Improvements in or relating to Drawers.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Aug., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 15th May, 1894-Accepted, 16th June, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Drawers.
I, JESSE HAWES of the Firm of Messrs. F. Sage & Co. 58 to 62 Gray's Inn
Road, in the County of Middlesex, Carpenter, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to drawers, particularly those which are at a high elevation
as for example in drapers' and other shops where the assistant has to replace a
drawer at a height perhaps above the level of his head. In such case it is very
difficult to replace the drawer exactly level and with the ordinary drawer if this
be not done it is almost sure to jam more or less in its case or fixture unless the
assistant mounts upon steps or the like. One of the objects of the present
invention is to get over this difficulty so that the drawer may be inserted in its
case or framing without jamming and without the necessity for the assistant getting
on to steps.
This invention may be carried out in more than one way but I find that by
making the back and ends of the drawer slightly shallower than the front so that
when the drawer is nearly out of the casing it does not fit, it is practicable and easy
to replace the drawer by merely inserting the back end of it at a convenient angle
when by pushing it in it will adjust itself without jamming or other trouble. This
reduction in depth of the back portions of the drawer may be effected by removing
a portion of the ends and the back or the same effect may be produced by
enlarging the front of the fixture, framing, case, or the like into which the drawer
enters. In the latter case it will be necessary to enlarge or extend the front of the
drawer to fill up the extra space. Usually for shop fittings the case or fixture into
which the drawer enters is made close and tight to exclude dust and when that is
the case it is not important if the back of the drawer does not fit tight so long
as the front does; where however the back portions of the case are not dust tight
the case may be so wedge- or other shaped as to fit the drawer when the latter is
pushed home.
To prevent dust from entering at the front when the drawer is closed I prefer to
place a strip or band of indiarubber or other suitable material upon the top inside
of the case and to carry the upper portion of the front of the drawer inwards
sufficiently to bed upon the rubber when the drawer is closed. The front of the
drawer may be provided with a glass pane if desired and any suitable arrangement
of handles, knobs or the like may be employed.
Another way of effecting the same object would be to make the bottom edge of
each end of the drawer two inclined planes meeting in the centre so that the centre
of the drawer would be of less depth than the two ends; the bottom would be at
the level of the point where the two inclined planes met.
Dated this 16th day of August 1893
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: CODE LEIE SIEVITICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Drawers.
I, JESSE HAWES of the Firm of Messrs. F. Sage & Co., of 58 to 62 Gray's Inn
Road, in the County of Middlesex, Carpenter, 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 :-
This invention relates to drawers, particularly those which are at a high elevation
as for example in drapers' and other shops where the assistant has to replace a
drawer at a height perhaps above the level of his head. In such case it is very
difficult to replace the drawer exactly level and with the ordinary drawer if this
be not done it is almost sure to jam more or less in its case or fixture unless the
assistant mounts upon steps or the like. One of the objects of the present invention
is to get over this difficulty so that the drawer may be inserted in its case or
framing without jamming and without the necessity for the assistant getting on to
steps.
This invention may be carried out in more than one way and the arrangements
shown in the accompanying drawings are given merely as examples and may be
modified without departing from the spirit of the invention.
In these drawings
Figures 1 and 2 are vertical sections of one form of drawer and case constructed
according to my invention Figure 1 representing the drawer as when being inserted
in or nearly drawn out of the case and Figure 2 with the drawer closed.
Figure 3 is a perspective view of the drawer shown in Figures 1 and 2 and
Figure 4 is a vertical section of another form of drawer and case constructed
according to the present invention.
Like letters indicate like parts throughout the drawings.
In the example illustrated in the drawings I attain the before described result
by making the back A' and ends A' of the drawer A slightly shallower than the
front A so that when the drawer A is nearly out of the casing B as indicated
in Figure 1 it does not fit, whereby it is practicable and easy to replace the
drawer A by merely inserting the back end of it at a convenient angle as
indicated in Figure 1 when by pushing it in it will adjust itself without jamming or
other trouble. This reduction in depth of the back portions of the drawer may
be effected by removing a portion of the ends A2 and the back A' or the same
effect may be produced by enlarging the front of the fixture, framing, case, or the
like B into which the drawer A enters. In the latter case it will be necessary to
enlarge or extend the front A' of the drawer to fill up the extra space. Usually for
shop fittings the case or fixture Binto which the drawer A enters is made close and
tight to exclude dust and when that is the case it is not important if the back A'
of the drawer A does not fit tight so long as the front A does; where however
the back portions of the case B are not dust tight as shown at B' Figure 4 the
case B may be so inclined as indicated in Figure 4 as to fit against the back of the
drawer A when the latter is pushed home.
To prevent dust from entering at the front when the drawer A is closed I prefer
to place a strip or band C of the india rubber or other suitable material upon the
top inside of the case B and to carry the upper portion of the front A³ of the
drawer inwards sufficiently to bed upon C when the drawer A is closed. If preferred
the strip can be fixed upon A and C may be a simple stop or bar for it to bed
against. The front of the drawer A as indicated in the drawings may be provided
with a glass panel D if desired and any suitable arrangement of handles, knobs or
the like E may be employed.

page_text: It will of course be obvious that although I have represented a case fitted only
with one drawer it may be constructed for accommodating any required number of
drawers.
Having now particularly described 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 case such as B of uniform height from front to back
of a drawer such as A of less height at the back than at the front substantially as
and for the purpose described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. The combination with a tapering case of a tapering drawer or one of greater
depth at the front than at the back substantially as and for the purpose described
and illustrated in Figure 4 of the accompanying drawings.
3. The combination with a case such as B and a drawer of greater depth at the
front than at the back of a dust-excluding strip such as C fixed to the case or
drawer substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
4. Facilitating the entry into or withdrawal from its case of a drawer by making.
the back of either of less depth than the front substantially as and for the purpose.
described.
Dated the 12th day of May 1894.
JESSE HAWES.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicant..