Drawers for sink cabinets
AssigneeVogt Industries, Inc.
InventorJames B. Vogt
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Abstract
A hinge assembly mounting a drawer panel on a sink cabinet for movement between closed and open positions in which a tray movable with the drawer panel is contained within the cabinet and in which it is accessible from without the cabinet. The hinge assembly is concealed from view when the drawer panel is in the closed position, and the drawer panel is wholly spaced from the cabinet in the open position. The drawer panel is constructed to move between the open and closed positions in a single curved path.
Claims7
In combination, a storage tray of uniform cross section throughout its length and having a base wall and a pair of sidewalls upstanding from opposite sides of the base wall to define therewith opposite open ends of the tray, and a pair of hinge assemblies for supporting the tray on a sink cabinet for movement relative thereto between open and closed positions, each of the hinge assemblies comprising a cabinet hinge plate adapted to be affixed to the cabinet, a drawer hinge plate, hinge arm means supporting the drawer hinge plate on the cabinet hinge plate for movement relative thereto in a curved path, and tray support means carried by the drawer hinge plate for removably supporting the tray at a respective one of the opposite open ends thereof in a position whereby the drawer hinge plate froms an end wall closing said respective open end.
In a sink cabinet having a vertical wall, means defining an opening in the vertical wall, and a drawer panel adapted to cover the opening, the combination comprising a storage tray of uniform cross section throughout its length and having a base wall and a pair of sidewalls upstanding from opposite sides of the base wall to define therewith opposite open ends of the tray, and a pair of hinge assemblies mounting the drawer panel on the cabinet and supporting the tray thereon for movement relative thereto between a clossed position, in which the tray is wholly contained within the cabinet and the drawer panel closes the opening, and a fully open position, in which the drawer panel is spaced outwardly of the vertical wall and the interior of the tray is accessible from without the cabinet by way of the opening, each of the hinge assemblies comprising a cabinet hinge plate, a drawer hinge plate, hinge arm means supporting the drawer hinge plate on the cabinet hinge plate in parallel relation therewith for movement relatively thereto in a curved path, and tray support means carried by the drawer hinge plate for removably supporting the tray at a respective one of the opposite open ends thereof in a position whereby the drawer hinge plate forms an end wall closing said respective open end, the cabinet hinge plates of the respective hinge assemblies being affixed to and within the cabinet in horizontally spaced relation at opposite ends of the opening, the drawer hinge plates of the respective hinge assemblies being adapted to receive the drawer panel affixed thereto, each of the drawer hinge plates being movable in said pathe between an inner position corresponding to the closed position of the drawer panel and tray in which the drawer hinge plate is located within the opening and an outer position corresponding to the fully open position of the drawer panel and tray.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.