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- A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
- A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
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- A47B88/975—Drawers having means for organising or sorting the content in the form of repositionable partition walls
Abstract
The partitions can be made of an elongated and flat body of a material being manually flexible in an elastic manner in a transverse orientation, have two lengthwisely opposite ends and at least two superposed lengthwisely oriented rows of keeper apertures extending therebetween, and protrusions extending outwardly at each one of the ends, each protrusion being lengthwisely aligned with a corresponding one of the rows and being shaped to matingly engage the keeper apertures.
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- This application claims priority of U.S. provisional patent application No. 61/253,652, filed Oct. 21, 2009.
- The instant specification discloses a partition which can be used in combination with a number of other same or different length partitions to form a compartment storage system for a drawer or the like.
- Although there existed many types of partitions, there remained room for improvement. In particular, the known partitions were somewhat awkward to assemble, or their assembly was found too complex or too time-consuming. Further, an suitable way to disassemble them after initial assembly was sometimes not even provided. There was a need for a partition which was easier to assemble and disassemble. This need was particularly felt in the medical industry for instance, where standards typically require to periodically disassemble the partitions for a complete wash and sterilisation. Moreover, there was a need for a partition, or partitioning system made therewith, which could be easily adapted for use with various, typically non-standardized, sizes of drawers without substantial modification to the drawers themselves.
- A solution is to provide a system including partitions which have protrusions at the ends and which are made of a rigid yet manually elastically deformable material in a manner that the partition can be assembled by flexing it transversally, positioning it in position relative to other partitions having keeper apertures, and releasing the flexion in a manner that the protrusions become engaged with corresponding ones of the keeper apertures. The keeper apertures can be provided at regular intervals, or interspacing distance, and the partitions can be provided in a length corresponding to an integer multiple of the interspacing distance. At least some of the partitions can have simply a 3D projection design from a 2D shape along a given thickness, or otherwise said a 2D shape cut from a sheet material, which can be relatively simple and thereby less costly to produce.
- A number of such partitions of different lengths can be provided and assembled to form a compartment storage system by flexing partitions to fit perpendicularly between two parallel and interspaced other partitions, align the protrusions with a selected transverse position corresponding to a set of keeper apertures in the other partitions, and releasing the flex to thereby engage the protrusions with the keeper apertures of the selected set. Some of the partitions can be made non flexible, such as pieces designed as a frame for internal partitions or a main divider for instance, and can optionally have more complex shapes, to provide a system which can be easily adapted to drawers having dimensions which do not exactly correspond to an integer multiple of the interspacing distance.
- In accordance with one aspect a partition made of an elongated and flat body of a material being manually flexible in an elastic manner in a transverse orientation, having two lengthwisely opposite ends and at least two superposed lengthwisely oriented rows of keeper apertures extending therebetween, and protrusions extending outwardly at each one of the ends, each protrusion being lengthwisely aligned with a corresponding one of the rows and being shaped to matingly engage the keeper apertures.
- In accordance with another aspect, there is provided a partition formed of a flat and elongated body made of a sheet-like material, the sheet-like material being rigid, yet being manually laterally flexible, and having at least two superposed and lengthwisely extending rows of keeper apertures, the keeper apertures being equally interspaced from one another along the rows and being perpendicularly aligned with keeper apertures of other rows, the flat and elongated body further comprising two longitudinally-opposite ends, and protrusions to the ends, the protrusions being aligned with each one of the rows, instead of a keeper aperture in the equally interspaced sequence of keeper apertures in the row, and the protrusions having a shape complementary to the shape of the keeper apertures for engagement therewith, wherein the partition can be engaged between two other parallel, vertically standing, and fixedly spaced-apart partitions by flexing manually laterally, sliding the partition downwardly between the two other partitions, aligning the protrusions of the partition with corresponding keeper apertures of the two other partitions, and releasing the elastic flexion of the partition so as to engage the protrusions thereof into the corresponding keeper apertures of the two other partitions, thereby locking the partition in place between the two other partitions.
- In accordance with another aspect, there is provided a method of assembling a first partition between two parallel, vertically standing, and fixedly spaced-apart other partitions, all three partitions being made of an elongated and flat body of a material being manually flexible in an elastic manner in a transverse orientation, having two lengthwisely opposite ends and at least two superposed lengthwisely oriented rows of keeper apertures extending between the ends, and protrusions extending outwardly at each one of the ends, each protrusion being lengthwisely aligned with a corresponding one of the rows and being shaped to matingly engage the keeper apertures, the method comprising flexing the first partition manually laterally, sliding the partition downwardly between the two other partitions, aligning the protrusions of the partition with corresponding keeper apertures of the two other partitions, and releasing the elastic flexion of the partition so as to engage the protrusions thereof into the corresponding keeper apertures of the two other partitions, thereby locking the partition in place between the two other partitions.
- In accordance with another aspect, there is provided a method of assembling a first partition between two parallel, vertically standing, and fixedly spaced-apart other partitions each having two lengthwisely opposite ends and at least two superposed lengthwisely oriented rows of keeper apertures extending between the ends, the first partition being made of an elongated and flat body of a material being manually flexible in an elastic manner in a transverse orientation, and having protrusions extending outwardly at each one of the ends at a height selected for alignment with corresponding ones of the rows, and shaped to matingly engage the keeper apertures, the method comprising: flexing the first partition manually laterally, sliding the partition downwardly between the two other partitions, aligning the protrusions of the partition with corresponding keeper apertures of the two other partitions, and releasing the elastic flexion of the partition so as to engage the protrusions thereof into the corresponding keeper apertures of the two other partitions, thereby locking the partition in place between the two other partitions.
- In accordance with another aspect, there is provided a drawer partition kit comprising a plurality of partitions, each partition being made of an elongated and flat body of a material being manually flexible in an elastic manner in a transverse orientation, having two lengthwisely opposite ends and at least one lengthwisely oriented row of interspaced keeper apertures extending therebetween, and protrusions extending outwardly at each one of the ends in lengthwise alignment with the row of interspaced keeper apertures, the protrusions having a complementary shape to matingly engage the keeper apertures of another one of the plurality of partitions.
- In accordance with another aspect, there is provided a drawer partition kit comprising: at least one drawer front end piece each having a common drawer front end thickness, two lengthwisely opposite ends and two faces, and at least two superposed lengthwisely oriented rows of keeper apertures being equally interspaced from one another along the rows by an interspacing distance, the rows being provided at respective row heights, and each drawer front end piece having a length corresponding to an integer multiple of the interspacing distance; at least one drawer rear end piece each having a common drawer rear end thickness, a length corresponding to the length of a corresponding drawer front end piece, two lengthwisely opposite ends and two faces, and at least two superposed lengthwisely oriented rows of keeper apertures being equally interspaced from one another along the rows by the interspacing distance, the rows being provided at the respective row heights, two side pieces each having lengthwisely opposite ends engageable with corresponding ends of a drawer rear end piece and a drawer front end pieces, and two faces, and at least two superposed lengthwisely oriented rows of keeper apertures being equally interspaced from one another along the rows by the interspacing distance, the rows being provided at the respective row heights, each having a common length corresponding to an integer multiple of the interspacing distance, and a plurality of partitions, each partition having an elongated and flat body made of a material being manually flexible in an elastic manner in a transverse orientation having a length corresponding to an integer multiple of the interspacing distance, a thickness, two lengthwisely opposite ends, and protrusions extending outwardly at both of the ends at the respective row heights, the protrusions having a complementary shape to matingly engage the keeper apertures.
- In accordance with another aspect, there is provided a method of providing a partition kit including determining a width dimension and depth dimension of a drawer, determining a width excess dimension by subtracting the dimension of the largest integer multiple of the interspacing distances fitting in the width dimension from the width dimension, providing the divider width corresponding to the width excess dimension; determining a depth excess dimension by subtracting the dimension of the largest integer multiple of the interspacing distances fitting in the depth dimension from the depth dimension, and providing the two drawer rear end pieces in a common rear end piece thickness corresponding to the depth excess dimension.
- In accordance with another aspect, there is provided a method of installing a partition kit comprising: positioning one of the two front end pieces and the two rear end pieces at the corresponding end of a drawer, with a spacing therebetween corresponding to the divider width; engaging one end of the divider with the positioned end pieces; positioning the other one of the two front end pieces and the two rear end pieces at the other end of the drawer, in engagement with a corresponding end of the divider; positioning the two side pieces on respective sides of the drawer, each in engagement with a corresponding front end piece and rear end piece, and engaging the protrusions of the plurality of partitions with corresponding keeper apertures.
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FIG. 1 is an oblique view of a partition, fragmented; -
FIG. 2 is a top plan view of a partition in an elastically flexed state prior to engagement between two parallel interspaced other partitions; -
FIG. 3 is an example of a compartment storage system formed of a number of assembled partitions inside the drawer; -
FIG. 4 is another example of a compartment storage system; -
FIGS. 5 , 6 and 7 are oblique views of components of the compartment storage system ofFIG. 4 ; and -
FIGS. 8 , 9, 10 and 11 are top plan views showing steps of installation of the compartment storage system ofFIG. 4 . -
FIG. 1 shows an example of apartition 10. Thepartition 10 can be seen to be formed of a flat andelongated body 12 of a sheet-like material 12 a. Theselected material 12 a is rigid, yet can be selected to be manually flexible in a lateral orientation (i.e. perpendicular to the faces; also referred to as a transverse orientation), as will be detailed below. Thepartition 10 is provided as a one-piece design. More particularly, thebody 12, which can be generally rectangular as shown in the figure for example, has twosuperposed rows rows row heights row partition 10 where another partition can be perpendicularly assembled. It will be noted here that the keeper apertures can be omitted in some of the partitions which are not designed to be subdivided. The generally rectangular shape of thebody 12 has two lengthwiselyopposite ends ends protrusions corresponding row row heights - For the sake of clarity, different orientations relative to the
body 12 of thepartition 10 in its unflexed state can be defined. Alengthwise orientation 60 can be defined herein to be the orientation along the length of thepartition 10; a transverse, orlateral orientation 62, normal to thelengthwise orientation 60, can be defined as the orientation across the thickness of thepartition 10; and asuperposition orientation 64, or vertical orientation can be defined as the orientation which is normal to the plane formed by thelateral orientation 62 and thelengthwise orientation 60. Each of thelengthwise orientation 60, thelateral orientation 62 and thesuperposition orientation 64 are normal to each other. - In this example, the
protrusions rows protrusions rows - It will also be noted that the
protrusions protrusions FIG. 1 is intended to illustrate the fact that the partitions can be provided in a variety of different incremental lengths corresponding to integer multiples of the interspacing distance 74. - Turning now to
FIG. 2 , it will be better understood how thepartitions 110 such as shown inFIG. 1 can be assembled between two perpendicularly oriented andinterspaced partitions - This can be achieved by flexing the partition laterally (i.e. across its thickness) by exerting manually forces 134 a, 134 b, 134 c such as shown by the arrows. This has the effect to bend or flex the partition 110 (exaggerated in the figure) and thereby reduce its overall length, allowing it to fit between the two
other partitions protrusions keeper apertures other partitions partition 110 allows thepartition 110 to return to its original flat state and this elastic action of thepartition 110 drives theprotrusions corresponding keeper apertures - The selected material for the
partition 110 should thus be selected in a manner that it allows its flexion manually, i.e. by hand by an average user, sufficiently to allow a convenient assembly. The material should be sufficiently elastic so that it can be flexed manually and thereafter resiliently return to its original shape many times without being significantly adversely affected. Suitable materials can include plastics or metals of an appropriately selected thickness, for example. More particularly, it is believed that a transparent material such as Lexan™, a polycarbonate resin thermoplastic, can be particularly well adapted for medical applications and for the visibility is offers. Aluminium can also be well adapted for some applications, for example. The choice of the particular thickness and the length of the partitions then influences the flexibility of the partitions. - Turning now to
FIG. 3 , an exemplarycompartment storage system 200 made of an assembly of a number ofpartitions particular drawer 232, because the size of existing drawers can vary. For convenience, thegaps resilient member spacers resilient members gaps contour partitions drawer 232 are selected, and acontour partitions drawer 232, are also selected. The partitions can typically be made available in length increments corresponding to the regular spacing between adjacent keeper apertures as will be understood from the discussion above. Thesepartitions compartment storage system 200. It will be noted here that to form thecorners compartment storage system 200, the protrusions of some of the partitions (such aspartitions corners contour partitions intermediate partitions 218; 220 and 222; 224 and 226; and 228 and 230 can be sequentially positioned as illustrated inFIG. 2 to define smaller compartments inside thedrawer 232. The things in the drawer can then conveniently classified in sets of things. - It will be understood that the particular design configuration shown in
FIG. 3 is provided for the sole purpose of illustration and that many desired configurations can be arranged to suit the user's particular needs. This can be achieved using a number of partitions in the variety of different lengths which can be provided as detailed above. - Another example of a compartment storage system including a number of other types of partitions is shown in
FIG. 11 . For the purpose of clarity, the partition type described in reference toFIG. 1 will be referred below as a partition, and the other partition types will be given other names to avoid confusion. Although all of these can be interpreted as being partitions. For instance, in the example depicted inFIG. 11 , thecompartment storage system 300 includes twofront end pieces 310, tworear end pieces 312, adivider 314, and a number ofpartitions FIG. 1 , and two of which serve asside pieces 316. Afront end piece 310 is shown inFIG. 5 , arear end piece 312 is shown inFIG. 6 , and thedivider 314 is shown inFIG. 7 . Thefront end piece 310 has the general shape of a partition such as 318, except that it has keeper apertures 330 instead of protrusions. Therear end piece 312 has aportion 332 similar to thefront end piece 310, but further has twoflanges divider 314 has twoportions top portion 342 bridging the twoportions - The relative complexity of the
compartment storage system 300 is rewarded by its ability to adapt in a clean-looking way to drawer sizes which do not precisely match an integer multiple of the common interspacing distance. A partition kit for making thiscompartment storage system 300 can be provided as follows: - First, a drawer width dimension and a drawer depth dimension are obtained. A width excess dimension is obtained by subtracting the dimension of the largest integer multiple of the interspacing distances fitting in the width dimension from the width dimension. A depth excess dimension is also obtained by subtracting the dimension of the largest integer multiple of the interspacing distances fitting in the depth dimension from the depth dimension.
- Two of the types of partitions, that is the rear end piece 312 (
FIG. 6 ) and the divider 314 (FIG. 7 ), can be provided in various thicknesses to adapt to the excess dimensions. In thisparticular embodiment 300, the rearend piece thickness 350 can be precisely selected to correspond to the depth excess dimension, simply by precisely cutting theflanges divider thickness 352, or divider width, can be selected to correspond to the width excess dimension. In the particular embodiment described here, it is proposed to achieve this by providing the dividers in a plurality of width increments in addition to length increments. The width increments should be sufficiently small so that the partitions do not easily become disengaged from one another. For instance, the width increments can be in the order of the thickness of thepartitions partitions Partitions - To install the compartment storage system, one example method is to begin by positioning the
front end pieces 310 as shown inFIG. 8 , to then position thedivider 314 in engagement therewith and therebetween as shown inFIG. 9 , to then position therear end pieces 312 into engagement with thedivider 314 as shown inFIG. 10 , to then position theside pieces 316 in engagement with corresponding ends of thefront end pieces 310 andrear end pieces 312 as shown inFIG. 11 , and then position theinternal partitions FIG. 2 . - In the embodiment described immediately above, the engagement between the divider, end pieces, and side pieces are obtained by engagement of protrusions provided at the ends of the divider and side pieces with keeper apertures provided at the ends of the end pieces. In alternate embodiments, these latter keeper apertures and protrusions can be inversed for instance, or other engagement means can be provided. It will be noted that the
front end pieces 310 can be used asrear end pieces 312 and vice-versa, if desired. Furthermore, in an alternate embodiment, thedivider 314 can be used directly on a side of the drawer, and there can therefore be only one front end piece, one rear end piece, and one side partition (316) as can be understood by persons of skill in the art. Also, a C-shaped piece can be used on a side and a inversed-U shaped piece can be used transversally, for instance, instead of what is shown and described above. Various other alternate designs can also be used. - In some embodiments, some of the partitions can omit having keeper apertures, such as
partitions FIG. 4 for instance. - It will be understood that the embodiments described above and illustrated are provided for the sole purpose of example and illustration. Many various alternatives can be realized using the teachings of the present disclosure. For instance, in alternate embodiments, the shape of the protrusions can be different and the shape of the keeper apertures can also be different. For example, the keeper apertures can be square, oval or even have an open shape instead of a closed shape, such as being open to an upper or lower edge of the body of the partition for example. The exact shape of the partition itself can also quite vary, although a generally rectangular shape can be preferred in many applications to neatly prevent movement of the things in the compartments from passing through apertures which could be left around the partitions. The partitions can be provided in various widths to adapt to different depths of drawers, and the number of rows of keeper apertures can vary, i.e. there can be more than two rows, such as three rows or four rows for instance, in partitions of the same, or of different widths. If the keeper apertures are rectangular and oriented upwardly and the protrusions shaped accordingly, using a single row of keeper apertures can be sufficient in achieving a lock which prevents the partitions from rotating about a longitudinal axis once assembled. The length of the various partitions can vary as well as the value of the regular interspacing between the keeper apertures of each rows. Further in alternate embodiments, the keeper apertures in each rows can be irregularly interspaced if desired. It will be noted here that the particular embodiment disclosed and illustrated is particularly suitable for medical applications because it can be easily disassembled once assembled, in order to be cleaned and disinfected, and reassembled. Some adaptation and variants can be readily devised to adapt the specific embodiments to other applications such as industrial applications or household applications for instance.
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1. A partition formed of a flat and elongated body made of a sheet-like material, the sheet-like material being rigid, yet being manually laterally elastically flexible, and having at least two superposed and lengthwisely extending rows of keeper apertures, the keeper apertures being equally interspaced from one another along the rows and being perpendicularly aligned with keeper apertures of other rows, the flat and elongated body further comprising two longitudinally-opposite ends, and protrusions to the ends, the protrusions being aligned with each one of the rows, instead of a keeper aperture in the equally interspaced sequence of keeper apertures in the row, and the protrusions having a shape complementary to the shape of the keeper apertures for engagement therewith, wherein the partition can be engaged between two other parallel, vertically standing, and fixedly spaced-apart partitions by flexing manually laterally, sliding the partition downwardly between the two other partitions, aligning the protrusions of the partition with corresponding keeper apertures of the two other partitions, and releasing the elastic flexion of the partition so as to engage the protrusions thereof into the corresponding keeper apertures of the two other partitions, thereby locking the partition in place between the two other partitions.
2. A partition comprising an elongated and flat body made of a material being manually flexible in an elastic manner in a transverse orientation, having two lengthwisely opposite ends with a lengthwisely oriented row of interspaced keeper apertures extending therebetween, and protrusions extending outwardly at each one of the ends, each protrusion being lengthwisely aligned with aligned keeper apertures and having a complementary shape to matingly engage corresponding keeper apertures of another partition.
3. The partition of claim 2 wherein there are at least two superposed rows of interspaced keeper apertures, the keeper apertures of each given row being vertically aligned with the keeper apertures of an other row.
4. The partition of claim 2 wherein the keeper apertures in a row are regularly interspaced by an interspacing distance.
5. The partition of claim 4 wherein the protrusions are spaced from an adjacent keeper aperture by an end distance corresponding to the interspacing distance.
6. The partition of claim 1 wherein the body is rectangular.
7. The partition of claim 1 wherein the keeper apertures are of a closed-shape.
8. The partition of claim 7 wherein the keeper apertures are circular.
9. The partition of claim 1 wherein the material is one of a polycarbonate resin thermoplastic and aluminum.
10. The partition of claim 1 wherein the material is transparent.
11. The partition of claim 1 wherein the keeper apertures extend through the partition.
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13. A drawer partition kit comprising a plurality of partitions, each partition being made of an elongated and flat body of a material being manually flexible in an elastic manner in a transverse orientation, having two lengthwisely opposite ends and at least one lengthwisely oriented row of interspaced keeper apertures extending therebetween, and protrusions extending outwardly at each one of the ends in lengthwise alignment with the row of interspaced keeper apertures, the protrusions having a complementary shape to matingly engage the keeper apertures of another one of the plurality of partitions.
14. The drawer partition kit of claim 13 further comprising a divider having two lengthwisely opposite ends, and two sides, each side comprising at least one lengthwisely oriented row of interspaced keeper apertures aligned with the protrusions for engagement therewith upon installation.
15. The drawer partition kit of claim 14 wherein the divider has an inverted-U cross-sectional shape.
16. The drawer partition kit of claim 14 wherein the divider has a width lesser than a regular interspacing distance between interspaced keeper apertures.
17. The drawer partition kit of claim 14 further comprising two drawer end pieces, each having two lengthwisely opposite ends and two sides, one of the sides having at least one lengthwisely oriented row of interspaced keeper apertures aligned with the protrusions for engagement therewith upon installation.
18. The drawer partition kit of claim 17 wherein the end pieces each have a C cross-sectional shape.
19. The drawer partition kit of claim 17 wherein the end pieces have a width lesser than a regular interspacing distance between interspaced keeper apertures.
20. A drawer partition kit comprising
at least one drawer front end piece each having a common drawer front end thickness, two lengthwisely opposite ends and two faces, and at least two superposed lengthwisely oriented rows of keeper apertures being equally interspaced from one another along the rows by an interspacing distance, the rows being provided at respective row heights, and each drawer front end piece having a length corresponding to an integer multiple of the interspacing distance;
at least one drawer rear end piece each having a common drawer rear end thickness, a length corresponding to the length of a corresponding drawer front end piece, two lengthwisely opposite ends and two faces, and at least two superposed lengthwisely oriented rows of keeper apertures being equally interspaced from one another along the rows by the interspacing distance, the rows being provided at the respective row heights,
two side pieces each having lengthwisely opposite ends engageable with corresponding ends of a drawer rear end piece and a drawer front end pieces, and two faces, and at least two superposed lengthwisely oriented rows of keeper apertures being equally interspaced from one another along the rows by the interspacing distance, the rows being provided at the respective row heights, each having a common length corresponding to an integer multiple of the interspacing distance,
a plurality of partitions, each partition having an elongated and flat body made of a material being manually flexible in an elastic manner in a transverse orientation having a length corresponding to an integer multiple of the interspacing distance, a thickness, two lengthwisely opposite ends, and protrusions extending outwardly at both of the ends at the respective row heights, the protrusions having a complementary shape to matingly engage the keeper apertures.
21. The drawer partition kit of claim 20 wherein each partition has at least two superposed lengthwisely oriented rows of keeper apertures being equally interspaced from one another along the rows by the interspacing distance, the rows being provided at the respective row heights.
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