Abstract: An audio disc storage container having a movable flexible, transparent wall which allows inspection of the contents, the wall having an aperture provided in it to permit insertion and removal of audio discs. The aperture in the wall may be aligned with a seal member to prevent the entrance of contaminants into the storage container which may damage the discs.

Abstract: A cabinet for housing microcomputer components is provided. The cabinet includes a plurality of shelves for supporting a printer and a supply of paper and space for storing a stack of printed paper. A sliding tambour door moves between an open and closed position. In its closed position, the tambour door provides an enclosed, locking front wall securing the contents of the cabinet. In its open position, the tambour door forms a baffle which serves to fold and stack the printed paper in a fanfold stack below the printer.

Abstract: This invention relates to a sliding shutter door sectional wardrobe, particulary for floor-to-ceiling building wardrobes and for built-in wardrobes, comprising:a guide floor frame with an attached upward disposed sliding shutter door track-way;a guide ceiling frame with an attached downward disposed sliding shutter door track-way;a guide frame supporting means to connect and support rigidly said guide floor and ceiling frames;at least one but preferably two opposed, sliding shutter doors comprising a plurality of rolling hinged lath means, said sliding shutter doors disposed between said opposed guide floor and ceiling frames in sliding condition, to close the composite wardrobe at least frontally and laterally.

Abstract: A cabinet comprising an enclosure with a front surface in which there is an opening. A tambour door is slidably attached to the enclosure. The tambour door is movable between an open position, in which the opening provides direct access to the enclosure interior, and a closed position in which the opening is closed by the door. The cabinet further includes a rear brake means for exerting a force opposing the movement of the tambour door from the open to the closed position when engaged by the tambour door. The tambour door engages the rear brake means at a first selected distance from the closed position that is sufficiently great so that the rear brake means can exert an adequate opposing force on the tambour door so that the tambour door gently closes.

Abstract: A cabinet comprises a cabinet frame (2) and a roll front (1) to be opened in the upward direction. At least two springs (6, 7, 8, 9) engage at the roll front (1), these springs being attached with their other ends at the cabinet frame and having mutually different spring characteristics and/or different tension. The sum total of the forces exerted by the springs (6, 7, 8, 9) on the roll front (1) compensates, in any position of the roll front (1), essentially the weight of the latter.

Abstract: A shutter of the type used as a closure for boxes or containers, or for garage doors, includes a series of interconnected elongated strips having at each end of each strip an integral male and female connecting member so that the female connecting members of one strip are capable of interlocking with the male members of an adjacent strip to form the shutter. Each strip also includes an elongated recessed area and a corresponding overlapping portion positioned below the recessed area. When a series of strips are interconnected to form the shutter, the overlapping portion of one strip is received in the recess portion of an adjacent strip. Lastly, each strip includes at least one vertically oriented pair of tongue and groove members positioned intermediate the ends of each strip so that when a series of strips are interconnected to form a shutter, the tongue of one strip is received by the groove of a corresponding strip so as to prevent tampering.

Abstract: The front of the enclosed cart body has an access opening. A fixed panel is situated below the opening. A flexible panel is mounted for movement from a lower position aligned with the fixed panel to an upper position aligned with and covering the opening. A wedge-shaped protrusion on the fixed panel retains the movable panel in the upper position. The movable panel is flexed to become arcuate such that the protrusion is bypassed as the panel is moved from the upper position towards the lower position. The movable panel can be locked in the upper position to the top panel. The top panel may be stationary or may pivot to open the top of the enclosure for facilitated access.

Abstract: An office cabinet is provided with steel end panels made by press forming and shaped to mimic chipboard slab ends with rounded corners. The end members are hollow and provided on their inner faces with arrays of apertures for mounting shelves and other fittings within the cabinet.

Abstract: The cart includes a body having a front wall with an opening. Tracks for a plastic shutter-type door are located at either side of the opening. The end portions of the articulately interconnected members making up the door are received within the tracks. Each end portion has a protruding lip. Each track includes a pair of spaced members, one of which carries a lip which extends towards the surface of the end portion. The end portion of the door is received between the track members with the lip on the track member situated between the lip on the end portion and the wall opening. The lips interengage to prevent removal of the door from the track. A rigid insert is received within a slot extending along the length of each door member so as to reinforce same.

Abstract: The disclosure describes an office organizer for placement on a desk, comprising a sub-assembly of folded partitions mounted paralelly, respectively perpendicularly to one another to form double walled compartments, a tray folded around the sides, top and bottom of the sub-assembly of partitions and a wrap, having a rectangular center portion and curved end sections and attachable to the sides and bottom of the tray, being so dimensioned as to provide forwardly projecting winged sides for and an extension of the bottom surface of the tray.

Abstract: An adjustable shelf unit for use in a storage rack and having at least two shelf panels supported on laterally spaced forwardly extending support members. Each panel is slidable over the panel behind it and each panel but the front panel has a indentation across its forward edge the depth of which is equal to the thickness of a transversely extending lip on the rear of the panel in front of it. The side flanges of the panels have tabs which engage one another when the panels are extended to limit the forward travel of the panels. Also disclosed is a cable which is looped around sheaves fixed to the support members. The cable is fixed to each side of the front panel so as to maintain proper alignment of the panels.

Abstract: A lock for furniture or similar articles with a flexible tamboured cover which traverses a track. Upon actuation of the lock, the pin is shifted within the track and prevents movement of the cover therein.

Abstract: A key assembly for receiving devices employed in communication engineering, particularly for broadcasting and television receivers, comprises a casing provided with mutually releasable keys in the form of press buttons adapted to switch on storable, selectively adjustable electrical values supplied by channel memories including a plurality of voltage dividers for capacitance diode tuning and including, in association with the individual press buttons, rotatable and slidable knobs for channel tuning and, if desired, for selecting a given frequency range, said frequency range being adjustable by rotating the depressible and rotatable knob into any of a plurality of detented angular positions, with said depressible and rotatable knob being in a position, preferably a depressed position, different from the tuning position.

Abstract: There is described a piece of furniture, particularly for stowing goods away, which comprises at least two uprights, two such uprights being fixedly connected to one another, at least one bendable material sheet resiliently opposing such bending, each sheet being retained in the bent condition thereof by two said uprights, as well as at least one horizontal stowing shelf which is supported by bearing means provided on said uprights and/or on the bendable material sheet or sheets. Such pieces of furniture may be used to form a stow-away unit.

Abstract: A storage facility, such as a file or bookcase, which includes spaced parallel end plates supporting a brace part therebetween. A flexible cover extends between and is supported by the end plates so as to be rotatable entirely about the brace part.

Abstract: An assembly for storing clothing or other articles is provided, especially adapted for use in nursing homes or the like by non-ambulatory residents. First and second wall panels are mounted to each other so that they are perpendicular. A storage structure defined by a right triangular prism is provided including a plurality of walls defining a storage area therebetween with the front wall having an access opening. A tambour door is slidable on a pair of tracks to selectively block and unblock the access opening in the storage structure. The storage structure is mounted to the wall panel so that the tambour door tracks are disposed in horizontal planes vertically spaced from each other, and so that the storage structure is spaced from the ground, along the entire extent thereof, a distance corresponding to the height of a toeboard of a wheelchair off of the ground.

Abstract: A transparent, flexible curtain with spaced access slits is provided for installation across the opening of display-type, open front and open top coolers, freezers and the like of the sort used in retail food stores. The curtain is comprised of a rectangular sheet of flexible, transparent material secured at one end to the top or rear edge of the cooler cabinet and extending across the cabinet opening. The curtain is formed with a plurality of spaced parallel slits, all extending in the same direction and all originating and terminating within the margins of the sheet. The curtain retains cold air within the refrigerator and allows the food products to be clearly visible to the customer. Goods are removed by the customer reaching through any slit near the product selected. The forward or lower edge of the curtain is weighted in sections to keep the curtain taut across the opening and to allow it to be folded back for loading food into the cooler.

Abstract: Energy losses from market refrigerated display cases, which are normally open, can be dramatically reduced by use of an access shield according to the present invention. The access shield comprises a plurality of transparent and resilient panels, each panel being adjacent to at least one other and having an overlapping relationship with the adjacent panel. The panels may be mounted in a rigid frame and allow access therethrough by stretching and bending of one or more of the panels along the overlapped line. The plurality of panels may also be fitted to a spring-tensioned roller and stretched across the aperture of the refrigerated display case. In another embodiment, the plurality of panels may each be attached at an opposite end to a holder having a bow tie shaped protrusion which is urged into a receiving indentation in a fixture to temporarily lock the panel in a predetermined position and yet to permit free rotation within a sector to facilitate access. Other embodiments are also disclosed.

Abstract: Segmented doors for closing a wide opening in an enclosure where the upper door is hinged to the top of the opening, the lower door is hinged to the bottom of the upper door and a wire bail is provided for the purpose of locking the lower door into a V-like or triangular relationship with the upper door. This V-like structure, composed of the locked-together upper and lower doors, can then be rotated upward to a stable triangular or inverted V-like position atop the roof or top panel of the cabinet.

Abstract: The cupboard is made from a framework comprising four tubular uprights having a square section and two rectangular or square frames. The sides of the frames are tubes having the same square section as the uprights. In the corners of each frame, the adjacent tubular members are assembled by means of oblique welded gussets. The latter permit the assembly with the uprights engaged in recesses of the frames by means of screws. The side panels are locked to the framework by a roof-cover which has folded edge portions which overlap the upper end of the panels.

Abstract: A cabinet comprising a cabinet body, a rail continuously laid in the cabinet body, and a glass doors each of which consists of a plurality of glass strips foldably connected together. The glass doors are retracted into or withdrawn from the cabinet body while slidingly moving the glass doors such that they are folded along the rail, to open or close the whole of the front side of the cabinet body. A cabinet according to the present invention permits minimizing the space in which the glass doors are opened or closed, and opening the whole of the front side of the cabinet body.

Abstract: A mobile vending booth of the sort having a vending opening on at least one long-side and having a chassis floor, is equipped with at least one roller shutter for shutting off at least the vending opening. Furthermore, there is a roller shutter guideframe able to be pushed slippingly into the booth and for making it broader for an operation condition, the guideframe running along the full length of the long-side of the booth and being able to be pulled out.

Abstract: Pieces of furniture have a pair of spaced side plates with rods extending between them. One or more sheets of tensilely stressed fabric are secured to and around the rods. The resulting panels may comprise structural elements of the furniture, such as the top, back, bottom, shelves, bins, and the like.

Abstract: An enclosed hanging wardrobe is suspended from elevated supports within the confines of a cubicle having walls on either side and an open face. The hanging wardrobe can be reciprocally drawn out of the cubicle in cantilevered suspension. The hanging wardrobe has fabric drapes which can be drawn by means by a cord and pulley system operated by a crank. With the drapes drawn open, a carrier can be reciprocally drawn forward in the hanging wardrobe and a clothes rack suspended therefrom is reciprocally movable along the carriage tracks projecting forward from the underside of the carrier.

Abstract: An enclosure for data processing apparatus has a tambour door that slides in a track to partially open the front of the processor enclosure. The tambour door retracts completely into a canister that has a U shaped track that carries the tambour door. The canister is hinged along one edge of the processor frame so that the canister can be swung out to permit access completely along the front of the enclosure with a minimum of interference from the door and canister and with a minimum intrusion into an aisle alongside the processor.

Abstract: A safe for storage of paper money has a reinforced housing for several upright containers each having a row of superimposed drawers for reception of stacks of paper money. Bills of different denominations are stored in different containers, and the open sides of drawers in each container can be exposed or concealed by discrete closures which are movable up to expose a larger number of respective drawers or down to conceal one or more additional drawers in the respective containers. Each closure is normally locked in the selected position against movement in a direction to expose additional drawers, and such locking action can be interrupted only by depressing a pushbutton which actuates a clock so that the latter releases the respective locking device with a preselected delay. Once the selected interval of time has elapsed, the corresponding closure can be lifted by a step so as to expose a single additional drawer of the respective container.

Abstract: There is provided an improved storage unit including a framed shell and a storage-compartment insert that is to remain stationary during use, wherein an open end is provided for access to the storage compartment, which open end is enclosed by a vertically moveable door which is guided on tracks on the sides of the shell's frame and is received into a space between the top of the shell and the top of the insert.

Abstract: A dental unit capable of positioning dental instruments at a location convenient to either a seated or standing dentist. The unit has the instrument holder mounted on a four-bar linkage for swinging the holder from a relatively low stored position to an in-use position. At a low point of the swing, the dental instruments are at a relatively low position and convenient to a seated dentist. The four-bar linkage is arranged so that at a higher point in the swing, the instrument holder is thrust to a relatively high position as may be convenient to a standing dentist.

Abstract: Energy losses from market refrigerated display cases, which are normally open, can be dramatically reduced by use of an access shield according to the present invention. The access shield comprises a plurality of transparent and resilient panels, each panel being adjacent to at least one other and having an overlapping relationship with the adjacent panel. The panels may be mounted in a rigid frame and allow access therethrough by stretching and bending of one or more of the panels along the overlapped line. The plurality of panels may also be fitted to a spring tensioned roller and stretched across the aperture of the display refrigeration case. In another embodiment, the plurality of panels may each be attached at an opposite ends to a holder having a bow tie shaped protrusion which is urged into a receiving indentation a fixture to temporarily lock the panel in a predetermined position and yet to permit free rotation within a sector to facilitate access.

Abstract: A kit composed of a plurality of parts capable of being assembled without tools into a cubical cabinet includes four wall panels made of injection molded plastic which may be joined together to form four sides of a six sided cubical cabinet. Each of the four wall panels is formed with connecting devices extending along two of the sides of the panels with the connecting devices of each panel engaging the connect-devices of another panel to join the panels together. The panels in the kit also include securing devices formed on the same sides of the panels as the connecting devices. A torsionally rigid rear panel is adapted to engage each of the four assembled wall panels to form a real wall for the cubical cabinet and the kit is also provided with a front closure member which may be assembled to form the front of the cabinet.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a desk with a roll-top door, slidably moveable along a pair of parallel guideways. The door includes a plurality of slats articulated to one another by a flexible backing sheet. Each of the guideways is formed with walls defining two slots: one for fixedly engaging an edge of the desk to which the guideway is mounted; the other slot for slidably receiving an edge of the door. The guideways are made of flexible plastic and are adapted to be bent and attached to the desk in a shape conforming to the desired arcuate path along which the roll-top door is to slide.

Abstract: A plurality of transversely alignable elongate wall sections having longitudinal edges of adjacent sections in abutting relation. Hinges are connected between each of the abutting longitudinal edges so that the wall sections are foldable to form an enclosure. Each of the wall sections have upper and lower transverse edges with the upper edges being in horizontal alignment and the lower edges being in horizontal alignment. An elongate channel having a U-shaped cross-section is removably fitted over the upper transverse edges and a similar channel is fitted over the lower edges to secure the wall sections in planar alignment. A pair of elongate stabilizers are removably fitted to the lower channel and extend substantially orthogonally from either side of the wall section. A planar elongate cabinet top is removably and orthogonally supported to a lower portion of the wall sections and an elongate planar cabinet front is removably positioned between the cabinet top and the stabilizers to form a cabinet enclosure.

Abstract: A storage unit comprising an outer structure within which is supported an inner structure the bottom and ends of which are spaced from the bottom and ends of the outer structure, said structures being comprised of a rigid synthetic foam material such as provides heat and shock resistance to articles stored within the unit and an articulated closure situated in the space between the structures which is arranged to be withdrawn therefrom along tracks provided in the side walls of the outer structure to cover the interior of the unit.

Abstract: A cabinet soffit assembly comprises a soffit base adapted to be fastened to the front margin of a cabinet top, a ceiling trim piece registering therewith, and panel means, preferably sliding door panels, mounted between the soffit base and the ceiling trim piece. Additionally, a plate rail is secured to the soffit base in horizontally offset relation thereto.

Abstract: A cabinet for storing oversized documents such as blueprints is disclosed. The cabinet includes a drawer formed of flexible material which is movable between a closed position in which it curls over on itself to form a protective cover about the documents and an open position in which it extends linearly outwardly from the cabinet to permit access to the documents.