Cabinet with hanger rails

DETAILED DESCRIPTION In contrast to the foregoing references, this invention comprises a cabinet which not only incorporates a system for organizing papers, books, folders and the like but is also adapted to be mounted within the slots of vertically disposed standards secured to the walls of a building or to the freestanding panels forming the partitions in an open-plan office system.
This invention provides a cabinet having an upper wall, a bottom wall, two side walls and a back wall.
The cabinet incorporates therein a series of hanger rails formed of a single extruded member adapted to receive a variety of work accessories such as bookends, trays and the like.
In a preferred embodiment, the extrusion forming the hanger rails is securely attached to the back wall of the cabinet.
Each rail is identical with the others and includes an indentation and an upwardly- and inwardly-depending lip.
In another embodiment, the extrusion forming the hanger rails also forms the back wall of the cabinet.
In a preferred embodiment, the invention relates to wall-mounted cabinets.
In this regard, the cabinet is adapted to hang from vertical slotted standards of the type mounted to the interior walls of a building or to the freestanding walls forming partitions in an open-plan office system.
Accordingly, attached to the cabinet is a least one mounting bracket having a plurality of rearwardly projecting downwardly depending tabs adapted to engage the slots of the standards.
The rails are secured to the back wall of the cabinet by a plurality of screws which extend through a corresponding number of openings in the terminal ends of the rails and a corresponding number of apertures, aligned with the openings, in the back wall of the cabinet.
The work accessories are removably mounted to the rails by hooks connected to the inward ends of the accessories and resting on and mating with the upwardly-and inwardly-projecting lips of the rails.