Over the cabinet door assembly

• US RE28,994 E
• Filed: 11/12/1975
• Issued: 10/05/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Company LLC (Brookfield Asset Management Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Company LLC (Brookfield Asset Management Incorporated)
• Inventors: Aylworth, Milo
• Primary Examiner(s): Nunberg, Casmir A.
• Application Number:
  US05/631,267
• Time in Patent Office: 328 Days
• Field of Search: 312/138, 312/245-248, 312/282, 312/298, 312/322, 312/323, 312/348, 248/243, 248/318, 108/108, 49/197, 49/199, 49/202, 308/3.6, 308/3.8
• US Class Current: 312/245
• CPC Class Codes: E05D 15/582 with horizontal swinging axis E05D15/581 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/20 for furnitures, e.g. cabinets
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 3/5045 specially adapted for furniture E06B3/52 takes precedence

Abstract

A wall mounted, backless, cabinet with an over-the-cabinet door assembly feature wherein the front door of the cabinet slides to an open and stored position overlying the cabinet top.

Claims

1. A backless, wall mounted, cabinet including side walls, a bottom wall and a top wall defining a front opening;

a door normally closing off said front opening defined by said side walls, said bottom wall and said top wall;

a pair of spaced hinge members secured to the front edge of said top wall, said hinge members including a hinge, a plate secured to said top wall on one side of said hinge and an inner stationary track member on the other side of said hinge;

a pair of outer movable track members secured to the back side of said door colinearly with said stationary track members on said hinge members; and

a movable ball bearing carrying carriage interconnecting each of said inner stationary track members with its adjacent movable track member on said door, said door thereby being slidably movable from a position closing off said front opening to a position overlying said top wall.

2. The wall mounted cabinet according to claim 1 wherein means are associated with each of said side walls to facilitate the mounting of said cabinet to a support wall.

3. A wall mounted cabinet according to claim 2 wherein said means associated with each of said sidewalls to facilitate mounting is a mounting bracket secured to the rearward edge of each of said side walls and include a plurality of T-shaped hook members. .Iadd. 4. The wall mounted cabinet according to claim 1 wherein the length of each of said ball bearing carrying carriages is significantly greater than the length of its associated inner stationary track member. .Iaddend..Iadd. 5. The wall mounted cabinet according to claim 1 wherein the inner stationary track members are shorter in length than either of their interconnected ball bearing carrying carriages or movable track members. .Iaddend..Iadd. 6. The wall mounted cabinet according to claim 5 wherein the movable track members extend for substantially the full height of said door. .Iaddend.