Improvements in Wardrobes and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Mar., 1899-Accepted, 15th Apr., 1899
Improvements in Wardrobes and the like.
I, GEORG LORENZ, of Wiesenstrasse, 155, Nürnberg, Germany, Machinist, 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 follow-
ing statement:-
It is well known that wardrobes and the like with doors that open outwardly,
cannot be employed everywhere for want of space, and that doors that open out-
wardly very often damage the adjacent furniture. Now this invention has for
object the construction of wardrobes and the like free from such drawbacks.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is a front elevation, and Fig. 2 is a
section of a wardrobe constructed according to this invention.
In the bottom hand in the top g of the wardrobe, and at a distance of about
half the thickness of the wardrobe door from one of its side walls, there is cut a
guide groove b, which is straight and parallel to the selected side wall and
extends nearly to the front thereof.
At a distance from this guide groove b less than the entire thickness of the
door, there is cut a second guide groove c, which, from the rear, runs at first
parallelly to the groove b, and then curves towards the front of the bottom or
the top of the wardrobe as the case may be, so that when the wardrobe door is
closed the groove c is covered by the door.
To the upper and the lower end of the wardrobe door itself there are secured,
in accordance with the distance between the grooves, pins d¹ and d², which are
guided in the aforesaid grooves.
When the wardrobe door is closed, as shown in the drawings, the pins dare
situated at the outer ends of their guide grooves b, whilst the pins d² are situated
at about the outer ends of the curved portions of the curved guide grooves c.
When the door a is opened, the pins d' and a slide back in their guide grooves,
and move into the positions indicated at d³ and d, whilst the door a assumes
the position shown in chain lines, and thus moves into the wardrobe in conse-
quence of the compulsory movement of the pins. The door is now pushed back
until the pins d' have reached the inner ends of the guide grooves c, and the
pins have reached the rear ends of the curved portions of the grooves e, so
that the parallel portions of the guide grooves b and c are covered over entirely
by the door, when the door is open as widely as possible.
Instead of the pins d that are mentioned in the description for the sake of
simplicity, there may be employed in practice, balls, rollers, or similar kine-
matically equivalent elements.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
A wardrobe or the like with a door a capable of being pushed inwardly, in
which pins dd, rollers, balls or the like secured to the top and the bottom of

page_text: the door, are guided in grooves b and c which are cut in the bottom hand in
the top g of the wardrobe or the like so that the door a can be pushed into the
interior of the wardrobe along a curved path..
Dated this 6th day of March 1899.
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.