Work-storage assembly

• US 4,779,940 A
• Filed: 03/21/1988
• Issued: 10/25/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kenneth D. Ralston
• Original Assignee: Kenneth D. Ralston
• Inventors: Ralston, Kenneth D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Falk, Joseph
• Application Number:
  US07/170,890
• Time in Patent Office: 218 Days
• Field of Search: 312/240, 312/241, 190/12 A, 190/12 R, 190/11, 206/541
• US Class Current: 312/241
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 85/00 Furniture convertible into other kinds of furniture
• CPC Class Codes: B25H 1/04 portable
• CPC Class Codes: B25H 1/12 with storage compartments

Abstract

An improved compact portable storage unit. The unit includes an articulated work stand which can be disassembled and stored in the doors of the unit. The doors of the unit are slidably removable and are used to form work stations and shelving on the articulated support stand.

Claims

1. A work-storage unit adapted to be assembled to provide work stations and including

(a) a top wall having opposed front and back edges and having first and second ends;

(b) a bottom wall having forward and rear edges and having first and second ends;

(c) spaced apart side walls each interconnecting

(i) one of said pair of first ends of said top and bottom walls, and,

(ii) one of said pair of second ends of said top and bottom walls;

said top, bottom and side walls circumscribing and defining an inner storage area having front and back opening which permit an individual to reach through said inner storage area from said front to said rear open areas;

(d) first elongate lips attached to and extending downwardly from said front and back edges of said top wall;

(e) second elongate lips attached to and extending upwardly from said front and back edges of said bottom wall toward said first lips;

(f) an elongate first door-container;

(g) an elongate second door-container;

(h) an articulated support frame including a plurality of rigid, elongate elements adapted to be assembled to define a stand and disassembled for compact storage in at least one of said elongate first and second containers, said frame when assembled including a pair of spaced apart horizontally oriented crossbars;

(i) elongate cover panels for said first and second door-containers, each of said cover panels having ends shaped and dimensioned to removably rest on one of said crossbars such that said panels cannot be moved in directions perpendicular to said crossbars, said panels each spanning the distance between said crossbars to from a shelf thereon, each of said containers when assembled with one of said cover panels being slidably received by and intermediate an opposing pair comprised of one of said first lips and one of said second lips to form a side of said storage container, each of said assembled stand, said bottomwall, and said containers being shaped and dimensioned such that when said bottom wall is placed on said assembled stand each of said containers is placed on said stand adjacent one of said second edges to form a work station on said assembled stand.