Improvements in Wall Cabinets, Bureaus or other Cabinet Furniture for Holding and Exhibiting Merchandise or other Articles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Oct., 1897-Accepted, 18th Dec., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wall Cabinets, Bureaus or other Cabinet Furniture
for Holding and Exhibiting Merchandise or other Articles.
I ALFRED GARTNER, of 152 Market Street, in the City of Paterson, County of
Passaic, and State of New Jersey, U.S.A., Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:
My invention relates to improvements in wall cabinets, bureaus, or other cabinet
furniture for exhibiting merchandise, or other articles, and which furniture is
provided with a series of drawers.
The object of my present invention is to provide a cabinet article of the character
above referred to-with a series of drawers which can be opened simultaneously by
operating one of said drawers, thus exhibiting the articles contained in all of
said drawers at one and the same time; of simple, strong and durable construction,
reliable in operation and easily handled.
The invention consists in the improved cabinet article combining a series of
separate trays or drawers in the means for connecting and supporting said trays or
drawers, and in the combination and arrangements of the various parts thereof,
substantially as will be hereinafter more fully described and finally embodied
in the clauses of the claims.
Referring to the accompanying drawing, in which like letters of reference indicate
corresponding parts in each of the several Figs: Fig. 1, is a side elevation of a drawer-
cabinet provided with my improvements; certain portions of the cabinet being
broken away to better illustrate the nature of my said invention, said Fig. 1, also
illustrating in dotted lines the position of the door and drawers, when opened;
Fig. 2, a sectional view on the lines xx of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3, a sectional view of the
lines yy of Fig. 1.
In said drawing, a represents a cabinet, 6 its bottom, and c the front or door
thereof, which latter is provided with a suitable knob or handle d, and is hinged
as at e to the front portion of the bottom b. At or near the front portion of
each side of said cabinet is an inwardly projecting stud g, engaging its respective
radial slot in the metallic are shaped link f, the front portion of which is
secured to the hinged door c, whilst its rear portion is adapted to limit the
downward movement of said hinged door, when the latter is being opened.
Within the cabinet are arranged-one above the other-a series of trays or
drawers o, o¹, 02, 0³, each of which, except the bottom one, is provided with
downwardly extending legs or braces k, m, and n respectively, having their lower.
ends enlarged-as at k¹, m¹ and n¹, which enlargements are arranged in a
horizontal groove i, situated in the bottom b of the cabinet and communicating and
in alignment with a groove h arranged in the hinged front or door c.
The top drawer o is provided-at each side and at or near its rear upper portion
with a horizontal pin u, adapted to engage a downwardly extending pin t, projecting
from the top of said cabinet, and adapted to limit the outward movement of said
drawer o.

page_text: The side portions of adjoining drawers are connected together by links in the
following manner: a link is pivotally escured-as at 2 to the rear central portion
of the side of the drawer o, its free end being pivotally connected as at 75 to a
link, in turn pivotally connected-as at ³with its other end to the upper rear
portion of the drawer o¹.
A link is pivotally secured-as at to the central front portion of the side
of the drawer o, its free end being pivotally connected-as at 10 with the link 77, the
other end of which is pivotally secured-as at to the upper front portion of the
side of the drawer o¹.
It must be remarked that the angles formed by the links r, 1, and 76, 77, point
towards each other-when the cabinet is closed, and further that the pin s, projecting
from the side of the drawer is adapted to form a rest or stop for the link r, when the
drawers are opened, and thus permit said links from further opening and passing a
dead center, whereby the closing of the links and drawers is greatly facilitated.
The bottom drawer o³ is provided at or near its rear portion with a downwardly
projecting knob nº, in engagement with the groove i of the bottom 6 of the cabinet,
and is adapted to slide in the groove h of the hinged front or door, when said drawer
is pulled outward, and thus serves as a guide for said drawer, the same as the
enlargements k¹, m¹, and n¹ of the legs k, m, and n respectively, serve as guides for
said legs, as will be manifest.
Additional strength can be given to the drawers, by providing the top portions of
the sides of each drawer with elongated flaring tenons, adapted to fit correspondingly
shaped elongated grooves arranged in the lower portions of the sides of the next
preceding drawer, and to slide therein-when the drawers are being operated.
It will be manifest, that cabinet articles, such as wall cabinets, bureaus, show-
cases, etc., constructed as heretofore described, greatly facilitate the exhibiting of
goods, merchandise, etc., and thus furnish convenient and useful cabinet articles for
stores, offices, etc., and reduce the time and labor required in handling said goods and
articles.
It will be manifest that a similar arrangement of parts can be used for shelves,
closets and the like, and I therefore do not intend to limit myself to the construction
shown and described, but:
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim, is
1: The combination with a cabinet having its bottom provided with a central
groove or recess, of a door or front hinged to the front portion of said bottom and
provided with a groove or recess communicating and in alignment with the groove
or recess in said bottom, a series of drawers in said cabinet, means for pivotally
connecting said drawers, and a leg downwardly projecting from the rear portion of
each drawer and provided at its lower end with an enlargement adapted to slide in
the grooves or recesses of the bottom and hinged front or door of the cabinet,
substantially as and for the purposes described.
2: The combination with a cabinet having its bottom provided with a central
groove or recess, of a door or front hinged to the front portion of said bottom and
provided with a groove or recess communicating and in alignment with the groove or
recess in said bottom, a series of drawers in said cabinet, means for pivotally
connecting said drawers, a leg downwardly projecting from each drawer and provided
at its lower end with an enlargement engaging the groove or recess in the bottom,
and means for limiting the downward movement of the hinged front or door,
substantially as described.
3: The combination with a cabinet having its bottom provided with a central
groove or recess, of a door or front hinged to the front portion of said bottom and
provided with a groove or recess communicating and in alignment with the groove
or recess in said bottom, a series of drawers in said cabinet, means for pivotally
connecting said drawers, a leg downwardly projecting from the rear portion of each

page_text: drawer and provided at its lower end with an enlargement engaging the groove or
recess in the bottom of the cabinet, and means for preventing the entire withdrawal
of the drawers from the cabinet, substantially as described.
4: The combination with a cabinet having its bottom provided with a central
groove or recess, of a door or front hinged to the front portion of said bottom and
provided with a groove or recess communicating and in alignment with the groove
or recess in said bottom, a series of drawers in said cabinet, means for pivotally
connecting said drawers, a leg downwardly projecting from the rear portion of each
drawer and provided at its lower end with an enlargement engaging the groove or
recess in the bottom of the cabinet, a pin inwardly projecting from the front portion
of each side of the cabinet, and a slotted arc shaped link engaging its respective pin
and secured with its forward end to the hinged front or door, substantially as
described.
Dated thin 10th
1007
J. P. BAYLY.
18 Fulham Place, London, W. Agent for the Applicant.