Laundry center with ironing board

• US 6,604,473 B2
• Filed: 08/29/2001
• Issued: 08/12/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sandy Alan Felsenthal
• Original Assignee: Sandy Alan Felsenthal
• Inventors: Felsenthal, Sandy Alan
• Primary Examiner(s): WILKENS, JANET MARIE
• Application Number:
  US09/940,520
• Publication Number:
  US 20030042826A1
• Time in Patent Office: 713 Days
• Field of Search: 108/106, 108/107, 108/147.12, 108/147.13, 108/147.15, 108/147.17, 108/108, 108/134, 108/135, 211/85.3, 211/85.8, 211/85.15, 211/85, 211/85.24, 211/187, 211/123
• US Class Current: 108/107
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2031/004 having four vertical uprights
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 77/10 with members movable outwards to a position of use, e.g. tables, ironing boards A47B77/16 takes precedence; surfaces adapted to be brought into position for use by extension or pivoting in general A47B46/00
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 95/002 Baskets or bags specially adapted for holding or transporting laundry; Supports therefor

Abstract

A laundry center has a plurality of grooved vertical posts connecting together a top storage shelf and a middle snake wire frame. Plural sorting sacks are attached to the middle snake wire frame by ties. A height-adjustable, downwardly foldable ironing board is secured to two of the grooved vertical posts. Because the ironing board must be pulled up to be used, no one is injured when the ironing board is disengaged from its stored position.

Claims

1. A laundry center comprising:

(a) a plurality of grooved vertical posts connecting together a top storage shelf and a middle snake wire frame;

(b) a plurality of sacks, attached to the middle snake wire frame by ties, for sorting laundry; and

(c) a height-adjustable, downwardly foldable ironing board secured to two of the plurality of grooved vertical posts.

2. A laundry center, according to claim 1, further comprising:

a bottom shelf connected to the plurality of grooved vertical posts.

3. A laundry center, according to claim 1, further comprising:

movable wheels which may be locked in place at bottoms of the plurality of grooved vertical posts.

4. A laundry center, according to claim 1, further comprising:

a basket secured between two of the plurality of grooved vertical posts by a first pair of connectors.

5. A laundry center, according to claim 4, wherein:

said basket has two side portions for holding cans and a central portion for securing an iron.

6. A laundry center, according to claim 1, further comprising:

brackets configured to hold opposite ends of a hanging bar suspended underneath the top shelf and over the plurality of sacks.

7. A laundry center, according to claim 1, further comprising:

a U-shaped arm, rotatable about hinges, for engaging with and disengaging from an underside of the ironing board.

8. A laundry center, according to claim 7, further comprising:

a clasp, secured to an underside of the ironing board, for engaging with and disengaging from a bight of the U-shaped arm.

9. A laundry center, according to claim 8, wherein:

said clasp is open on a side facing away from a free end of the ironing board.

10. A laundry center, according to claim 7, wherein:

said hinges are secured between two of the plurality of grooved vertical posts by a first pair of connectors.

11. A laundry center, according to claim 1, further comprising:

a hook attached between two of the plurality of grooved vertical posts opposite to the two posts to which the ironing board is secured.

12. A laundry center, according to claim 8, further comprising:

an independent ironing board hung from the hook.

13. A laundry center, according to claim 11, further comprising:

a storage bag hung from the hook.

14. A laundry center, according to claim 13, wherein:

said storage bag has a plurality of pocket compartments.

15. (Currently amended) A laundry center, according to claim 11 further comprising:

a rotatable plate secured to one end of the ironing board between two of the plurality of grooved vertical posts by a second pair of connectors.

16. A laundry center, according to claim 15, wherein:

said second pair of connectors are frictionally engageable and disengageable with grooves in the grooved vertical posts so that a height of the rotatable plate and hence the ironing board may be adjustable along the grooved vertical posts.

17. A laundry center comprising:

(a) a plurality of vertical posts having a plurality radially projecting grooves disposed along the length of said vertical posts for connecting together a top storage shelf and a bottom shelf; and

(b) a height-adjustable, downwardly foldable ironing board secured to two of the plurality of grooved vertical posts and an adjustable support arm frictionally engageable and disengageable with said radially projecting grooves for supporting an underside of the ironing board.

18. A laundry center, according to claim 17, further comprising:

a pair connectors frictionally engageable and disengageable with grooves in the grooved vertical posts so that a height of the ironing board may be adjustable along the grooved vertical posts.

19. A laundry center according to claim 18, further comprising:

a middle snake wire frame connected to the plurality of grooved vertical posts.

20. A laundry center according to claim 19, further comprising:

a plurality of sacks, attached to the middle snake wire frame by ties, for sorting laundry.