Sectional guide for cabinet drawers

Sept. 15, 1942. n. sulentic 2,295,697

SECTIONAL GUIDE FOR CABINET DRAWERS Filed July 22, 1940 2 Sheets-Sheet 1

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Sept 15, 1942.

N. SULENT1C

2,295,697

SECTIONAL GUIDE FOR CABINET DRAWERS

Filed July 22, 1940 ' 2 Sheets-Sheet 2

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Patented Sept. 15, 1942

2,295,697

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE

2,295,697

SECTIONAL GUIDE FOR CABINET DRAWERS

Nicholas Sulentic, Waterloo Township, Blackhawk County, Iowa

Application July 22,1940, Serial No. 346,688

Claim.

My invention relates to improvements in sectional guides for cabinet drawers, and an object of my improvements is to furnish extension separable members for insertion between the end walls of a drawer and the inner side walls of a cabinet or the like, secured separably to both, and lockably connected slidably together, and tool means for unlocking the members to permit removal of the drawer.

This object I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter described, claimed and illustrated in the appended drawings, it being understood that my invention covers variations in the respective parts.

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a cabinet or chest with a swingable top, and a plurality of slide drawers slidably seated therein for extension therefrom, and laterally mounted therein by means of connected extensible members, separably. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the drawers, showing its extension members as mounted on one end thereof as also on a part of a side wall of the cabinet, the extension members not being shown on the opposite side wall. Figs. 3 and 4 are like side bars showing their outer faces. Fig. 5 is an intermediate bar, showing one side face thereof. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the movably connected assemblage of said side and intermediate bars, showing a tool as being used in effecting a separation of the bars. Fig. 6α is a fragmentary plan view, partly in section, of the side and intermediate bars in interengagement with each other, the drawer partly withdrawn. Fig. 6b is a fragmentary perspective view of the side and intermediate bars in interengagement with each other, the drawer completely housed. Fig. 7 is a longitudinal section taken through the intermediate bar and apposed side bars. Fig. 8 is an end elevation of the intermediate bar. Fig. 9 is an end elevation of one of the side bars. Fig. 10 is a longitudinal section of the intermediate bar, with a medial portion broken away. Fig. 11 is a medial longitudinal section of an end part of a side bar, including its inturned end lug and adjacent aperture.

In Fig. 1 is shown an open front cabinet with a hinged top 18 and having an open front between end walls 17, and the top 18 may be swung erect and held erect by the hinged brace 19. Superposed drawers 20 and 21 are mounted in the cabinet and protrusible forwardly therefrom on fixed and slidable sectional supports as at I, 16 and 5 positioned between the ends of the drawers and the side walls Π of the cabinet i (Cl. 45—77) and secured to both, by electric welding of the steel side bars I and 5 to and between steel side walls respectively of the cabinet at 17 and of the drawer or drawers 21, or, if the said walls 5 are of wood, other fastening means may be employed.

As shown in Fig. 2, side bars 1 and 5, spaced apart, are fastened on the end walls, with an intermediate bar 16 between and slidably sup10 ported on the side bars. The drawers may have any desired handles 20α on their front walls. In Fig. 1, while the upper drawer 20 has on each end a single set of side bars with an intermediate bar 16, the lower drawer has on each 15 outer end wall a superposed pair of the like elements for supporting a heavier loading. The side bars I and 5, being spaced apart, are reversed in relative positions, as shown in the Fig. 6b, an end elevation, with their upper and lower 20 inturned edge parts rimmed to produce inwardly opening longitudinal channels. The intermediate bar is preferably made of like but reversed bars 12, 15 and 8, and (3, 16 and 9 whose longitudinal edge parts 13 and 9, and 12 and 8 are 25 offset respectively from each other transversely as shown in Fig. 8 with apposed and welded medial parts 15 and 16. As shown in Figs. 7, 8 and 10, bar springs 10 and 14 are mounted on opposite sides of the intermediate bar in the side de30 pressions 16 and 15 respectively and spaced apart at their inner free ends longitudinally and oppositely with their outer end parts united by welding to the opposite sides of the bar and relatively offset. Fig. 6b shows the side bars and 35 intermediate bar as telescoped together, with the forked walls 13 and 9 of the intermediate bar 16 rideable loosely in the opposed channeled parts above and below the side bars i and 5.

In Figs. 6, 6b, 9 and 11 are shown at one end 40 of each side bar I and 5 relatively opposite, inturned lugs 3 and 6 projecting nearly to the wall parts 16 and 15, and adjacent to each lug longitudinally is a medial aperture or hole 4 and 7 in allnement medially with the lugs 3 and 6. 45 It will be seen, referring to Figs. 6 and 7, that when a drawer such as 20 or 21 is fully extended together with the extensions of the side bars along the intermediate bar, the free end of each spring is opposite the holes 7 and 4. In Figs. 1 50 and 2, an angle-bar 22 may be mounted in each rear inner corner of the drawer 20, while its side arm as also the abutting part of the side wall of the drawer are apertured in alinement at 23. When the arm sections I and 5 are ex55 tended along the intermediate bar outwardly

2,295,697 (Fig, 6) the hole 4 in the bar I will be in alinement with the hole 23 traversing the angle-bar 22 and the abutting side wall of the drawer. The operator may then push a tool 24 through said alined apertures to compress the adjacent spring end toward or against the abutting wall of the intermediate bar, thus releasing it from the lug and as the intermediate bar may be moved in one direction longitudinally the tool is withdrawn at the moment when the abutting end of the spring 10 passes the lug, whereby further movement between the abutting elements will disconnect them. The other appliances at the opposite end of the drawer before the actual separation of the first set may be disconnected similarly by the operator using the tool 24 in the same way as some relative play is possible between the parts of the arms before the arms are fully extended and disconnected.

A drawer is thus strongly mounted for carrying relatively heavy loads, yet is easily extended or returned manually without sagging or disconnection.