Abstract: An improved removable tray for use with a juvenile product is disclosed. A pair of side handles are provided on the bottom of a tray portion and are interconnected by a flexible interconnection member. The flexible interconnection member ensures that the operation of one of the side handles will create an equivalent operation in the other. Thus, one-handed operation of the preferred tray is possible. A center button may also be provided to allow the tray to be removed. A spring connected to the flexible interconnection member provides an appropriate bias to lock the tray in place. Accordingly, the present invention provides a simple, yet elegant and reliable solution to the problems in conventional trays.

Abstract: A portable collapsible wheeled modular telescoping power system and/or work table arrangements is provided with multi-oriented tool placement and fences, for safety purposes.Each power system is provided with means for coupling to an adjacent power system so to obtain a modular power system. A system of wheels is attached to the modular telescoping power system for movement thereof. Each work table is provided with an extension surface optional table for extension thereof by a track arrangement coupled to its respective table.

Abstract: This runner is for disposable skids, pallets and the like load-bearing platforms which are entirely made of corrugated cardboard. It consists of an elongated tubular member made of double face corrugated cardboard and secured under the skid panel and including a top web, a base web and two side walls. A reinforcement strip is located within the member; this strip has an undulated shape and a straight cross-section. It is built up of several laminations of single face corrugated cardboard with the corrugations vertically disposed. It is substantially parallel to the walls, its top and bottom edges secured to the top and bottom webs respectively and its opposite rounded crests in alternate contact with the walls and secured to the latter spacedly from one another longitudinally of the member. The strip only partially fills the volume of the elongated member. The pitch of the sinusoidal strip can be shortened in selected areas to further reinforce the runner in these areas.

Abstract: A portable clothes storage closet having a compact travel condition in which the closet components are disassembled and, at the point of use, are assembled within the outer fabric cover into an optimum size providing adequate storage space, the assembly within the outer fabric cover permitting a size in the closet outer fabric-support structure that could not readily fit through the opening into the closet. Also, the size of the compartment bounded by the fabric cover is selected to approximate that of the support structure so that the closing of the opening into the closet which is provided in the fabric cover creates a tautness in the fabric cover about the support structure which obviates inadvertent disassembly of the components of the support structure while the closet is in use.

Abstract: A merchandising device comprises first and second elongate parallel tracks arranged side by side with a gap therebetween, and a bridging member disposed near the front ends of the tracks. Each track is designed to support a row of articles in such a manner that the articles are suspended from each track for movement along a path defined by that track and are removable from that track through its front end. The gap between the tracks are spanned by the bridging member to provide a billboard surface extending between the tracks.

Abstract: A convertible system which is changeable from a portable storage mode to a display mode is formed by a first container, a second container and conversion material. The second container and the conversion material are held within the first container when the system is in the storage mode and the conversion material is removable from the first container and used to convert the system from the storage mode to the display mode.

Abstract: A gear damper includes anti-ratcheting means for preventing disengagement between a gear of the damper and a mating gear rack when a sliding or rotating tray is moved or rotated in and out of a stationary housing. The gear damper further includes mounting means so as to permit the gear damper to move floatingly in a direction perpendicular to the gear rack as a toothed wheel gear follows the gear rack. As a result, the distance between the toothed gear of the damper and the gear rack is held substantially constant so as to eliminate ratcheting and gear skipping.

Abstract: A work space management system including freestanding walls and a freestanding cabinet integrated into the wall system and separate from the wall system. The cabinet comprises side wall and back wall channels having vertically spaced openings therein and a connector means to mount the cabinet to a vertical frame member of the freestanding walls or to another cabinet through the indented channel openings. The cabinet further comprises rear frame members having vertically spaced openings for hanging shelving or other articles. The cabinet is also adaptable for having horizontal work accessory support rails. The sides of the cabinet are mounted onto a rigid framework. Wire management capability is provided in the cabinet to interface with wire management in the freestanding walls.

Abstract: A multi-media storage drawer assembly that may be mounted in an entertainment cabinet, a combination coffee table and cabinet, a combination end table and cabinet, etc. The drawer has a plurality of multi-media storage cells and each storage cell can removably receive either a CD, an audio cassette, or a VHS cassette. The storage cells extend from the front wall of the drawer to its rear wall in a column formation. The drawer may have multiple side by side columns of multi-media storage cells. The drawer is integrally formed from plastic material and it has horizontal rails extending from the outer surfaces of its left and right side walls. A roller wheel is mounted adjacent the rear end of the respective side walls. Plastic molded tracks are mounted inside the cabinets and they have roller wheels that functionally engage the bottom surface of the rails extending from the opposite lateral sides of the drawer.

Abstract: A shelf ladder reinforcement member is provided for use with a refrigerator having a thin liner which defines an interior compartment and in which a shelf ladder is to be secured for supporting shelves. The shelf ladder reinforcement member has a length greater than a width and has end portions with flat faces of a width substantially the same as the width of the member and intermediate portions having a flat face with a width less than the width of the member. A central portion may also be provided with a flat face having a width substantially the same as the width of the member with the first, second and third flat faces adjoining each other in a coplanar fashion.The shelf ladder reinforcement member has side walls which are angled away from the flat faces to strengthen and reinforce the member. The side walls at the first and third flat faces extend away from the flat faces by an angle of approximately 270.degree.

Abstract: A partitioning member having therein a space is provided at the opening of a thermal insulation box having an outer and inner boxes forming a space in between said outer and inner boxes. The two spaces communicate with each other and filled integrally with a thermal insulation material by injecting into the space between said outer and inner box an expandable thermal insulation material, which diffuses into the space inside said partitioning member, to thereby provide in a simple and economical way a thermal insulation box having a small number of components but as uniform thermal insulation.

Abstract: An office furniture module comprising a body portion having a removable top portion adapted for mounting thereto in a spaced relationship with respect to an upper surface to define an upper horizontally extending passage way; one or more optionally removable upper insert panels adapted to be mounted between the removable top portion and the body portion; a bottom member also adapted for mounting to the body portion in a spaced relationship with respect to a lower end thereof to define a lower horizontally extending passage way between the bottom member and the lower end; and one or more optionally removable lower insert panels adapted to cover one or more respective openings in the body portion communicating with the lower horizontally extending passageway to enable the furniture module can be adapted for use with other like furniture modules to form a linearly extending course of furniture modules with horizontally extending passageways therethrough.

Abstract: The tool storage system of the present invention comprises a framework, one or more pivot pins, a plurality of swinging arms, and an attachment assembly for each swinging arm. The framework is configured to attach to the front, top, or end of a conventional tool cabinet or to be constructed as part of a custom tool cabinet. The pivot pins are connected to the framework in a manner that permits their removal. Each swinging arm is connected to an attachment assembly which is pivotally mounted to one of the pivot pins, thereby permitting the swinging arms to pivotally swing from a storage mode to a ready access position. Each swinging arm comprises a magnetic material to which tools may be secured by magnetic attraction. Since the swinging arms swing into a position for ready access, tools may be magnetically secured to both the front and back of each swinging arm. For large and/or heavy tools, two or more adjacent swinging arms may be used to secure the tools.