Patent ID: 6129432
Filing Date: 2000-10-10
Classification: A47B,A47D

Abstract:
A furniture apparatus convertible from a smooth-topped chest of drawers to a changing table configuration, said apparatus comprising:a chest of drawers body frame, said frame defining a smooth-topped end and a changing-table end opposite said smooth-topped end, said frame including at least two side walls disposed between said smooth-topped end and said changing-table end, and said frame defining at least one drawer cavity defined between said side walls;first drawer engagement means mounted to at least one side wall of said frame and within said drawer cavity;second drawer engagement means mounted to at least one side wall of said frame and within the same said drawer cavity; anda drawer assembly including at least one wall panel and a floor defining a planar floor supporting surface, said floor supporting surface and said wall panel defining a storage cavity, said drawer assembly having frame engagement means configured to allow said drawer assembly to be inverted from:a) a first orientation within said drawer cavity during which said first drawer engagement means engages said frame engagement means and said planar floor supporting surface is facing a first direction relative to said frame, tob) a second, inverted orientation also within said drawer cavity during which said second drawer engagement means engages said frame engagement means and said planar floor supporting surface is facing a second direction opposite to said first direction relative to said frame;wherein said first drawer engagement means includes a first elongate channeled portion, wherein said second drawer engagement means includes a second elongate channeled portion, and wherein said frame engagement means includes a roller rotatably mounted relative to said drawer, said roller configured to be captured within said first elongate channeled portion when said drawer assembly is in said first orientation, and captured within said second elongate channeled portion when said drawer assembly is in said second, inverted, orientation; andwherein said first and second drawer engagement means within said drawer cavity include corresponding first and second stationary axis rollers, wherein said frame engagement means includes a ledge, and wherein said ledge is supported by said first stationary axis roller of said first drawer engagement means when said drawer is in place in said first orientation, and is supported by said second stationary axis roller when in said second, inverted, orientation.