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US 10,322,806 B2Granted
Sliding closet
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsAnthony Earl Anderson, Dennis Nantin Mara
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing a sliding closet. The sliding closet comprises an exterior wall, a first wall, a second wall, a number of openings, a movement system, and a number of cavities. The exterior wall faces into a passenger cabin of a vehicle. The first wall and the second wall are perpendicular to the exterior wall. The number of openings is parallel to the exterior wall. The number of cavities is formed by the exterior wall, the first wall, the second wall, and the number of openings.
Claims11
An apparatus comprising:
- a load-bearing wall having a number of rails inside a passenger cabin of a vehicle;
- and
- a sliding closet connected to the load-bearing wall using the number of rails and movable between an open position and a closed position;
- wherein the sliding closet has an exterior wall that faces into the passenger cabin in both the open and closed positions, a first wall and a second wall perpendicular to the exterior wall, a number of openings parallel to the exterior wall, and the number of openings leads to a number of cavities formed by the exterior wall, the first wall, the second wall, and the number of openings, and the number of openings is closed by the load-bearing wall when the sliding closet is in the closed position.
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A method comprising:
- installing a load-bearing wall having a number of rails in a passenger cabin of a vehicle;
- and
- connecting a sliding closet associated with a number of channels to the load-bearing wall using the number of channels and the number of rails such that the sliding closet is movable between an open position and a closed position, wherein the sliding closet has an exterior wall that faces into the passenger cabin in both the open and closed positions, a first wall and a second wall perpendicular to the exterior wall, a number of openings parallel to the exterior wall and the number of openings leads to a number of cavities formed by the exterior wall, the first wall, the second wall, and the number of openings, and the number of openings is closed by the load-bearing wall when the sliding closet is in the closed position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.