Combining drawers
OwnerGeorge B. Kochinventor
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Abstract
The invention provides overlapping drawers, such as those used in desks, bureaus and the like, with attachment apparatus for joining an upper drawer to an immediately underlying drawer in vertically registered alignment. The bottom panel of the upper drawer is removable so that the joined drawers operate as one large drawer.
Claims10
At least a pair of first drawers adapted to be held by a support structure in vertically registered, adjoining relation and to be joined together to effectively form a second drawer having a holding capacity substantially equal to the sum of the holding capacities of the first drawers, each of said first drawers being slidably mounted in said support structure for individual movement when not joined together and united movement when joined together, each of said first drawers comprising:
- a generally rectangular sidewall structure including a front panel, a back panel and a pair of side panels, said front, back and side panels having substantially identical transverse dimensions;
- a bottom panel configured and dimensioned to be situated to extend between opposing surfaces of the sidewall structure with the front, back and side panels extending vertically upward from the bottom panel when the drawer is held by the support structure, at least the upper one of the first drawers including means for allowing the bottom panel to be removable;
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- means for releasably joining said first drawers to one another in vertically registered alignment so that slidable movement of one of the first drawers will effect like movement in the other of the drawers.
Combinable drawer apparatus, comprising:
- a support structure;
- at least first and second drawer structures, each drawer structure including a bottom panel and a sidewall panel coupled to and surrounding the bottom panel forming an article-receiving recess, at least the first drawer structure including means for allowing the bottom panel to be removable therefrom;
- means for mounting the first and second drawer structures to the support structure in vertically registered and adjacent relation with the first drawer structure overlying the second drawer structure, the mounting means including means for allowing the first and second drawer structures to be movable relative to the support structure;
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- means affixed to the first and second drawer structures for releasably joining the first drawer structure to the second drawer structure in adjoining superposed, registered relation, the support structure being configured to allow joint movement of said joined first and second drawer structures so that when joined the bottom panel of the first drawer structure can be removed and the joined first and second drawer structures form, and operate as, a single drawer having an article-receiving cavity substantially equal to the combination of the article-receiving recess of the first and second drawer structures.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.