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Cabinet with shelf supported plastic drawer

a technology of plastic drawers and cabinets, applied in drawers, furniture parts, domestic applications, etc., can solve the problems of plastic drawers often having a tendency to jam in the supporting plastic housing of plastic drawers, not nearly as sturdy in construction, and relatively new plastic designs in cabinets have a much less formal appearance and other problems, to achieve the effect of increasing the overall stability of the assembly and enhancing the appearan

Inactive Publication Date: 2005-07-28
ROYAL ALLIANCE
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"The present invention is a cabinet assembly with a lightweight plastic drawer and a housing that has an internal shelf extending from the front towards the back and side to side of the housing. The drawer is slideably seated on the shelf and does not have to be tightly fitted with the housing in order to maintain a non-releasing slide contact with the housing. The drawer therefore slides easily in and out of the housing. The front face of the drawer has a finger grip pull molded into it, eliminating the need for a separate snap on handle to be added to the drawer. The finger grip pull can be molded in a manner to give the front face of the drawer a much more high-end professional appearance. The cabinet assembly has a more formal appearance and stability due to the use of a different material for the housing than the plastic drawer material."

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However, the relatively new plastic designs in cabinets have a much less formal appearance and are not nearly as sturdy in construction as the older wooden and steel cabinets.
Another drawback associated with known plastic cabinets is that the plastic drawers often have a tendency to jamb in their supporting plastic housings.
As a result of the required tight tolerance the drawer can often get stuck when pulling it out or pushing it in to the housing.

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[0015]FIG. 1 shows a cabinet assembly generally indicated at 1. This cabinet assembly includes a plurality of lightweight plastic drawers 3 supported by a housing 5. in this preferred embodiment housing 5 and specifically the material used to make housing 5 is substantially heavier than the lightweight plastic construction of drawers 3.

[0016]FIG. 3 of the drawings shows one of the key features of the present invention. In particular, FIG. 3 shows that cabinet 5 includes a plurality of internal horizontal shelves 11 which are supported from opposite sides of the cabinet. In the embodiment shown these shelves extend across a majority of the front to back depth of the cabinet. The shelves as shown do not extend to the back wall 12 of the cabinet. However, even when the drawers are in their fully closed position as represented by the second to top drawer in FIG. 3 they do not tip off of shelves 11. This is because they are sandwiched between the supporting shelf on which they are seate...

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Abstract

A cabinet assembly includes a lightweight plastic drawer and a housing having an internal shelf extending most of the way from the front to the back slideable of the housing. The drawer is seated on and slideably over the length of the shelf within the housing.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] The present invention relates to a cabinet assembly including one or more lightweight plastic drawers. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] Over the last few years there have been developments with respect to manufacturing of cabinet assemblies with a plastic construction. These plastic cabinet assemblies are substantially less costly than the well known wooden and steel cabinets. However, the relatively new plastic designs in cabinets have a much less formal appearance and are not nearly as sturdy in construction as the older wooden and steel cabinets. [0003] Another drawback associated with known plastic cabinets is that the plastic drawers often have a tendency to jamb in their supporting plastic housings. This is because in most known plastic cabinets the drawers have sideway protruding top edges which fit into tracks to opposite sides of the housing. There must be relatively tight tolerance between the fit of the drawer edges with the tracks in order...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A47B88/00A47B88/16
CPCA47B88/16A47B88/57
Inventor JACKSON, STEVEN
Owner ROYAL ALLIANCE