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Organizational system for personal effectsRelated Patent Categories: Purses, Wallets, And Protective Covers, Purse Or Handbag Type, Compartmented, Removable (detachable) Compartment Or Compartment-forming MemberOrganizational system for personal effects description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20070062622, Organizational system for personal effects. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION [0001] This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/669,441, filed Apr. 8, 2005, the entire disclosure of which is hereby incorporated herein by reference. FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0002] The present invention relates generally to purses, pocketbooks, diaper bags and other carryall bags, and more particularly to an organizational system for organizing and managing items carried of one or more such bags. DISCUSSION OF RELATED ART [0003] As used herein, a "carryall bag" may have any one of many different forms, such as a purse, pocketbook, diaper bag, briefcase, duffle bag, tote bag, etc. By their very nature, carryall bags are meant to carry a large number of miscellaneous items, any of which may be needed at a given time. In the example of a purse, carried items may include personal effects such as a checkbook, glasses, sunglasses, contact case, calling cards, cigarettes, cigarette lighter, pen, pills, lipstick, raincoat, tissues, charge cards, pictures, wallet, key rings, cosmetics, toothbrush, hair brush, hair spray, soap, sunscreen, hand lotion, chewing gum, candy and a folding umbrella. [0004] Many purses include only one main compartment into which most or all of these items are placed. Accordingly, all carried items become intermingled in a loose, free-form collection at the bottom of the purse compartment. It is therefore difficult to find a particular item, and searching for the desired item becomes an exercise in rooting through the collection of items, removing items from the purse, etc. [0005] Some purses (or other carryall bags) have been provided with individual pockets internal to or external to the main compartment. Such pockets are typically integral to the purse structure, e.g. are sewn into a lining, etc. Many such examples are known in the art. [0006] Continuing with the example of purses, it is common that a particular woman will own and use several different purses generally concurrently, each purse being particularly suitable to a different one of several occasions. For example, one purse may be particularly well suited for a trip to the grocery store while another is particularly well suited to a black-tie dinner affair. In this case, the purses' owner must individually remove all of the items from one purse and transfer them to another. To alleviate this problem, there have been invented various purse inserts. These inserts allow for transfer of all items from one purse to the other by simply transferring the insert. These purse inserts vary in structure and include a pocket having several vertically stacked partitions and flexible fabric inserts that have numerous specialized pockets, snaps and flaps. Examples of these inserts are shown by Ody in U.S. Pat. No. 3,533,459, Wilson in U.S. Pat. No. 2,893,457, Holden in U.S. Pat. No. 2,464,312, and Smith in U.S. Pat. No. 1,999,669. [0007] A major problem with such purse inserts is that the structures defining the individual pockets and compartments are not rigid and/or self-supporting. Rather, they are made of flexible fabric, cloth and/or other supple materials and/or depend upon the structure of the purse itself for structural support. This prevents the insert from being usable in a practical manner apart from its use in conjunction with the purse. Further, prior art arrangements fail to provide an array of side-by-side open compartments, each of which is readily accessible from an opening at the top of the purse/bag. Further still, the various prior art arrangements fail to provide for various different combinations of individual storage compartments to allow one combination of compartments to be used with one purse (e.g. the grocery shopping purse) and another combination of compartments to be used with another purse (e.g. the dinner affair purse). For example, a plurality of discrete compartments may be provided that are configured to be selectively interconnected and disconnected in modular fashion to provide different combinations of individual storage compartments. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0008] The present invention provides an organizational system for carryall bags, such as purses. The organizational system includes an outer bag body and a rigid storage basket configured to fit within the outer bag body. The outer bag body may have any suitable structure, such as a conventional purse structure that includes a shoulder strap and a zipper-closable top. The storage basket preferably includes multiple individual storage compartments arranged adjacent one another with a respective open end of each storage compartment arranged adjacent one another so that all individual storage compartments are readily accessible from an opening at the top of the purse/bag when the basket is positioned within the bag body. Any desired configuration of compartments, and combinations of compartments, may be provided. A purse, carry-all bag, etc. including an exemplary rigid storage basket provides readily accessible, plainly visible, open-top, compartmentalized storage for personal effects. [0009] In one embodiment, the rigid storage basket 50 is fixedly attached to the bag body 10 so as not to be readily removable therefrom. In such an embodiment, the storage basket is intended to be used with only a single bag body, namely the attached bag body. In this manner, the storage basket acts primarily as a divider, to define compartments for use in separating, organizing and containing one's personal effects. [0010] In another embodiment, the rigid storage basket is readily removable from the outer bag body and is self-supporting such that the basket may be removed from the purse and placed upright on a kitchen countertop, table, vanity, etc. to provide organization to the basket's contents without the need for any support from a bag body. Optionally, the organizational system includes one or more interchangeable bag bodies, and one or more interchangeable storage baskets, so that a single storage basket may be carried within one of several different bag bodies, and/or a single bag body may carry any one of several different storage baskets. Accordingly, for example, a single storage basket storing a variety of personal effects may be moved from one purse (e.g. the grocery shopping purse) and another combination of compartments to be used with another purse (e.g. the black tie affair purse). [0011] Optionally, the organizational system further includes a receptacle that defines a socket configured to receive a removable storage basket. For example, the receptacle may be retained on a countertop, etc. and the storage basket may be moved from a purse to the receptacle while the purse's owner is at home so that ready access may be had to personal effects without the burden of searching in a purse, and yet all such personal effects may be easily moved to a bag body when the owner wishes to leave the home. The receptacle may be configured to support the storage basket in an embodiment in which the storage basket is not sufficiently self-supporting. [0012] In either a removable or non-removable embodiment, the storage basket may include multiple removable liners, such as a rigid plastic trays, each being positionable within one of its individual storage compartments. In one embodiment, the liners and storage baskets are of an interchangeable design. In this manner, personal effects are placed in the individual liners, and each liner with its personal effects contents may be individually removed from one purse/basket (e.g. the grocery shopping purse) to another purse or storage basket (e.g. the dinner affair purse or the counter top mounting receptacle basket) to provide for various different combinations of individual storage compartments to allow various combinations of individual liners/storage compartments. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS [0013] The present invention will now be described by way of example with reference to the following drawings in which: [0014] FIG. 1 is a side view of an exemplary purse-style carryall bag body for use in accordance with the present invention; [0015] FIG. 2 is a top view of the bag body of FIG. 1, shown open and housing therein an exemplary storage basket in accordance with the present invention; [0016] FIG. 2A is a top view of an alternative embodiment of the storage basket of FIG. 2; [0017] FIG. 3 is a side view of the exemplary storage basket of FIG. 2; [0018] FIGS. 4-6 are top views of the bag body and storage basket of FIG. 2, showing compatibility of the storage basket with another bag body and a mounting receptacle; [0019] FIGS. 7-9 are side views of FIGS. 4-6; Continue reading about Organizational system for personal effects... 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