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US 4,538,862 AGranted
Apparatus for supportingly organizing miscellaneous articles
OwnerEarl E. Chandlerinventor
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Abstract
A pail-like enclosure is provided for carrying and demountably containing various especially configured article supporting and organizing assemblies.
Claims13
A portable apparatus for supportingly carrying miscellaneous articles in an organized manner comprising in combination:
- (a) a pail enclosure defining an internal chamber which is closed on one end and open on the other;
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- (b) a free standing article support/organizer demountably carried in the internal chamber of said pail enclosure and supported by the closed end of said pail enclosure, and including,
- I. a planar tray having an upstanding peripheral flange,
- II. an elongated rod extending upwardly from the center of said tray,
- III. an upper disc fixed on said rod adjacent the upper end thereof and disposed to lie in a plane transverse to the longitudinal axis of said rod,
- IV. a lower disc fixed on said rod in downwardly spaced relationship with said upper disc and substantially parallel therewith,
- V. at least five cantilever arms mounted in radially spaced increments about said rod on said upper and lower discs and each pivotably movable about different vertical axes which pass through said upper and lower discs,
- VI. at least five rigid panels each demountably suspended from a different one of said plurality of cantilever arms,
- VII. fastener-container means on each of said panels for supportingly carrying the miscellaneous articles in an organized manner.
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A portable apparatus for supportingly carrying miscellaneous articles in an organized manner comprising in combination:
- (a) a pail including,
- I. a planar wall,
- II. an endless sidewall extending integrally from the peripheral edge of said planar wall and having an endless extending edge,
- III. said planar wall and said endless sidewall cooperatively defining an internal chamber closed on one end and said endless extending edge defining an opening;
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- (b) a free standing article support/organizer means demountably positioned in the internal chamber of said pail and supported by the closed end of said pail, and including,
- I. a base tray,
- II. a support rod integral with said base tray and extending upwardly and normally therefrom,
- III. an upper disc on said support rod adjacent the top and disposed in a plane transverse to the longitudinal axis of said support rod,
- IV. a lower disc on said support rod in downwardly spaced relationship with said upper disc and parallel therewith,
- V. at least five cantilever arms mounted in radially spaced increments about said support rod on said upper and lower discs and each pivotably movable about a different vertical axes which pass through said upper and lower discs,
- VI. a rigid panel demountably suspended from each of said plurality of cantilever arms,
- VII. fastener-container means on each of said panels for supportingly carrying the miscellaneous articles in an organized manner.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.