US 11,864,648 B2
Overhead storage unit with pivoting storage containers
Eleaizer Gelber, Montreal (CA)
Assigned to 143046 CANADA INC., Montreal (CA)
Appl. No. 17/754,497
Filed by 143046 Canada Inc., Montreal (CA)
PCT Filed Oct. 2, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CA2020/051320
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 4, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/062550, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 8, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/910,549, filed on Oct. 4, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0361665 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. A47B 51/00 (2006.01); A47B 46/00 (2006.01)
CPC A47B 51/00 (2013.01) [A47B 46/005 (2013.01); A47B 2051/005 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An overhead storage unit, comprising:
a guide member having a first horizontal segment mountable within an overhead storage area, a second vertical segment mountable below the overhead storage area, and a curved segment extending between the first and second segments; and
a storage assembly having a plurality of storage containers each connected to at least one other storage container at common pivots, the storage containers mounted to the guide member and displaceable therealong to be raised and lowered between a stored position and an accessible position, each storage container pivoting relative to an adjacent storage container on the common pivot as the storage containers are displaced between the stored and accessible positions, the storage containers disposed within the overhead storage area and having a first orientation in the stored position, and the storage containers disposed below the overhead storage area and having a second orientation different from the first orientation in the accessible position.