It would seem that someone used "push to open" catches and posted a picture in "alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking" a couple
of weeks ago. He had modified that latches and made them work on the top-back of the drawer.
As I remember, he had added a "extension" to the latch to get a greater distance of movement before latching and unlatching
which may be enough to get the drawer face out far enough to get fingers behind it.
It was posted by Mark Johnson on 9/5/2004 and was labeled "Touch latch extension finger (Changing table 4/3).
R. Wink

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 01:02:58 +0100, Andy Dingley wrote:

Client wants bedside tables. Wants them to be absolutely minimal in
their external details. Wants a couple of drawers, but doesn't want
drawer handles on them.

So we're thinking about spring loaded "press to open" catches. These
would open the drawer a little, then you use the drawer face edges as
drawer pulls to open it all the way.

I've used these on doors, but never on drawers. The ones I've used
before need about 1/8" - 3/16" of push before the spring fires. I'm
now wondering how to handle the edges of the drawers - I'd like to
have them butt against the sides of the carcase, but obviously I need
to allow some space for the drawer to move backwards, so as to fire
the catch.


Any thoughts ? Thanks