Improvements in Bar Looks for Drawer Cabinets and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Aug., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 18th May, 1897-4ccepted, 26th June, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bar Looks for Drawer Cabinets and the like.
ETRE CHOWE Cabinet Manufacturer Gatteridge Street Banbury do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My improvements relate to that class of lock in which a bar is moved up or
down by the action of a key, the bar being notched or having projecting pins
which take into corresponding notches in the drawers so that in one position of
the bar the drawers are locked & in the other position they are free.
In bar locks as at present mado the lock is fixed in the cabinet, in my improved
lock the lock is fixed in the drawer front the advantage of the latter being that
no extra room is taken up by the lock & the lock is manipulated from the front of
the cabinet.
In carrying out my invention 1 fix the lock into any convenient drawer front.
The bolt of the lock projects through the side of the drawer & is moved up &
down by the action of the key. The projecting part of the bolt takes iuto a notch
cut in tho har of fits into a pin or pius fixed in the bar.
The motion of the bolt is thus imparted to the bar & the drawers are thereby
locked or unlocked.
Dated this 17th day of August 1896.
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I, EYRE CROWE, of Gatteridge Street, Banbury, in the County of Oxford,
Manufacturer, 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 locks for drawer-rabinets and the like, of the kind or
class in which a sliding bar is moved up and down by the action of the key, the
said bar having notches or projecting pins to engago with the drawers, so that, in
one position of the bar, the drawers are all locked, and, in another position thereof,
they are all free to be opened.
In the bar-locks as heretofore made, the lock for actuating the sliding bar is
fixed in the shell of the cabinet; hut in my improved bar-lock, the said lock is
fixed in the front of one or other of the drawers. The advantages of this
improvement are that no extra room is taken up by the lock and consequently the
cabinet can be made more compact than heretofore, and the lock can be manipulated
from the front of the cabinet.
In the accompanying drawing I have shown how my said invention may be
conveniently and advantageously carried into practice.
Figure is a front elevation, with parts broken away, showing a drawer-
cabinet with a single row or tier of drawers and having my improvements applied
thereto.
Figure 2 is a similar view illustrating the application of my improved bar-lock
to a drawer-cabinet having two rows or tiers of drawers.

page_text: Figure 3 is a face view of the sliding bar detached.
Like letters indicate corresponding parts throughout the drawing.
A is the frame or shell of the cabinet; B, B are the drawers which slide in
suitable recesses in the shell A in the usual manner. The said drawers aro
provided at their sides with guide-ribs or projections C which sli le upon shoulders
or ledges D on the interior of the shell A. E is the sliding bar which is enclo4:1
in a recess or channel F in the shell A, and is provi tel with n series of notches E
corresponding to the projections Con the sides of the drawers B. When the
bar E is at one end, preferably the lower end, of its travel, this matchs E¹
coincide in position with the ribs or projections Can I permit the passage of the
said projection through them, and thus allow the said drawers to ho o enel anl
closed; when all the drawers are closed, che said bar E can be moved to the other
end of its travel so as to bring the integral or unrecessel parts thereof in front
of the guide-ribs or projections C, and thus lock all the drawers simult ne usly
and prevent their being opened.
G is the lock for moving the sliding bar E up and down to lock an 1 unlock the
drawers. This lock G is mounted in the front of one of the drawers B, and is so
arranged that its bolt G', which is movable vertically by me is of the key,
projects from the side of the drawer nul engages with a notch E' for nil in th:
said bar, so that the latter can be raised and lowered as desirel by operating the
lock G by means of the proper key.
By raising the said bar when all the drawers are closed, the said drawers will
be simultaneously locked, and, by depressing the said bar, they will be simultaneously
unlocked. It is important that the sliding bar E should be so arrauged that it
must be raised in order to lock the drawors, so that, whon the same are unlocked,
the said bar will rest upon the bottom of the channel F instead of on the pro-
jections C. The said bar would otherwise interfere with the movement of the
drawers by reason of the friction between it and the said projections.
In the application of iny invention to a drawer-cabinet having two ro vs or tiers
of drawers B, as shown in Figures 2 and 3, the bar E is provided with recesses
or notches E on both sides. It is, however, actuated by a single lock G mounted
in the front of oue of the drawers B in a similar manner to that described with
reference to the cabinet shown in Figure 1.
It is obvious that my improved lock can be applied to the doors of cabinets or
the like comprising nests of lockers or cupboards.
I can, morcover, if desired, somewhat further modify the construction of my
improved bar-lock, for example, instead of making the sliding bar E with recesses
or notches us above described, I can, if desired, provide the said bar with pins or
other projections for engaging in recesses or uotches in the bolt of the lock und in
the sides or bottom of the drawers or doors.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:--
First. A bar-lock for a drawer-cabinet or the like, in which the lock for moving
the sliding bar into and out of engagement with the drawers or doors is fixed in
the front of one of the said drawers or doors.
Second. The improved bar-lock constructed substantially as described with
referenco to Figure 1 or to Figures 2 and 3 of the accompanying drawing, and
operating as above specified.
Dated the 12th 1
D. Young & Co.,
EYRE CROWE.
11 & 12 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.