US3410445A - Drawer dividers - Google Patents

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Nov. 12, 1968 v. PILLEY DRAWER D IVIDERS Filed Oct; 11, 1966 Q In VEGLZ'OF By 672 4/ 6)! United States Patent "ice DRAWER DIVIDERS Vivien Pilley, 7 Hill Road, St. Johns Wood, London 8, England Filed Oct. 11, 1966, Ser. No. 585,952 Claims priority, application Great Britain, Oct. 15, 1965,

2 Claims. (Cl. 220-22) ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A set of parts for dividing a drawer having a plurality of dividers each of which is composed of sheet material and ribbed plastics material having a strip of plain plastics material coated on both sides with an adhesive.

The invention relates to drawer dividers and can be used to provide a set of parts for dividing drawers in any manner convenient to the user.

In accordance with the invention a drawer can be divided by means of dividers of sheet material such plastics material or fair faced hardboard, located by means of corrugated, ribbed or grooved plastics material, or coated or cellulose paper, the divisions being received in the slots formed by the corrugations, ribs or grooves.

Other materials can be substituted for the plastics or hardboard, the principal requirements being adequate strength, suitable surface properties and appearance and convenience of cutting to length by an unskilled user.

As an alternative to corrugated plastics material, or corrugated paper, it is possible to use any material which can be grooved conveniently to receive the ends of the dividers. Typically the material employed would be corrugated or grooved with quarter inch wide corrugations or grooves pitched three-quarters of an inch apart.

The corrugated or grooved support material is preferably coated with a pressure sensitive or like adhesive, covered until use with a tear-01f paper backing. It is thus possible for the user to cut the support material with scissors to the appropriate dimensions, tear 01f the backing paper and stick it directly to the side of the drawer to be divided.

The hardboard or like material dividers can likewise be cut to length by the user. Alternatively it is possible to coat one face of the divider material with adhesive near one end in the same way as the support material and for the manufacturer to cut it into such lengths that a wide range of drawer widths can be spanned by the use of a pair of lengths, overlapping to the appropriate degree. The user can then strip the backing paper from the overlapping parts of two lengths of dividers and join them to form a divider appropriate to a particular drawer.

Dividers can be used one above the other to divide drawers of any depth required.

The dividers can be strengthened if need be by sticking two together and it is possible to use the arrangement 3,410,445 Patented Nov. 12, 1968 with the dividers horizontal in order to form light shelves in cupboards and such like.

In order that the invention may be more thoroughly understood a'set of parts in accordance with it and the use of such parts to divide a drawer will be described, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:

FIGURE 1 is an isometric view of the divided drawer; and

FIGURE 2 is an isometric view of part of a strip of corrugated plastics material.

FIGURE 1 shows how a set of parts in accordance with the invention, comprising three lengths of plastic strip material 10, 12, 14 and two lengths of corrugated plastics material, 16 and 18, may be used to divide a conventional oblong drawer D.

The lengths 10 and 12 are coated with pressure sensitive adhesive adjacent to their overlapping ends, at 17, the adhesive being protected before use by a paper hacking. The degree of overlap is adjustable to suit the length of drawer D.

FIGURE 2 shows how the corrugated strips 16 and 18 are made self-adhesive so that they can readily be secured to the sides or ends of the drawer D.

The underside of the corrugated strips 16 and 18 carries a strip of plain plastics material 22 coated on both sides with layers of pressure sensitive adhesive 21 and 23, of which the outer layer 23 is protected before use by a tearolf backing paper strip 24.

A similar set of parts may be used to divide a space Within a set of shelves if the spacing of the corrugations are appropriately spaced apart to receive dividers, that is to say additional shelves, of the necessary thickness.

I claim:

1. A set of parts for dividing a drawer comprising a plurality of dividers each of sheet material and lengths of ribbed plastics material carrying on the underside thereof a strip of plain plastics material coated on both sides with layers of pressure sensitive adhesive.

2. A set of parts in accordance with claim 1, in which at least some of said dividers are coated with an adhesive near one end so that two may be joined with a degree of overlap to suit different drawers.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,568,834 1/1926 Hague.

2,169,318 8/ 1939 Copeland.

2,176,284 10/ 1939 Whitefold.

2,517,756 8/1950 Zabriskie.

2,695,112 11/ 1954 Bonnevay 220-22 X 2,718,326 9/1955 Le Blane 220-22 2,743,774 5/ 1956 Pinto 220-22 X 2,744,624 5/1956 Hoogstoel.

3,288,353 11/ 1966 McCullough.

THERON E. CONDON, Primary Examiner.

GEORGE E. LOWRANCE, Assistant Examiner.

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