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US 4,728,161 AGranted
Corner cabinet
OwnerRoy D. Murphyinventor
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Abstract
A cabinet includes a mounting bracket which permits the attachment of the cabinet in room corners which are out of square. The bracket is adjustably slidable with respect to the cabinet so as to facilitate an attachment of the cabinet to the nonperpendicularly-aligned walls. The cabinet is trapezoidally-shaped to permit its positioning in a corner.
Claims10
A corner cabinet, comprising:
- a. a cabinet housing having two side walls and a roof interconnecting upper portions of said side walls, said roof having inner and outer surfaces, said side walls disposed at such an angle to one another as to facilitate the mounting of said cabinet housing to walls forming a corner;
- b. a mounting bracket slidably and adjustably affixed to said outer surface of said roof of said cabinet housing, said mounting bracket comprising a plurality of upstanding flange portions, said upstanding flange portions being partially engageable to said walls forming said corner, said flange portions having means for enabling attachment to said walls forming a corner, said mounting bracket further comprising a mounting bracket floor, said plurality of upstanding flange portions being integrally and substantially orthoganally attached to said mounting bracket floor;
- c. a fastening means for slidably and adjustably affixing said mounting bracket to said outer surface of said roof;
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- d. at least one elongated fastener receiving slot formed in said mounting bracket floor, said fastener receiving slot being alignable with at least one through-extending aperture formed in said roof of said cabinet housing, said fastening means being positioned through and about said fastener receiving slot and said through-extending aperture to effect a fixed securement of said mounting bracket to said housing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.