Wall cabinet and method of making

Claim 1

A plastic wall cabinet comprising a body portion of plastic sheet material and having a back wall and top, bottom and side walls integral with and extending forwardly of said back wall to provide said body portion with an open front, mounting flange means including upper and lower planar mounting flanges integral with and extending upwardly and downwardly respectively from said top and bottom walls, said upper and lower mounting flanges having upwardly and downwardly facing terminal edges, respectively, extending laterally between said side walls, said planar mounting flanges having corresponding first ends adjacent one of said side walls, upper and lower hinge leaf means each integral with the corresponding one of said upper and lower terminal edges of said first ends of said mounting flanges, each said hinge leaf means including a laterally narrow planar hinge leaf vertically spaced from the corresponding one of said top and bottom walls and extending horizontally forwardly of the corresponding mounting flange, a hollow door for closing said open front, said hollow door comprising front and back panels of plastic sheet material bonded together to provide a central portion bounded by a peripherally continuous hollow portion including a seam between said panel sheets extending about said hollow portion and rearwardly from said front panel toward said back panel, said panel sheets in the area of said seam having rearwardly facing terminal end edges transverse to said seam, and a hinge pin extending through each said hinge leaf and into said hollow portion of said door to pivotally mount said door on said body portion.