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No. 367,344. Patented July 26, 1887.y

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JOSEPH H. KNAU'S, OF FAYETTE, MISSOURI, JetsSIenoE OE FOUR-EIETHS TO `VVALTEB. C. KNAUS, LEIVIS 'MARTIN T. SETTLE.

DRAWER-EQUALIZER.

L. LYNN, ANDREV J. FUER, AND

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 367,344, dated July 26, 1887. Application filed May 24, 1887. Serial No. 239,258. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may' concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH H. KNAUS, of Fayette, in the county of Howard and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Drawer-Equalizers, of which the following is a specification. A

The object of my invention is to provide a deviceto insure the equal movement of both sides of a drawer in sliding out of and into its ways or guides, thus insuring an even, uniform, and smooth movement of the drawer, and obviating the cramping and binding which so commonly occur in furniture-drawers, especially when the drawer is pulled unevenly, Or one side of the drawer is pulled harder than the other.

In accomplishing my object my invention consists in combining with the drawer a rotary shaft arranged longitudinally to the drawer, or at right angles to the line of movement,and journaled in bearings in the drawer, and having at each end a cord or chain wrapped several -times .around the shaft, and having its ends attached to a .stationary connection ot' the drawer-casing, one at the back and the other at the front, as hereinafter more fully described.

InV the drawing, the figure is a perspective view of my improved drawer-equalizer attached to a drawer, part of the casing being broken away.

In thedrawing, A represents the drawer,

l and B B the casing or frame in which the drawer slides.

C is a roller-shaft arranged at the rear upper edge of the back side of the drawer. This shaft has journals at its ends, which revolve in bearingsin two horizontal springs, a o, which are fastened to the sides of the drawer, and are offset a short distance from the sides of the drawer, so that an endwise movement ofthe roller will bend the spring and remove the opposite journal from its bearing when -it is desired to detach the roller from the drawer. At each end of the roller, and near the sides of the drawer, there is a cord or chain, b, wound several times around the roller and fastened by a staple or tack to prevent slipping. The ends of these cords are vattachedlto the casing or frame of the drawerone end to the back part, B, and the other end to thefront part, B. may be made in any approved way-such, for instance, asa staple or screw-eye, or a hole bored through the wood to receive the cord and av knot tied in the end of the same.

Vith such an arrangement of the cords, roller, and drawer it will be seen that when the drawer is pulled out the roller moves with the drawer, and the cord in unwinding in rear of the roller and winding infront upon it causes the roller to revolve, and the revolution of this roller causes the cord at the other side ofthe drawer to wind on the roller in front and unwind in the rear, thus imparting to the drawer at that side the sameA motion that it has at the side where the power may have been applied. This causes the drawer to always move equally at both sides, and insures a free andeasy passage,f1ee

'from any cramping or binding.

To take the drawer entirely out of its frame, the roller is pressed endwise, as before described, and for this purposeV only one spring-bearing is necessary; or the bearings may be immovable and one of the journals spring-seated; or both journals may be sim-- ply dropped in a slotted bearing in the woodworlgwhich slots open at the top to allow the journals to freely fall to place or be lifted out. Instead, also, of using a roller-shaft, I may use asmaller shaft with a broad-faced grooved pulley at each end, upon which the cords are wound, and instead of using a cord a chain or wire may be used.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim as new is l. The combination, with a drawer and its casing, of a shaft journaled in the drawer at right angles to the line of Inovement, and a cord or other flexible connection, as described, arranged at each end of 'the shaft and wound around the same, the said cords having their ends connected, respectively,to the front and back ofthe casing, substantial] y as shown and described.

This connection 2. The combination, with a drawer and iisJ neeted, respeebiveiy, t0 the front and hack of casing, ofa shaft; jonrnaied in the drawer at the easing, substantially as and for the purrlght angles to the line of movement, springpose described.

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sa1ne,the Said cords having their ends con- VM. A. DUDGEON.

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