Patents by Inventor Walter Drysdale

Walter Drysdale has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Modular storage unit
    Patent number: 5566961
    Abstract: A modular storage unit (10) includes a plurality of shelf components having a bottom portion (20) and at least one upstanding shelf end wall (40, 41). The components (20, 40, 41) are removably secured together by a plurality of flanges (30, 31, 81) and a plurality of flange receiving slots (42, 43, 72). The plurality of flanges (30, 31, 81) and the plurality of flange receiving slots (42, 43, 72) are individually and selectively formed in the shelf components (20, 40, 41) such that a selected one of the components having one of the flanges is removably secured to another selected component carrying one of the flange receiving slots by the flange being received within the flange receiving slots. Modular storage unit (10) can also include two spaced, parallel and opposing outer support end walls (12, 13), each end wall (12, 13) carrying a flange receiving slot (91) therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1996
    Assignee: Rubbermaid Office Products Inc.
    Inventors: Rusty B. Snell, Walter Drysdale