Cabinet structure and method of construction

Claim 1

A cabinet structure comprising a plurality of elongate frame members, the ends of which are hollowed out to define sockets, and at least certain ones of which include a hole in a side wall of each socket, and a plurality of corner members for joining the ends of the frame members to form a cabinet structure, each of said corner members including a central post adapted to slide longitudinally into the sockets of the frame members, and a pair of legs extending substantially perpendicularly from one end of the central post at a predetermined angle with respect to each other, each leg having a rigid nipple protruding from one side of the leg opposite the side closest to the central post, with the other side of each leg being tapered such that the end of the leg is narrower than the base thereof to thereby enable slipping the leg into the sockets of the frame members so that the nipple of the leg is received into a hole of the sidewall of the sockets, four of said frame members being arranged to form a lower rectangle, four of said corner members being disposed at the corners of the rectangle, with the legs of each such corner members extending into corresponding contiguous sockets of the frame members and the central posts of such corner members extending upwardly, four other of said frame members being arranged to form an upper rectangle, four other of said corner members being disposed at the corners of the upper rectangle, with the legs of each such corner members extending into corresponding contiguous sockets of the upper frame members and the central posts of such corner members extending downwardly, and four of said frame members being arranged to extend generally vertically between corresponding corners of the lower and upper rectangles, with the central posts of corresponding corner members extending into the sockets of the verticle frame members to thereby provide a unified cabinet frame.