Compartmented shelf device

• US 3,269,558 A
• Filed: 07/27/1964
• Issued: 08/30/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Elmer J. Hess
• Original Assignee: Elmer J. Hess
• Inventors: Hess, Elmer J.
• Application Number:
  US04/385,359
• Time in Patent Office: 764 Days
• US Class Current: 211/184
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 57/58 with means for adjusting partitions horizontally book-ends A47B65/00
• CPC Class Codes: B42F 17/08 Construction of the containers, e.g. trays or drawers

Claims

4. AN ADJUSTABLE COMPARTMENTED SHELF DEVICE FOR USE IN SUPPORTING PAPERS, BOOKS, OFFICE SUPPLIES AND THE LIKE, SAID DEVICE COMPRISING A SUBSTANTIALLY FLAT, HORIZONTAL ORIENTED, ELONGATE BASE PANEL MEMBER, SAID BASE PANEL MEMBER HAVING A ROW OF LONGITUDINALLY SPACED-APART TRANSVERSELY EXTENDING SLOTS THEREIN ADJACENT ONE LONGITUDINAL EDGE THEREOF, AND HAVING ANOTHER ROW OF LONGITUDINALLY SPACE-APART TRANVERSELY EXTENDING SLOTS THEREIN ADJACENT THE OTHER LONGITUDINAL EDGE THEREOF, EACH SLOT IN ONE ROW BEING DISPOSED IN SUBSTANTIALLY TRANSVERSE ALIGNMENT WITH THE SLOTS IN THE OTHER ROW, A PLURALITY OF GENERALLY RECTANGULAR, FLAT COMPARTMENT DEFINING PLATES EACH HAVING A PAIR OF SPACED-APART LONGITUDINALLY ALIGNED ATTACHMENT TABS AFFIXED THERETO AND PROJECTING FROM ONE EDGE THEREOF, SAID TABS OF EACH PLATE EXTENDING INTO A PAIR OF TRANSVERSELY ALIGNED SLOTS OF SAID ROW TO ORIENT EACH PLATE IN GENERALLY UPRIGHT TRANSVERSELY EXTENDING RELATION WITH RESPECT TO SAID BASE PANEL MEMBER, AND TO SPACE EACH PLATE LATERALLY FROM THE NEXT ADJACENT PLATE TO DEFINE A FILING SPACE THEREBETWEEN, SAID ENGAGEMENT TABS OF EACH PLATE BEING SHAPED AND SIZED WITH RESPECT TO THE ASSOCIATED PAIR OF SLOTS TO PERMIT LIMITED SIDEWISE WOBBLING MOVEMENT OF EACH PLATE RELATIVE TO SAID PANEL MEMBER WHEREBY ADJACENT OF SAID PLATES DEFINE A COMPARTMENT OF ADJUSTABLE WIDTH, AND SLOTTED LOCKING MEANS POSITIONED BELOW ONE OF SAID ROWS OF SLOTS AND BEING RELEASABLY ENGAGEABLE WITH THE LARGER TAB OF EACH PLATE TO LOCK THE SAME IN SUBSTANTIALLY RIGID UPRIGHT RIGHT ANGULAR TRANSVERSELY EXTENDING RELATION WITH RESPECT TO SAID BASE PANEL MEMBER ONLY WHEN A PLATE IS REMOVED FROM THE BASE PANEL MEMBER AND TURNED END-FOR-END FROM SAID FIRST UPRIGHT POSITION AND THE TABS THEREOF ARE INSERTED INTO A PAIR OF TRANSVERSELY ALIGNED SLOTS IN SAID ROWS OF SAID PANEL MEMBER, THE FILING SPACE DEFINED BETWEEN AN ADJACENT PAIR OF SAID PLATES BEING SUBSTANTIALLY VERTICALLY UNOBSTRUCTED TO PERMIT ACCESS TO THE FILLING SPACE FROM ABOVE AND BETWEEN ADJACENT VERTICAL EDGES OF A PAIR OF PLATES.