Compartmentalized tray for cosmetics and sundries
OwnerHoward Sussmaninventor
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Abstract
A plastic tray-like article of manufacture having a transverse central wall delineating a rear storage section with deep compartments for storing larger sized items and a front section with shallower compartments for smaller items, and wherein the bottom of the central wall serves as a stop for drawers disposed for sliding movement beneath the front section compartments.
Claims2
An open compartmentalized tray for storing various sized cosmetic sundries and the like comprising a body for the tray defined by a pair of opposite sides, a tray bottom wall, a front piece, and a rear wall, all cooperating to bound a storage area, a middle wall arranged in spanning relation between said opposite sides delineating said storage area into a front section and a rear section, said rear section above the rear portion of the tray bottom wall being bounded by the rearward portions of said opposite sides, said rear wall and said middle wall and all being of a selected height for forming a rear storage compartment for larger sized objects, a horizontally oriented compartment bottom wall disposed in said front section attached intermediate the height of and in spanning relation between said opposite sides and extending forwardly of said middle wall forming a front storage compartment in a clearance position above the front portion of the tray bottom wall for smaller sized objects, plural drawers disposed beneath said front storage compartment for sliding movement between open positions extended from the tray and closed positions in abutment against the bottom portion of said middle wall, a first array of spaced pairs of plural projections disposed in aligned facing relation on said rear wall and on one side of said middle wall for the full height of the last two mentioned walls, each of said pairs of plural projections of said first array defining a groove therebetween, and a second array of spaced pairs of plural projections disposed in aligned facing relation on said other side of said middle wall and confronting face of said front piece for the height of the last-mentioned side and face above said compartment bottom wall, each of said pairs of plural projections of said second array defining a groove therebetween, and plural panels sized to be disposed in said grooves of said first and second array for delineating storage compartments on opposite sides of said middle wall whereby the tray has compartments and drawers for storing different sized objects.
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