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US 8,480,047 · App. 12/653,074 · Granted Jul 9, 2013

Flexible adjustable storage system for Sea-Land shipping containers

Inventor: Michael J. Sloan (Coeur d'Alene, ID)
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Patent No.
US 8,480,047
App. No.
12/653,074
Granted
Jul 9, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A flexible and adjustable storage system for inside a Sea-Land shipping container provides at least two hangers, each hanger having a releasable anchor for attachment to a lashing ring, a flexible member of a vertical support depending from the releasable anchor, at least one rigid horizontal support member having a first end portion and a spaced apart second end portion, each end portion carrying an adjustable fastener for adjustable attachments to the flexible member for vertical support.

Claims (3)

1. A flexible adjustable storage system for Sea-Land shipping containers carried by spaced apart lashing rings to depend therefrom on atop a wall inside the Sea-Land shipping container, the flexible adjustable storage system comprising in combination: a Sea-Land shipping container having at least one vertical wall and a floor and spaced apart lashing rings carried by the at least one vertical wall spacedly above the floor; at least two spaced apart hangers, each hanger having an elongate flexible member for vertical support, having a first leg with a first end portion and a second leg with a second end portion, a releasable anchor communicating with the flexible member for vertical support to releasably interconnect with the spaced apart lashing rings so that the first leg and the second leg depend therefrom adjacent the wall, at least one rigid horizontal support member extending between the first leg and the second leg for carriage of a load thereon, each rigid horizontal support member having a first end portion and an opposing second end portion; a fastener for adjustably interconnecting the rigid horizontal support member to the first leg and the second leg of the flexible member for vertical support; a shelf barb bracket extending perpendicularly upwardly is mounted thereon top surface of the at least one rigid horizontal support member, near the elongate flexible member first leg; and a shelf barb carried by the shelf barb bracket extending perpendicularly to the shelf barb bracket and parallel to the rigid horizontal support member with a pointed end portion oriented away from proximate end portion of the rigid horizontal support member.

2. A flexible adjustable storage system for Sea-Land shipping containers carried by spaced apart lashing rings to depend therefrom on atop a wall inside the Sea-Land shipping container, the flexible adjustable storage system comprising in combination: a Sea-Land shipping container having at least one vertical wall and a floor and spaced apart lashing rings carried by the at least one vertical wall spacedly above the floor; at least two spaced apart hangers, each hanger having; an elongate flexible member for vertical support, having a first leg with a first end portion and a second leg with a second end portion, a releasable anchor communicating with the flexible member for vertical support to releasably interconnect with the spaced apart lashing rings so that the first leg and the second leg depend therefrom adjacent the wall, at least one rigid horizontal support member extending between the first leg and the second leg for carriage of a load thereon, each rigid horizontal support member having a first end portion and an opposing second end portion, each end portion, having a fastener for adjustably interconnecting the rigid horizontal support member to the first leg and the second leg of the flexible member for vertical support; at least one shelf plank carried on and extending between the at least one rigid horizontal support member of each hanger for carriage of a load thereon; a shelf barb bracket extending perpendicularly upwardly is mounted thereon top surface of the at least one rigid horizontal support member, near the elongate flexible member first leg; and a shelf barb carried by the shelf barb bracket extending perpendicularly to the shelf barb bracket and parallel to the rigid horizontal support member with a pointed end portion oriented away from proximate end portion of the rigid horizontal support member.

3. An adjustable storage system for Sea-Land shipping containers carried by spaced apart lashing rings to depend therefrom on atop a wall inside the Sea-Land shipping container, the adjustable storage system comprising in combination: a Sea-Land shipping container having at least one vertical wall and a floor and spaced apart lashing rings carried by the at least one vertical wall spacedly above the floor; at least two spaced apart hangers, each hanger having; an elongate member for vertical support, having a first leg with a first end portion and a second leg with a second end portion, a releasable anchor communicating with the elongated member for vertical support to releasably interconnect with a lashing ring inside the Sea-Land shipping container so that the first leg and the second leg depend therefrom adjacent the wall, at least one rigid horizontal support member extending between the first leg and the second leg for carriage of a load thereon, each rigid horizontal support member having a first end portion and an opposing second end portion; a fastener for adjustably interconnecting the rigid horizontal support member to the first leg and the second leg of the elongated member for vertical support; a shelf barb bracket extending perpendicularly upwardly is mounted thereon top surface of the at least one rigid horizontal support member, near the elongate member first leg; and a shelf barb carried by the shelf barb bracket extending perpendicularly to the shelf barb bracket and parallel to the rigid horizontal support member with a pointed end portion oriented away from proximate end portion of the rigid horizontal support member.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 19, 2020
From: SLOAN, MICHAEL J.
To: SEA BOX, INC.
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Continuity (3)
Continuation In Part 11026001 · Dec 31, 2004
Continuation In Part 11901976 · Sep 21, 2007
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