Drawer latching device

• US 4,116,512 A
• Filed: 11/08/1976
• Issued: 09/26/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John A. Wiser
• Original Assignee: John A. Wiser
• Inventors: Wiser, John A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Downey, Kenneth
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sakran, Victor N.
• Application Number:
  US05/739,425
• Time in Patent Office: 687 Days
• Field of Search: 312/330, 312/333, 292/251.5, 248/206 A, 211/DIG. 1
• US Class Current: 312/330.1
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2088/4015 with magnets holding the drawer in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 61/00 Wardrobes
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 67/00 Chests; Dressing-tables; Medicine cabinets or the like; Cabinets characterised by the arrangement of drawers
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 88/90 Constructional details of drawers
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/11 Magnetic

Abstract

A valet rack comprising in combination a plurality of drawers in a body, said drawers having a magnetic means located at the back thereof to cooperate with a magnetic means in the body to provide a positive locking of the drawer in the closed position in the body, and a plurality of hangers located below and in operational relation with the body, being slidably mounted thereto and comprising a back plate, at least one holding member, e.g., a rod extending from the back plate and a biasing means for urging the hangers together such that the rod of the hanger is adjacent to the back plate of the next hanger.

Claims

1. A drawer latching device comprising

a body having openings therein,

drawers movably located in said openings and having a first metal plate member fixedly attached at the back thereof in operable alignment with a metal plate member immobily affixed to said body in contacting alignment with the first metal plate member on said drawer, said metal plate members contacting when said drawer is in the closed position in said body, at least one of said metal members being magnetized, thereby releasably maintaining the drawer in the closed position by magnetic attraction between said metal plate members.