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INTERIOR HANDLE FOR DRAWERS
Specification:
The invention rel~tes to an interior drawer handle on the cover
of a drawer.
Interior handles for drawers have been known provided so as not
to project from the piece of furniture to which they are applied,
thnt i8 in particular not to project beyond the front face of a cover
of the drawer. It is therefore common to form interior handles within - ~
the material thickness of the cover. The disadvanta~e, however, is ~ ;
that the drawer having such interior handle cannot always satisfactori~
ly be handled by all persons, becau`~e long fingernails, in particular,
might stri~e against the face opposite the outer open fiide of the handle
in the cover and thus might be damaged. Persons having long fingernails
consequently will grip the interior handle relatively near the front
edge, or the outside, re~pectively, thus increasin~ the ~anger of a ;~
slipping-off of the fingers and hence damage of the fingernail~
Tho state of the art also includes the arran~ement of a handle on top
of the cover of the drawer by which however the above shown disadvant-
a~es of the prior ~rt interior handles are not eliminated. ~-
It is therefore the aim of the ~resent invention to so further
de~elop an interior drawer handle of the kind referred to in the begin-
nin~ that the drawer having such drawer handle can better be handled,
which in particular reduces the dan~er of a damage to fingernails
significantly.
In accordance with the solution of the invention, this problem is
solved for an interior drawer handle on a cover of a drawer in that the
drawer handle provided on the top of the cover i8 shaped as an approxi-
mately cylicdric hollow body open to the front a~d to the bottom extend~
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in~ inwardly be-rond the cover into the free interior of the drawer. -
Therefrom it results that the clear depth of the approximately hollow
body forMing the drawer handle, is larger than the material thic~ness
of the cover.
In detail, the clear depth of the approximately cylindric hollow
body may, in accordance w~th claim 2, be about 40 mm, i.e. may sub-
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stantially be larger than a common material thickness of a cover.
l~hen so dimensioned, the interior drawer handle may be ~ripped by a
large area of the fin~ertip while at the same time the fingernail re- ~ ~`
mains preserved. There is sufficient space available for the rela-
tiYely large portion of the drawer handle extending over the cover - ~ ~ ;
into the interior of the drawer. The request that the interior drawer
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handle do not pro~ect forwar~ly beYond the front face of the piece of
furniture thus remains fulfill~d.
The interior drawer handle is furtheron suitably so shaped that `~
the approximately cylindric hollow body is open to the front and to
the bottom over about one quarter of its ~eriphery. - Through this
opening, with the shape of the drawer handle remaining as described
above, the fin~er tips may be inserted without striking against any-
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In accordance with claim 4, it is not necessary that the shape of ~ ~
the drawer handle exactly correspond to that of a cylindric hollow body; "~, ;!~ .' '""'~ ',`.',
when suitably dimensionin~ the drawer handle, the approximately cylin- `
dric bol~ow body may also be flattened on the rearward side, i.e. on
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A further approxi~ation to the hollow cylindric shape of the drawer
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handle is also possible, accordin~ to cl~im 5, my means of a paralle-
1epiped the edges of which are rounded orf.
In a particularl~ suitable further development of th~ interior --
drawer handle with the cover of the drawer to which it is fiecured,
the ùpper side of the cover includes, according to claim 6, an outer -~
rounding off, whereby the curvature of this rounding off is ~pproxi-
mately inversely equal to a curvature of the approximately cylindric
hollow body of which the drawer handle consists. The curvature at
the upper side of the cover and the curvature in the interior drawer
handle at the same time continuously blend into each other so that
the hand of the user may easily glide into the handle.
Accordin~ to claim 7, the ends of the approximately cylindric
hollow body of which the drawer handle con6ists, too, are preferably
rounded off at the outside. - Thereby, easy manipulation of the drawer
handle and the esthetically attractive ex~ression of the handle is
further pro~oted.
In the following, two exemplified embodiments of the invention -
will be explained based on a drawing including five figures.
Flgure 1 shows a first embodiment of the interior drawer handle ~ -~
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on a sectionally-shown drawer viewed from top;
Figure 2 shows the ~rawer handle to~ether with the cover accord-
ing to Figure 1 in cross section;
Figure 3 is a front view on the cover of the drawer including the
interior drawer handle according to Fi~ure 2, as a sectional view;
Fi~ure 4 show6 a second emhodiment of the interior drawer handle
including the cover, as a cros6 section, and -~
Figure 5 shows a front view on the cover of the drawer including
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the interior drawer handle according to Figure 4, again a6 a sectional
~iew
Fi~ure 1 on one side, and Figures 2 throu~,h 5, on the other, show
the drawer handle in different scales. In the figure6, identical ele~
ments are given identlcal reference numerals.
In Figure 1, 1 generally desi~nates a portion of a drawer provided
on the front with a cover 2. The cover is provided at the upper side
and at the lower siàe with roundings-off 3 and 4 outwardly directed as ;; ; ;~
shown.
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~ n interior drawer handle 5 is provided at the upper side 6 ofthe cover, that is it is screwed adjoinin~ly to the inner face 7, com-
pare Figure 2.
A~q can particularly be taken from Figure 2, the drawer handle, with
the exception of a flat flan~e 8 provided for the attachment thereo~,
co~pri~ses an approximately cylindric body 9 which,~at a forward and
bottom area 10 is open to the outqide. ~his area extends, in this case,
over about one quarter of the assumed complete cylinder periphery.
It i~ es~ential that the drawer handle extend, with a rear 6ection
beyondlthe interior face 7 of cover 2 into the interior of the!clear
space of the drawer, hhich is not provided with a reference numeral but
which i8 clearly visible from Figure 1.
With a view to the whole shaping of the drawer handle 5, a hand
with fingertips, fingertip 12 i9 fihown, can so grip into the drawer
handle that the fingers in area 1~ rest relatively far inside the drawer
handle without provoking necessary touching of the inner side thereof,
for instance by fingernail 14, even if this fingernail is relatively
long. `~
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Thanks to upper roun~in~-off 3 of the cover which goe6 over
into the opposite roun~ing off, inside, into the approximately
cylinlric body 9, the fingertips when gripping the drawer can easily
glide into the inner ~pace, not designated, of the drawer handle
formed by the approximately cylin~'ric body.
The esthetically attractive and easy-to-use shape of the drawer
handle is cGmpleted by roun~lings-off at the side ends, of which one
rounding-off 11 is shown in Figures 1 and 3.
In Figures 4 and 5, a second embodiment of the drawer handle is
shown having the reference numeral 15. The interior drawer handle
again i9 secured to cover 2. - The interior drawer handle 15 differs
from the firqt embodiment, i.e. drawer handle 5, by a flattening 16 at
its si~e facin~ the clear space of the drawer. The flattening proceeds
in pArticular in ~arallel to tne inner face 7 of cover 2. In the area
of two transitions 17, 18, of which transition 17 can also be seen in
Figure 5 within the drawer handle, the flattening 16 goes over into
the portion of the drawer handle which for the rest is cylindric. From ;-
Figure 4, it can also be taken that also in case of the flattening 16,
the drawer handle can reliably be gri~ped from the inside while suffi~
ciently free space for longer fingernails 14 will be available.
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