CABINET WITH SLIDING CLOSURE PANEL

• US 20130020920A1
• Filed: 08/15/2012
• Published: 01/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ralph Johannes Weber
• Original Assignee: Ralph Johannes Weber
• Inventors: WEBER, RALPH JOHANNES
• Application Number:
  US13/586,787
• Publication Number:
  US 20130020920A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 312/334.1
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 67/005 Mirror cabinets; Dressing-tables
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 1/24 Appliances for adjusting pictures, mirrors, or the like, into a desired position, especially inclined A47G1/1646 - A47G1/22 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E05D 15/0621 Details, e.g. suspension or supporting guides E05D15/0604, E05D15/08 - E05D15/14 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E05D 15/48 allowing alternative movements E05D15/0604 takes precedence ; for vertically-sliding wings E05D15/22
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/684 Rails; Tracks
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2800/00 Details, accessories and auxiliary operations not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2800/10 Additional functions
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2800/122 Telescopic action
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/20 for furniture, e.g. cabinets

Abstract

Provided are cabinets, methods of making the cabinets, and methods of using the cabinets. One embodiment of the cabinet includes an enclosure and at least one horizontally slidable closure panel interconnected to the enclosure with a first fully extendible concealed rail slide assembly mounted proximate the enclosure top and a second fully extendible concealed rail slide assembly mounted proximate the enclosure bottom. The fully extended panel provides unobstructed access to the enclosure cavity. Another embodiment of the cabinet includes two horizontally slidable closure panels, with one slidable outward from the enclosure in one horizontal direction and the other slidable outward in the opposite horizontal direction wherein the pair of panels, when fully extended provide unobstructed access to the cavity of the enclosure. The horizontally slidable enclosure panel in either of these embodiments can be a mirror, picture, painting, poster, decorative structure, clock, plaque, diploma, certificate and combinations thereof.

Claims

1. A cabinet comprising:

an enclosure and at least one horizontally slidable closure panel interconnected to the enclosure with a first fully extendible concealed rail slide assembly mounted proximate the top of the enclosure and a second fully extendible concealed rail slide assembly mounted proximate the bottom of the enclosure, wherein the first and second fully extendible concealed rail slide assemblies each include;

a slotted channel horizontally mounted to the enclosure with an internal fully extendible slide bearing rail mechanism,

a panel mounting bracket interconnected at one end to the back surface of the at least one horizontally slidable closure panel and at the other end to the extendible rail of the internal fully extendible slide bearing rail mechanism, and

caps at each end of each slotted channel to conceal the internal fully extendible slide bearing rail mechanism.

3. The cabinet of claim 1, wherein the panel mounting bracket is a u-shaped bracket or an s-shaped bracket.

4. The cabinet of claim 1, wherein the internal fully extendible slide bearing rail mechanism includes ball slides, roller slides or polymer slides.

5. The cabinet of claim 1, wherein the enclosure is mountable within a wall recess or on the surface of a wall.

6. The cabinet of claim 1, wherein the at least one horizontally slidable closure panel is a single panel.

7. The cabinet of claim 6, wherein the single panel fully extends to provide unobstructed access to the cavity of the enclosure.

8. The cabinet of claim 1, wherein the at least one horizontally slidable closure panel is a pair of panels with one slidable outward from the enclosure in one horizontal direction and the other slidable outward from the enclosure in the opposite horizontal direction.

9. The cabinet of claim 8, wherein the pair of panels fully extend to provide unobstructed access to the cavity of the enclosure.

10. The cabinet of claim 1, wherein the at least one horizontally slidable closure panel is chosen from a mirror, a picture, a painting, a poster, a decorative structure, a clock, a plaque, a diploma, a certificate and combinations thereof.

2. (canceled)

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12-29. -29. (canceled)