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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7370772 | Large tough case extension case cover latch A storage container includes a first container portion and a second container portion hingedly attached to the first container portion. A latch is slidably disposed on the first container portion. The latch includes a pair of engaging members extending therefrom. Th... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7182219 | Vending machine for dispensing items in small packages A coin-operated vending machine includes a magazine which stores small boxes or packages of items one on top of the next in columns or stacks arranged in a circumferential row thereof and a dispensing mechanism operable to effectively dispenses such small boxes or p... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7165684 | High density bicycle storage system A ceiling mount bicycle rack provides for easy loading through the use of downwardly transversely opening wheel hooks that may receive the tires of a bicycle when flipped about the bicycle's upper structure by a user through a gentle arc. After installation on the r... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7000798 | Rotating laundry storage A revolveable laundry hamper for individually storing laundry in a plurality of chambers into which garments and items requiring laundering can be separated according to wash cycle required. The laundry hamper consists of a box-like structure having four side doors ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7001003 | Accessory and doll holding assembly An accessory and doll holding assembly includes a base housing with a bottom wall, a top wall and a peripheral wall. A plurality of dividing walls divides the base housing into a two clothes hanging sections and a plurality of drawer sections. A centrally disposed w... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6978904 | Garment supporting stand A compound adjustable garment supporting apparatus (100) is disclosed having first garment supporting assembly (102, 103, 104, 105) and second garment supporting assembly (121, 122, 123), each positioned at a different level above the floor. The... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6938375 | Pocket door assembly The specification discloses a pocket door assembly having a notch or recess in a pocket portion of the frame that allows for use of a protruding handle, such as a doorknob, to be used on a door portion of the assembly. In a second aspect, the specification discloses... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6910748 | Storage cabinet device and kit A storage cabinet device and kit for use in storing and displaying a plurality of clothing items such as neckties scarfs, belts and alike. The device comprises: a base cabinet, a rotation platform, and a vertically elongated tower cabinet. The base cabinet comprises... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6425647 | Rotatable jewelry cabinet A rotatable jewelry cabinet is provided with numerous mechanisms for holding and displaying large quantities of jewelry by providing a domed enclosed structure with four curved glass doors, an upper service tray and a lower service tray for receiving nume... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6394565 | Storage locker device A storage locker device for storing personal small personal items in a high traffic area. The storage locker device includes a housing defined by a plurality of compartments securely coupled together. The housing has a top side, a bottom side, a first sid... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6273531 | Revolving storage hutch A hutch for a desk. The hutch has a top defining a rear edge and at least one side extending forwardly from the rear edge. At least one rotatable support extends downwardly from the top beneath the at least one side that extends forwardly from the rear ed... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6206493 | Display structure for collectibles A modular display structure that has a base and a transparent cover. The base and cover may separate to allow insertion of a collectible and may then join to close them and contain the collectible. The base and cover cooperate to define a top, a bottom an... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6082207 | Vertically operating ball screw and nut actuator system for synchronously moving multiple elements in load balanced opposed directions, and methods of constructing and operating ball screw actuator systems A loaded vertically operating ball screw and nut actuator system, including methods of constructing it, for synchronously moving load systems connected to it in opposite vertical directions has a vertically disposed rotatably driven ball screw device with... | 07/04/2000 |
| 5979120 | Parking house for bicycles A house for parking bicycles so that bicycles can be placed separately in a circular storage area. The bicycles are positioned radially with the rear ends of the bicycles being directed toward the center axis of the house. The storage area of the house is... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5896707 | Roller assembly for rotatable building An improved rotational mechanism, or roller assembly, including a central roof support, for use with a rotational building that is characterized by a movable vertical wall. The improved rotational mechanism was designed to prevent binding during rotation ... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5813528 | Fishing tackle storage system A new fishing tackle storage system for providing an easily expandable and configurable fishing tackle storage container permitting convenient access to stored fishing tackle. The inventive device includes upper and lower plate members rotatably mounted o... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5713648 | Apparatus for storing and dispensing medication A pharmacy carousel comprising an open cylindrical frame having a plurality of independently rotatable discs, a tray on each disc on which bulk containers of medication may be stored, and a lockout assembly which prevents a tray from rotating while it is ... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5664852 | Handicapped vanity A handicapped vanity of the type including a counter and a sink positioned in the counter. The vanity further includes left and right cabinets positioned beneath the counter proximate the sink and each mounted for pivotal movement between a storage positi... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5651595 | Storage cabinet A storage cabinet for storing articles therein includes a stand having a base portion, and an upright pole extending upwardly along a longitudinal axis from the base portion. A housing of the storage cabinet has a top wall, a bottom wall in spaced and par... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5547273 | Rotary file and storage cabinet A rotary file cabinet defined by a base member on which is mounted a cabinet housing having two oppositely disposed access openings, wherein each opening is defined by a pair of support posts on which is mounted a canopy, wherein an improved rotary file a... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5542758 | Rotatable wardrobe A combination wardrobe for storing trousers, shoes, shirts, belts and ties which is capable of presenting these items for access and storage, which is adjustable to accommodate different numbers and sizes of shoes, which occupies a small space, can be pla... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5512165 | Personal tool box A personal tool box including a base frame having vertically aligned tool rest holes for resting a hand tool, two pivots vertically connected to the base frame in parallel, pairs of bit carriages and pairs of socket carriages and pairs of storage cases re... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5494347 | Hand operated actuator for rotary storage cabinet A rotary cabinet with a self-latching and positioning rotor is provided with an improved latch mechanism. The latch is operated by a sliding hand actuator connected by links and levers to a latch member. To operate, the actuator is lifted to release the r... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5405077 | Revolving newspaper organizer A revolving newspaper organizer comprised of a hollow cylindrical container having a surrounding side wall. The surrounding side wall has an interior surface and an exterior surface. The surrounding side wall has a top edge and a bottom edge. The surround... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5312181 | Rotary file and storage cabinet A rotary file cabinet defined by a base member on which is mounted two oppositely disposed side walls and two oppositely disposed access openings, wherein each access opening is defined by a pair of post members and a canopy mounted to the post members, w... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5286103 | Mobile cart for transporting tape cartridge storage packs and method therefore A carousel cart for efficiently transporting tape cartridge packs. A wheeled cart includes a rotatable housing unit. The housing unit includes a plurality of peripheral recesses. Engaging members extend angularly upward and outward from the rear wall of e... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5277488 | Refrigerator with rotatable shelves A refrigerator or freezer of a storage refrigerator unit includes a central support shaft mounted within the refrigeration cabinet having support containers adjustably mounted along the support shaft. The shaft structure is rotatably mounted within the ca... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5135293 | Lockers A closet, for use as a locker for storage of items such as clothing, school books and the like, consisting of: a closed, hollow, rigid frame, defining top, bottom and front walls, at least one door opening being made in the front wall; a rigid door for ea... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5102181 | Concealed rotating radio for car dashboards and the like A device for concealing an electronic piece of equipment within a dashboard of a motor vehicle is provided and consists of a cylindrical console having a compartment in one side for holding an electronic piece of equipment therein. The console is rotative... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5024168 | Carousel storage device with rotating objects on top thereof A multi-sided carousel storage device is rotatably mounted and has a plurality of storage cavities for receiving objects. Part of the rotatable mechanism comprises a stationary member having an upright member connected thereto, the upright member being fi... | 06/18/1991 |
| 4938549 | Rotary file unit and cabinet A rotary file unit provided with radially extending shelves and compartments for the storage of files, which unit may be used standing alone or housed within a cabinet having opposed access openings. A door unit is rotatable within the cabinet relative to... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4796960 | Carousel portable pantry A carousel portable pantry including a cabinet with a pair of outer and inner storage cylinders having shelves each concentrically mounted within said cabinet and each independently rotatable one from the other, and a vertical opening in both said cabinet... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4753495 | Merchandising stand A merchandising stand is provided with a plurality of walls for displaying items for sale, and the walls enclose storage space that can be used for storage of additional merchandise. Adapter panels can be fixed to one or more of the walls to change the su... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4545629 | Rotating garbage can rack with cover The specification discloses an apparatus for supporting and protecting a plurality of garbage cans which includes a base, a vertical post at the approximate center of the base, a structure for supporting the garbage cans which is free to rotate, and a plu... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4545630 | Cover apparatus for weighing machines A cover apparatus comprising a plurality of peripherally divided and interconnecting cover sections positioned around and outside a plurality of weighing machines, that are arranged in turn in a predetermined array or pattern, the cover sections encirclin... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4431238 | Cabinet for storing and selectively dispensing a variety of paper supplies A cabinet for storing and selectively dispensing a variety of paper supplies in web form carries separate boxes of webs on vertically spaced decks of a turntable within the cabinet. The boxes on one deck are offset with respect to the boxes on the other d... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4300809 | Open pilaster frames for rotary storage cabinet This invention relates to a rotary storage cabinet comprised of an outer stationary housing and an inner rotatable rotor having four sides two of which are positionable to present the contents of the cabinet simultaneously to two opposite openings in the ... | 11/17/1981 |
| 4258966 | Bearing system and locking mechanism for rotary storage cabinet This invention relates to a rotary storage cabinet comprised of an outer stationary housing and an inner rotatable rotor having four sides two of which are positionable to present the contents of the cabinet simultaneously to two opposite openings in the ... | 03/31/1981 |
| 4241964 | Single open frame for the rotor of a rotary storage cabinet This invention relates to a rotary storage cabinet comprised of an outer stationary housing and an inner rotatable rotor having four sides two of which are positionable to present the contents of the cabinet simultaneously to two opposite openings in the ... | 12/30/1980 |
| 4240684 | Tool box including a plurality of rotating nested pyramidal tool racks A tool box includes a base and a plurality of nested pyramidal tool racks concentrically and rotatably mounted on a rigid vertical rod extending perpendicularly from the base. Each of the pyramidal tool racks except the innermost core has a removable side... | 12/23/1980 |
