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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JOHN I. BALDWIN, JR., OF SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
DRAWER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 466,069, dated December 29, 1891.
Application filed May 15, 1891, Serial No. 39e,844. (No model.)To aZl whom it 7ncay concern,:
Be it known that I, JOHN H. BALDWIN, Jr.,
a citizen of the United States, residing at San
Antonio, in the county of Bexar and State
5 of Texas, have invented a new and useful
Drawer, of which the following is a specifi-
cation.
This invention relates to furniture, and more
especially to that class thereof known as
to "drawers;" and the object of the same is to
provide the drawers of a bureau, a desk, or
other piece of furniture with anti-friction de-
vices to prevent their binding.
To this end the invention consists in the
15 details of construction and relative arrange-
ment of parts hereinafter more fully described
and claimed, and as illustrated on the sheet
of drawings, wherein-
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the drawer-
20 casing, and Fig. 2 of the rear corner of the
drawer. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the blank
for the strap in the casing. Fig. 4 is a cen-
tral longitudinal section of this strap with the
rollers in place. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the
25 blank for the strap at the corner of the drawer.
Fig. 6 is a central longitudinal section of this
strap with the rollers in place. Fig. 7 is a sec-
tion on the line 7 7 of Fig. 2.
Referring to the said drawings, the letter D
30 designates a drawer which moves within a
casing C, and the latter may be a bureau, a
washstand, a desk, or other article of furni-
ture adapted to receive one draweror a num-
ber of drawers; but as they are of the same
35 construction a description of one will answer
for all.
F is a strap, which in the blank shown in
Fig. 3 is flat, and which is cut on the full
lines and bent at right angles on the dotted
40 lines-that is to say, it is bent across its body
into approximate L shape, as shown in Fig.
4, and is secured in a suitable mortise, and
by countersunk screws or nails in the inner
lower corner of the casing, as seen in Fig. 1.
45 The lips L are bent outwardly at right an-
gles to the body, and rollers R have their
spindles journaled in eyes I in the said lips,
the wood-work of the casing being properly
recessed beneath the strap to permit the roll-
50 ers to extend into the same, while their outer
faces project slightly beyond the faces of the
strap. The size of these rollers and their ma-terial are not essential, although they arepref-
erably small enough to be surrounded by the
wood-work of the casing and long enough to 55
afford the lower or horizontal one a bearing
for the lower edge of the side of the drawer
and the upper or vertical one a guide for the
outer face of the side of the drawer. The
horizontal roller is located close in the angle 60
of the casing, while the vertical roller is some
distance above the said angle, for a purpose
to appear hereinafter.
The letter A designates what I shall call the
"angular strap," which in the flat blank is 65
best seen in Fig. 5, and like the other is to
be cut on the full lines and bent at right an-
gles on the dotted lines. When in place and
bent in proper position, the central portion 1
of this blank stands against the lower edge 70
of the side of the drawer, the upper portion
2 resting against the outer face thereof and
the lower portion 3 against the inner face.
At the left of the vertical dotted line the cen-
tral portion 10 stands against the end of the 75
drawer and the small flap 30 is turned over
the end 4 of the portion 3. The upper por-
tion 20 is in the form of a tongue, which then
passes across the central portion 10, and its
flap 21 turns over the edge thereof at the So
point 11.
L' is a lip provided with an eye I, and when
this lip is turned inwardly a roller R, similar
to those above described, has one end of its
spindle journaled in said eye and the other 85
in a similar eye in the central portion 1. By
this means this roller (which is vertical and
which is let into a cut-away portion of the
side of the d rawer) stands at the extreme rear
corner and low enough to move beneath the 90
vertical roller in the casing when the drawer
is withdrawn.
The letter O designates an opening cut in
the central portion 1, and at each end of this
opening is an eye I in the portion which is to 95
be turned at right angles to the central por-
tion, and in these eyes is journaled the spin-
dle of a horizontal roller. The lower edge of
the side of the drawer is cut away to make
room for this roller, and the latter projects Too
slightly beyond said lower edge and stands
in a horizontal plane just forward of the cor-
ner roller.
i designates several holes through which
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Baldwin, John. H, Jr. Drawer., patent, December 29, 1891; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172899/m1/2/?rotate=90: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.