Patent ID: 7789473

Claim:
A cabinet, comprising: a cabinet-section assembly including a plurality of cabinet sections, each cabinet section defining a first and second hinge line, wherein each cabinet section, at its first hinge line, is hingedly attached to another cabinet section at its first hinge line, and each cabinet section, at its second hinge line, is hingedly attached to another cabinet section at its second hinge line, such that the plurality of cabinet sections form a complete circuit of interconnected cabinet sections; and a support body configured to support the cabinet-section assembly; wherein the cabinet-section assembly is characterized by a closed configuration, an open configuration, and a plurality of configurations intermediate the closed and open configurations, the closed and open configurations being different from one another, and each of the closed and open configurations being characterized by the cabinet sections' being drawn toward a central axis of the cabinet-section assembly; wherein the support body is configured to bias the cabinet-section assembly to move to either the closed configuration or the open configuration from said plurality of configurations intermediate the closed and open configurations; wherein the support body bias is gravitationally driven; and wherein each cabinet section of the cabinet-section assembly is gravitationally suspended from a hub of the support body such that each intermediate configuration has a greater gravity-based potential energy than the respective closed or open configuration to which the cabinet-section assembly is biased to move from that intermediate configuration.