Hanger bracket for cabinet

In combination, a shelflike furniture component having a pair of horizontally spaced vertically-extending end panels each having a vertically extending rear edge, a bracket structure fixed to each end panel and projecting rearwardly from the rear edge thereof, and a pair of substantially parallel uprights each having a row of vertically spaced elongated slots formed in a wall thereof for engagement with said bracket structures to thereby fixedly mount said furniture component on said uprights in a cantilievered relationship, each said bracket structure including a plurality of rearwardly-projecting downwardly-opening L-shaped rigid hooks disposed in vertically spaced relationship and being insertable through individual slots formed in the respective upright for fixedly attaching the furniture component to the uprights, the improvement wherein at least one of said bracket structures comprises:

• a one-piece bracket member fixedly attached to said end panel and projecting rearwardly thereof, said one-piece bracket member being formed from a thin sheetlike metal plate of substantially uniform thickness, said sheetlike metal plate being substantially vertically oriented and positioned in close proximity to the respectively adjacent end panel;
• said bracket member having a front part which is of a generally vertically-oriented platelike configuration which directly overlies and is fixedly secured to the respectively adjacent end panel at a location which is spaced forwardly a substantial distance from said rear edge;
• said bracket member having a transition part which is integrally fixed to a rearward end of said front part and projects horizontally sidewardly therefrom in a direction away from said adjacent end panel, said transition part being spaced forwardly a substantial distance from said rear edge;
• said bracket member including a horizontally-elongated cantilvered spring part of a generally vertically-oriented platelike configuration which is fixed to and projects rearwardly from the transition part in approximately parallel relationship to the adjacent end panel, the spring part being sidewardly spaced from the adjacent end panel by a small clearance space therebetween so that the spring part can be resiliently horizontally sidewardly deflected in either direction relative to the adjacent end panel substantially about the transition part, said spring part termianting in a free end which is located in the vicinity of said rear edge;
• said spring part in the vicinity of the free end thereof defining thereon said plurality of rearwardly-projecting L-shaped rigid hooks, said hooks projecting outwardly beyond said free end and being substantially vertically coplanar with said spring part;
• whereby the hooks associated with said one bracket structure can be sidewardly resiliently displaced relative to the respectively adjacent end panel and relative to the other bracket structure so as to permit the bracket structures to properly sidewardly align with the slots in the uprights.