Medicine cabinet
AssigneeZaca, Inc.
InventorWilliam J. Aisley
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Abstract
An improved medicine cabinet is constructed predominantly from molded plastic components adapted for rapid assembly. The medicine cabinet includes a forwardly open main housing having preformed grooves therein which cooperate with one or more upright central shelf support brackets to support an array of half width shelf members in a customized geometry of half and full width shelves. The medicine cabinet further includes an improved self-closing hinge assembly for swingably supporting a mirror door from the cabinet housing, wherein the hinge assembly does not require metal parts. The mirror door includes a recessed baseplate for stable nested reception of a glass mirror, in combination with an improved mirror frame adapted for simple snap fit mounting onto the baseplate.
Claims35
A medicine cabinet, comprising:
- a housing adapted for mounting into a building wall, said housing including a rear wall joined to a forwardly projecting top wall, bottom wall and pair of side walls to define a forwardly open interior chamber;
- at least one shelf support bracket positioned generally centrally within said housing and formed integrally with said housing rear wall, said at least one shelf support bracket projecting forwardly from said rear wall to subdivide said interior chamber generally into a pair of half width regions, said shelf bracket defining at least one vertical gap to define at least one substantially uninterrupted full width region within said interior chamber;
- a plurality of half width shelf members, said shelf support bracket and said housing side walls including cooperative means defining a plurality of shelf member mounting positions for removably supporting said shelf members in a plurality of selected ones of said shelf member mounting positions to extend between said shelf support bracket and one of said side walls;
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- a mirror door hingedly mounted onto said housing for swinging movement between positions closing said interior chamber and exposing said interior chamber for access.
A medicine cabinet, comprising:
- a housing adapted for mounting into a building wall, said housing including a rear wall joined to a forwardly projecting top wall, bottom wall, and a pair of side walls to define a forwardly open interior chamber, and at least one upright shelf support bracket positional generally centrally within said housing and projecting forwardly from said rear wall to subdivide said interior chamber generally into a pair of half width regions, said shelf support bracket being spaced from at least one of said top and bottom walls;
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- a plurality of half width shelf members;
- said shelf support bracket and said housing side walls including cooperative means defining a plurality of shelf member mounting positions for removably supporting said shelf members in a plurality of selected ones of said shelf member mounting positions each to extend between said shelf support bracket and one of said side walls.
A medicine cabinet, comprising:
- a housing adapted for mounting into a building wall, said housing including a rear wall joined to a forwardly projecting top wall, bottom wall, and pair of side walls to define a forwardly open interior chamber, said housing further including a generally upright shelf support bracket joined to said rear wall and extending forwardly from said rear wall at a position between said side wall to subdivide at least a portion of said interior chamber into laterally separated part-width regions, said shelf bracket defining at least one vertical gap to form at least one substantially uninterrupted full width region within said interior chamber;
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- a plurality of shelf members;
- said shelf support bracket and said housing side walls including cooperative means defining a plurality of shelf member mounting position for removably supporting said shelf members in a plurality of adjustably selected ones of said shelf member mounting positions each to extend between said shelf support bracket and one of said side walls.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.