Divider for storage box

Abstract

This invention is directed to a strong, rigid, inexpensive and easy to manufacture divider system for use in containers, preferable portable corrugated board boxes. The divider is removeable and made from a single precut sheet of rigid material.

Description

[0001] The present invention relates to storage boxes and in particular to a novel, inexpensive and easily installed divider for use in storage boxes. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] Corrugated cardboard storage boxes are commonly used to store a variety of office-related papers, such as documents, file folders and binder containing documents, and other such items. These boxes are easily available to the general public in a number of sized, but generally rectangular or square. In particular, unassembled boxes are purchased as flat stock and are assembled by the user of the box. These unassembled boxes are pre-cut and scored sheets of corrugated board which are first folded along the score lines to form the box, and then various tabs are folded into prescored and cut places in order to hold the box together without the use of any kind of adhesive or other securing means. Lids are also provided which are similarly folded from the same type of pre-cut and scored corrugated board, an...

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Benefits of technology

[0010] One embodiment of the present divider system (“divider”) invention is a sheet of a corrugated board, cut into a rectangular shape, wherein the length is the length of the storage box plus up to twice the height of the interior of the storage box, having a width up to and preferably that of the width of the inside width of the storage box. This board is preferably cut and scored and which can be and is easily first folded in half lengthwise resulting in two sides of the board, side 1 and side 2, facing each other. Then, each side of the board is folded on marked or scored lines provided no further from the apex of the first fold than the height of the box into which the divider system is to be placed. These folds are at a 90 degree angle to each side, providing side 3 adjacent to side 1 and side 4 adjacent to side 2, where side 3 and 4 are facing away from each other, while being on the same horizontal plane. This results in a divider wall which is an upside down, vertical, “V” shape having sides 3 and 4 horizontally placed on either side of the divider wall. The height of sides 1 and 2 may be up to the height of the storage box into which this divider is to be placed.

Problems solved by technology

When a variety of these document-holding devices are placed in a vertical orientation in a storage box, the removal of one of the larger binders or envelopes will often cause the other file folders, binders, etc., to fall over and to become mixed-up or difficult to deal with when replacing the removed binder or envelope.

This is annoying when ready retrieval of particular folders is desired, and particularly so when the document-holding devices are placed in a particular order, such as by date or alphabetically.

However, these types of inventions are more complicate and too expensive to be used in storage boxes, and in particular inexpensive cardboard boxes.

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