US747685A - Drawer. - Google Patents

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No. 747,685. PATBNTED DEC. 22, 1903.

'W. H. GOYE. DRAWER;

APPLIOATION I'ILED.JULY a1, 1901. no MODEL.

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PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. OOYE, OF STEVENS POINT, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM H. COYE AND VVAITE B. BUCKINGHAM, OF STEVENS POINT, WISCONSIN.

DRAWER.

SPECIFICATION forming; part of Letters Patent No. 747,685, dated December 22, 1903;

Application filed July 3 l, l 901.

T ctZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. (love, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Stevens Point, in the county of Portage and 5 State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Drawers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

My invention relates to improvements in the construction of drawers used in various articles of furniture.

Prior to my invention it was customary to make the bottom and the walls of a drawer each in asingle piece of wood, usually of soft wood, and to'unite the parts by mortise or tongue-and-groove joints. It has also been proposed to make the side drawer-walls with integral enlargements affording lateral 0&- sets on the outer faces of the walls and having on their inner faces grooves adapted to receive the side edges of the bottom. In each prior instance known to me the side walls of a drawer are provided with integral hearing or sole edges ofthe same material as the walls themselves. It .is customary to make the drawers of soft wood, because they are not exposed and largely for economical reasons; but the lower edges are apt to wear away by constant rubbing and friction due to pulling the drawer back and forth, and the drawers ofsome kinds of furniture are apt to become misshapen and do not run true, even, and smooth in their frames.

The object of the present invention is to provide an improved construction by which I am able to use two kinds of material in its manufacture. In my improved drawer I employ sole-strips made separate from the sides and bottom and serving as the means for solidly and rigidly joining said bottom and the side walls together. These shoes also afiord antifriction bearingssurfaces at the lower side edges of the drawer, said surfaces being disposed at the side edges and sole or tread edge of the shoe, whereby the frictional engagement of the drawer at the side and bottom portion with the surrounding framework is minimized and the drawer is made to run easily and freely in the article of furniture. 50 In the manufacture of the drawer fiat side and bottom pieces of wood, each uniform in Serial N0.'70,3'74. (No model.)

thickness and of a low cheap grade of material, may be employed, whereas the shoestrips are made separate from the walls and of a different material. These shoe-strips may be cut from stock which ordinarily may go to waste in a furniture-factory, and as a comparatively small amount of material is required the cost of the material is not appreciably increased. In fact, my construction enables the drawers to be manufactured at a material saving in time, labor, and ex-' pense. The sole-strips are fashioned rapidly and accurately by suitable machinery to the required form in order to produce the side hearing and under-tread surfaces, and said strips are also formed with grooves at right angles to each other in order to receive the bottom and sidewalls of the drawer, the severalparts being held firmly and solidly to- 7 gether by the sole-strips.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts,as is hereinafter described,and definedin the appended claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings,forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a drawer and the 80 fiXed supports therefor, the drawer having the improved guideways thereon. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the improvement applied to a drawer, taken substantially on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a 8 detached perspective view of a novel detail employed.

As shown, the drawer has a front wall 5,a rear wall 6, a bottom 7, and side walls 8,which parts when properly assembled comprise an 0 open-top drawer thatis held to slide between fixed guide-strips 9, the latter joining with a fixed base-piece 10, whereon the slidable drawer is supported.

The improvement consistsin the provision, 5 of two similar shoe-rails 11, which are made in separate pieces from the rest-of the drawer, each shoe-rail being formed as shown more clearly by. Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings.

In the preferred form of the shoes 11 two 103 like strips of wood or other suitable material are provided, which are flat on the upper side and rabbeted on the lower side to reduce the width of their bearing-surfaces, as represented at a in Figs. 2 and 3. The shoes 11 each have a longitudinal groove ct formed in the upperside, and in said grooves the lower edges 1) b of the side walls 8 are embedded and secured in any suitable manner. In the inner side edges of the shoes 11 a longitudinal groove 1) is formed at right angles to the vertical plane of the groove in the upper side thereof, and in each of these lateral grooves b a side edge portion of the bottom piece 7 is inserted and held by any suitable means,

The ends of the side walls 8 8 are secured to the corresponding ends of the front and rear walls 5 and 6 by the usual dovetail formations (not shown) or by any other preferred means, which, together with the shoes 11, completes the assembling of the several Walls of the drawer.

It will be seen that the respective shoes 11 project beyond each side wall 8 sufficiently to have loose contact with the fixed walls or strips 9 and are somewhat convexed on the edges 11*, which have engagement with said walls or strips, so that the surface of contact is reduced, thus preventing excessive friction when the drawer is slid to open or close it. Furthermore, the lower faces of the shoes 11 having reduced width, owing to the rabbets a, formed on said faces at the inner corners of the shoes, this construction correspondingly reduces the friction of these bearing-faces on the base-piece 10.

In the improved construction represented by the drawings it will be seen that the shoes 11 serve as the means for joining the lower edge portions of the side walls with the side edge portions of the bottom of the drawer, and said shoes also afford autifriction-beariugs to reduce the frictional engagement between the drawer and its fixed supports.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A furniture drawer consisting of parallel shoe-rails each having an upwardly-opening groove in its top side and an inwardly-opening groove on its inner side, the outer side of each rail being provided with a cross-sectionally convex riding-face and the under side of the rail being cut away to form a narrow flat bearing-face, side walls secured in the upwardly-opening groove of the rails, and a bottom secured at its respective edges in the grooves provided in the opposing faces of said parallel rails.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM H. COYE.

Witnesses:

HERBERT LUCE, BERTHA A. SCOTT.

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