Patents Assigned to Clairson Inc.
  • Patent number: 7090317
    Abstract: A wire basket includes a storage portion and base portion removably connected together and providing sliding operation. End caps connected to the storage portion are configured to allow for the removable connection. Glide members having a curved portion and connected to the base portion are configured to allow for the sliding operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Clairson, Inc.
    Inventor: Lee E. Remmers
  • Patent number: 7086543
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a shelving apparatus generally includes a track and a standard. The track includes a support portion having an upper support surface and an extension extending generally outwardly from the support portion. The standard includes a back surface having an opening. When the support portion is within the opening, an upper surface of the opening contacts the upper support surface of the support portion, and the extension is engagingly received within a portion of the opening. This engagement of the extension within the portion of the opening can inhibit disengagement of the standard from the track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: Clairson, Inc.
    Inventor: Lee E. Remmers
  • Patent number: 7021730
    Abstract: A drawer bracket is configured for connection to conventional wall mounted standards and provides for supporting a drawer in a generally horizontal orientation. A drawer receiving channel allows for sliding movement of the drawer supported by the drawer bracket. A shelf member may be provided for connection to the drawer bracket to form a shelf above a supported drawer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Clairson, Inc.
    Inventor: Lee E. Remmers
  • Patent number: 7004335
    Abstract: A shelf includes a plurality of integrated hook members supporting a rod member to provide free movement of items supported by the rod member. The hook members are integrally connected to support members of the shelf deck to support the rod member for use in, for example, hanging items thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Clairson Inc.
    Inventor: Lee E. Remmers
  • Patent number: 6915913
    Abstract: An attachment device and method of providing the same includes opposing flaps or tabs for securing around different portions of shelving, particularly ventilated shelving. The flaps or tabs are generally flexible and sets of the flaps or tabs are generally provided in perpendicular relation to each other. Each flap or tab includes a securing member for securing to each other around a portion of shelving. The attachment device is removably fastenable to shelving and associated components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Clairson, Inc.
    Inventor: Jennifer L. Cardinell
  • Patent number: 6840593
    Abstract: A wire basket includes a storage portion and base portion removably connected together and providing sliding operation. End caps connected to the storage portion are configured to allow for the removable connection. Glide members having a curved portion and connected to the base portion are configured to allow for the sliding operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Assignee: Clairson Inc.
    Inventor: Lee E. Remmers
  • Patent number: 5909936
    Abstract: A closet drawer system which includes a back support member having an opening utilized to secure the back support member to a surface, and cavities disposed on opposite ends thereof; and first and second side support members having a projection disposed on a first end, which are operable with the cavities of the back support member so as to secure the first and second side support members to the back support member. Each of the side support members includes a second end formed so as to be operable as a latch receiving section. The closet drawer system further includes a first and second latch member, each of which is operable with one of the latch receiving sections so as to secure the second end of the side support members to a support structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1999
    Assignee: Clairson, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Daniels, Pam Smith, Steve McPhilliamy, John VanAkkeren, Damon Johnston, Mike Jaron
  • Patent number: 5758851
    Abstract: An add-a-rod bracket assembly for receiving a hanger rod, particularly for clothes, includes a mounting block in an upper portion of the bracket assembly wherein the mounting block includes a pair of horizontally extending grooves in vertically spaced alignment along a front of the mounting block for receiving longitudinally extending wires of a wire shelf and at least a pair of spaced horizontally extending grooves on a top portion of the mounting block for receiving the transversely extending wires of a wire shelf. The bracket assembly terminates at a lower portion with a U-shaped cradle sized to receive a hanger rod therein, particularly a rod for clothes hangers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1998
    Assignee: Clairson, Inc.
    Inventor: Lee Remmers
  • Patent number: 5755414
    Abstract: A hanger assembly for suspending a wheelbarrow along a wall and above a floor includes a hook mounted on the wall at a height from the floor at which it will engage a lip on the wheelbarrow bed without the lip's being lifted manually which it will support the wheelbarrow above the floor when the wheelbarrow is tilted around he hook as a fulcrum toward the wall. An upper hook is mounted on the wall above the lower hook. The upper hook is mounted for rotation away from the wheelbarrow lip to permit the lip to move between the upper hook and the wall and for rotation toward the lip to engage the lip to retain the wheelbarrow in its wall mounted position until the upper hook is rotated manually to release the lip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1998
    Assignee: Clairson, Inc.
    Inventor: Lee E. Remmers
  • Patent number: 5752610
    Abstract: A free standing adjustable storage system includes a pair of support feet in spaced parallel alignment with a pair of vertical support members mounted onto the support feet with a horizontally extending wire shelf being sandwiched therebetween. The support feet are provided with grooves and slots therein to receive vertically spaced front edge wires of the wire shelf and a cavity is provided to receive a downwardly extending leg of the vertically extending support members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1998
    Assignee: Clairson, Inc.
    Inventor: Lee Remmers
  • Patent number: 5580018
    Abstract: A shelf support bracket for supporting a wire shelf is of generally triangular configuration with an upper wall surface brace having a wire receiving hook at its upper most portion, a lower wall surface brace in alignment with the upper wall surface brace wherein the upper wall surface brace and the lower wall surface brace abuts and rests against a vertical wall. A transverse wire support member is spaced outwardly from the upper wall surface brace and the lower wire surface brace and is angled downwardly from the upper wall support brace so that the shelf support bracket receives a longitudinally extending wire of a wire shelf support at the upper wall surface and the transverse wire support member is engagement with two transversely extending wires of the wire shelf in an angled downwardly direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1996
    Assignee: Clairson, Inc.
    Inventor: Lee Remmers
  • Patent number: 5533851
    Abstract: A wall anchor for installation in a hole drilled in a wall having a head, a barrel, and a pair of parallel fingers. The head is attached to one end of the barrel and the pair of parallel fingers are attached to the opposite end of the barrel wherein each of the fingers is provided with one end pivotally attached to the barrel and the opposite ends are free from connection whereby the fingers can be spread apart by driving a pin therethrough. The head and the barrel are provided with aligned circumferential bores extending longitudinally therethrough. A flat portion is provided along one arcuate segment of one of the bores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignee: Clairson, Inc.
    Inventor: Lee Remmers
  • Patent number: 5531416
    Abstract: A J-shaped slide bracket for receiving a hanger rod particularly for clothes includes a pair of hooks mounted on an upper portion of the bracket wherein the hooks are sized and spaced apart to receive a pair of shelf rods or wires therein. The J-shaped bracket terminates at its lower portion with a U-shaped cradle sized to receive a hanger rod therein, particularly one for clothes hangers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1996
    Assignee: Clairson, Inc.
    Inventor: Lee Remmers
  • Patent number: D522848
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Clairson, Inc.
    Inventor: John Richard Nawrocki
  • Patent number: D522852
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Clairson, Inc.
    Inventor: John Richard Nawrocki
  • Patent number: D525811
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Clairson, Inc.
    Inventor: John Richard Nawrocki
  • Patent number: D408175
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1999
    Assignee: Clairson, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Daniels, Pam Smith, Steve McPhilliamy, John VanAkkeren, Damon Johnston, Mike Jaron