US193587A - Improvement in drawer-pulls - Google Patents

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W. A. WRIGHT.

DRAWER-PULL.

No. 193,587. Patented July 24,1877.

imam)? N PETERS, PHOTQ-LITHomfgPHER; WASHINGTDNJJ C WILLIAM A. WRIGHT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HENRY K-. WAMPOLE, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT l'N DRAWER-PULLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 193,587, dated July-24, 1877; application filed May 14, 1877 useful Improvement in Drawer-Pulls, whichimprovement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in'

Which- Figure 1 is a front view of the device embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a rear view thereof. Fig. 3 is a vertical section in line 00 av, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a vertical section in line 3 y, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a horizontal Section in line 2 2, Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a face View of the holding-spring detached. Fig. 7 is a top or side view thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

My invention consists of a drawer-pull having a frame for a nameplate, against which presses a skeleton-frame spring or springs, whereby the plate will be securely held in po-' sition, and it may be readily removed and applied from either the front or rear of the frame.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a drawer-pull, with which is formed, or to which is secured, a frame, B, to which will be fitted a' plate, 0, on whose face will be exhibited the name of the article or contents of the drawer or receptacle to which the {pull is secured, said name being cast, painted, printed, or otherwise marked on the plate, so as to be viewed in front.

On the inner face of the sides and bottom.

of the frame, at the back thereof, there are inwardlyprojecting flanges or lugs a a, the side flange a extending partly upward, so as to leave at the top of the sides channels or spaces 1).

On the upper and lower pieces of the frame, at the front thereof, there are inwardly-projecting flanges or lugs D D, between which and the flanges or lugs a a there is the space a for the plate 0, said space being greater than the thickness of the plate.

The plate may be inserted into the frame.

from the rear by directing its sides, through the channels or ways b, into the space a; or when the pull, with attached frame, is secured in position, or not, said plate may be inserted from the front under the top flange or lug D, and when it is pushed up to full extent it will clear the lower lug D, after which it will rest against the flanges or lugs a a.

In order to hold the plate in position, I introduce between the name-plate and front flanges or lugs D D a spring or springs, E, whose tendency is to press the plate against the rear flanges or lugs to a, whereby the plate will be prevented from accidental displacement, rattling, or shifting, and the name .will

be nicely andreliably presented.

It will be seen that, as the name-plate may be applied to the frame either in front or rear, it may'likewise be withdrawn therefrom either in front or rear, it being necessary only to remove the spring E, whereby said plate is free to be'lifted from the frame, in a manner as is evident, said spring being of the form of a skeleton-frame of the shape of the frame B, the ends of the spring meeting, but disconnected, thus allowing the proper manipulation and bending of the spring in its application to and removal from its holding position on the frame.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The drawer-pull, in combination with the frame B, having inner flanges or lugs a. a, top channels I), front flanges or lugs D D, and skeleton-frame spring E, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4 WM. A. WRIGHT. Witnesses:

J NO. A. WIEDERSHEIM, H. E. HINDMARSH.

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