Partitioned stylish hamper

{
  "publication_number": "US5833336A",
  "country": "US",
  "kind": "A",
  "title": "Partitioned stylish hamper",
  "abstract": "A clothes hamper apparatus having removable interior partitions and removable mesh clothing bags. Each partition has vertical edges members which are shaped to engage slots in a track system located on the hamper's walls or on another partition which it is engages. Hoop and loop or VELCRO™ fastener elements are located on mesh bags inserted into the hamper's interior and the walls of the partitions and the hamper to releasable retain the bag and their clothing contents in place within the hamper. The number of partitions and formed compartments within the hamper can be customized based on the placement of number of tracks in the track system to permit a number of mesh bags to be used one in each compartment.",
  "claims": [
    "1. A clothes hamper apparatus comprising: a hollow interior clothing hamper having four side walls, a bottom and an openable top; a vertically disposed track system mounted on two side walls of the hamper within the hamper's interior for slidably receiving a removable partition; a first removable partition adapted to be slidably fit on said track system mounted to the side walls within the hollow interior of the hamper, said first partition when fitted into the track system forming two compartments within the hollow interior of the clothing hamper; a mesh bag removably inserted into one of the compartment s formed within the hamper, said mesh bag having an upper perimeter edge with both vertical and horizontal hook and loop strip fasteners thereon; and hook and loop strip fasteners extending both horizontally and vertically along the interior upper peripheral edges of the hamper's sides and the upper edges of the partition, said hoop and loop strip fasteners on the hamper's sides and the partition being adapted to engage the vertical and horizontal hoop and loop strip fasteners on the mesh bag to hold the mesh bag within the compartment.",
    "2. The clothes hamper apparatus of claim 1, also including a tab attached to the mesh bag and extending upwardly to thereby permit the gripping the tab and the pulling of the bag upwardly to detach the bag from the hamper's compartment.",
    "3. The clothes hamper apparatus of claim of claim 1, also including an additional vertically disposed track system mounted substantially at the midsection of one of the hamper's side walls; and a track system on the partition vertically aligned with said additional track system on the partition's wall; and a second partition slidably insertable into the additional vertical disposed track system on the midsection of the hamper's side wall and the track system on the partition whereby two additional compartments are formable within one of said compartments the hollow hamper."
  ],
  "cpc": [
    "D06F 95/002"
  ],
  "filing_date": "1997-08-18",
  "publication_date": "1998-11-10",
  "grant_date": "1998-11-10",
  "priority_date": "1997-08-18",
  "application_number": "US-91239097-A",
  "family_id": "25431841",
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}