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US 4,537,451 AGranted
Hanging locker shelves
OwnerTheodore Bredderman, Virginia Bredderman +2inventors
InventorsTheodore Bredderman, Virginia Bredderman, Kathryn Bredderman, David Bredderman
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Abstract
A device for the storage of articles in conventional lockers of the type found in schools, gymnasia and other, similar institutions, including a collapsible support assembly made of fabric or plastic, from which depends a multiplicity of rigid, vertically spaced shelves, the entirety of which is suspended from a shelf in the locker by means of a bent, rigid rod which in part rests upon the upper surface of said shelf.
Claims1
A supporting device for suspending a shelf assembly from a horizontal locker shelf, said device comprising:
- a rigid support member having upper parallel horizontally spaced arms for making direct weighted contact along their entire respective bottom surfaces with the upper horizontal surface of said locker shelf,
- said parallel arms respectively curving vertically downward into two lower parallel and horizontally spaced arms joined by a horizontally curved central portion, which central portion is designed to fit tautly into the uppermost pocket of a collapsible assembly of vertically spaced hanging shelves to suspend the assembly beneath the locker shelf;
- said shelf assembly having a top wall and a plurality of side walls extending downwardly therefrom, and an additional wall extending between the side walls parallel to the top wall forming a pocket with the top wall to tautly receive the support member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.