Apparatus for compartmentalizing a shelf

• US 20030034319A1
• Filed: 08/16/2001
• Published: 02/20/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Meherin G. Scott, Tommy R. Dodson
• Original Assignee: Meherin G. Scott, Tommy R. Dodson
• Inventors: Meherin, G. Scott, Dodson, Tommy R.
• Application Number:
  US09/932,056
• Publication Number:
  US 20030034319A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 211/184
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 5/005 Partitions therefore horizontally adjustable A47B57/58; constructional details of drawers A47B88/90

Abstract

The present invention allows a user to compartmentalize shelf. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a modular apparatus that allows compartmentalizing a shelf into compartments of various dimensions.

Claims

1. A shelf compartmentalizing apparatus, comprising:

a front sidewall;

a rear sidewall;

a base coupling the front and rear sidewall that are substantially opposite of each other;

the front and rear sidewalls having means for interlocking a first divider between the front and rear sidewalls;

the first divider having a means for interlocking a second divider.

2. A compartmentalizing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an information holder having a clip;

the information holder adapted to couple to the base;

the clip adapted to display information.

3. A shelf compartmentalizing apparatus according to claim 2 wherein the information holder is a transparent material.

4. A shelf compartmentalizing apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the front sidewall, the rear sidewall, the base, the first divider, and the second divider are made of polystyrene.

5. A shelf compartmentalizing apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the front sidewall, the rear sidewall, the base, the first divider, and the second divider are made of metal.

6. A shelf compartmentalizing apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the front sidewall, the rear sidewall, the base, the first divider, and the second divider are made of cardboard.

7. A shelf compartmentalizing apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the front sidewall, the rear sidewall, the base, the first divider, and the second divider are made of plastic.

8. A shelf compartmentalizing apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the means for interlocking the first divider is a slit formed on the rear sidewall and a slot formed on the front sidewall.

9. A shelf compartmentalizing apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the means for interlocking the second divider is a slit formed on the first divider.

10. A compartmentalizing apparatus, comprising:

a base having a first sidewall and a second sidewall opposing each other;

the first and second sidewall are adapted to interlock with a first divider wherein the first sidewall has a slit adapted to receive a slit on the first divider and the second sidewall has a slot adapted to receive a protrusion on the first divider;

the first divider adapted to interlock with a second divider wherein the first divider has a slit adapted to receive a slit on the second divider.

11. A compartmentalizing apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising:

an information holder having a clip adapted to couple to the base, the clip adapted to display information.

12. A compartmentalizing apparatus according to claim 11 wherein the information holder is a transparent material.

13. A compartmentalizing apparatus according to claim 10 wherein the first sidewall, the second sidewall, the base, the first divider, and the second divider are made of polystyrene.

14. A compartmentalizing apparatus according to claim 10 wherein the first sidewall, the second sidewall, the base, the first divider, and the second divider are made of.

15. A compartmentalizing apparatus according to claim 10 wherein the first sidewall, the second sidewall, the base, the first divider, and the second divider are made of cardboard.

16. A compartmentalizing apparatus according to claim 10 wherein the first sidewall, the second sidewall, the base, the first divider, and the second divider are made of plastic.