US 11,980,286 B2
Shoe organizer unit
Heba Nabil Saif, Dammam (SA); Hala El-Wakeel, Dammam (SA); Asma Alhilal, Dammam (SA); Nourah Almanaa, Dammam (SA); and Nouf Altuwaijri, Dammam (SA)
Assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam (SA)
Filed by Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam (SA)
Filed on Oct. 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/499,097.
Prior Publication US 2023/0110509 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. A47B 61/04 (2006.01); A47B 57/06 (2006.01); E05B 69/00 (2006.01)
CPC A47B 61/04 (2013.01) [A47B 57/06 (2013.01); E05B 69/003 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A shoe organizer unit, comprising:
a cabinet, the cabinet including a back wall having a vertical axis and a horizontal axis, a cabinet top, a cabinet bottom, a first side wall and a second side wall, a central divider, wherein the back wall is separated into a first column by the first side wall and the central divider and a second column by the second side wall and the central divider;
a first vertical track positioned on a first inner surface of the first side wall;
a second vertical track positioned on a second inner surface of the second side wall;
a first horizontal track positioned on the back wall at a location above the cabinet bottom along the horizontal axis;
a second horizontal track positioned on the back wall beneath the cabinet top along the horizontal axis;
a plurality of shoe storing shelves, each shoe storing shelf including a first projection configured to engage with the first vertical track and a second projection configured to engage with the second vertical track, and a slider hook configured to engage with either the first horizontal track or the second horizontal track;
a plurality of linear actuators configured to move each one of the plurality of shoe storing shelves in a path along the first vertical track, the first horizontal track, the second vertical track and the second horizontal track; and
a base surface of each shoe storing shelf divided into a left base surface and a right base surface, wherein each shoe storing shelf includes a left shoe retainer positioned on the left base surface and a right shoe retainer positioned on the right base surface.