Means for temporarily hanging a cabinet on a wall surface prior to permanent attachment of said cabinet

Claim 1

Means for positioning and tEmporarily hanging a bathroom cabinet on a supporting wall surface prior to permanent attachment of said cabinet comprising, a cabinet having a housing forming a hollow compartment for storage purposes, said cabinet having a vertical rear wall, spaced horizontal top and bottom walls and spaced vertical side walls all connected to said vertical rear wall and front closure members for opening and closing the front of said cabinet, said front closure members being hingedly secured by hinge means to the cabinet with each closure member adapted to be independently opened and closed and with the closure members having front mirror surfaces whereby said closure members when in closed position have an edge to edge relationship to form a front planar wall for closing said cabinet, said top wall having a downwardly extending rear flange, said vertical rear wall of the cabinet having a single cutout adjacent to the top edge of said rear vertical wall, with said cutout positioned centrally of the length of the cabinet with the top of the cutout extending upwardly of said downwardly extending flange and with said cutout providing bottom and side wall surfaces adjacent the cutout, and with said downwardly extending flange forming a vertical top rear wall surface adjacent said cutout, a single integrally formed bracket for initially positioning and temporarily supporting said cabinet in a hanging position, said bracket having a bottom planar portion continuing with an intermediate forwardly extending portion and with an upwardly extending portion terminating in a forwardly inclined top lip providing the top edge to provide a greater spacing at the top of the bracket between the top lip and the supporting wall surfaces, said bottom planar surface having a plurality of spaced openings, means for initially securing said bracket to the wall surface by a plurality of fastening means having shanks passing through said openings in said bottom planar surface and secured to the wall surface, subsequently positioning said cabinet with respect to said single bracket so that the upwardly extending portion of the bracket is positioned in the single cutout of the back wall with the upwardly extending portion of the bracket engaging the downwardly extending flange adjacent said cutout to temporarily support the cabinet before it is permanently affixed to the wall surface, said top lip of said bracket positioned below the top horizontal wall of the cabinet and covered by said top wall and invisible when viewing the top of the cabinet but with said top lip engaging the underside of the top wall of the cabinet, said single bracket having a length substantially that of the length of the cutout so that when the cabinet is secured to the bracket the cutout is substantially closed, and additional fastening means passing through the back wall of the cabinet to be secured to the wall surface to permanently secure the cabinet to the wall.