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This is a front face-frame mounting bracket from Knape and Vogt, designed to adapt the 4400 Series ball-bearing drawer slide to face-frame cabinet construction. Without a front bracket, a side-mount slide installed in a face-frame cabinet lacks front support — this bracket closes that gap and keeps the slide properly anchored at the face.
Face-frame cabinets set the side panel back from the front edge of the cabinet, which means a slide mounted flush to the side panel sits short of the face. The front face-frame bracket positions the forward end of the slide correctly relative to the face frame, giving the slide a stable front anchor point. This is the hardware that makes a standard side-mount telescopic slide work cleanly in traditional American face-frame construction — without it, the front of the slide is unsupported and the drawer will not align or travel correctly.
The bracket is finished in zinc plate over steel — the same corrosion-resistant functional finish found on most ball-bearing slide hardware. Zinc plating protects the steel through years of indoor use and holds up in the cabinet environment without maintenance. The finish is practical rather than decorative: once the drawer is installed, the bracket lives inside the cabinet where appearance matters less than dimensional stability and a secure seat.
Cabinet shops and installers building or retrofitting face-frame cabinets with 4400 Series KV ball-bearing slides will need a front face-frame bracket at each slide position. It is also the right part for service work when an existing face-frame install is missing its front bracket or when one was damaged. Frameless cabinet builds do not need this bracket — the slide mounts directly to the cabinet side panel without the face-frame offset.
This bracket is designed for the 4400 Series. KV brackets and accessories are series-specific, so confirm the match before ordering for a different slide family.
Front and rear support requirements depend on the cabinet depth and the specific slide length. In many face-frame installs, a rear bracket or socket is also needed to support the back end of the slide — check the 4400 Series installation instructions for the full bracket requirement at your cabinet depth.
Please confirm the sold-as unit on the product listing before ordering — a drawer requires one bracket per side, so verify whether the listing covers a single bracket or a pair.
No. This bracket solves the face-frame offset problem specifically. In a frameless cabinet the slide mounts directly to the side panel, and this bracket is not needed or appropriate.
Pairing the correct front mounting bracket with your 4400 Series slides means the drawer travels true, the front aligns to the face frame, and the install holds up through years of daily use — without the callbacks that come from a slide left unsupported at the front.
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Sold in: 1 Pair |  KV4101B-REAR Mfr# 4101B | KV 4400 Rear Mounting Bracket, Zinc, 4101B |
Sold In: 1 Pair
