Cabinet structure that is expandable into platform ladder
OwnerNan-Shan Chenginventor
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A cabinet structure includes a parallelepiped frame having a top side, a bottom side, a front side, a rear side and two opposite lateral sides. A drawer is provided on the upper portion of the frame, having a front panel comprised of four boards overlapping each other and releasably secured together by means of a bolt. Two L-shaped door panels are respectively hinged to two opposite sides of the frame to openably cover the front side. By opening the two door panels to be opposite to each other and un-folding the boards of the front panel of the drawer to have the boards supported on the L-shaped door panels, a stair-like platform ladder is formed with the top side of the cabinet serving as the platform. A safety rack is provided on the platform and is collapsible into a channel formed inside the cabinet so as to be selectively expanded when the cabinet is converted into the platform ladder. A bench includes a horizontal top plate having a first end movably received within and supported by the cabinet and a second end selectively extendible out of one of the lateral sides of the cabinet and supported by a vertical support plate so that the bench is selectively expanded from the cabinet. A stool is removably stored inside the cabinet and is selectively and removably mounted to the platform to provide an additional step to the ladder.
A cabinet comprising a frame having a top side covered by a top wall and a bottom side, a front side and a rear side and two opposite lateral sides, the frame having an upper portion within which a drawer is received and a lower portion which defines a bin, the drawer comprising a drawer front panel comprised of four boards foldable to overlap each other and releasably secured together in the overlapping condition with a first securing means, the bin portion comprising two L-shaped door panels arranged to be opposite to each other and respectively hinged to the lateral sides to be rotatable between a closed position where the L-shaped door panels cover the front side of the bin portion of the cabinet frame with lower sections of the L's overlapping each other and an expanded position where the L-shaped door panels are rotated away from the cabinet frame to be substantially parallel with and spaced from each other and thus defining a stair-like configuration having two steps, wherein the boards of the drawer front panel are released and expanded to have alternate ones of the boards supported on the two steps of the L-shaped door panels to serve as treads of the stair-like configuration and the remaining boards serving as risers of the stair-like configuration so as to form a platform ladder with the top wall of the cabinet serving as platform of the platform ladder, a second securing means being provided to releasably secure the boards in the expanded condition which defines the platform ladder.
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