Doors including customizable and removable storage
OwnerTerry Mike Judeinventor
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Abstract
A modular insert useful for storing one or more objects, designed and configured to inset within a door having one or more cavities. The modular insert includes a frame having a plurality of walls and a top panel movably affixed to the frame or the door. Some of the walls may have apertures to facilitate securing the modular insert to an interior support structure of the door. Also provided is a door suitable for receiving one or more modular inserts, the door having one or more cavities to receive and support the modular inserts.
Claims15
A door storage system useful for storing one or more objects within a door, the door comprising a front panel, a back panel, and means to hingedly affix the door to a door frame, wherein a plurality of cavities extend from the front panel through the depth of the door to the back panel, each cavity having an interior wall to which a top panel is hingedly affixed, the top panel moving between an open and a closed position, and when in the closed position is coplanar with the front panel of the door, wherein each cavity further comprises an internal frame affixed to the door and forming the cavity, the internal frame having a depth less than the depth of the cavity, the reduction in depth being at least equal to a thickness of the corresponding top panel, and wherein each of the cavities is sized to receive a modular insert, the modular insert comprising a frame having a plurality of walls and a back panel, forming a plurality of sides and the back of the frame.
A door storage system useful for storing one or more objects, the door being intended for hinged affixation to a door frame, the door storage system comprising:
- a plurality of cavities on a first side of the door;
- one or more back panels forming a second side of the door, the back panels covering an end of each of the cavities;
- a plurality of top panels hingedly affixed to the first side of the door, each top panel concealing a cavity and being coplanar with the first side of the door when the top panel is closed;
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- one or more modular inserts, each modular insert being sized and configured to be received within one of the cavities of the door, the modular inserts comprising a frame having a plurality of walls forming a plurality of sides of the frame;
- wherein each cavity comprises an internal frame affixed to the door and forming the cavity, the internal frame having a depth less than the depth of the cavity, the reduction in depth being at least equal to a thickness of the top panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.