Tilted drawer tooling cabinet? Not by M.C. Escher but could be.

[crrmeyer]

Has anyone seen a tilted drawer tooling cabinet like this?

When I first saw the ad I thought the picture was make with a crummy camera.

Then I suspected it's design was influenced by M.C. Escher.

Now I think it was really designed to keep your tooling from rolling around when you opened and closed the drawers?

Looks like wood drawers with a metal facade. Appears to be well-made.

Thanks

 

[TGTool]

Maybe someone screwed up tooling for the manufacture and marketing said, "Heck, save the cost of making new tooling. We'll promote that as a feature of our stuff."

 

[gustafson]

Furniture designers first acid trip

 

[Conrad Hoffman]

I have trouble believing that's a tool cabinet. More likely for drawings or something that need to be neatly stacked.

 

[Thompsonguitars]

If I put that on my floor the drawers would be level.
Ted

 

[eKretz]

First guess would be for something like liquid samples in a stoppered vial or test tube. That would keep the contents away from the stopper but still allow shallow drawers. Can you make out the nameplate? That may give a clue. Certainly interesting, to say the least.

 

[JohnMartin]

Maybe something like core samples from tree boring?

 

[Vecair]

They were for printing shops. Its a Matrix cabinet. It held matrices in place.

 

[gustafson]

wass a matrix?

 

[Milland]

wass a matrix?

It's that series of movies Keanu Reeves was in.

Or it could be an array of movable type for printing presses, with the tilted storage helping to keep it in order and stable.

Matrix (printing) - Wikipedia

 

[crrmeyer]

They were for printing shops. Its a Matrix cabinet. It held matrices in place.View attachment 342484View attachment 342485

Wow, that took me down a rabbit hole. Looks like a matrix cabinet. Hamilton Mfg was a large maker of such cabinets. I saw some pictures that were quite similar overall.

Here is a link to the 1905 Hamilton catalog:

Antique Hamilton Manufacturing Company Catalog - Dave's Archive - www.telephonearchive.com/dmworkshop

Page 152 shows early matrix cabinets.

 

[GregSY]

I'd buy one if I had a bunch of matrixes I needed to store.

 

[Vecair]

I'd buy one if I had a bunch of matrixes I needed to store.

You do, you just don't realize it...

 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

When I was a green apprentice the foreman gave me an “ MC Escher “ style drawing of a component to make. It took me a while to realise it couldn’t be done.

Regards Tyrone.

 

[old dog]

It is an old cabinet from a printing shop. Used to keep type face in.

 

[mhajicek]

My video card handles my matrix math just fine, thank you.