Carousel organizer with strapped shelves

Abstract

A suspended, collapsible carousel has a plurality of horizontal panels joined by vertical flexible walls to form a plurality of collapsible compartments. Hinged shelves have an inner side fastened to the outside of the walls so as to rotate upward toward and downward away from the outer walls. A pair of supports each fastens to an outer side of the shelf and to the panel above the shelf or the adjacent container wall. A strip of material is fastened to the container at the panel perimeters. The strip of material has a fastener with first and second releasably engaging parts which are spaced apart on the strip of material a distance sufficient to form a loop large enough to encircle a purse strap during use when the first and second parts releasably engage.

Description

BACKGROUND [0001]The present invention relates to collapsible hanging containers with one or more compartments, and a method and device for holding additional articles on the outer periphery of the containers[0002]Collapsible containers are known that have a plurality of vertical and / or horizontal compartments. The compartments have bottoms formed by sheets of material or spring loop frames that stretch a sheet of fabric tight. The bottoms or shelves may also be made of solid material, such as fiberboard, usually covered with fabric. The compartments are suspended vertically from each other by common walls formed by flexible material such as plastic, canvas, fabric or other sufficiently sturdy material. Such suspended shelves with spring-loop frames are described in U.S. Pat. No. 7,681,728. Such suspended shelves may have a hook or other connectors at the top to hang the compartments from a pole in a closet. Since the walls are flexible the walls can collapse to form a stack of shel...

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

[0011]In further variations, the shelf has a stiff bottom or a stiffener extending along at least a substantial portion of the shelf so the shelf is self supporting of its own weight and does not sag like a pocket. The supports may be parallel, crossed, or have other arrangements. Two to four supports are preferred. The supports may have a manually adjustable length, whether or not they are elastic. A toggle or cord lock can manually adjust the length of the supports and tighten an item resting on the shelf against the outside of the container. A manually adjustable length allows the shelf angle to be more readily adjusted relative to the horizontal or relative to the length of the container and container walls.

Problems solved by technology

Unfortunately the pockets limit the size, shape and number of articles that can be placed into them and thus limit the size of articles that can be held on the outer side of the vertical walls of the collapsible containers, and the pockets limit access to those articles.

Further, for items like purses having an elongated flexible strap or handles it is time consuming to fold up the purse handles and put the purse into a compartment of the container.

Once the purse is in the compartment it is difficult to access the purse contents without removing the purse from the compartment.

Further, the length of the purse straps or handles is not readily seen and that can make it difficult to select a purse with a desired strap or handle length.

Additionally, folding up the handles to squeeze them into pockets or small containers can kink or damage the handles.

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