US3327688A

US3327688A - Desk organizer

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Publication number: US3327688A
Application number: US507452A
Authority: US
Inventors: Smith Irving
Original assignee: Arrow Art Finishers Inc
Current assignee: Arrow Art Finishers Inc
Priority date: 1965-11-12
Filing date: 1965-11-12
Publication date: 1967-06-27
Anticipated expiration: 1984-06-27

Description

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June 27, 1967 l. SMITH 3,327,688

DESK ORGANIZER Filed Nov. 12, 1965 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR.

IRVING SMITH flaw am a ATTORNEYS United States Patent 3,327,688 DESK ORGANIZER Irving Smith, Flushing, N.Y. Arrow Art Finishers, Inc., 1201 Evergreen Ave., Bronx, N.Y. 10472) Filed Nov. 12, 1965, Ser. No. 507,452 11 Claims. (Cl. 120-1) ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A desk organizer composed of a hollow cylindrical closed bottom can in which there is inserted a ring of four paper boa-rd panels that sub-divide the interior of the can into a square vertical shaft and four chordal pockets for the reception of elongated implements. One of the pockets has a bottom filler to shorten such pocket. Another pocket is closed at the top. A stack of vertically spaced horizontal drawers is vertically slidable in the shaft.

This invention relates to a desk organizer.

It is the primary object of my invention to provide a desk organizer for compartmentalizing the various items normally found on an ofiice desk as, for example, pens, pencils, small rulers, paper clips, rubber bands, pins, razor blades and stamps, in a neat and orderly manner so that these items can be stored out of the way but yet be readily available to the user.

It is a further object of my invention to provide a desk organizer of the character described which includes a vertically shiftable stack of drawers in which a number of small items may be placed and wherein access to the stack of drawers is normally blocked to retain the items but wherein said stack can be easily shifted to an open, unblocked position in which the items may be removed from the drawers.

It is yet another object of my invention to provide a desk organizer of the character described which has components for transforming an empty open-topped can into said organizer and which components are convertible from fiat folded condition to erect condition, said components therefore being adapted to be sent through the mails in their folded condition and being further adapted to be easily and quickly brought to their erect condition by a recipient.

It is a further object of my invention to provide a desk organizer of the character described having'components which may be integrated with an open mouthed hollow metallic can to transform the can into said organizer, the desk organizer lending itself to have said components sold in kit form so that a purchaser may combine said components with a suitable can already in the purchasers possession in order to construct the desk organizer.

It is another object of my invention to provide a desk organizer of the character described which is simple in construction, few in its number or parts, attractive in appearance, and saleable at a relatively low price, and which is suitable as a premium item especially for companies marketing a product enclosed in a can so that a purchaser thereof may buy certain components of the desk organizer and utilize them with an empty can which previously housed the product of said company.

Other objects of my invention in part will be obvious and in part will become apparent to the reader in the following description.

My invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combinations of elements and arrangements of parts which will be exemplified in the desk organizer hereinafter described and of which the scope of application will be indicated in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings in which is shown one of the various possible embodiments of my invention:

FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of a desk organizer constructed in accordance with my invention and showing the elevator stack of drawers partially withdrawn from the can;

FIG. 2 is a top plan view of my desk organizer;

FIG. 3 is a vertical axial view of my desk organizer taken substantially along the line 3-3 of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a view similar to FIG. 3 but taken at thereto and substantially along the line 4-4 of FIG. 2;

FIG. 5 is a plan view of the filler for my desk organizer in flattened condition;

FIG. 6 is an enlarged transverse cross-sectional view of the filler taken substantially along the line 66 of FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is a plan view of the elevator stack of drawers in flattened condition;

FIG. 8 is a front perspective view of the filler in erect condition; and

FIG. 9 is a transverse cross-sectional view of the elevator stack of drawers taken substantially along the line 99 of FIG. 7.

In general, and in accordance with the teachings of my invention, I provide a desk organizer adapted to store in one location the numerous small items which usually clutter up an ofiice desk. These items include pens and pencils, small rulers, paper clips, elastic bands, stamps and thumb tacks. Special provision is made in my desk organizer to hold a razor blade in a safe manner. My desk organizer can also be well utilized on a desk in the home or any other area in the home where correspondence is written and other similar activities are carried on.

My desk organizer includes three components, to wit: a hollow cylindrical can having a closed bottom and an open mouth, a filler received in the can and dividing the can into a number of chordal pockets and an elevator stack of drawers. The chordal pockets are suited to receive thin, elongated items such, for example, as pens, pencils and rulers. The tiller further defines a shaftway within the can in which the elevator stack of drawers is slidably received. The elevator stack of drawers has a handle by which it may be lifted from the can so as to expose intermediate and lower drawers. A drawer is also formed at the top of the elevator and this drawer is always exposed. Small items can be stored within these drawers with the items in the intermediate and lower drawers having access thereto blocked until the elevator is lifted by the user.

The filler and the elevator can be erected from a flattened condition to an open condition quickly and easily by a purchaser thereof. Due to the foldability of these components, they may be easily sent through the mails. An intended merchandising mode of my desk organizer is as a premium item of the type which persons may receive through the mails. My desk organizer is especially appropriate as a promotional item for a company which sells its product housed in a cylindrical can. In this form, a purchaser of the companys product, after utilizing its contents, may send for the foldable components of the desk organizer and upon receipt erect and integrate these components with the can which formerly housed the companys product. The can is converted to a useable condition simply by removing one end wall thereof without leaving sharp edges (which will have been done when its contents were previously removed), and cleaning the can. When the components which have been received through the mail are combined with the can, the purchaser will have a useful and attractive item at low cost. The compan will thereby build good will among those who have constructed my desk organizer in this -23 manner and if the can carries advertising material, this advertising material will be continually viewed not only by the purchaser of the components but as well by others who see the desk organizer in the users possession.

Referring now in detail to the drawings, the reference numeral denotes a desk organizer according to my invention. As one of its component parts, the desk organizer includes a hollow can 12 having a cylindrical configuration formed by a thin sheet metal wall 14. The bottom end of the can is closed by a circular flat sheet metal floor 16 and the can has an open mouth 18, the former top having been removed cleanly in order to eliminate any sharp edges. If desired, the outside surface of the can may bear advertising indicia or suitable ornamental or display material. The can is rigid and supports and contains the other components of the desk organizer. The floor 16 of the can may be placed upon any flat horizontal surface so that the desk organizer can stand thereon.

My desk organizer 10 further includes as another basic component part, a filler 22 (shown open-erected-in FIG. 8) which is received by and located within the interior of the can 12. The filler is polygonal and preferably square in transverse cross-section. The length of a horizontal diagonal drawn between the corners 24 of the filler is substantially equal to the interior diameter of the can 12 so that the filler fits snugly within the can and so that the corners (apices) 24 of the filler touch the interior surface of the can wall 14 along the entire lengths of said corners 24. The abutment of said corners adjacent the wall of the can prevents shifting of the filler Within the can and prevents change in the configuration of the filler in the can, once the filler is located Within the can. The filler is formed from a ring of four contiguous panels 26, and in a preferred embodiment each panel is alike in dimensions and shape. Each panel 26 is similarly vertically elongated and has a height the same as the axial length of the can 12.

When located within the can 12, each of the panels 26 defines a chordal plane (see FIG. 2) within the cylinder defined by the can wall 14. Each panel together with an associated cylindrical section of the can wall 14 defines therebetween a chordal pocket 28, all the chordal pockets being of the same shape and the chordal pockets being located angularly about the filler 22. The bottoms of the pockets 28 are closed by the floor 16 of the can and the pockets have open top ends.

The pockets 28 are well suited to receive various elongated, thin articles such, for example, as pencils 30, brushes 32, and a small ruler 34. In contrast to a conventional large diameter cylindrical pencil holder, the pockets 28 are relatively thin and elongated and have a sufficiently small longest transverse dimension such that the pens and pencils are not permitted to tilt excessively to one side or another even when the pocket is not filled. In the conventional pencil holder with a large internal cavity. pens and pencils therein tend to lean to one side and look unkempt unless a large number of pens and pencils are disposed therein.

One of the pockets 28a may be shortened by a platform 36 (FIGS. 3 and 8) adjacent to but higher in elevation than the fioor 16 of the can 12. Consequently, the height of the pocket 28a is less than the height of the other pockets 28 and this shorter pocket 28a is, accordingly, well suited to accommodate relatively shorter elongated items Which, due to the platform 36, will have their topmost portions raised and exposed so that they can be grasped by a user of the desk organizer.

Optionally one of the pockets 28b (FIGS. 1, 2 and 4) is closed at its top end by a blocking member 38 (see also FIG. 8) so that, as soon will be apparent, no pens or pencils can obstruct the entry of the fingers of the hand of the user into the intermediate and lower drawers, when the elevator stack of drawers is partially lifted from the can. The filler 22 further defines a central elongated 4 vertical shaftway 40 of uniform transverse cross-section within the can 12. Each of the panels 26 defines one of the four sides of the shaftway. The shaftway preferably is square in transverse cross-section. The bottom of the shaftway is closed by the floor 16 of the can.

An elevator stack of drawers 42 is vertically shiftable in the shaftway and can be withdrawn partially or completely by the handle 44 located at the top of the elevator. The elevator 42 has a number of vertically aligned vertically spaced individual drawers, including a bottom drawer 46, an intermediate drawer 48 and a top drawer 56. Each drawer has a floor, respectively, 52, 54 and 56. mediate drawer 48 is defined on its front and rear sides by two parallel flanges respectively 58, and on its other set of opposed sides by the upper portions of two parallel vertically elongated panels respectively 62, 64. The intermediate drawer 48 is defined on its front and rear sides by a pair of opposed parallel flanges respectively 66, 68 and on its other set of opposed sides by intermediate portions of the

panels

62, 64. The bottom drawer 46 is defined on its front and rear sides by a set of opposed parallel flanges respectively 70, 72 and on its other set of opposed sides by the lower portions of the

panels

62, 64. The flanges retain small objects within the drawers and define front openings and rear access openings 0 for the intermediate and bottom drawers, the openings for the intermediate and bottom drawers lying in parallel vertical planes.

One of the walls circumscribing the top drawer 59 has a slit pocket 74 in which may be secured the flat body of a single edge safety razor blade 76 so that the blade can be stored in the pocket and its keen edge concealed so as to prevent harm to the user.

The elevator stack of drawers 42 has a transverse configuration matching that of the shaftway 40 so that the stack can be shifted within said central shaftway upwardly from a normal storage position wherein the floor 52 of the bottom drawer 46 rests on the floor 16 of the can. This position of the stack of drawers is shown in FIGS. 3 and 4. The elevator stack of drawers can be readily withdrawn from the can by a user grasping the handle 44 and simply lifting the drawers from the can. The elevator can be lifted partly so that only the intermediate drawer 48 is exposed or raised somewhat higher so that the bottom drawer 46 is additionally exposed. This latter position is illustrated in FIG. 1. If desired, the stack of drawers can be completely removed from the can. In shifting within the can, the panels 62, 64- of the stack of drawers slide along the opposed pair of panels 26 of the filler and the flanges defining the openings of the drawers slide along the other opposed pair of the panels of the fi-ller.

As has been mentioned, it is desirable that the filler 22 and the elevator stack of drawers 42 be constructed so that they may be sold in flattened condition and can be quickly and easily brought to erect condition by a purchaser. In flattened condition the filler and the elevator stack of drawers lend themselves to be sent through the mails in a safe and inexpensive fashion. It is intended that the filler and the elevator stack of drawers be sold in kit form and be suitably dimensioned so that they may be integrated with a can 12 already in the possession of the purchaser of these other components. By way of example, the can 12 may have been originally utilized to contain a quantity of motor oil. After the motor oil is used, the can has its top fully and cleanly removed and its interior cleaned so that thereafter it can be cornbined with the other components to form the desk organizer of my invention. By way of further example, the can may be of the type utilized to market coffee grounds. Such cans often have a beaded top rim surrounding their mouths and are closed by a plastic cap which peripherally grips said rim. With said rim removed, this type of can is well adapted to be integrated with the foldable components of my invention to form a desk organizer.

'For the foregoing purpose, and as illustrated in FIGS. 5, 6 and 8, the fiiler 22 is of paperboard and includes five like

oblong sections

78, 80, 82, 84 and 86. The

sections

78, 80 are connected along adjacent long edges by a fold line 88; the

sections

80, 82 are connected along adjacent long edges by a fold line 90; the

sections

82, 84 are connected along adjacent long edges by a fold line 92; the

sections

84, 86 are connected along adjacent long edges by a fold line 94. The sections 7 8, 86 are overlapped in face-to-face relation and are attached to one another as by .gluing to form a ring of sections. The section 86 may be of lesser width. The section 86 may be omitted since once the filler has been erected to its square transverse cross-sectional shape and inserted in the can with the stack of drawers therein, the filler cannot collapse inadvertently. This is due to the fact the panels of the filler are in sliding contact with the panels and flanges of the stack of drawers. Nevertheless even with the endmost section 86 not intermediate, the set of sections still functions as a ring.

As best seen in FIG. 6 the filler may be brought to flattened condition by moving the fold line 88 towards the fold line 92 so that the filler collapses along the fold lines 90, 94. The filler is brought to erect condition simply by urging the fold lines 90, 94 towards one another until the substantially square transverse cross-section is achieved as seen in FIG. 8. As mentioned earlier, the filler is dimensioned so that each of its corners touches the wall of the can when the erect filler is placed therein, so that the can serves to retain the filler in its proper square erect condition.

The blocking member 38 which prevents placement of pens and pencils into one of the chordal pockets constitutes a circular segmental flap 96 connected .to one of the sections, eg the section 80, by a fold line 98. The fold line 98 is perpendicular to the fold lines 88 through 94 and is located at the upper end of the section 80. The free edge of the flap 96 is of a radius which is the same as the radius of the can 12. When the filler is erected, the flap is flexed along its fold line 98 to a position extending outward from the center of the filler and perpendicular to the section 80. When the filler is placed within the can, the flap 96 constitutes the blocking member 38.

The platform 36 which shortens one of the chordal pockets 28 is formed by a pair of spaced like circular

segmental flaps

100, 102 located on a different section 78 on an end of the filler opposed to the end at which the flap 96 is located. The free edge of each of the

flaps

100, 102 is of a radius which is the same as the radius of the can 12. A short narrow spacer strip 104 is unitarily connected to the center of the free edge of the flap 100 by a fold line 106 and is unitarily connected to the center of the free edge of the flap 102 by a fold line 108. Each of the flaps has a unitary flange, respectively 110, 112, which is fixed to the section '78 as by gluing. Each of the flaps is connected to its integral flange by a fold line so that, as seen in FIG. 5, both

flaps

100, 102, as well as the strip 104, can be flexed along their respective fold lines to a flattened condition in which the flaps and strip lie in planes substantially parallel to and adjacent the plane of the section 78. When the filler is erected, the flaps can be flexed to a position where each of them is perpendicular to the section 78 (see FIG. 8). When the filler is placed within the can (see FIG. 3) the lower flap 102 rests flat against the floor 16 of the can and the strip 104 abuts the wall of the can, thereby holding the top flap 100 in a horizontal position across the bottom of the chordal pocket 28a and providing the raised platform 36 for relatively short pens, pencils and the like.

The elevator stack of drawers 42, as has been said, is also constructed to be sold for shipment in flat folded condition as shown in FIGS. 7 and 9. The elevator stack of drawers 42 is of paperboard and includes five like oblong sections connected by fold lines. Sections 114,

116 are connected by a fold line 118 (FIG. 7);

sections

116, 120 are connected by a fold line 122;

sections

120, 124 are connected by a fold line 126; and

sections

124, 128 are connected by a fold line 130. The section 128 is fixed to the section 114 in face-to-face relation, as by gluing, so as to form a ring of four sections. However, upper marginal portions of the

sections

114, 128 are not eglued so that a thin single edge safety razor blade 76 can be introduced therein. The adjacency of these two sections in a rectangular local area as outlined by dash lines 152 in FIG. 4 provides the slit pocket 74.

A flap 52a is connected by a fold line 132 (FIG. 4) to the lower edge of the section 116 and a like flap 52b is connected by a fold line 134 to the lower edge of the section 124.

As best seen in FIG. 9, the ring of sections can be collapsed along the

fold lines

118, 126 to a substantially flat condition in which it lends itself to be sent along with the filler in the same condition through the mails.

The handle 44 is provided on opposite sides with unitary tabs 136, 138 (FIG. 1) which are fixed, as by gluing, to top marginal parts of respectively the

sections

128, 120. The handle is connected to these tabs by fold lines so that the tabs can flex on said fold lines within the flattened ring of four sections.

The

sections

124, 116 each have an upper flap formed therein, these constituting a flap 56b formed in the section 124 by being cut free of said section along both its side edges and its bottom edge and being connected to said section 124 at its top edge by a fold line 140 (FIG. 7), and a flap 56a (FIG. 4) similarly formed in the section 116 and being connected thereto by a fold line 142. When the stack of drawers is erected, both flaps 56a and 5612 are elevated to a horizontal position by being folded inwardly toward one another with the flap 56b underlying the flap 56a, as best seen in FIG. 4. The

flaps

56a and 56b combine to form the floor 56 of the top drawer 50 and are retained in elevated overlapping condition by a paper lock constituting a pair of small tabs 144 which flex inwardly from the

sections

114, 128 and the section 120.

In a similar fashion, the floor S4 of the intermediate drawer 48 is formed by the pair of

flaps

54a and 54b formed respectively from

sections

116, 124 and which are kept in their proper location when the stack of drawers is erected by another pair of small tabs 146 in the

sections

114, 128 and the section 120. The unfolding of the

flaps

54a, 54b, 56a and 56!; form the access openings 0 for the drawers (trays) 46, 48 respectively.

The

flaps

52a and 52b overlap to form the floor 52 and are interengaged by a paper lock constituting a small tongue 148 formed in the flap 52b which passes through a slit 150 in the flap 52a so as to hold these flaps against one another.

It will now be appreciated that both the filler 22 and the stack of drawers 42 can be shipped and sold in flattened condition and can be quickly and easily brought to erect condition by a purchaser by easy manipulation of these components.

As various possible embodiments might be made of the above invention, and as various changes might be made in the embodiment set forth, it is to be understood that all matter herein described or shown in the accompanying drawings is to be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A desk organizer for compartmentalizing and storing various objects such as pens, pencils, rulers and the like, said desk organizer including a hollow cylindrical can having an open top and a closed bottom adapted to stand on a horizontal flat surface, and a tubular filler comprising a polygonal ring of sheet panels located in the can with the apices thereof adjacent to the inner surface of the can so that each of the panels defines with an opposed segment of the inner surface of the can a chordal pocket,

the pockets surrounding the filler and at least some with open top mouths to receive and hold pens, pencils, rulers and the like in substantially vertical position, the panels of the filler jointly defining an interior central vertical shaftway of substantially uniform transverse polygonal crosssection, said desk organizer being additionally adapted to compartmentalize and store small objects such as paper clips, elastic bands, thumb tacks, pins, stamps and the like, said desk organizer further including a stack of vertically spaced drawers inclusive of a bottom drawer having a transversely located access opening above the same, and a handle fixed to an upper portion of the stack by which the stack may be gripped by a user, the stack having a transverse cross-section mating with the transverse crosssection of the shaftway and being vertically slidably shiftable in the shaftway between a bottom position in which the bottom of the stack is seated on the bottom of the can and the panels of the filler block access to the opening of the bottom drawer and an elevated position wherein the access opening for the bottom drawer is clear of the panels to permit entrance to said bottom drawer.

2. A desk organizer as set forth in claim 1 wherein one chordal pocket blocks access to said opening for the bottom drawer and wherein a blocking member is provided closing the open top mouth of said chordal pocket so as to prevent introduction of articles into said chordal pocket which would interfere with withdrawal of articles from the bottom drawer through said access opening when the stack is lifted.

3. A desk organizer for compartmentalizing and storing various objects such as pens, pencils, rulers and the like, said desk organizer including a hollow cylindrical can having an open top and a closed bottom adapted to stand on a horizontal flat surface, and a tubular filler comprising a polygonal ring of sheet panels located in the can with the apices thereof adjacent to the inner surface of the can so that each of the panels defines with an opposed segment of the inner surface of the can a chordal pocket, the pockets surrounding the filler and at least some with open top mouths to receive and hold pens, pencils, rulers and the like in substantially vertical position, the panels of the filler jointly defining an interior central vertical shaftway of substantially uniform transverse polygonal cross-section, said desk organizer further including a platform located at the bottom of and thereby shortening one of the chordal pockets so that said pocket may receive relatively short pens, pencils, rulers and the like which otherwise would be shorter than the pocket.

4. A desk organize-r as set forth in claim 1 wherein the filler comprises a ring of four panels and is of substantially uniform transverse cross-section and wherein the stack of drawers includes a ring of four panels of mating transverse cross-section, said panels in part defining the drawers and each panel contacting and sliding along a different one of the panels of the filler as the stack is withdrawn from the filler.

5. A desk organizer as set forth in claim 1 wherein the stack of drawers includes an upper permanently exposed top drawer the contents of which are permanently accessible to a user and an intermediate drawer between the top drawer and the bottom drawer, the top, intermediate and bottom drawers being vertically spaced and providing access openings to the drawers in opposed sides of the stack, said access openings being blocked by the panels of the filler when the stack is in its lowermost position in the can and said access openings for the intermediate and bottom drawers successively shifting clear of the top edges of the panels of the filler to permit a user to reach into said drawers as the stack of drawers is Withdrawn from the can.

6. A desk organizer as set forth in claim 5 wherein each of the drawers is bounded by upstanding walls to prevent items from accidentally falling out of the drawers.

7. A desk organizer as set forth in claim 1 wherein the filler comprises a ring of four panels convertible from flat folded condition to erect condition, said filler having a said flap when the filler is located in the can blocking the mouth of a chord-a1 pockets which, when pens and pencils placed therein, would block access to the drawers and the.

filler has another flap swingably connected to a different one of its panels which when the filler is located in the can constitutes a platform shortening a different chordal pocket so that said pocket can accommodate pens and pencils of smaller lengths.

9. A desk organizer as set forth in claim 1 wherein th filler constitutes a ring of four paperboard panels of the same dimensions convertible from fiat folded condition to erect condition of square transverse cross-section inscribable in the can so that the can will maintain the filler in its erect condition when the filler is disposed therein, the panels of said filler including flaps, one of said flaps being swingable to horizontal position to form the bottom drawer, at least one other of said flaps being swingable to horizontal position to define a top permanently exposed drawer, said last named flap when swung to horizontal position leaving a laterally located access opening for a drawer beneath the same, said filler including paper locks to maintain the flaps in horizontal condition, said filler further including a circular segmental flap foldably connected to a top edge of one of the four panels of the filler for blocking one chordal pocket, said filler additionally including another circular segmental flap foldably connected to a ditierent one of the panels of the filler and spaced from the bottom of said panel and over the platform to shorten a different chordal pocket, said last named flap including a spacer stay to hold said flap in horizontal position, said stack of drawers comprising a ring of four paperboard panels of the same dimensions convertible from a flat folded condition to an erect condition of transverse cross-section slidably matching the transverse cross-section of the shaftway defined by the erect filler, the panels of said stack including flaps, one of said filler, the panels of said stack including flaps, one of said flaps being swingable to horizontal position to form the bottom drawer, at least one other of said flaps being swing able to horizontal position to define a top permanently exposed drawer, said last named flap when swung to horizontal position leaving a laterally located access opening for a drawer beneath the same, said stack including paper locks to maintain the flaps in horizontal condition, said access opening being arranged to correspond with the chordal pocket which is blocked by a flap so that when the stack is lifted entrance thereto is not inhibited by articles contained in said pocket.

10. A two component kit for converting a hollow cylindrical can having an open top and a closed bottom, adapted to stand on a horizontal fiat surface, into a desk organizer for compartmentalizing and storing various small objects such as pens, pencils, paper clips, elastic bands, stamps and the like, one of said components comprising a filler having a ring of panels and foldable from a flattened condition to an erect condition of square transverse cross-section, said cross-section having a diagonal substantially the same as the diameter of the can so that when the filler is located in the can each of the panels of the filler defines with an opposed segment of the inner surface of the can a chordal pocket and so that the panels of the filler further define an interior central vertical shaftway of substantially uniform square cross-section, the other of said components comprising a stack of vertically spaced open drawers adapted to hold small items as paper clips, elastic bands and the like and having a ring of panels foldable from a flattened condition to an erect condition of a transverse cross-section matable with the cross-section of the shaftway, the stack including flaps swingably connected to its panels and cooperable with the panels to form a top and a bottom drawer.

11. A desk organizer for compartmentalizing and storing various objects such as pens, pencils, rulers and the like, said desk organizer including an arcuate Wall defining a hollow cylindrical space, said wall having an open top and a closed bottom adapted to stand on a horizontal flat surface and a tubular filler comprising a polygonal ring of panels located within the wall with the apices thereof adjacent to the inner surface of the Wall so that each panel defines with an opposed segment of the inner surface of the wall, a chordal pocket, a stack of drawers supported by the panels, at least some of the chordal pockets having open top mouths to receive and hold pens,

pencils, rulers and the like in substantially vertical position, the drawers being adapted to receive and store small objects such as paper clips, elastic bands, thumbtacks, pins, stamps and the like.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS DAVID J. WILLIAMOWSKY, Primary Examiner. JAMES T. MCCALL, Examiner.

Claims

1. A DESK ORGANIZER FOR COMPARTMENTALIZING AND STORING VARIOUS OBJECTS SUCH AS PENS, PENCILS, RULERS AND THE LIKE, SAID DESK ORGANIZER INCLUDING A HOLLOW CYLINDRICAL CAN HAVING AN OPEN TOP AND A CLOSED BOTTOM ADAPTED TO STAND ON A HORIZONTAL FLAT SURFACE, AND A TUBULAR FILLER COMPRISING A POLYGONAL RING OF SHEET PANELS LOCATED IN THE CAN WITH THE APICES THEREOF ADJACENT TO THE INNER SURFACE OF THE CAN SO THAT EACH OF THE PANELS DEFINES WITH AN OPPOSED SEGMENT OF THE INNER SURFACE OF THE CAN A CHORDAL POCKET, THE POCKETS SURROUNDING THE FILLER AND AT LEAST SOME WITH OPEN TOP MOUTHS TO RECEIVE AND HOLD PENS, PENCILS RULERS AND THE LIKE IN SUBSTANTIALLY VERTICAL POSITION, THE PANELS OF THE FILLER JOINTLY DEFINING AN INTERIOR CENTRAL VERTICAL SHAFTWAY OF SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM TRANSVERSE POLYGONAL CROSSSECTION, SAID DESK ORGANIZER BEING ADDITIONALLY ADAPTED TO COMPARTMENTALIZE AND STORE SMALL OBJECTS SUCH AS PAPER CLIPS, ELASTIC BANDS, THUMB TACKS, PINS, STAMPS AND THE LIKE, SAID DESK ORGANIZER FURTHER INCLUDING A STACK OF VERTICALLY SPACED DRAWERS INCLUSIVE OF A BOTTOM DRAWER HAVING A TRANSVERSELY LOCATED ACCESS OPENING ABOVE THE SAME, AND A HANDLE FIXED TO AN UPPER PORTION OF THE STACK BY WHICH THE STACK MAY BE GRIPPED BY A USER, THE STACK HAVING A TRANSVERSE CROSS-SECTION MATING WITH THE TRANSVERSE CROSSSECTION OF THE SHAFTWAY AND BEING VERTICALLY SLIDABLY SHIFTABLE IN THE SHAFTWAY BETWEEN A BOTTOM POSITION IN WHICH THE BOTTOM OF THE STACK IS SEATED ON THE BOTTOM OF THE CAN AND THE PANELS OF THE FILLER BLOCK ACCESS TO THE OPENING OF THE BOTTOM DRAWER AND AN ELEVATED POSITION WHEREIN THE ACCESS OPENING FOR THE BOTTOM DRAWER IS CLEAR OF THE PANELS TO PERMIT ENTRANCE TO SAID BOTTOM DRAWER.