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US 7,441,846 B2Granted
Expandable home television cart
AssigneeChris Lupo
InventorChris Lupo
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Abstract
An expandable cabinet furniture, especially a television cart, has laterally separable, usually rectangular solid cabinets and one or more extensions, typically shelves, slidably received in and supported by slots, rails or guides of the cabinets. The tops, shelves, or bottoms of the cabinets conceal the portions of the extensions that are received in the cabinets, either behind detail moldings or within false bottoms or hollow shelves.
Claims5
An expandable television cart, comprising:
- first and second cabinets each having a top side, each having a bottom side adapted for resting on a floor surface, each enclosing an interior space, each having a front side adapted for frontally viewing and accessing said interior space;
- a top bridge extending between said first and second cabinets, variable portions of said top bridge being received within said first and second cabinets proximate the top sides thereof;
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- a bottom bridge extending between said first and second cabinets, variable portions of said bottom bridge being received within said first and second cabinets proximate the bottom sides thereof,
- wherein said variable portions of said top bridge and of said bottom bridge, received within said first and second cabinets, are substantially hidden from frontal viewing,
- wherein said first and second cabinets may be placed immediately adjacent to one another while enclosing and concealing from frontal viewing said top bridge and said bottom bridge completely within said first and second cabinets, and
- further wherein said variable portions of said top bridge and said bottom bridge received and enclosed within said interior space are continuously variable from completely extended to completely enclosed.
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