Adjustable cabinet fillers
View Patent ↗A filler assembly for spanning, filling, and concealing a gap between an installed metal cabinet and an adjacent wall, or adjacent cabinet is disclosed. The assembly includes a bracket and a filler strip and the filler strip is formed with a projecting tongue. The bracket includes a narrow channel sized to receive the tongue of the filler strip in a sliding relationship. The tongue of the filler strip can slide into the channel to different depths so that the tongue and bracket span and fill the gap.
1. A filler assembly for filling a gap between a first structure and an adjacent second structure, comprising:
a generally J-shaped bracket having a bracket face, a base, and a bracket side being secured to the first structure extending therealong;
a generally J-shaped filler strip having at least one projecting tongue and a filler strip base being secured to the second structure; and
a generally J-shaped backing strip mounted within the bracket and having a leg spaced from the bracket face of the bracket to define a channel, the channel on the bracket sized to receive the tongue in sliding relationship,
the tongue being disposed in the channel when the first structure is adjacent the second structure,
the bracket and filler strip filling a gap between the first and second structure.
2. The filler assembly of claim 1 , wherein the first structure is a cabinet and the second structure is a wall.
3. The filler assembly of claim 1 , wherein the first structure is a cabinet and the second structure is a cabinet.
4. The filler assembly of claim 2 , wherein the bracket is mounted to the cabinet and the filler strip is mounted to the wall.
5. The filler assembly of claim 1 , wherein each structure has a bracket with a channel.
6. The filler assembly of claim 5 , wherein the filler strip has a tongue disposed in each channel in sliding relationship.
7. The filler assembly of claim 1 , wherein the filler strip and bracket are metal.
8. The filler assembly of claim 1 , wherein the channel is sized to receive up to about two inches of the tongue in sliding relationship.
9. The filler assembly of claim 1 , wherein the gap is at a corner between the first and second structures and the filler strip is configured to extend between the first and second structures.
10. The filler assembly of claim 1 , wherein the first structure is a first cabinet.
11. The filler assembly of claim 10 , wherein the second structure is a wall.
12. The filler assembly of claim 10 , wherein the second structure is a second cabinet and further comprising a bracket on each cabinet, each bracket having a channel, and a tongue projecting from the filler strip disposed in each channel when the first cabinet is installed adjacent the second cabinet.
13. The filler assembly of claim 10 , wherein the tongue can be inserted into the channel up to two inches.
14. The filler assembly of claim 1 , wherein the channel on the bracket sized to receive the tongue in sliding relationship and the sliding relationship is an interference fit.