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US 5,682,936 AGranted
Cabinet drawer construction and method
OwnerJoseph W. Higdon, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
An improved method of constructing a cabinet drawer comprises joining the drawer end panels to the back of the drawer front panel and attaching a one piece unitary folded paperboard blank that defines both the bottom panel of the drawer and the back panel of the drawer. The bottom panel slides into a race defined by dado grooves in the drawer sides and front and the paperboard blank defining both the bottom panel and back panel is attached to the drawer by driving staples or other fasteners through the back panel into the back edges of the drawer sides.
Claims20
A method of constructing a cabinet drawer comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing a substantially rectangular drawer front panel having a front face, a rear face, a top edge, a bottom edge, and opposed end edges;
- (b) providing a pair of substantially rectangular drawer side panels each having an outer face, an inner face a top edge, a bottom edge, a front edge, and a back edge;
- (c) joining the pair of drawer side panels at their front edges to the rear face of the drawer front panel adjacent the opposed end edges thereof with the drawer side panels extending rearwardly from the drawer front panel and with the bottom edge of the drawer side panels being generally co-planer with the bottom edge of the drawer from panel;
- (d) providing a separate substantially planer blank having a top surface, a bottom surface, a front edge, a back edge, and opposed side edges;
- (e) forming a first fold line in the blank intermediate the front and back edges of the blank with the first fold line extending between the side edges of the blank, said fold line dividing the blank into a bottom panel portion and a back panel portion;
- (f) folding the blank along the first fold line so that the back panel portion of the blank forms an angle with respect to the bottom panel of the blank;
- (g) securing the folded blank to the joined front and side panels with the bottom panel portion of the blank spanning the bottom edges of the drawer front panel and the drawer side panels to form a drawer bottom and with the back panel portion of the blank spanning the back edges of the drawer side panels to form a drawer back;
- (h) forming a second fold line in the blank intermediate the first fold line and the back edge of the blank with the second fold line extending between the side edges of the blank, said second fold line, the back edge of the blank, and the side edges of the blank to define a tab adjacent the back edge of the blank;
- (i) folding the blank along the second fold line so that the tab is folded onto the back panel portion;
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- (j) adhering the tab to the back panel portion to provide additional strength and rigidity along the back panel portion of said blank.
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A method of constructing a cabinet drawer comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing a substantially rectangular drawer front panel having a front face, a rear face, a top edge, a bottom edge, and opposed end edges;
- (b) providing a pair of substantially rectangular drawer side panels each having an outer face, an inner face, a top edge, a bottom edge, a front edge, and a back edge;
- (c) joining the pair of drawer side panels at their front edges to the rear face of the drawer front panel adjacent the opposed end edges thereof with the drawer side panels extending rearwardly from the drawer front panel and with the bottom edge of the drawer side panels being generally co-planer with the bottom edge of the drawer front panel;
- (d) providing a substantially planer blank having a top surface, a bottom surface, a front edge, a back edge, and opposed side edges;
- (e) forming a fold line in the blank intermediate the front and back edges of the blank with the fold line extending between the side edges of the blank, said fold line dividing the blank into a bottom panel portion and a back panel portion;
- (f) folding the blank along the fold line so that the back panel portion of the blank forms an angle with respect to the bottom panel of the blank;
- (g) securing the folded blank to the joined front and side panels with the bottom panel portion of the blank spanning the bottom edges of the drawer front panel and the drawer side panels to form a drawer bottom and with the back panel portion of the blank spanning the back edges of the drawer side panels to form a drawer back;
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- where in step (a), the rear face of the drawer from panel is formed with a dado groove extending between the end edges of the drawer front panel adjacent the bottom edge thereof, in step (b), each of the inner face of the drawer side panels has a dado groove extending between the front and back edges of the drawer side panel adjacent the bottom edge thereof, in step (c) the drawer front and side panels are joined so that their respective dado grooves form a co-extensive race, and wherein step (g) comprises sliding the bottom panel portion of the blank into the race formed by the dado grooves.
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A cabinet drawer comprising:
- a from panel having a front face, a rear face, a top edge, a bottom edge, and opposed end edges;
- a spaced pair of side panels connected to and extending rearwardly from said front panel, each of said pair of side panels having an inner face, a top edge, a bottom edge, a front edge, and a back edge;
- the front edge of said side panels being attached to the rear face of said front panel adjacent the end edges thereof;
- a separate blank forming a bottom panel portion and a back panel portion;
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- means for supporting said blank adjacent the bottom edges of said front panel and said side panels with the back panel portion of said blank attached to the back edges of said side panels;
- wherein the bottom panel portion of said blank spans the bottom edges of said front panel and said side panels and wherein the back panel portion of said blank spans the back edges of said side panels.
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