US1916509A - Wall cabinet mounting - Google Patents

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Juy 4? 1933. s. HAMMER WALL CABINET MOUNTING Filed Jan. 22, 1952 [2072110] Hamme;a

' flu' M 2 ,U30 A n .l L2 l. WM figur# mmg/ Cil Patented `lluly 4, 1933 UNIT En .STATES PATENT OFFICE A SAMUEL HAMMER, OF BROOKLYN,v NEW YORK, lASYIlGrNOl-t TOv UNITED METAL BOK CO.

INC., F. BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, A` CORPORATION OF NEW YORK WALL CABINET MOUNTING Application filed January 22, 1932.-4 Serial No.'588v,082.

This invention relates to awall-.cabinet mounting, and has for its general yobject and purpose to provide means whereby cabinets,

such as may be provided for housing clothes dryers or other household conveniences or accessories may be easily, quickly and securely mounted upon the face of the room wall.

1 More particularly, the important objectof my invention is to provide a mounting Vfor cabinets of vertically elongated shape or form Y embodying vertically spaced supporting members for attachment to the face of the room wall, and means on the rear side wall of the cabinet at its upper and lower ends to cooperate with the respectivesupportmg members, one of said means being of such con-V struction as to permit of a lateral adjustment of the cabinet so as to dispose the same in a truly perpendicular position onthe :tacev of the wall, notwithstanding'theiact `that s aid supporting members may be out of vertical alignment with each other. Y

, It is a further detail object of the invention in one of its practical embodiments to provide the cabinet supporting members in the form of threaded studs with means permanently connecting Ythe studs in spaced apart relation to each other, and whereby the said studs may be securely attached to the face of the wall, each of the studs being'provided with a clamping nut, in combination with the cabinet having its rear wall provided at its upper and lower ends with suitably shaped or formed slots or openingsthrough which the studs with thenuts thereon may pass,and one of said openings permitting oit' a-lateraladjustment of the cabinet at one end. Thus after accurately disposing the cabinet in its perpendicular position, by adjustment and tightening the nuts against the rear wall of the'cabinet, saidwall at its margi-v nal edge may be forced into tightfrictional contact-against the wall face.v

Y My invention also comprehends the provision of a very simple and inexpensive mounting Jfor such wall cabinets which may be furnished with the cabinet without appreciably increasing its manufacturing or selling price, and which admits of the easy and quick attachment of said mountingmeans upon either a wooden or non-lireproof wall orupona fireproof wall structure, as the case may be, with the adequate security for rigidity supporting the cabinet and the device or apparatus contained therein upon the face of the wall.

several parts, as will be hereinaftermore fully described, illustratedin the accompanying drawing and subsequently Vincorporated in the subjoined claim.

In the drawing wherein I have disclosed one simple and practical embodiment of the device, and in rwhich similar reference characters designate corresponding partsy throughout the several views,

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the rear side of the wall cabinet and my improved mounting therefor attached to the face ofthe building wall;

Fig. 2 is a vertical fragmentary sectional view on kthe enlarged scale taken substantially on the line 2-2 of Fig. 3; Y

Fig. 3 is a. fragmentary front interior elevation showing the cabinet mounted .upon the wall face, and

Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional view taken substantially on the'line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Referring in detail to the drawing, 5 generally designates a cabinet of vertically elongated rectangular form, such for instance as 'that which I provide for the purpose of the assurance of adequate support for the comparatively heavy cabinet structurel and its contents, so that it would not loosen and pull away from the wall. Thel purpose, therefore, of my present invention is to provide a mounting which will obviate this difc iculty and enable the home owner or householder to easily, quickly and securely mount the cabinet in accurate perpendicular position upon the wall face withthe assurance of adequate support therefor, and without greatly defacing the wall structure, so'that whennecessary the cabinet withits mount-V ing means can be readily removed and transported toa newlocation with the other household goods of the owner. l

With the above end in view, my present structure the attachin@ screws indicated atl 10 are inserted through selected openings 9 inthe plate l, which are in line with the wood laths of the building wall. On the other hand, when the cabinet is to be mounted upon a fireproof wall, expansion screws of any desiredv standard type are employed. A clamping nut 11 is provided for each ofthe threaded studs 6. l

The rear wall of the body of thecabinet 5` has its inner area depressed or off-set as indicated at 12l from the plane of the outer marginal' wall face engaging portion 14' of' said cabinet wall. l rear wall of the cabinet body provides a recess,- accommodating` the attaching plates 7, and the connecting strip 8 extending therebetween.

The part'12 ofthe cabinet wall is provided near its upper end and centrally between the side edges of said wall with a keyhole slot 15 having the circularlyenlarged lower end 16.. At its lower end, and in alignment with the slot 15, the cabinet wall is vprovided with the circular opening 17 which is ink communication at the upper side thereof, as shown at 18, with the central portion of a horizontally extending slot 19. f Y

Assuming that the spaced studs 6, with the nuts 11. thereon, have been attached to the face of the wall, in mounting the cabinet, the respective upper and lower studs and the nuts areI passed through the large lower end 16 of the keyhole slot 15 and the opening 17 intherear wall of the cabinet body. The cabinet is then lowered until the upper stud 6 engages the upper end of the slot 15, at

which time the lower stud 6 is'positioned loosely through thehorizontal slot 19. If,

' as may frequently be the case, in attaching the spaced plates 7 having' the studs 6 to the face of the wall, the studs do not-happen tol be inexact vertical alignment with each other, the lower end ofthe cabinet may then f be shifted laterally in either direction relative to the lower stud 6 'until the cabinet is disposed in the desired *perpendicularl posi- This depression of thev the cabinet body, thereby urging vthe margin-y or accidentalV contact with the edges of the cabinet body.

From the above description considered in connection with the accompanyingy drawing, it will be seen that I have devised a Verysimple means whereby such cabinets may be quickly and accurately mounted upon the face of the building wall with a minimum of manual labor', both inthe attachment of said means to the face of the wall `and in the mounting of the cabinet thereon'. By permanently connectingv the supporting studs for thecabinet in spaced relation to each other in the manner above explained, the means fory mounting the cabinet may be temporarily and removably attached to the rear cabinet wall for convenience in shipment and' transportation, the attachingvplate 7 and connecting strip 8 being held within the recess of the rear cabinet wall' by means of the nuts 11, and; possible separation andloss of the parts of the mounting thus obviated. However, it will be understood that, if de-` sired, these studs maybe secured to the opposite ends of a metal strip of uniform width, or they may be carried by separate and independent attaching plates. Also, in other detail respects, my invention, as herein disclosed, may be susceptible of more or less. modification or change, and it is therefore to be understood thatin practice, I r'e-V servel the privilege of embodying the`essential? featuresof the 'present disclosure in such `other alternative structural forms as may be fairly incorporated within the spirit and scope of they appended claim.

I claim: Y Y

An elongated cabinet adapted to be mounted upon vertically spaced studsV projecting from the face of .a wall, said cabinet includ@ ing a rear wall having avertically extending slot at its upper end to receive one of said stud-s, and said cabinet wall at its lower end being provided with an opening and a hori- Zontal slot centrally communicating with the upper side of said lopening to receive the other of saidv st'udsrand to permit ofthelateral adjustment of the latter end of the cabinet relative to said stud, whereby the cabinet may be'perpendicularly positioned upon the wall face when the'studs are vertically disaligned..

In testimony that I claiml the foregoingas my invention, -I have lsigned my name hereto.

SAMUEL HAMMER; i

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