Modular office accessory for personal items
OwnerMarvin D. Manloveinventor
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Abstract
An office accessory or utility constructed in the form of a frame or holder that forms a trackway for a plurality of individual modules. Modules are provided individually designed for holding different office items such as pencils, ashtray, photograph, clock, memo pad, calendar, business cards, tape dispenser, paper organizer, etc. The frame structure is constructed to be utilizable either on a horizontal surface or suspended from a vertical surface or vertical columns. The modules are positionable in any desired order in the accessory and are readily slideable along its length. Separate individual divider members are provided that are insertable in the accessory trackway to provide individual compartments of desired size and position for holding office supplies or items used.
Claims8
As an article of manufacture, in combination, means forming an integral frame structure having ends constructed to support individual modular holders for office accessories, a plurality of individual holders forming modules constructed to be held in the frame structure, the frame structure having a flat bottom an open top to receive and hold the said modules, the said frame structure having a front wall and a back wall the front wall being lower then the back wall, the top edge of each wall forming a rail so as to provide a trackway, the modules each having an upper part having front and back portions formed to engage said rails to be slideable along the trackway, each of the modules being constructed to allow it to be manually removable and replaceable with respect to the frame structure, each individual module, having an office accessory carried by the said upper part within the said frame structure, the said frame structure being constructed so as to be adapted to be movably supported on a horizontal surface and having means for attachment to a vertical surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.