BOOTS/LOW SHOES ACCOMMODATION SHOE CUPBOARD

• US 20100066222A1
• Filed: 04/18/2007
• Published: 03/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hiroaki Ito
• Original Assignee: Hiroaki Ito
• Inventors: Ito, Hiroaki
• Application Number:
  US12/310,348
• Publication Number:
  US 20100066222A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 312/326
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 61/04 for shoes, hats, umbrellas, or the like shoe racks as an implement for the manufacture of shoes A43D117/00
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 7/08 for shoes shoe hangers A47G25/005; shoe hangers with anti-theft means E05B69/003

Abstract

The present invention provides a shoe cupboard in which boots can easily be put into and taken out from the shoe cupboard, it is possible to prevent boots from losing their shapes, and low shoes can be accommodated if necessary. A shoe cupboard according to the present invention is characterized by containing a shoe cupboard body (1), boot holders (5) which are fixed to the shoe cupboard body (1), part or all of which are detachably mounted on a bar which extends in a horizontal direction, which boot holders can rotate forward and backward around an axis and move laterally, and a low shoes shelf or shelves (4) which can be held in a horizontal position after the boot holder (5) is detached, so that a boot(s) is held upside down and is accommodated on the boot holder.

Claims

1. A shoe cupboard comprising

a shoe cupboard body (1),

boot holders (5) which are fixed to the shoe cupboard body (1), part or all of which are detachably mounted on a bar which extends in a horizontal direction, which boot holders can rotate forward and backward around an axis and move laterally, and

a low shoes shelf or shelves (4) which can be held in a horizontal position after the boot holder (5) is detached,

so that a boot(s) is held upside down and is accommodated on the boot holder.

2. The shoe cupboard according to claim 1, wherein the boot holder (5) is mounted on the bar (3) through a T-shaped holder (2) which is loosely fitted over the bar (3).

3. The shoe cupboard according to claim 2, wherein the boot holder (5) is provided with a convex portion (11), the T-shaped holder (2) is provided with a concave portion (12), the convex portion (11) is fitted into the concave portion (12), thereby fixing the boot holder (5) to the T-shaped holder (2).

4. The shoe cupboard according to claim 1, further comprising a limiting member which limits a forward and backward rotation range of the boot holder (5).

5. The shoe cupboard according to claim 4, wherein the limiting member comprises a projection (8) provided on the bar (3), and a slit (9) formed in the T-shaped holder (2) which co-operates with the projection (8).

6. The shoe cupboard according to claim 4, wherein the limiting member comprises a limiting bar (6) which extends in parallel to the bar (3) and which abuts against the T-shaped holder (2).

7. The shoe cupboard according to claim 1, wherein when the low shoes shelf (4) is fixed to a rear portion of the shoe cupboard body (1) by means of a hinge and the boot holder (5) is mounted on the bar (3), the low shoes shelf (4) is placed against a rear portion of the shoe cupboard body (1).

8. The shoe cupboard according to claim 1, wherein the low shoes shelf (4) is detachable.

9. The shoe cupboard according to claim 1, wherein the low shoes shelf (4) is supported by a dowel (7).

10. The shoe cupboard according to claim 1, wherein the boot holder (5) turns from a vertical position by an angle of 45°

, preferably by 30°

.