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.
Claims9
A medicine cabinet mirror door assembly, comprising:
- a backplate having a support plate of extended surface area joined to a forwardly projecting peripheral rim, said rim and support plate cooperatively defining a shallow forwardly open cavity;
- a mirror nested within said cavity;
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- a mirror frame mounted onto said backplate to prevent forward removal of said mirror from said cavity, said backplate rim and said mirror frame including cooperating snap-fit mounting means for mounting said mirror frame onto said backplate rim, said snap-fit mounting means comprising a combination of interlocking dovetail fasteners and a combination of snap-fit ribs formed on said backplate rim and said mirror frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.