Abstract: A storage compartment for a refrigerator door is disclosed which includes a recess formed in the door liner of the refrigerator. The recess is provided with pivot connections and a pivot stop. A rack is provided that is made to allow viewing of the contents. The rack is rotatably insertable into the recess defined by the door liner and can then be rotated forwardly from the door until the rack comes into contact with the stop on the door. In the rotated state, the contents of the rack may be easily accessed and removed. The rack is further designed so that if the door is shut while the rack is in an open position the rack will not contact the cabinet wall, preventing damage to the cabinet and the rack.

Abstract: A personal computer includes a frame unit and a top cover mounted to pivot upward and outward to the rear of the system, or alternately, upward to the side. One or more DASD storage devices may be mounted to extend downward from the top cover. A planar board is attached atop the lower side of the frame unit, where flexible mounting hardware allows the attachment of one of several types of planar boards. A central support structure includes a riser card plugged into a connector of the planar board, and a number of card connectors into which option cards can be plugged for electrical connection with the planar board. The central support structure also includes a bracket extending along the rear of the computer, having slots through which port connectors of the option cards can extend. The central support structure is held in engagement with the connector of the planar board by the top cover when this cover is closed.

Abstract: A two tiered drawer rack includes a base tray having a flange along each longitudinal side with, an upwardly facing track extending along each flange, and an upper tray with bearings which co-operate with the tracks to permit the upper tray to be moved between a forward position and a rearward position in which access is gained to the contents of the base tray. The tracks may be suitably molded into the flanges.

Abstract: A rack mounted computer system has a vertically elongated cabinet structure in which a specially designed server unit is mounted. The server unit includes a slide-out outer drawer having a power supply box mounted in a lower interior portion thereof. An inner tray is slidably mounted in an upper interior portion of the outer drawer, over the power supply box, and has a system planar board and associated riser cards mounted on its top side. When the outer drawer is pulled out service access is provided to the circuit board apparatus on the inner tray. Access is provided to the power supply box by simply sliding the inner tray rearwardly relative to the opened outer drawer to expose the power supply box. Cooling fans are carried on the inner tray and within the outer drawer to cool the various computer components mounted within the server unit by flowing cooling air generally horizontally therethrough.

Abstract: A pick up truck storage box having a center compartment accessible through the rear window of an associated pickup truck. The storage box is provided with a main body positionable within the truck bed behind the rear window to rest upon the upper surfaces of the truck bed. The center compartment is pivotally mounted to the main body and may be opened to facilitate access into the main body by a person within the truck through the rear window. In addition, the center compartment houses a briefcase which may be accessed through a separate lid. The briefcase is slidably disposed within the center compartment and may be extended into the truck through the rear window to allow access to articles within the briefcase or, alternatively, the briefcase may be completely removed from the upper compartment. An alternate embodiment of the present invention includes a sliding door assembly operable to enclose a volume of space between the main body of the box and the truck bed to provide additional storage capabilities.

Abstract: An improved electrical service pedestal is provided, which has a lower portion and an upper portion, the latter of which features a pivotally mounted first section to permit easy access to a meter disposed there within. A second section disposed forward of the front of the first section is independently openable to permit a clear viewing of a meter disposed within the apparatus. The lower portion includes an openable front door, spaced from an openable interior door as well as a stepped and swept or other raceway for the wiring from the utility to the user's meter. Access to the raceway is gained through a removable side door.

Abstract: Computer tape cassette storage units store a number or computer tape cassettes during periods of nonuse and are particularly adapted for use in an automated tape cassette archiving and retrieval system. The storage units include at least one shelf unit having a substantially horizontally disposed shelf for supporting a row of computer tape cassettes on edge. Structures are provided so as to minimize (if not eliminate) the possibility that the tape cassettes will become dislodged from the shelf units in the event of mechanical shocks and/or vibrations (e.g., which may occur in an automated system do to a robotic manipulator coming into physical contact with the storage unit). Such structure may take the form of a forward lip against which a portion of the tape cassettes abuts and/or structures which shift the centers of gravity of the tape cassettes rearwardly toward the rear wall of the shelf units upon which they are supported.

Abstract: A food storage apparatus comprises a frame defining a forwardly open space adapted to receive a plurality of food storage containers. The frame, which can be slidably mounted on a support within a refrigerator, includes inwardly projecting flanges adjacent its upper portion, and two pairs of front-to-rear extending bars located adjacent a lower portion of the frame. The bars of each pair are parallel and spaced horizontally apart. Each container includes outward flanges slidably disposed on the shoulders, and a boss projecting downwardly from an underside of the container and situated between a pair of the bars.

Abstract: A storage apparatus (10) for converting a standard drawer (12) into a multiple level drawer having a stationary base tray (24) and a shiftable upper tray (26). The base tray (24) is secured to the front of the drawer (12) and includes laterally extending filler flanges (44, 46) on right and left sides of the base tray (24). The upper tray (26) is detachably secured to a support panel (54). Roller and track assemblies (30, 32) interconnect the support panel (54) of the upper tray (26) to the base tray (24). The upper tray (26) is shifted until it extends through an opening (76) formed in the rear wall (18) of the drawer (12). The roller and track assembly (30, 32) preferably includes channels (60) secured to the upstanding walls (34, 36) of the bottom tray (24) and bearing members (62) secured to the channels (60). According to the method of the present invention, the storage apparatus is retrofitted to a standard drawer which is modified by removing a cut-out from the rear wall of the drawer.

Abstract: Conversion apparatus (1) for a multiple door cooler (C). A seal (3) for forming a seal between a door and the cooler housing (H), when the door is closed, has a base element (5) which is affixed to the inner face (1F) of the door and extends around its periphery. A latch (27) attaches to the base element of one door and the base element of an adjoining door to form a rigid connection between the doors so they open and close in unison.

Abstract: A mobile cabinet with two drop leafs which in its nested position is a beautiful article of furniture and in its operating position provides an easel and work area. One end of said cabinet opens from a nested position to a functioning position in which it supports the drop leafs and two sections provide compartments for tubes of paint, brushes, painting knives, mediums, turpentine, and other artist materials.

Abstract: The invention provides overlapping drawers, such as those used in desks, bureaus and the like, with attachment apparatus for joining an upper drawer to an immediately underlying drawer in vertically registered alignment. The bottom panel of the upper drawer is removable so that the joined drawers operate as one large drawer.

Abstract: One or more upper hung drawers in a single tier as in a file cabinet or desk pedestal each is provided with a floor that is split in two along its length from front to back and hinged along its side edges or along its width side-to-side and hinged along the front and back edges. A retainer when in place keeps this floor up and functional. When the retainer is removed, the floor sections rotate down along their respective hinge joints and hang into the next lower drawer flat against its side walls or front and back walls. This gangs the two drawers together effectively as one, deeper drawer. Two, three or more drawers may be ganged together in this manner. In one variation, the floor is split in two along its width from side to side and each part is sub-divided into hinged plates.

Abstract: An automatic filing cabinet retrieval apparatus comprises two automatic retrieval saddles, the first saddle being located between two facing banks of filing cabinets containing filing cabinet drawers and being operable to extract a drawer from either bank and deliver it to a consultation location on the same level of the banks or to the second saddle, as well as being operable to return a drawer to its bank from the second saddle or from the consultation location, and the second saddle being operable to receive a drawer from the first saddle, to deliver the drawer to another consultation location above and/or below the level of the banks and to return the drawer from these consultation locations to the first saddle.

Abstract: A filing cabinet drawer retrieval saddle which is adapted to extract a drawer from either bank of two facing filing cabinet banks and is capable of depositing a drawer so extracted in either of two consultation locations respectively at the ends of the filing cabinet banks.

Abstract: A security storage system comprising a security storage chest having a lock and a compartmented frame. The frame is slidably mounted in the chest to move in or out in a straight line. Access to the compartments is from the side of the frame in a direction substantially perpendicular to the direction of movement of the frame. Each compartment holds a security storage box. Each box has a construction permitting it to be locked into the frame.