Thomas Joseph Tyler

US Patent:

52073360, May 4, 1993

Filed:

May 20, 1992

Appl. No.:

7/886430

Inventors:

Thomas C. Tyler - Hopkins MN

Assignee:

Core Technologies, Inc. - Minneapolis MN

International Classification:

A47F 500

US Classification:

211183

Abstract:

A support bar for a storage rack includes a first downwardly facing u-shaped channel forming two sidewalls each having a lower edge at the open side of the channel. A second upwardly facing u-shaped channel faces the opposite direction of the first channel, and is formed as an extension of the lower edge of one of the sidewalls so that the two channels form an s-shape. A low friction material is disposed in the second channel, the material having a channel formed therein. A flange is formed as an extension of the lower edge of the other of the sidewalls, the flange extending upwardly away from the lower edge. The flange provides an edge to hang tape reels from, and the multipacks can be mounted in the rack by placing a first one of their flanges in the channel formed in low friction material, with the other flange resting inside the downwardly facing channel with the multipack in a tipped-back position, the channel of the low friction material allowing the multipacks to be slid freely back and forth along the length of the bars.

US Patent:

59081180, Jun 1, 1999

Filed:

May 13, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/855431

Inventors:

Thomas C. Tyler - Hopkins MN

Assignee:

Core Technolgies, Inc. - Eden Prairie MN

International Classification:

A47F 500

US Classification:

211 40

Abstract:

A media storage container is constructed from a first universal molded plastic component that is mated with a selected one of a plurality of other components each customized to hold media items of a particular type.