Electric component cabinet

Claim 1

An elongate box-like cabinet for electrical devices comprising like vertically spaced longitudinally extending horizontal top and bottom walls, like longitudinally spaced vertical end walls and vertical, laterally spaced longitudinally extending front and rear panels, said like top and bottom walls have vertically spaced opposing inner surfaces with vertical inwardly projecting longitudinally extending front, rear and laterally spaced intermediate flanged projections, the flanged projections define longitudinally outwardly and vertically opening grooves, a pair of adjacent flanged projections on the top and bottom walls define horizontally opening and opposing longitudinal channels defining longitudinally outwardly and inwardly opening ways at the inner surfaces of the top and bottom walls, said vertical longitudinally extending front and rear panels have upper and lower edge portions slidably engaged in and retained by related opposing grooves in the front and rear flanged projections on the top and bottom walls, said like vertical end walls have longitudinally inwardly disposed inner surfaces in stopped engagement with opposing related ends of the top and bottom walls, longitudinally inwardly projecting retaining flanges engaged with the inner surfaces of said top and bottom walls and screw fasteners carried by the end walls and threadedly engaged into the ends of the grooves in said intermediate projections on said top and bottom walls, said intermediate flanged projections have inwardly disposed supporting edges to support parts arranged within the cabinets, said grooves in the intermediate flanged projections accommodate mounting parts and fastening means for parts arranged within the cabinet, said channels cooperatively receive mounting parts for electrical components and parts positioned within the cabinet between the projections.