Hanging Stack and Rolling Rack

Abstract

A method for installing a set of drawers under the counter-top in the “blind corner” of kitchen cabinets. The stack of drawers is attached to a rack and hung from little wheel-cars in tracks. To access any of the drawers the door of the adjacent cabinet is opened and the stack is rolled sideways into borrowed space temporarily made available there. The drawers can then be pulled open. When finished the drawers are closed and the stack rolled back. Unlike existing products, this design's mechanisms permanently occupy very little of the adjacent space, only the top 3″. The rest is only borrowed. The flooring of this space is regular kitchen floor. It can be occupied by anything that can be easily moved out temporarily when corner access is needed.

1 . This invention embodies the following technical features of prior art:
   1 . Drawers and their slide mechanisms.     2 . The method by which drawers and their slides are installed in cabinets     3 . The tracks, wheel-cars, and latches used to suspend and operate folding doors.   The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:   A method for storing items in, and conveniently retrieving them from, the blind-corner space in kitchen cabinetry that is characterized by:   a) A stack of drawers and slides installed in a frame in the same manner that drawers are installed in cabinets,   b) A rack that has latches on its upper surface and is attached to the frame and drawers by ordinary carpentry techniques,   c) A system of tracks and wheel-cars with downward projecting pins that the rack-mounted latches engage thereby suspending the rack/frame/drawer assembly so it can be slid sideways out of the corner space to a position where the drawers can be opened,   d) A space in the adjacent cabinet equal in area to the corner-space with regular kitchen flooring suitable for storing anything that can be readily moved out and back when corner access is needed.