Abstract: A sports equipment support rack is a combination of a fixed main frame, a basket, and a hoop and hook assembly. The fixed frame includes bat retainers for supporting a plurality of bats, and parallel guide members for removably supporting such similarly sized balls as basketballs, soccer balls, volleyballs, and the like. The fixed frame also includes opposite pairs of retaining hooks on the opposite lateral sides of the fixed frame. The retaining hooks releasably retain either the basket or the hoop and hook assembly interchangeably. The basket provides storage for articles of sports equipment including smaller sized balls like footballs or baseballs. The hoop and hook assembly includes a horizontal hoop providing a ring surface portion upon which a ball like a basketball can be removably supported.
Abstract: The present invention discloses a greeting card holder having a base and a top joined by support. Around the support there are placed plural rods which are received by the base at one end and the top at the other. The greeting cards are placed initially in between any two of the rods with the end of the greeting card being deflected by the support to come back such that the spine of the card resides along one of the rods. Rods are sufficiently flexible so that they may be temporarily bent to allow placement of the cards yet sufficiently rigid so that the cards have consistent spacing thereby preventing bunching of the cards along their respective spines.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 7, 1993
Date of Patent:
August 9, 1994
Inventors:
B. Kenneth Sanford, Penelope E. Sanford
Abstract: A dental floss dispenser with floss reminder adapted to hold spools containing threads of the dental floss. Four embodiments of the dispenser are disclosed. Three of the embodiments are mountable on a bathroom wall. Each has a toothbrush rack with projecting pairs of rectangular toothbrush supporting members. In two of the wall mountable embodiments, one of each pair of the toothbrush supporting members houses a semiconductor chip product that has a switch which is activated when a toothbrush is inserted or extracted. The semiconductor chip product emits an auditory sound when activated to remind the user to floss. One embodiment emits a light signal. A caddy holds a conventional floss dispenser. In the third wall mountable embodiment, an electrical circuitry including a signal generator is used instead of the semiconductor chip product. A fourth embodiment is structured as a cup with a cover.
Abstract: A display case for compact discs includes a plurality of album seat grooves having a slanted connecting support, an upper support, a lower hook, a lower support, and an upper hook, whereby it is easy for the customer to read and find the title of the albums displayed in the display case.
Abstract: A dish rack (10) has a wire mesh frame (11) that defines a space in which a set of dishes may be supported uprightly. A central dish support (45) and two outer dish supports (43), each having a series of notches (48), are mounted to the frame. An upper dish support (70) having a series of notches (72) is pivotably mounted to the frame for engagement with the top, periphery of a plate supported upon the lower dish supports.
Abstract: A suture display cabinet having a plurality of interconnected suture display boxes and suture storage boxes. The boxes are connected to each other through integral dovetail connection members which secure suture display boxes to suture storage boxes and suture display boxes to each other in a side by side arrangement. Various modifications are presented to facilitate transportation of the suture display cabinet from place to place in a surgical environment.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 14, 1991
Date of Patent:
July 5, 1994
Assignee:
United States Surgical Corporation
Inventors:
David L. Brown, Guenter Mattke, Peter J. de Leon
Abstract: A mounting bracket assembly for mounting a second container to a first container bracket comprises a first mounting bracket for mounting to a vertical wall for mounting a first container, the bracket having a vertical panel portion with an upper horizontal edge and lower horizontal edge, a second mounting bracket having a vertical arm with a hook at an upper end arm for latching engagement with the upper horizontal edge, and a latching arm extending outward from a lower end of the vertical arm for latching engagement with and supporting a second housing.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 9, 1992
Date of Patent:
June 28, 1994
Assignee:
Med-Safe Systems, Inc.
Inventors:
Richard A. Shillington, Gilbert Packer, Rex O. Bare, David R. Millar
Abstract: A separating device for holding in parallel position object display cards suspended in a sliding manner from a support bracket located in an inclined position relative to the horizontal, consisting of at least one flat rectilinear component capable of being attached perpendicularly to the upper part of a display card in order to project from surface of the card carrying the product to be displayed and being of length substantially equal to the projection of the product from the surface of the card, the flat rectilinear component removably attached for press-fitting to the upper end of the card, and of a transverse slot and central vertical notch supporting and guiding the card sliding on brackets of "inverted T" section and the like.
Abstract: A coat rack comprising replaceable rack pieces rotatably mounted on a pillar rod and having stationary pieces disposed between each rack piece, an ornamental top mounted to an uppermost stationary piece held in place by a hollow square piece and a corresponding cap piece.
Abstract: The riser and divider system of the invention includes risers 1, dividers 2, two divider connectors 3 on each divider 2 and cross divider. Each connector 3 has a hook 5 which grips the riser 1 or other divider 2. A tongue 4 is provided on each divider 2 for the retention of the connector 3. The pinned riser fixing component 21 comprises a plug 22 having a shoulder 23 and pin 24. The shoulder 23 fits in the corresponding shaped cut-out and the pin 24 fits through poles provided in the shelf. The system also includes an end-stop 28 which is fixed to the end of each riser 1. A stabilizer component is optionally provided on a divider 2. Other components are support clips 211 and 231.The system can be used for the erection of standard riser and divider arrangements, stepped divider arrangements, binning arrangements, hopper arrangements, shelf-arrangements and various other shop display.
Abstract: A multi-configurational display rack is disclosed which includes (a) a display rack body having two steps and (b) an angle rack attachable to the display rack body which transforms the display rack body from a two-step configuration to a sloped configuration. The angle rack may be horizontally hingeable into two portions so that, when hinged to an angle of less than 180.degree., the angle rack forms a step, thereby transforming the display rack body into a one-step configuration.Also disclosed is a display rack having two height-adjustable steps.
Abstract: An anti-theft cosmetic tester display stand. The device has a support member and a cover member which sits over the support member. Openings are provided in the cover member, through which the upper portion of containers of cosmetic testers pass. Permanently affixed to the bottom of the containers of testers are base members which are oversized relative to the opening. The oversized base members prevent the containers of cosmetic testers from being shoplifted.
Abstract: Each upright of an electronic, especially telecommunication equipment rack comprises an outer profile and an inner profile delimiting a hollow interior volume used to run connections along equipment supported by said uprights. The profiles are such that the interior volume has in the heightwise and depthwise directions an opening accessible from the front side of the rack providing easy access to the connections along all of their path between the points at which they enter and leave the interior volume.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 25, 1992
Date of Patent:
May 3, 1994
Assignee:
Alcatel Cit
Inventors:
Guy Quelfeter, Rene Femenia, Denis Le Jeune, Remi Verdurand, Claude Bertin
Abstract: A broom holder has a vertical wall and an angled wall, with a wedge held between the walls. A broom handle is placed against the vertical wall, and the wedge engages the handle and the angled wall, wedging the handle against the vertical wall. The wedge is mounted on a pivoted arm, and a release handle can be pulled down to pivot the arm, lift the wedge, and release the broom handle. The wedge is circular so orientation of the wedge is not critical. Two or more of the broom holders can be mounted on a single base board.
Abstract: A rack structure arranged to accommodate a plurality of plastic type sandwich bags and the like is provided to permit the drying of the bags in an opened configuration to permit the sanitizing and drying thereof for their reuse. The rack structure includes a plurality of semi-circular arcuate support rods arranged for reception within a respective bag to permit the bags to be maintained in an extended opened configuration to enhance their drying.
Abstract: There is provided a rack for supporting a skateboard by hanging the skateboard vertically by way of one pair of its wheels and allowing the board and remaining pair of wheels to hang below. The rack comprises a broad, flat plate mountable on a wall or other substantially vertical surface. A support shelf for a skateboard comprising two shelf parts, one for each of a pair of skateboard wheels, is located on the front face of the plate and extends outward from the plate. The support shelf has a horizontal supporting surface in the shape of the inside of a partial tube. The inside tube surface is generally cylindrical and conforms to the outer surface of the skateboard wheels. The partial tube has an arc of approximately 130.degree. to 180.degree. of a circle, measured from a point at which a vertical line tangentially intersects the surface, so that the wheels may be easily inserted from above, but such that the wheels can rest securely and be adequately supported by the supporting surface.
Abstract: An improved rack for the ornamental display of stringed instruments is shown and described. The rack mounts against a vertical wall and is fully adjustable thereby accommodating instruments of varying neck widths and head sizes and orientations. The rack is easy to install and use and further is aesthetically pleasing for the ornamental display of stringed instruments on walls in homes, apartments and offices. The rack provides a safe means for storing string instruments while maintaining accessibility of the instrument.
Abstract: A clothes pole structure is described which is formed in sections. Each section is an elongated hollow member having a restricted neck at one end adapted to be received in the opposite end of an adjacent section to form a pole of end to end sections. A pair of locating blocks are located one at either end of the pole. Each block has a central hole for receiving the end of the pole and a hook member for mounting the same, preferably on a chain to a support. A plurality of fixing rings are provided on the pole. Each ring surrounds the pole and mounts a U-shaped, long ear and a short ear mutually spaced on the periphery thereof. The ears open tangentially to the ring so that a hanger hook inserted into the openings of said ears can be secured to the ring by rotating the ring in the direction of the long ear.
Abstract: A portable modular sports equipment rack includes elongated telescoping tubular mounting members for accommodating a number of different types of hooks specifically adapted to receive different types of softball or baseball equipment, including at least fielding gloves, batting helmets and bats. Tubular spacer elements maintain a desired space between different pieces of equipment. A plurality of aligned apertures in a line along the tubular mounting members allow the length of the rack to be adjusted easily and is locked into the desired length by a snap button fastener engaged in two aligned apertures in the telescoping members. Aligned apertures through both side walls of the tubular members along a diameter of a cross section of the tubes adjacent to their ends allow the rack to be conveniently suspended from a chain link fence by a clevis pin through the apertures.
Abstract: A cabinet for the storage of shoes and the like comprising a plurality of spaced, vertical dividers slit at spaced intervals at the front, each slit extending part of the way back from the front of the cabinet to about half the dept of the vertical dividers. Spaced, horizontal dividers are slit at spaced intervals at the rear of the cabinet, each slit extending part of the way from the back of the cabinet, the vertical and horizontal dividers being interleaved with each other so that the slits in the horizontal dividers accommodate the vertical dividers and the slits in the vertical dividers accommodate the horizontal dividers forming vertical columns and horizontal rows of cubby holes for the shoes. The forward edges of the vertical dividers extend forward of the front edges of the horizontal dividers.