Patent Application
20100213150
(a) Technical Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to organizers and more particularly, to a hanging organizer that can be detachably adjustably set up by a user to fit different requirements for keeping different storage items.
(b) Description of the Prior Art
Due to limited indoor space, the number and dimension of wardrobes are limited. Therefore, hanging organizers are widely invited by people living in a small house space for holding clothes and other small items. Regular commercial hanging organizers are commonly made of flexible and strong canvass, having multiple compartments of different shapes and sizes located on the front side for keeping different storage items. These hanging organizers commonly have a hanging hole or hanging hook at the top side for hanging on a hanging rod or door panel. Hook and loop materials may be used for securing a hanging organizer to support means.
Further, regular wardrobes or cabinets are of fixed type. They cannot be detached and reorganized to change the combination. There are simple types of plastic wardrobes and cabinets that are detachable and can be built up by a user. However, these simple types of plastic wardrobes and cabinets are not durable. They commonly have an image of a low quality level. Further, these simple types of plastic wardrobes and cabinets do not have a nice looking.
There are commercial hanging organizers made of canvass. These hanging organizers have multiple compartments for keeping different storage items in good order. However, these hanging organizers are made in a fixed shape by means of stitching. They cannot be adjusted or attached with extra storage compartments to fit different requirements.
The primary purpose of the present invention is to provide a hanging organizer, which is detachable and can be conveniently built up by a user. It is another object of the present invention to provide a hanging organizer, which can be freely arranged in different forms to fit different requirements.
To achieve these and other objects of the present invention, a hanging organizer comprises a top panel, storage boxes, hanging straps, suspension straps, and first and second pins. The top panel has a plurality of vertical slots cut through top and bottom walls thereof and respectively disposed near front and rear sides thereof. Each storage box has a plurality of horizontal slots cut through peripheral walls thereof. Each hanging strap has a first end affixed to one vertical slot near the front side of the top panel, a second end inserted through one vertical slot near the rear side of the top panel, and a transverse through hole. Each hanging strap has multiple portions thereof folded up and inserted through one horizontal slot of each of the storage boxes. The suspension straps are respectively inserted through one respective vertical slot near the front side of the top panel, each having a transverse through hole located on one end thereof. Further, each suspension strap has multiple portions thereof folded up and inserted through one horizontal slot of each of the storage boxes. The first pins are respectively inserted into the transverse through holes of the hanging straps and stopped at the bottom side of the bottom wall of the top panel. The second pins are respectively inserted into the transverse through hole of the suspension straps and the folded portions of the hanging straps and the suspension straps and respectively stopped at the top side of the top wall of the top panel and an inner side of each of the storage boxes to secure the storage boxes to the hanging straps and the suspension straps at different elevations.
Further, hanging hooks are fastened to the hanging straps for hooking on the topmost edge of a door panel to hang the hanging straps on the door panel. Each hanging hook has a transverse slot. Each hanging strap has a portion folded up and inserted through the transverse slot one hanging hook and mounted with a pin in the folded portion to have the folded portion be secured to the hanging hook.
Further the first and second ends of the hanging straps can be respectively inserted through the vertical slots of the top panel and affixed thereto with stitches. Further, the suspension straps are respectively fastened to the top panel and the storage boxes at two opposite lateral sides.
Further, the storage boxes can be fastened to the suspension straps by means of forming hook holes on each storage box and providing the suspension straps with hooks for hooking in the hook holes of said storage boxes.
Further, the storage boxes can be fastened to the suspension straps by means of providing the storage boxes with first fastening members located and the suspension straps with second fastening members that are detachably connectable to the first fastening members.
The foregoing object and summary provide only a brief introduction to the present invention. To fully appreciate these and other objects of the present invention as well as the invention itself, all of which will become apparent to those skilled in the art, the following detailed description of the invention and the claims should be read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Throughout the specification and drawings identical reference numerals refer to identical or similar parts.
Many other advantages and features of the present invention will become manifest to those versed in the art upon making reference to the detailed description and the accompanying sheets of drawings in which a preferred structural embodiment incorporating the principles of the present invention is shown by way of illustrative example.
The following descriptions are of exemplary embodiments only, and are not intended to limit the scope, applicability or configuration of the invention in any way. Rather, the following description provides a convenient illustration for implementing exemplary embodiments of the invention. Various changes to the described embodiments may be made in the function and arrangement of the elements described without departing from the scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.
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It will be understood that each of the elements described above, or two or more together may also find a useful application in other types of methods differing from the type described above.
While certain novel features of this invention have been shown and described and are pointed out in the annexed claim, it is not intended to be limited to the details above, since it will be understood that various omissions, modifications, substitutions and changes in the forms and details of the device illustrated and in its operation can be made by those skilled in the art without departing in any way from the spirit of the present invention.
