Improvements in or relating to Sliding Drawers, Trays, and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Aug., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 2nd June, 1898-Accepted, 2nd July, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Sliding Drawers, Trays, and
the like.
A communication from LOUIS RAZY, of 15, Rue de Richelieu, Paris, in the Re-
public of France, Cabinet maker.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT, of 111, Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to support and to limit the movement of
drawers trays and the like so as to prevent them from coming completely out
of their guides even when they are fully drawn out.
The invention consists in making in each of the parallel vertical side walls of
the piece of furniture or casing containing the drawers or shelves in which the drawer
moves a recess or groove of convenient depth which groove terminates at a short
distance from the front of the casing and causing to engage with these grooves stops
or slides preferably of the same shape in cross section as the grooves and fixed on
vertical parallel plates or boards constituting the side walls of a sliding support
said plates bearing against the outer face of the parallel vertical walls of the
drawer. These plates are cut away at the top for a certain portion of their length
and height and each of the recessed edges of these plates engages with corre-
sponding slide blocks attached to the adjoining outer vertical wall of the drawer.
The drawer thus rests on or engages with the sliding support which partakes
in its reciprocating motion so that the drawer is this always supported even when
it is completely drawn out and it can be easily disengaged from the sliding support
and removed when desired.
Dated this 5th day of Aroma 1907
Improvements in or relating to Sliding Drawers, Trays, and
the like.
A communication from LOUIS RAZY, of 15, Rue de Richelieu, Paris, in the Re-
public of France, Cabinet maker.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT, of 111, Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
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page_text: 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 a sliding support and top, applicable to furniture
drawers, traps and the like. This support enables the drawer to be easily
pulled out to the desired extent and to support it, and stop it in its extreme pulled
out position without danger of its falling or coming right out, at the same time
enabling it to be easily detached from said support in order to remove it from
the piece of furniture.
This support is applicable to all kinds of sliding drawers or the like made of
wood, cardboard metal or any other material. It may be also applied to sliding
receptacles of different kinds such as for instance, washing basins, letter-file
drawers, cases for type etc. which must be completely pulled out and often with-
drawn altogether.
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The accompanying drawing represents the support according to this invention
applied to different kinds of sliding drawers.
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the arrangement of the sliding support and stop
with a drawer without any front face or board.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation and plan of said sliding support and stop detached
from the piece of furniture.
Fig. 3 shows a vertical cross section a portion of a piece of furniture provided
with sliding drawers of different kinds combined with the sliding support and stop
according to this invention. The drawers are shown here in different open
positions.
The top drawer A (Fig. 3) provided with a door or front P folding out hori-
zontally is assumed to be completely drawn out. It is supported in this position
only by the sliding supports, the lateral stops of which strike against the end of
the recesses provided for them.
Said
The next drawer B of a different kind, without a door hinged in front, is
assumed to be drawn out, but has not yet carried with it the sliding support S.
The third drawer C without a front board is assumed to be pushed in.
drawer is shown in the position and at the moment where it strikes the ends of
the lateral walls of the support and at the moment when it is about to push back
said support in order to return into its completely closed position. The door P
which closes the drawer in front is shown folded down vertically into its open
position.
The lowest nest D of the piece of furniture is shown empty without any drawer
or sliding support.
In all the figures like letters indicate like parts.
The sliding support and stop consists of two parallel boards or plates a forming
two sides connected, say dovetailed, at their inner ends-by a transverse plate bar
or board b. Against the outer faces of the sides and at their inner ends beginning
The sides a
at the transverse bar b; is screwed or otherwise secured a stop c.
are cut away at the top and along a part of their length so as to form inclined
recesses a³ a². The vertical side walls of the piece of furniture etc. in which the
drawer slides in a parallel direction, are provided with a groove d which stops
near the front, say at d, in order to serve as a stop to the support and thus to
limit its outward movement and consequently that of the drawer.
The inner space between the sides a is equal to the outside width of the drawer,
so that the support surrounds the drawer at the sides and back, and can thus
follow its movement without too much friction, into its different positions.
The drawer is provided on each of its vertical lateral outer faces e with a hori
zontal stop which slides on the edge a¹ of the side a. It is provided at the back
with a heel or downward projection f¹ having obliquely cut faces having exactly
the same inclination as the obliquely cut portions a² of the sides a which meet
them. These faces a² and f³ serve alternately to carry with them and stop either

page_text: the support or the drawer as the case may be according as the latter is being
opened or closed, which will be easily understood by an examination of Fig. 3.
The sides a may be held apart at their free end opposite to that provided with
the bar b, by a small flat iron or thin plate 6 secured to the lower edges of the
sides a or else by a solid bottom extending the whole length or part of the
length of the sides.
It will be understood that the sliding support and stop according to this in-
vention may be provided with pins instead of the bars c. It may also be provided
with one or several superposed stops for the purpose of giving it a greater or
better bearing surface. The drawers may be provided, or not, with a folding
cover or door P hinged to the drawer by hinge joints u, or they may not have
any front part at all, as the drawer C and they may be provided with a horizontal
board as t, the general form of the drawer, tray, or sliding part being of any
desired shape or construction.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said in-
vention as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:
1. A sliding support and stop, adapted to co-operate in its different positions
with a drawer tray or the like and to stop it, without allowing it to come completely
out when in its extreme drawn out position, while at the same time enabling it
to be easily detached from said support or put on again, and comprising: two
parallel vertical sides (a) each provided with a recess having a horizontal edge (a¹)
and inclined opposite faces (2) serving to guide and to stop the drawer, tray or
the like, the lateral vertical outer faces (e) of which are each provided with a horizontal
stop (having a heel (f¹) with inclined faces (2) of the same inclination as
those of the sides (a2) said sides of the support being connected at the back by a
transverse bar or at the back and front or by a bottom extending to the whole or
part of the length of the sides (a) which are provided externally with stops (c)
or pins adapted to slide in grooves in the vertical walls of the drawer casing
substantially as described.
2. The combination of a sliding support and stop, constituted by the lateral
recessed sides (a) connected by a transverse bar (b) a front plate (61) or by a bottom,
with a sliding receptacle or drawer either open in front or closed by a fixed
partition or by a folding door or front, substantially as described.
3. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete means
for supporting sliding drawers traps or the like and preventing them from coming
completely out when drawn out, substantially as described or illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
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