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US 6,796,472 B2Granted
Automobile trunk compartmentalizer
OwnerWilliam C. Millerinventor
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Abstract
An automobile trunk compartmentalizer which provides for variable connection of shafts and shaft housings by use of lockable pins whereby great variety of compartment sizes and shapes is possible at the user's option. Creation of more than one row of compartments in the automobile trunk may provide shallow compartments which are desirable for an aging population.
Claims4
An apparatus to provide compartments of variable size and shape within an automobile trunk comprising:
- a plurality of shaft housings,
- a plurality of slideable shafts, and
- a plurality of lockable pins;
- wherein
- said plurality of shaft housing are located within said automobile trunk,
- said plurality of slideable shafts are located within said automobile trunk,
- said plurality of lockable pins are located within said automobile trunk,
- said slideable shafts provide keyed apertures for the insertion of said lockable pins,
- said shaft housings slideably receive said slideable shafts,
- said lockable pins are slideably insertable into said keyed apertures in said slideable shafts,
- said lockable pins provide springs which compel frictional engagement between said slideable shafts and said shaft housings when said lockable pins are slideably inserted into said keyed apertures in said slideable shafts,
- each of said shaft housings provide a plurality of lateral connection flanges,
- each of said lateral connection flanges provides a keyed aperture,
- said lockable pins are slideably insertable into said keyed aperture in said lateral connection flange,
- any one of said slideable shafts is connectable to any one of said plurality of lateral connection flanges by slideable insertion of one of said lockable pins through both said keyed aperture in said one of said slideable shafts and said keyed aperture in said one of said plurality of said lateral connection flanges, and
- any two of said shaft housings are connectable to one another by slideably inserting opposite ends of one of said slideable shafts into each of said two of said shaft housings and then slideably inserting said lockable pins in said keyed aperture in each of said opposite ends.
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