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US 5,853,239 AGranted
Drawer organizer
AssigneeDart Industries Inc.
InventorsDouglas M. Laib, Samuel E. Hodges
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Abstract
Multiple assemblable components are engaged by connectors positioned across abutment edges on adjacent components and received within recesses in the base panels of adjacent components to form a planar upper surface. Selected ones of the components have vertical walls which can be connected in back-to-back relation to each other by clips. The connectors can include depending projections engaged within openings in the recess bottoms, with selected connectors having upwardly projecting elongate dividers mounted thereto.
Claims20
A drawer organizer, comprising:
- multiple components for selective assembly, each of said components including a base panel having at least one opening therein and at least three edges, at least one of said edges being an abutment edge, said abutment edge of each of said components, upon assembly of said components into said drawer organizer, being immediately adjacent said abutment edge of an adjacent one of said components, and a portion, but less than all, of said components further including a wall extending upward from one of said at least three edges other than said abutment edge, each of said walls having an inner face with a groove defined therein, said components being assemblable with said walls of adjacent ones of said portion of said components in parallel adjacent engagement;
- a plurality of connector plates for releasably securing said adjacent ones of said components, each of said connector plates having a mounting position in an overlying relationship to said base panels of said adjacent ones of said components, each of said connector plates including a plurality of projections extending therefrom, said projections being located to be received and releasably secured within said openings in said base panels of said adjacent ones of said components when said connector plates are in said mounting position;
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- at least one mounting clip for releasably securing said walls of said adjacent ones of said portion of said components, each said at least one mounting clip selectively extending over said walls of said adjacent ones of said portion of said components with free ends of said at least one mounting clip received within said grooves.
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A drawer organizer, comprising:
- multiple components for selective assembly, each of said components including a base panel having at least one opening therein, a portion of said components each having said base panel in the form of a right isosceles triangle, and the remainder of said components each having said base panel in the form of a square, each of said base panels including at least one abutment edge, said abutment edge of each of said components, upon assembly of said components into said drawer organizer, being immediately adjacent said abutment edge of an adjacent one of said components;
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- a plurality of connector plates for releasably securing said adjacent ones of said components, each of said connector plates having a mounting position in an overlying relationship to said base panels of said adjacent ones of said components, each of said connector plates including a plurality of projections extending therefrom, said projections being located to be received and releasably secured within said openings in said base panels of said adjacent ones of said components when said connector plates are in said mounting position.
A drawer organizer, comprising:
- multiple components for selective assembly, each of said components including a base panel having at least one opening therein and at least one abutment edge, said abutment edge of each of said components, upon assembly of said components into said drawer organizer, being immediately adjacent said abutment edge of an adjacent one of said components;
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- a plurality of connector plates for releasably securing said adjacent ones of said components, each of said connector plates having a mounting position in an overlying relationship to said base panels of said adjacent ones of said components, each of said connector plates including a plurality of projections extending therefrom, said projections being located to be received and releasably secured within said openings in said base panels of said adjacent ones of said components when said connector plates are in said mounting position, and at least one of said connector plates including an elongate divider projecting vertically therefrom, said divider extending longitudinally across and beyond said at least one of said connector plates.
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