Adjustable shelf support system for medicine cabinets
An adjustable locking shelf support system for use in a medicine cabinet or other cabinet. The adjustable shelf support members have set-off lugs which are inserted and locked into slots in a recessed race located in the vertical walls of the cabinet. The front portion of the adjustable locking shelf support member protrudes into the cabinet toward the front has a channel that, together with the cooperating adjustable locking shelf support member located on the opposite side vertical wall of the cabinet, accepts a shelf made of glass or other material. The adjustable shelf support members can be removed and replaced throughout the cabinet in other slots evenly spaced in a vertical orientation in the recessed race of the vertical walls of the cabinet.
1. An adjustable shelf support locking system for a cabinet with two generally parallel inner vertical walls, comprising:
A pair of shelf support locking members each having an elongated rectangular body section with four sides and a plurality of attachment lugs standing off perpendicular from the side of the elongate rectangular body that slides against a side wall surface of a recessed race formed in each of the inner vertical walls of the cabinet for insertion into circular slots in the vertical inner wall of the cabinet;
Each shelf support locking member having a generally triangular section protruding from the side opposite the attachment lugs on the elongated rectangular body section containing a channel opening portion oriented to receive a shelf;
The recessed race formed in each of the inner vertical walls of the cabinet having front, back and side wall surfaces, the side wall surface having circular slots formed in a recessed surface and evenly spaced in vertical orientation to accept a plurality of lugs protruding from the rectangular body section of each shelf support locking member;
The attachment lugs of each shelf support locking member inserted into and through the circular slots in the recessed race in the vertical wall of the cabinet so that the shelf support locking member lugs are slidingly engaged within the circular slots of the recessed race side wall of the inner vertical wall of the cabinet, the generally triangular section is slidingly engaged against the inner vertical wall of the cabinet and the elongated rectangular body section is slidingly engaged against the front, back and side walls of the recessed race and locked into place;
The shelf support locking members inserted in opposite positions to each other in the inner vertical walls of the cabinet so that the channel opening portion of the shelf support locking members is open to the front of the cabinet and together form an insert into which a shelf is inserted.
2. An adjustable shelf support locking system as set forth in claim 1 , further comprising two lugs attached to the rectangular body.