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  Article tidy-up cabinetUSPTO Application #: 20060175945Title: Article tidy-up cabinet Abstract: An article tidy-up cabinet designed so that not only the person storing articles therein but also a third person can instantly take the articles out without mistakes. First and second panels F1 and F2, having groove rails 11, third and fourth panels F3 and F4, having groove rails 15, and a back panel F5 frame a rectangular parallelepipedic cabinet main body A opened only in the front. A wall panel 20 having groove rails 23 and at least one pair of wall panels 21 and 22 are inserted between opposed groove rails 11, while plates 28 are removably inserted between opposed groove rails 15 and 23. An index panel 27 is attached to the pair of partition wall panels 21 and 22, while an end index panel 26 is attached between wall panel 20 and the third or fourth surrounding panel F3 or F4 adjacent thereto. (end of abstract) Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP - New York, NY, US Inventor: Tomoo Deguchi USPTO Applicaton #: 20060175945 - Class: 312257100 (USPTO) The Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20060175945. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to an article tidy-up cabinet which is used by being installed indoors in ordinary homes, offices, schools, hospitals, and the like and which is adapted for anyone to instantly take out, without mistakes, not only various articles of uniform size, shape, hardness or thickness, such as newspapers, magazines, print paper sheets, catalogues, slips, letters, compact disks (CDs), and medical record files, but also nonuniformly varying clothing, toiletries, tableware, plastic film bags, and other various articles. BACKGROUND ART [0002] As for this type of article tidy-up cabinets, I have previously proposed Japanese Paten Laid-Open 2001-270278. [0003] And, described in this known invention is a front-opened main body 1 comprising a main top plate 2, a sub-top plate 3, a shelf plate reception support side plate 4, a back plate 5, a ground plate 6 and a shelf plate reception support assembly 9, wherein the space 12 of the main body 1 is partitioned by movable shelf plates 7 used by being inserted into grooves in each row. [0004] Further, a description is given therein to the effect that item panels 8 with items 13 written therein or attached thereto are attached always to form sets with the movable shelf plates 7. For this reason, there is an advantage that not only the person himself or herself directly taking part in the storing operation but also a third person can instantly take out, without mistakes, various articles stored in the space 12 partitioned by the shelf plates 7, on the basis of the items 13 on the item panels 8 adjacent thereto. DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION [0005] However, as a result of hearing the users' wishes and repeating diligent investigation thereafter, it has been found that so long as the art concerned remains the same as in the arrangement described in the invention of Japanese Patent Laid-Open 2001-270278, there are following problems to be solved in performing industrialization. [0006] That is, although there is the wording to the effect that the shelf plate reception support side plates 4 forming rows in this known invention, the item panels 8 and the shelf plate reception support assembly 9 are provided with grooves for receiving the shelf plates 7, as can be ascertained from FIG. 2, and that the partition distance can be adjusted for widening or narrowing by slide operation and mount and dismount operation of the item panels 8, grooves for receiving the item panels 8 are not at all provided in the sub-top plate 3 and the ground plate 6. [0007] As a result, at the time of assembling the main body 1 or making a partition distance adjustment for widening or narrowing, the partition distance must be calculated by measuring the dimension of the vertical partitioning positions due to said item panels 8 one by one, a fact which is very troublesome, and moreover if there should be a mistake in the calculation, the item panels 8 will not hold the state of parallel vertical setup, as rows in the main body 1, and the shelf plates 7 cannot be used by being smoothly and correctly inserted in the state of parallel horizontal setup. [0008] Further, in the arrangement of said known invention, not only a pair of the shelf plate reception support side plate 4 and the shelf plate reception support assembly 9 which are opposed to each other, but also a total of three pairs including the item panels 8 interposed therebetween are separately prepared in the first place, and the component parts are not for multi-purpose use; thus, the assembly accuracy of the main body 1 tends to vary, so that the effect of mass production of article tidy-up cabinets cannot be exhibited to the maximum. [0009] Further, FIGS. 1-18 of said known invention disclose various examples of practical use of the article tidy-up cabinet, and there is a description to the effect that main bodies 1 are made in separate type and placed side by side or back to back, so as to be used by two persons at the same time. However, even if the various examples of use are investigated, the shelf plate reception support side plates 4, shelf plate reception support assembly 9, and the item panels 8 are limited to the state of vertical setup. As a result, the shelf plates 7 are only in a monotonous partition pattern, limited to the state of horizontal setup. [0010] It is pointed out by way of precaution that the portable type for use in a vehicle shown in FIG. 7 and the tray type shown in FIG. 10 are in the state of use with the opened front of the main body 1 directed upward, but in these article tidy-up cabinets, the dispositional directivity of the shelf plates 7 remains unchanged with the shelf plates being in a monotonous partition pattern, limited to one direction alone, vertical or horizontal. [0011] As a result, because the shelf plates 7 are thin-walled as compared with the item panels 8 and shelf plate reception support assembly 9 and depending upon such factors as the size, shape, hardness, and thickness of various articles, the user will be under the pressure of necessity to aimlessly and frequently reinsert the shelf plates 7, a problem that there is a lack of accommodatability and convenience of use of various articles. [0012] In this respect, the invention of Japanese Patent Laid-Open 2003-93172 contains a description to the effect that a plurality of furniture main bodies Q1 can be connected through a frame body R. However, even in FIG. 8 showing an example of use of side-by-side connection, shelf plates Q3 are all in the state of horizontal setup, and the dispositional directivity is limited to one direction alone, so that the same problem as in Japanese Paten Laid-Open 2001-270278 arises. [0013] Further, in storage furniture described in the invention of Japanese Patent Laid-Open 2003-93172, a sheet material (steel plate material) Q122 belonging to the lower surface of a top plate Q121 and the same sheet material Q132 belonging to the upper surface of a bottom plate Q131 are press-worked to form guide grooves Q122a and Q132a for receiving intermediate partition members Q2, with the result that said problem of Japanese Paten Laid-Open 2001-270278 is solved, allowing the partition members Q2 to be used by being smoothly correctly inserted from the front of the furniture main body Q1; thus, it may be said that there is an advantage that the partition distance can be easily adjusted for widening or narrowing. [0014] However, even in the invention of Japanese Patent Laid-Open 2003-93172, the side walls Q11 of the furniture main body Q1 and said partition members Q2 are prepared to be different in arrangement. [0015] That is, the arrangement of the partition member Q2 is such that a pair of upper and lower plates Q22 are integrally welded to opposite ends of a core material (square pipe material) Q23 and, besides this, it is necessary that a pair of partition plates (acrylic resin plates) Q24 formed with shelf receiving groove Q246 be held between core materials Q23 and fixed thereto. [0016] On the other hand, the side plate Q11 of the furniture main body Q1 consists of a panel plate P11 and its arrangement is such that the inner plate Q113 formed with shelf receiving grooves Q113a is required to be fixedly attached to the inner surface of the side panel Q111 by a plurality of set screws, so that as in the case of the invention of Japanese Paten Laid-Open 2001-270278, the assembly quality of the furniture main body Q1 can hardly be maintained uniform and the effect of mass production of storage furniture cannot be exhibited to the maximum. Means for Solving the Problems [0017] An object of the invention is to solve such problems, and to achieve the object, the arrangement of a first aspect of the invention is characterized by comprising [0018] a pair of first and second surrounding panels identical and opposed to each other in which a number of parallel partition wall panel receiving groove rails keeping a fixed opening width and a spacing pitch are formed in rows along the direction of the depth of the inner plate surface, [0019] a pair of third and fourth surrounding panels identical and opposed to each other in which a number of parallel partition plate receiving groove rails which lie in planes orthogonal to the partition wall panel receiving groove rails of the first and second surrounding panels and are formed in rows along the direction of the depth of the inner plate surface so as to keep a fixed opening width and a spacing pitch which are less than those of the partition wall panel receiving groove rails, [0020] at least one partition wall panel in which a number of parallel partition plate receiving groove rails which are the same as the partition plate receiving groove rails of the third and fourth surrounding panels are formed in rows along the direction of the depth of the one side plate surface, wherein said first through fourth surrounding panels and a back panel are used to integrally frame a cabinet main body in the form of a rectangular parallelepiped or regular hexahedron opened only in the front, Continue reading... 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