Extruded plastic panel drawers

Claim 1

A drawer construction in which at least the sides and back are formed from extruded plastics panels of identical section, the section of each panel being uniform throughout its length, each panel comprising a vertical sheet, said vertical sheets forming the inner walls of the drawer, intersecting at the corners of the drawer, and having a groove to receive a drawer bottom, each vertical sheet having a pair of hollow sections of rectangular cross-section formed on its outer side and defining a channel therebetween, which are identical except for the groove in the inner face of the lower section, the back of which channel is defined by the portion of the outer surface of said sheet disposed between said box-like sections and the panels being interconnected at each corner by identical upper and lower corner pieces engaged in the open ends of the respective upper and lower box-like sections, means to retain the corner pieces securely in engagement with said open ends, and a front panel connected to the drawer sides by connecting members secured to the front panel and adapted to engage within the side panels.