Supports: racks – Special article – Shoe or boot type
Reexamination Certificate
1999-11-12
2001-10-30
Stodola, Daniel P. (Department: 3634)
Supports: racks
Special article
Shoe or boot type
C211S034000, C211S205000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06308838
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a means for supporting and storing footwear and more particularly pertains to a new footwear storage rack for easily and conveniently supporting and storing footwear such as Wellington boots.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of a means for supporting and storing footwear is known in the prior art. More specifically, a means for supporting and storing footwear heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 4,688,685; U.S. Pat. No. 3,472,389; U.S. Pat. No. 3,762,573; U.S. Pat. No. 5,772,050; U.S. Pat. No. 3,161,294; and U.S. Pat. No. 3,874,512.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new footwear storage rack. The inventive device includes a base means, a tubular support member having a lower portion with a slot therein and further having an upper portion with a retractable catch member therein, a footwear support member being essentially a disk and having a plurality of wedge-shaped slots extending in the circumference and spaced thereabout, and a handle means removeably attachable to the upper portion of the tubular support member for carrying and moving the footwear storage rack as desired.
In these respects, the footwear storage rack according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of easily and conveniently supporting and storing footwear such as Wellington boots.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of a means for supporting and storing footwear now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new footwear storage rack construction wherein the same can be utilized for easily and conveniently supporting and storing footwear such as Wellington boots.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new footwear storage rack which has many of the advantages of the a means for supporting and storing footwear mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new footwear storage rack which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art a means for supporting and storing footwear, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a base means, a tubular support member having a lower portion with a slot therein and further having an upper portion with a retractable catch member therein, a footwear support member being essentially a disk and having a plurality of wedge-shaped slots extending in the circumference and spaced thereabout, and a handle means removeably attachable to the upper portion of the tubular support member for carrying and moving the footwear storage rack as desired.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new footwear storage rack which has many of the advantages of the a means for supporting and storing footwear mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new footwear storage rack which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art a means for supporting and storing footwear, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new footwear storage rack which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new footwear storage rack which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new footwear storage rack which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such footwear storage rack economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new footwear storage rack which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new footwear storage rack for easily and conveniently supporting and storing footwear such as Wellington boots.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new footwear storage rack which includes a bas e means, a tubular support member having a lower portion with a slot therein and further having an upper portion with a retractable catch member there in, a footwear support member being essentially a disk and having a plurality of wedge-shaped slots extending in the circumference and spaced thereabout, and a handle means removeably attachable to the upper portion of the tubular support member for carrying and moving the footwear storage rack as desired.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new footwear storage rack that allows the user to neatly arrange and store footwear.
These together with other objects of the invention, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the invention, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure. For a better understanding of the invention, its operating advantages and the specific objects attained by its uses, reference should be made to the accompanying drawings and descriptive matter in which there are illustrated preferred embodiments of the invention.
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Harris Erica B
Stodola Daniel P.
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