Supports: cabinet structure – Sectional-unit type – Connectors
Reexamination Certificate
2000-09-19
2001-11-20
Cuomo, Peter M. (Department: 3636)
Supports: cabinet structure
Sectional-unit type
Connectors
C312S107000, C108S149000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06318822
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to wardrobes, and more specifically to a clothes cabinet for wardrobe, which is comprised of a plurality of individual boxes connected in series by coupling wire rods.
Flexible clothes containers or clothes cabinets may be used in wardrobes to hold classified clothes. Various support frame structures have been disclosed for use to hold flexible clothes containers in wardrobes. A regular support frame structure for this purpose is known comprised of a support frame adapted to support a flexible clothes container in shape, and hooks mounted on the support frame and extended out of the flexible clothes container for hanging on a rod member in a wardrobe. This design of support frame structure has numerous drawbacks. After installation of the support frame structure in a flexible clothes container, dust may pass to the inside of the flexible clothes container through the gaps between the top panel of the flexible clothes container and the hooks. Because the support frame simply extends along the border area of the top panel of the flexible clothes container, the support frame structure cannot positively support the top panel of the flexible clothes container against deformation. The complicated support frame also complicates the assembly process of the support frame structure. Further, regular clothes containers and clothes cabinets cannot be adjusted to change the height and holding space subject to the volume of clothes to be held.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention has been accomplished to provide a clothes cabinet for wardrobe, which eliminates the aforesaid drawbacks. It is one object of the present invention to provide a clothes cabinet for wardrobe, which can be conveniently adjusted subject to the volume of clothes to be held. It is another object of the present invention to provide a clothes cabinet for wardrobe, which does not deform easily when supporting a heavy load. It is still another object of the present invention to provide a clothes cabinet, which is durable in use. To achieve these and other objects of the present invention and according to one aspect of the present invention, the clothes cabinet for wardrobe is comprised of a plurality of individual boxes, and at least one coupling wire rod adapted to secure the individual boxes in a stack. The individual boxes each comprise two vertical side panels, a horizontal bottom panel, a horizontal top panel, and a plurality of upper peripheral barrels and lower peripheral barrels horizontally aligned along top and bottom sides of the respective two vertical side panels. The at least one coupling wire rod each comprises a curved middle section attached to the horizontal top panel of one individual box at a bottom side, and two end rod sections respectively perpendicularly extended from two distal ends of the curved middle section and inserted into the lower peripheral barrels of one of the individual boxes and the upper peripheral barrels of a second of the individual boxes. According to another aspect of the present invention, a stretcher frame is press-fitted into the top individual box and closely attached to the horizontal top panel of the top individual box to support the top individual box in shape, and a hanging rod is inserted through top barrels at the top side of the horizontal top panel of the top individual box, and adapted to suspend the clothes cabinet inside of a wardrobe.
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A & J
Cuomo Peter M.
Hansen James O.
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