Drawers for furniture

Claim 1

A four-sided drawer frame including a drawer front member, a back member and two side members, the back member and side members being of rectangular plate construction and being separately formed from injection mouldings of plastics material, wherein the drawer back member has hollow box sections formed at its ends adjoining the respective drawer side members, said box sections providing at least two cavities, the end of the respective side member adjoining said back member being formed with ribbed connecting elements extending normal to the plane of said side member and received in the respective cavities of said box sections joining together the drawer back and side members, said front member being formed with spaced ribbed connecting elements extending from the inner wall of the drawer front member, the opposite end of each side member being formed with a hollow box section receiving therein the ribbed connecting elements provided opposite said box section on the inner wall of the drawer front member, and further comprising an additional back member usable to vary the width of the drawer frame, a connecting piece including a relatively narrow strip having side surfaces in facing relationship to box sections of said back members and having a length corresponding substantially to the height of the drawer back members, and connecting elements extending from said surfaces spaced apart in the longitudinal direction of the strip and aligned with the cavities of the back members, wherein the connecting elements of the connecting piece are inserted within the box sections of the back members to thereby join the back members.