Drawer-pull and latch assembly

Claim 1

IN A COMBINATION WITH A CABINET STRUCTURE INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE DRAWER HAVING A FRONT PANEL, AN ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A SHAFT EXTENDING HORIZONTALLY ADJACENT AND ALONG THE BACK OF SAID FRONT PANEL, MEANS MOUNTING SAID SHAFT ON SAID PANEL FOR ROTATION ABOUT ITS HORIZONTAL AXIS, LATCH MEANS POSITIONED AT THE SIDE OF SAID DRAWER AND CONNECTED TO SAID SHAFT SO AS TO UNLATCH UPON ROTATION OF SAID SHAFT IN ONE DIRECTION, RESILIENT MEANS BIASING SAID SHAFT IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION TO LATCH SAID LATCH MEANS, SAID FRONT PANEL HAVING AN APERTURE EXTENDING THERETHROUGH, A DRAWER-PULL MEMBER, MEANS MOUNTING SAID DRAWER-PULL MEMBER WITHIN SAID APERTURE FOR MOVEMENT IN A PURELY LINEAR PATH TRANSVERSE TO THE PLANE OF SAID FRONT PANEL, CRANK MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID SHAFT FOR ROTATING SAID SHAFT ABOUT SAID HORIZONTAL AXIS, AND LOST MOTION CONNECTING MEANS CONNECTING SAID DRAWER-PULL MEMBER TO SAID CRANK MEANS SO THAT MOVEMENT OF SAID DRAWER-PULL MEMBER ALONG SAID LINEAR PATH ROTATES SAID SHAFT IN SAID FIRST DIRECTION AGAINST THE BIASING FORCE OF SAID RESILIENT MEANS AND UNLATCHES SAID LATCH.