cabinet and securable in one or more extended positions, for use of the rods in various exercises. The cabinet may be at least temporarily secured to a wall to secure the cabinet, and also the exercise apparatus, including the overhead rods, in place during exercises. The cabinet allows a consumer to keep its fitness equipment easily accessible and ready to use.

A self-actuating device and method for facilitating preventing product tip over are provided. The self-actuating device includes an anti-tip mechanism associated with a product to facilitate preventing tip over of the product when in an extended state. Further, the self-actuating device includes an actuator associated with the product. The actuator is configured and operatively coupled to automatically switch the anti-tip mechanism from a retracted state to the extended state based on the actuator detecting a tilt of a specified tilt angle.