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The disclosure and prior art relates to furniture spacing devices and more particularly pertains to a new furniture spacing device for keeping an article of furniture from covering a heating vent.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a bracket that is attached to a vertical support surface. A box is removably attached to the bracket and the box has a depth of at least 4.0 inches. In this way the box can keep an article of furniture that is placed against the box from covering a heating vent that is positioned adjacent to the vertical support surface. A lid is hingedly coupled to the box for opening and closing the box. A power unit is coupled to the box and the power unit has a plurality of outlets therein. Each of the outlets can have an electronic device electrically coupled thereto for charging the electronic device.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure 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 disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A box 26 is provided and the box 26 is removably attached to the bracket 12 such that the box 26 is aligned with the backrest 22 of the article of furniture 24. The box 26 has a depth of at least 4.0 inches and the article of furniture 24 abuts the box 26. Thus, the box 26 inhibits the article of furniture 24 that is placed against the box 26 from covering a heating vent 28 that is positioned adjacent to the vertical support surface 14. The box 26 has a bottom wall 30 and an outer wall 32 extending upwardly therefrom, and the outer wall 32 has a front side 34, a back side 36 and a distal edge 38 with respect to the bottom wall 30 defining an opening 40 into the box 26.
The bottom wall 30 rests on the second section 18 of the bracket 12 for supporting the box 26 on the bracket 12. A mount 42 is coupled to the box 26 and the mount 42 engages the fasteners 20 employed to attach the bracket 12 to the vertical support surface 14 for retaining the box 26 on the bracket 12. The mount 42 is positioned on the back side 36 of the outer wall 32 of the box 26 and the mount 42 has a distal wall 44 with respect to the back side 36. Additionally, the distal wall 44 has a plurality of engagements 46 thereon and each of the engagements 46 releasably engages a head 48 of a respective one of the fasteners 20. The mount 42 is oriented to extend along a horizontal axis on the box 26.
A lid 50 is hingedly coupled to the box 26 for opening 40 and closing the box 26. The lid 50 has a lower surface 52 and a back edge 54, and the back edge 54 is hingedly coupled to the back side 36 of the outer wall 32 of the box 26. The lower surface 52 rests on the distal edge 38 of the outer wall 32 of the box 26 when the lid 50 is closed. A power unit 56 is coupled to the box 26 and the power unit 56 has a plurality of outlets 58 therein. Each of the outlets 58 can have an electronic device electrically coupled thereto for charging the electronic device.
The power unit 56 includes a power cord 60 extending away from the bottom wall 30 of the box 26 and the power cord 60 has a distal end 62 with respect to the box 26. A plug 64 is electrically coupled to the distal end 62 and the plug 64 can be electrically coupled to a power source 66 comprising a female electrical outlet. The power unit 56 is attached to the outer wall 32 of the box 26 such that the power unit 56 is positioned inside the box 26. The power unit 56 has an upper surface 68, the upper surface 68 is aligned with the distal edge 38 of the outer wall 32 of the box 26 and each of the outlets 58 is recessed into the upper surface.
In use, the bracket 12 is mounted to the vertical support surface 14 at a height that corresponds to the height of the backrest 22 of the article of furniture 24. Additionally, the bracket 12 is positioned proximate a heater vent in the floor that is positioned adjacent to the vertical support surface 14. The box 26 is positioned on the bracket 12 such that the mount 42 engages the fasteners 20. The article of furniture 24 is positioned against the box 26 and the box 26 inhibits the article of furniture 24 from sliding rearwardly when a person sits on the article of furniture 24. In this way the box 26 ensures that the article of furniture 24 does not obstruct the heating vent 28.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
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