Bookcase and storage unit

• US 7,182,415 B2
• Filed: 01/07/2005
• Issued: 02/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Takahiro Yamada
• Original Assignee: Takahiro Yamada
• Inventors: Yamada, Takahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Hansen; James O.
• Application Number:
  US10/905,515
• Publication Number:
  US 20060152114A1
• Time in Patent Office: 781 Days
• Field of Search: 312/107, 312/108, 312/111, 312/257.1, 312/222, 312/139.2, 312/138.1, 312/198, 220/4.26, 220/4.27, 220/23.83, 220/23.86, 206/499, 206/503, 206/509, 206/511
• US Class Current: 312/107
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 63/00 Cabinets, racks or shelf units, specially adapted for storing books, documents, forms, or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 87/02 stackable ; stackable and linkable by means of separate corner elements being in common with both the vertical and horizontal parts, e.g. corner bars for panels, nodes for rods A47B47/0016, A47B47/0025
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 87/0276 Stackable modular units, each consisting of a closed periphery A47B87/0292 takes precedence; stackable containers B65D21/00

Abstract

A bookcase has a plurality of storage units, each having a pair of side panels, each said side panel having a draw catch and a latch, a top panel interconnecting each said side panel and having an outer surface which includes a first positioning member, a bottom panel interconnecting to each said side panel and having an outer surface which includes a second positioning member which is configured in a complementary manner to said first positioning member, wherein said positioning members are geometrically spatially positioned in alignment with one another, a back panel and a front panel removably disposed adjacent said side, panels, said top panel and said bottom panel such that when so disposed forms an enclosure.

Claims

1. A pair of stackable storage units, which comprises:

a pair of storage units in stacked relation, each storage unit having a left side panel and a right side panel which are of a first rectangular size, each said side panel having a draw catch connected to a first end thereof and a latch connected to a second end thereof wherein said side panels include an open handle surface;

a top panel interconnecting to said second end of each said side panel and having an outer surface which includes a first positioning member;

a bottom panel interconnecting to said first end of each said side panel and having an outer surface which includes a second positioning member which is configured in a complementary manner to said first positioning member, wherein said positioning members are geometrically spatially positioned in alignment with one another;

a back panel disposed adjacent a first set of contiguous edges of said side panels, said top panel and said bottom panel in a manner to form a partial enclosure;

a front panel disposed adjacent a second set of contiguous edges of said side panels, said top panel and said bottom panel, and a first set of slide guides having a first slide guide connected to said edge of said top panel of said second set of contiguous edges and a second slide guide connected to said edge of said bottom panel of said second set of contiguous edges, wherein said front panel is removably slidable within said first set of slide guides to permit insertion and removal past one of said side panels, wherein said front panel, said side panels, said back panel, said top panel and said bottom panel form an enclosure and wherein said top panel, said bottom panel, said back panel, and said front panel are generally of a second rectangular size larger than said first rectangular size; and

a second set of slide guides having a first slide guide connected to a top edge of said back panel and a second slide guide connected to a bottom edge of said back panel, wherein said front panel is removably slidable within said second set of slide guides.

2. The pair of stackable storage units of claim 1, wherein an end of one of said first set of slide guides includes stop therein.

3. The pair of stackable storage units of claim 1, wherein an end of said second set of slide guides include a stop therein.

4. The pair of stackable storage units of claim 1, wherein said front panel includes an open handle surface.

5. The pair of stackable storage units of claim 1, wherein said draw catch includes a grooved perimeter surface and said latch includes a looped portion and said catch and said latch are in a generally vertical alignment.

6. The pair of stackable storage units of claim 1, which includes a plurality of said first positioning members on said top panel and a plurality of said second positioning members on said bottom panel.