Patent ID: 6863358
Filing Date: 2005-03-08
Classification: E06B

Abstract:
1. A storage cabinet, comprising: a storage housing defining a storage compartment therein and including a pair of laterally spaced upright side walls rigidly joined by a bottom wall and defining an access opening associated with at least a front side of the housing for accessing said interior storage compartment; a door configured to cover the access opening and removably attached to the storage housing for movement between open and closed positions; said door comprising a one-piece monolithic door member formed from a relatively rigid but light weight sheet of resin-bonded plastic fibers, and having substantially rigid upper and lower door panels which extend across a width of the housing, said upper and lower door panels being monolithically joined at adjacent widthwise-extending first edges by a generally horizontally and widthwise-extending first living hinge which permits the upper and lower door panels to be relatively hingedly moved through a significant angular extent about said first living hinge; said lower door panel, when the door is in said closed position, being disposed in a generally upright position to at least partially close off said access opening whereby a lower free edge of said lower door panel is disposed adjacent a lower edge of said access opening and said first living hinge is disposed more closely adjacent an upper extremity of said access opening; said monolithic one-piece door member also including a mounting part which is monolithically joined to said upper door panel at a widthwise edge thereof which is remote from said first living hinge, said mounting part being joined to said housing adjacent a top thereof to define a second hinge which is transversely spaced from but substantially parallel to said first living hinge; whereby said door can be hingedly moved about said first and second hinges from said closed position into said open position wherein said upper and lower door panels are positioned generally in overlapping relationship to one another adjacent a top side of said housing.