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US 2018/0009626 A1Published application
Fabric organization device
AssigneeElizabeth Ellen Hummel
InventorElizabeth Ellen Hummel
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Abstract
The invention relates to a fabric organization device for collecting, gathering, folding, organizing, stacking and storing sheets of flexible materials including fabrics, textiles, and other flat, sheet-form, bendable, flexible and foldable woven, non-woven and textile materials, embodiments of the invention enabling pieces and sheets of materials to be collected in an organized, uniform and stackable manner to facilitate the display, handling and storage of textile materials in a convenient and economical manner.
Claims20
A folding device for receiving and organizing sheet materials comprising:
- (a) a plurality of hingedly connected panel sections comprising a first and a second panel component;
- wherein said panel components are substantially flat and rigid planar segments each having a length at least greater than their respective width;
- (b) at least one central hinge section;
- wherein a first edge of said hinge section is hingedly connected to a first edge of said first panel component, and wherein an opposed second edge of said hinge section is hingedly connected to a second edge of said second panel component;
- wherein said hinge section is flexible and substantially articulable only in a traverse and perpendicular direction with respect to a longitudinal plane passing through said first and said second panel components when said first and second panel components are positioned in a substantially planar and unfolded first configuration;
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- wherein said hinge section is configured to enable said first and said second panel components to be repositioned with respect to one another so as to enable their articulation between said substantially planar and unfolded first configuration to a substantially parallel and coplanar folded second configuration by means of folding said hinge section upon itself in a traverse and perpendicular direction with respect to said longitudinal plane until said first and second panel components are brought into said second configuration.
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A folding device for receiving and organizing sheet materials comprising:
- (a) a plurality of hingedly connected panel sections comprising a first and a second panel component;
- wherein said panel components are substantially flat and rigid planar segments each having a length at least greater than their respective width;
- wherein said panel components have the same size with respect to width, length and thickness;
- (b) at least one central hinge section;
- wherein a first edge of said hinge section is hingedly connected to a first edge of said first panel component, and wherein an opposed second edge of said hinge section is hingedly connected to a second edge of said second panel component;
- wherein said hinge section is flexible and substantially articulable only in a traverse and perpendicular direction with respect to a longitudinal plane passing through said first and said second panel components when said first and second panel components are positioned in a substantially planar and unfolded first configuration;
- wherein said hinge section is configured to enable said first and said second panel components to be repositioned with respect to one another so as to enable their articulation between said substantially planar and unfolded first configuration to a substantially parallel and coplanar folded second configuration by means of folding said hinge section upon itself in a traverse and perpendicular direction with respect to said longitudinal plane until said first and second panel components are brought into said second configuration;
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- wherein the width of said hinge section is less than or equal to the width of either of said first or second panel components.
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A folding device for receiving and organizing sheet materials comprising:
- (a) a plurality of hingedly connected panel sections comprising a first and a second panel component;
- wherein said panel components are substantially flat and rigid planar segments each having a length at least greater than their respective width;
- (b) a central hinge section;
- wherein said central hinge section comprises a laminated structure comprising at least one laminate film;
- wherein said laminate film is laminated to at least a portion of each of said first and second panel components;
- wherein said first and second panel components are positioned end to end in a longitudinal orientation with a space between occupied only by said laminate film;
- wherein said hinge section is flexible and substantially articulable only in a traverse and perpendicular direction with respect to a longitudinal plane passing through said first and said second panel components when said first and second panel components are positioned in a substantially planar and unfolded first configuration;
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- wherein said hinge section is configured to enable said first and said second panel components to be repositioned with respect to one another so as to enable their articulation between said substantially planar and unfolded first configuration to a substantially parallel and coplanar folded second configuration by means of folding said hinge section upon itself in a traverse and perpendicular direction with respect to said longitudinal plane until said first and second panel components are brought into said second configuration.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.