US 6,142,320 AGranted

Method of storing elongated implements between corner side walls, a holding member, and a floor

AssigneeJack Z. DeLorean

InventorsJack Z. DeLorean, Paul J. DeLorean

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Abstract

In a room or building having adjoining side walls forming a corner and a floor forming with the side walls an open pocket adjacent the floor, a storage system having a cross member for retaining elongated implements such as garden tools and skis bearing on the floor and in a generally vertical position between the side walls and leaning outwardly from the corner toward the cross member. The length of the cross member is adjustable, to a selected length extending between the side walls. The cross member includes mounting pieces disposed at distal ends of the cross member to secure the cross member to the walls. The cross member extends between the two side walls above the floor and the mounting pieces attach to the side walls regardless of the included angle between the cross member and each side wall for appropriate mounting of the cross member whereby the triangular area bounded by the cross member and the side walls may be chosen to accommodate particular implements.

Claims22

Dependent claims

A method of storing at least one elongated implement in a generally vertical orientation, comprising the steps of:

providing an elongated holding member having a part of opposite ends with a wall attachment at each opposite end,
attaching said wall attachments to a pair of vertical walls of a building, said vertical walls being oriented at an angle with respect to each other, extending up from a horizontal surface, and forming an inside vertical corner junction extending up from said horizontal surface, said wall attachments being attached to said vertical walls at a predetermined distance from said horizontal surface such that said elongated holding member is generally horizontally oriented and such that said elongated holding member forms a generally triangular holding space having a border defined by said elongated holding member and adjacent portions of said vertical walls,
inserting said at least one elongated implement having a pair of opposite ends in said holding space, such that one of said ends of said elongated implement rests upon said horizontal surface and the other of said ends of said elongated implement extends above said elongated holding member, and such that a portion of said elongated implement closer to said other of said ends of said elongated implement than to said one of said ends of said elongated implement rests against a portion of said elongated holding member.

A method of storing at least one elongated implement, comprising the steps of:

providing a room having at least two vertical walls that are oriented at an angle with respect to each other and that form an inside vertical corner junction extending up from a horizontal floor of said room,
providing an elongated holding member having a pair of opposite ends with a wall attachment means at each opposite end,
attaching each wall attachment means to a respective one of said vertical walls at a predetermined distance from said horizontal floor such that said elongated holding member is generally horizontally oriented and such that said elongated holding member forms a generally triangular holding space having a border defined by said elongated holding member and adjacent portions of said vertical walls,
inserting said at least one elongated implement having a part of opposite ends in said holding space, such that one of said ends of said elongated implement rests upon said horizontal floor and the other of said ends of said elongated implement extends up above said elongated holding member, and such that a portion of said elongated implement, closer to said other of said ends of said implement than to said one of said ends of said elongated implement, rests against a portion of said elongated holding member.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 08/958,359Filed 27 Oct 1997 · continuation in part
Granted: 7 Nov 2000
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

B25H 3/04
Storage means or arrangements for workshops facilitating access to, or handling of, work tools or instruments: racks
A47B 81/005
Cabinets or racks specially adapted for other particular purposes, e.g. for storing guns or skis: devices for storing or displaying rifles, guns,…
A47L 13/51
Auxiliary implements: storing of cleaning tools, e.g. containers therefor
F16M 13/025
For supporting on, or attaching to, an object, e.g. tree, gate, window-frame, cycle: corner supports