U.S. patent application number 10/975115 was filed with the patent office on 2005-04-07 for molti folding hanger bar.
This patent application is currently assigned to MoTi SHAi. Invention is credited to Shai, Moti.
Application Number | 20050073223 10/975115 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 32068937 |
Filed Date | 2005-04-07 |
United States Patent
Application |
20050073223 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Shai, Moti |
April 7, 2005 |
Molti folding hanger bar
Abstract
A system and method for providing folding optionally extendable
bar which enables a user to hang sheeted objects on in an efficient
and compressed manner, it also allows the user fast and convenient
access to hanged objects as soon as the bar is fully opened. The
present invention can be used in conjunction with a frame to
provide a closet to enable a user practical, efficient and very
convenient way of storing hangable clothing in a very compact
manner. The closet, which can be attached to a wall, used as a
stand-alone unit or built-in into a wall, can reach its fully
extended form, to provide practical and convenient access to the
clothing.
Inventors: |
Shai, Moti; (Calabasas,
CA) |
Correspondence
Address: |
MOTI SHAI
3528 VIADEL PRADO
CALABASAS
CA
91302
US
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Assignee: |
MoTi SHAi
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Family ID: |
32068937 |
Appl. No.: |
10/975115 |
Filed: |
October 25, 2004 |
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Application
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10975115 |
Oct 25, 2004 |
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10270218 |
Oct 15, 2002 |
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Current U.S.
Class: |
312/205 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A47B 61/06 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
312/205 |
International
Class: |
A47B 045/00; A47B
053/00 |
Claims
What is claimed is:
1. A vertically folding bar for sheeted objects to be hanged on in
a very compressed and efficient manner, said device comprising: a.
a plurality of built-in notches; b. a folding bar support located
at bars pivot points; c. a pair of hinges on both ends of said
folding bar; d. a folding bar support located around the pivot
point of said folding bar;
2. The device of claim 1 wherein said built-in notches are designed
in such a shape so it can support the hangers in opened and closed
position and the hanged objects will always stay in vertical
position.
3. The device of claim 1 wherein said built-in notches are designed
in a predefined distance so hanged objects will be spread apart as
soon as said folding bar will be fully opened.
4. An extending storage device, for hangable units, with a folding
bar connecting internally both interior parallel sides of said
device, said folding bar is providing support for said hangable
units, said device comprising: a. a member providing the frame of
said device; b. a member providing horizontally-extending
decorative front door of said device; c. a member providing a
folding bar, to support said hangable units, connected internally
to both said frame and said front door; d. means for attaching said
frame to a wall forcing said frame to be in fixed and steady
position; e. means for pivotally attaching said folding bar to
internal sides of said frame and said front door, providing limit
of maximum opening of said device when said folding bar is in its
fully horizontal and locked position; f. means to keep said front
door stable and parallel to said frame in the fully extended form
of said device; and g. means to keep said front door tightly
attached to said body in the fully closed form of frame device;
5. The device of claim 4 wherein said hangable units are, primarily
but not necessarily, hangable clothing or other hangable particles
like: blue prints sheets or poster sheets.
6. The device of claim 4 wherein said frame has a wide molding
around it to provide a shelter for said hangable clothing when said
device is in its fully closed form.
7. The device of claim 4 wherein said horizontally-extending
decorative front door has a matching, to said frame, shape with a
molding around it, to be attached perfectly to said frame when said
device is in its fully closed form.
8. The device of claim 4 wherein said horizontally-extending
decorative front door further comprising a plurality of wheels
connected to the bottom of said front door to enable the user easy
and efficient opening of said device, especially when said device
is fully loaded with said hangable clothing.
9. The device of claim 4 wherein said horizontally-extending
decorative front door has mirror, picture or decorative design, on
the front side of it, to provide more practical and decorative look
of said device and to take full advantage of said device as a
furniture member as well.
10. The device of claim 4 wherein said means for attaching said
frame to a wall has a plurality of horizontal support straps.
11. The device of claim 10 wherein said horizontal support straps
have plurality of altitudinal through-holes in every one of
them.
12. The device of claim 4 wherein said means to keep said front
door stable and parallel to said frame are plurality of decorative
chains or rope.
13. The device of claim 12 wherein said chains are attached to the
sides of said frame and said front door to keep said front door
parallel to said frame when said device is in its full extended
form so said chains in their fully stretched horizontal
position.
14. The device of claim 4 wherein said frame is a wall built-in
frame which has decorative molding around it.
15. An extension folding bar to provide more storage space when it
is optionally added to extending storage device, said device
comprising: a. a pair of folding bar sections; b. a support leg
attached to the wheel;
16. The device of claim 15 wherein said extension folding bar is
used together with extended frame which is attached to the main
frame.
17. The device of claim 16 wherein said extended frame has tracks
attached to its interior top and trails located inside said tracks
in a slidable manner so said extended frame can slide on top of
main frame to provide better access to hanged objects.
Description
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 10/270,218,
Filed on 15 Oct. 2002, now abandoned.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] 1. Field of the Invention
[0003] The present invention relates to a folding bar, specifically
to a new and improved system, which enables a user to hang sheeted
objects on. In an efficient and compressed manner, it also allows
the user fast and convenient access to hanged objects as soon as
the bar is fully opened.
[0004] 2. Description of the Related Art
[0005] Folding bars for hangable objects always was in big demand
in household and public facilities in order to save a storage
space. Such bars usually require manual separation of the objects
when the bar is open and then it requires packing these objects
back before folding the bar.
[0006] Thereafter, inventors created several types of folding bars
for hangable objects, like: clothing, unframed pictures,
architectural drawings and many more, to address this problem in a
most practical and efficient way. None of the current inventions
describe successfully folding bars with ability to hold heavy
hanged objects and which doesn't require manual spreading of the
hanged object to pick the wanted one.
[0007] Lee in U.S. Pat. No. 6,398,323 B1 (2002) describing a
multiple variation of folding bars in his storage systems. All of
them have the following disadvantage:
[0008] (a) In Lee's invention bar rail requires assembly prior to
spreading hanged objects apart when the storage is open.
[0009] (b) Manual motion is required to spread the clothing apart
in order to choose a wanted one after the storage is open, and the
user required compressing them together before closing the door of
the storage. In the current invention clothing or other hangable
items are ready and conveniently can be chosen as soon as storage
is open.
[0010] (c) Lee's invention prevents from the user to hang heavy
clothing like jackets, coats and the like because hanging bar made
out of plurality of horizontally folding sections which by design
cannot support heavy weight, see FIG. 7e in Lee's invention.
[0011] (d) Slidable bars as they are shown in FIGS. 12, 14, and 15
and telescopic bar in FIG. 13 in Lee's invention also have the
disadvantages of inability to support heavy weight clothing as well
as hanger's hook can interfere with the sliding motion and it
requires the user to spread the objects apart in order to see and
to choose the wanted object.
[0012] For the reasons mentioned above my inventions is an
improvement of Lee's invention because it saves exterior width and
interior space which allows to store more clothing, the clothing
can be chosen faster because as soon as the door of the storage is
opened the clothing already conveniently spread apart and the user
can see immediately all the hanged objects. My invention allows to
hold heavy object, like jackets, coats and the like, because of the
vertical bar design and the lock between bar's sections, bars in
Lee's invention are opened in horizontal manner with very small
overlap between the sections which can't hold heavy objects.
OBJECTS AND ADVANTAGES
[0013] Accordingly, several objects and advantages of the present
invention are:
[0014] (a) Ability to hold heavy hanged objects because its
vertical designs;
[0015] (b) Easy and fast opening because of the pressure of the
weight of hanged objects;
[0016] (c) Doesn't require any rail bar assembly;
[0017] (d) Hanged objects already spread apart as soon as the bar
is fully unfolded;
[0018] (e) Ability to extend the bar by adding additional
sections;
[0019] Vertically folding bar in the current invention can be
built-into a storage space to provide the following advantages:
[0020] (a) To provide over 70% of space saving, storage unit, to
store hangable clothing in a very compact and efficient manner;
[0021] (b) To minimize to only a few inches, and sometimes to
eliminate completely, the floor space that this invention will
take, its thickness is about the thickness of the wall therefore it
can be built-in into the wall so in this case it will not take any
floor space at all;
[0022] (c) To provide additional storage in a hall way, walking
closet, garage, office, and like
[0023] (d) No maintenance required
[0024] (e) To provide easy and simple installation by only screwing
4 screws to the wall;
[0025] (f) To provide neat and decorative furniture piece that may
include mirror or picture on its front side as well;
[0026] Further objects and advantages are to provide at least 70%
space saving storage unit which can be easily installed and used
efficiently and conveniently to store, primarily but not
necessarily, hangable clothing. This decorative storage unit, which
will be used in household and commercial facilities, is simple to
use and inexpensive to manufacture. The storage can be attached to
a wall or built-in into a wall, which will not take any floor
spacing.
[0027] Therefore, the present invention provides efficient,
effective and very practical usage of the vertically folding bar
for hanged sheeted objects to be used in a storage places. Still
farther objects and advantages of this invention will become
apparent from a consideration of the drawing and ensuing
description.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0028] Briefly and in general terms, the present invention provides
a new and improved system and method of folding bar which by its
vertical design provide an ability to hold heavy hanged objects
which already spread apart as soon as the bar is fully unfolded.
The bar can be extended to required length by adding additional
vertically folding sections.
[0029] The present creation can be used in a face extendable closet
that can be attached to the wall, used as stand-alone unit or
built-in into a wall, for storing hanged sheeted objects. The
closet is fully extended, horizontally, upon opening to provide
convenient access to store clothing, and then, upon closing it, it
will be horizontally folded back in providing the user over 70% of
space saving.
[0030] The above objects and advantages of the present invention,
as well as others, are described in greater detail in the following
description, when taken in conjunction with the accompanying
drawing of illustrative embodiments.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0031] FIG. 1 is a side view of the folding bar in its closed
position.
[0032] FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the folding bar in its fully
unfolded position.
[0033] FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the folding closet with a
folding bar in fully open position.
[0034] FIG. 4 is a sectional side view of the folding closet with a
bar in closed position.
[0035] FIG. 5 is a sectional top view of the folding bar in fully
unfolded position used in the attached to the wall closet.
[0036] FIG. 6 is a sectional top view presenting folding bar in the
storage build-in into a wall that shows clearly a frame to fit
inside the wall. With molding around to caver the Dry wall
edge.
[0037] FIG. 7 is a sectional side view of the extension folding bar
in closed position and supporting leg attached to wheel.
[0038] FIG. 8 is a side view of the wall closed space with
extension folding bar.
[0039] FIG. 9 is a perspective view of the extended addition to the
storage space frame which is used when folding bar is extended.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
[0040] The present invention is directed to an improved system and
method which enables a user to hang sheeted objects on in an
efficient and compressed manner, it also allows the user fast and
convenient access to hanged objects as soon as the bar is fully
opened. By its vertical design it allows the user to hang heavy
objects. The present invention can be used in conjunction with a
frame to provide a storage closet to enable a user to store
changeable objects like clothing, blue prints sheets, poster sheets
and the like in horizontally extendable closet in a very compact
and efficient way for space saving purposes. The closet can be
attached to a wall, used as a stand-alone unit or built-in into a
wall, in household or public facilities. The closet can be fully
extended, to provide easy and convenient access to clothing, by
pulling the front door away from the frame, which is in fixed
position, and by doing that unfolding internal bar, that holds the
hangers, to its horizontal and locked position. The preferred
embodiments of the improved system and method are fully and
detailed illustrated and described in the following paragraphs.
[0041] As illustrated in FIGS. 1-2, in a preferred embodiment in
accordance with the present invention the system 100 includes
multiple sections 22 folding bar with built-in notches 24 for
hangers support. Folding bar support 21 is attached, by pins 23, to
folding bar 22 and located at bars the pivot points. Folding bar
pivots 26 allows attaching and supporting folding bars 22 through
holes 25.
[0042] As illustrated in FIGS. 3-5, presenting storage frame 10,
for providing shelter for hanged clothing or like. The frame 10
includes horizontal support straps 12, with an altitudinal
through-holes in it, it also includes folding bar 22 joining the
frame 10 to the front door 20 through the bar pivots 26. Folding
bar support 21 is attached to folding bar 22 located at the pivot
point. The frame further includes plurality of safety chains 14 or
the like connecting the frame 10 and the front door 20 on both
their sides.
[0043] Folding bar 22 has notches 24 for providing hangers support.
Front door 20 includes plurality of clip locks 16 locate on both
sides of it, front door 20 further includes plurality of wheels 18
attached to its bottom side.
[0044] As illustrated in FIG. 6, the built-in frame 40, with an
altitudinal through-hole 36 on each side of it, includes folding
bar 22, which has notches 24, built-in frame 40 has horizontal
support straps 42 to support the folding bar 22, it also has chains
14 or the like connected to the front door 20. Frame 40 is attached
with screws to stud 32 while it's touching the back of the dry wall
30. Decorative mirror or panel 38 can be attached as an option to
the front door 20. Decorative molding 34 is located around built-in
frame 40 to cover dry wall edges and to support front door 20 when
the closet is closed, and it increases the depth of the closet as
well.
[0045] As illustrated in FIG. 7, the system 110 provides optional
extension to folding bar including pair of folding bar sections 22,
supporting leg 44 attached to wheel 46.
[0046] As illustrated in FIG. 8, presents system 110 installed in
the closet.
[0047] As illustrated in FIG. 9, the system 120 provides optional
frame extension 50, required when the folding bar is extended,
includes tracks 52, attached to the interior top side, and trails
54 which are located inside tracks 52 in a slidable manner. Trails
54 are attached to the main frame on the top by screws through
holes 56.
[0048] In a method for the use of the preferred embodiment in
accordance with the present invention the system 100 enables the
user to hang sheeted objects a most efficient manner while it's
attached to the horizontally extended closet. Notches 24 hold and
support the hangers at the predefined space so it will be spread
apart when the folding bar is fully opened, so user can easily
accessed wanted object, they also keep objects nicely packed when
the folding bar is closed.
[0049] One of the embodiments can be provided when folding bar is
in a built-in closet best shown in FIG. 6. Additional folding
sections, best shown in FIG. 7, can be easily added to folding bar
to increase the storage space which comes together with extended
frame as illustrated in FIG. 9 that include tracks 52 and trails 54
attached to the main frame on the top by crews through holes 56.
Extended frame can be slide on top of main frame, using tracks 52
and trails 54, to allow better access to hanged objects. Decorative
mirror or panel 38 can be added as an option to closet front door
20, best shown in FIGS. 5 and 6. In another embodiment the closet
cab is high enough to hang dresses or to double folding bars for
short clothing.
[0050] In accordance with the present invention, the particular
embodiments set forth above for the system are capable of providing
folding optionally extendable bar which enables a user to hang
sheeted objects on in an efficient and compressed manner, it also
allows the user fast and convenient access to hanged objects as
soon as the bar is fully opened. However, other forms of that
system may be utilized with the present invention without departing
from the spirit and the scope of the invention. Based on the
present disclosure, other constructions and applications are known
to one skilled in the art.
[0051] In view of the above, it is apparent that the system and
method of the preferred embodiments of the present invention
enhance practicality and effectiveness of enabling a user to store
hangable sheeted objects in a most compact and space saving
way.
[0052] While the present invention has been described in connection
with the specific embodiments identified herein, it will be
apparent to those skilled in the art that many alternatives,
modifications and variations are possible in light of the above
description. Accordingly, the invention is intended to embrace all
such alternatives, modifications and variations as may fall within
the spirit and scope of the invention disclosed herein.
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