Supports: cabinet structure – Knockdown or setup type – Skeletal frame
Patent
1986-06-25
1987-12-15
McCall, James T.
Supports: cabinet structure
Knockdown or setup type
Skeletal frame
312330R, 312257SM, A47B 4300
Patent
active
047128445
ABSTRACT:
An easily-assembled knock-down home filing cabinet comprises a generally rectangular top panel, a pair of generally rectangular opposite side panels engaged at respective upper margins of the top panel in a parallel and spaced apart condition, and a plurality of elongate tie rods spanning and joining the side panels intermediate areas thereof located generally adjacent respective corners thereof for maintaining the side panels in the desired parallel and spaced apart condition so as to define, with the top panel, a generally rectilinear cabinet for receiving at least one file drawer. Each of the tie rods comprises an elongate rod-like member having at least one threaded end and a complementary mating threaded fastener for threaded engagement with each rod threaded end and for engagement with an adjacent side panel.
A drawer for a filing cabinet comprises respective rear and front, bottom and opposite side panels, and an arrangement joining the respective panels together to form a generally rectilinear drawer. The joining arrangement however, includes a marginal web portion at a bottom edge of each side panel formed at generally right angles thereto and a reversely bent gripping portion formed at each of opposite side margins of the bottom panel for slidably receiving and engaging one of the side panel web portions therein.
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McCall James T.
Quaker Industries, Inc.
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