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WO1994013175A1
WO1994013175A1 PCT/US1993/012224 US9312224W WO9413175A1 WO 1994013175 A1 WO1994013175 A1 WO 1994013175A1 US 9312224 W US9312224 W US 9312224W WO 9413175 A1 WO9413175 A1 WO 9413175A1
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
    • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
    • E06B7/00—Special arrangements or measures in connection with doors or windows
    • E06B7/28—Other arrangements on doors or windows, e.g. door-plates, windows adapted to carry plants, hooks for window cleaners
    • E06B7/34—Doors containing cupboards
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B96/00—Details of cabinets, racks or shelf units not covered by a single one of groups A47B43/00 - A47B95/00; General details of furniture
    • A47B96/16—Drawers or movable shelves coupled to doors

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  • This invention relates generally to cabinets, and more particularly to a storage cabinet recessed into the core of a door sized to permit passage therethrough of a person.
  • Storage space generally is very limited in dwell ⁇ ings of all types, and typically is considered inadequate by the resident of the dwelling. This is particularly true in large city apartment houses, where space of all kinds is at a premium. In such confined quarters, great ⁇ er closet or storage space would be provided at the sac ⁇ rifice of further living space. Further storage space is particularly desirable in bathrooms where space is often very limited and storage needs for toiletries and the like are substantial. Clos ⁇ ets and cabinets are often provided in bathrooms for such purpose and, in an effort to provide maximum storage space within the severe space constraints, the bathroom mirror is often provided on the face of a medicine cabi ⁇ net.
  • pantry doors In order to maximize storage as well as easy access to stored articles, it is also known to equip certain types of pantry doors with storage receptacles.
  • Such doors provide access to a pantry closet and comprise a vertical board of perhaps a half to one inch thickness, with shelves built onto one side of the board.
  • Some doors to medicine cabinets likewise have shelves on one side.
  • Some refrigerator doors have shelves and compartments such as a butter compartment on one side.
  • shelves or receptacles generally do not add significantly to storage space because the door itself typically still has a substantial thickness and so the shelves do not utilize otherwise wasted core space and because the door typically is not within a jamb and the further wasted space associated therewith.
  • U.S. Patent 3,822,925 to Osroff describes a stor ⁇ age container or chest that can be used in a conventional manner as a trunk or mounted in an upright (on-end) posi ⁇ tion onto an annular door in a balanced stage extending about equi-distant on either side of the opposite faces of the annular door-frame.
  • the chest may be used as a bookcase, cabinet or combination cabinet and storage closet with a coat rack or coat hanger sup ⁇ port. See column 1, line 58 through column 2, line 18 of the Osroff patent.
  • Such utility-door/storage containers appear to be of limited application.
  • equidistant extension of the chest from each door face in many settings can raise a number of problems, especially for chests of the depth suggested by Osroff 's references to their use as a trunk or bookcase.
  • be ⁇ cause doors that are pivotally mounted on door jambs by hinges typically are not horizontally centered in the jamb and such jambs often are only about 4 ⁇ _ to 5 inches thick, it appears that the chest of Osroff would extend significantly beyond the door jamb on at least one side, particularly, the side to which the door is to pivot open.
  • Such extension can occupy space in a room or hall that could be otherwise used, therefore not only inter ⁇ fering with the opening of the door, but also creating near the door an obstruction to freedom of movement that can be hazardous, that can result in undesirable decrease in room or hallway space and that can be aesthetically unpleasing.
  • the present invention is directed to a novel door unit including storage space therein.
  • the door unit comprises a door jamb, an annular or peripheral door member hinged to the door jamb for pivotal movement between a closed position and an open position, and a cabinet member.
  • the jamb comprises a frame extending between two occupancy spaces and defining a doorway vol ⁇ ume and forming a surface extending around an opening.
  • the surface is defined by two mutually opposed generally vertical sides to a top extending between the sides.
  • the peripheral door member comprises spaced apart, generally vertical side members and spaced-apart, generally hori- zontal top and bottom members extending therebetween, the side, top and bottom members thereby forming a central cavity.
  • the cabinet member is situated in the central cavity and contained totally within the doorway volume when the door is in the closed position.
  • the present invention is also directed to a novel door in a doorway defining a doorway volume and providing selectable human passage and barrier therethrough from one occupancy space to another.
  • the door is pivotable between an open position providing human passage there ⁇ through and a closed position providing a barrier to human passage therethrough.
  • the door comprises top and bottom rails extending between butte and lock stiles, the rails and stiles defining a 'core extending from a verti- cal front plane to a parallel back plane, and a cabinet extending into the core through the front plane to the back plane and being totally contained within the doorway volume when the door is in the closed position.
  • the present invention is further directed to a novel doorway comprising a jamb and a door pivotably affixed thereto to provide movement between a closed position and an open position for selectable human pas ⁇ sage through the doorway.
  • the door has a core and top, bottom and two side edges.
  • the jamb has a thickness and surrounds at least three edges of the door in the closed position.
  • the door comprises a cabinet recessed into the core of the door, the cabinet having a depth at most about equal to the thickness of the jamb.
  • the present invention also is directed to a door- way extending between two generally parallel, longitudi ⁇ nally extending wall surfaces of respective adjacent occupancy spaces.
  • the wall surfaces are opposite sur ⁇ faces of a wall between the occupancy spaces, each wall surface facing its respective occupancy space and defin- ing a vertical wall plane, the vertical wall planes being generally parallel.
  • the doorway comprises a door pivot- ably affixed in the doorway to provide movement between a closed position and an open position for selectable human passage laterally through the doorway.
  • the door has a core and a cabinet defining an interior volume and re- Completed into the core.
  • the cabinet includes a mechanism for selectable access to the interior volume from one of the occupancy spaces when the door is in the closed posi ⁇ tion.
  • the cabinet does not extend more than one inch be ⁇ yond the wall plane of the wall surface facing the occu- pancy space from which the mechanism for selectable ac ⁇ cess to the interior volume of the cabinet is provided and does not extend beyond the other wall plane.
  • Figure 1 is a front elevational view of a door of this invention
  • Figure 2 is a cross sectional view taken along the line 2-2 of Figure 1;
  • Figure 3 is a cross sectional view of a portion of the door taken along the line 3-3 of Figure 2;
  • Figure 4 is a cross sectional plan view of the door.
  • Figure 5 is a perspective view of a portion of a shelf seated in a shelving bracket in the door.
  • a door of this invention which comprises a storage cabinet 11 recessed into the core thereof.
  • the door is otherwise of the standard type which permits selectable human access or barrier between two occupancy spaces, such as between two rooms, a room and a hallway or the interior and the exterior of a building.
  • the phrase "occupying spaces" refers to portions of a building in which persons ordi ⁇ narily consider living areas, such as hallways and rooms, as just noted, but not areas such as closets.
  • the door is especially suitable as a bathroom door, in which case, the door may also be locked for privacy.
  • the door is pivotable about hinges 12 and includes a handle such as a knob 13.
  • a cabinet having shelves with a depth of perhaps about four to five inches may be provided in the otherwise wasted doorway area without in ⁇ truding into the habitation area.
  • the door of Fig. 1 utilizes otherwise wasted space within the core of doors and the otherwise wasted space set off by a door jamb and can be employed as a door between areas of human occupancy, especially bathroom doors without infringing on otherwise utilized space.
  • the term "core” refers to the volume bounded by the side, top and bottom edges of the door, especially within the planes of the door faces as exist without a central cavity.
  • the door 10 comprises a peri- pheral door member comprising butte and lock stiles 16 and 18, a top rail 14 and a bottom rail 15, the rails extending from the butte to the lock stile.
  • the door moves pivotably on hinges from a closed position blocking human access through the doorway to an open position permitting such access.
  • Fig. 1 shows the cabi ⁇ net 11 as surrounded by a configuration of stiles and rails separate from the cabinet, it should be understood that the cabinet may extend to the top and/or bottom edge of the door such that the top and/or bottom frame portion of the cabinet is the top and/or bottom rail, respective- ly, or a portion thereof.
  • the side frame portions of the cabinet may be the one or both of the stiles or a portion thereof.
  • the cabinet it is prefera ⁇ ble that the cabinet not extend all the way to the hinge edge of the butte stile such that it would interfere with the pivoting of the door between a completely closed position and a wide open position.
  • interfer ⁇ ence of the cabinet with the stop 23 projecting from the door jamb should be avoided either by projection of the cabinet outwardly from the door only on one side ( away from the stop) or by limiting the cabinet so as not to extend all the way to the door edge at the stiles and top rail. The latter method is preferred because it permits the use of a deeper cabinet.
  • the cabinet In orientation of the cabi ⁇ net with respect to the lock stile, positioning of the door handle or knob on the cabinet or stile should be considered. Generally, however, it is also preferred that the cabinet not extend to any edge of the door, whether top, bottom or side, so as not to eliminate a structural support member. Moreover, even in this form, the cabinet need not extend all the way from top to bot ⁇ tom rail and from side to side stile. For example, the cabinet may be situated solely in the top half of the door, such as from the top rail to a middle rail. In this embodiment, the lower half of the door would not be significantly different from a conventional door.
  • the stiles and rails in embodiments in which they do not form parts of the cabinet frame, have a given thickness from one face to an opposite face and are ori ⁇ ented in co-planar fashion to define parallel vertical front and back planes of the door, illustrated in Fig. 2 as FP and BP, respectively, and such as to define a cen- tral core between the stiles and extending from one plane to the other.
  • the cabinet 11 is recessed within the core to extend through the back plane to the front plane thereby taking advantage of a substantial portion of the otherwise wasted space in the core of the door.
  • the cabinet extends all the way through the door to project beyond the plane FP.
  • the front plane FP is oriented toward the stop 23 and the back plane BP away when the door is closed.
  • This orien- tation provides a greater portion of the jamb extending beyond the front plane than the back plane.
  • the cabinet is sized and situated so as not to extend past the door jamb 43.
  • the jamb comprises a frame that forms a surface extending around an opening for the door between two occupancy spaces. The surface is defined by two mutually opposed generally vertical sides 43v and a top 43t extending between the sides, the top 43t including stop 23.
  • the jamb or doorway therefore extends between generally parallel, longitudinally extending opposite wall surfaces 54 and 56 of the wall between adjacent occupancy spaces.
  • the wall surfaces 54 and 56 face their respective occupancy spaces and define plane vertical wall planes WP54 and WP56, respectively.
  • the cabinet does not extend beyond plane WP54, and extends plane P56, that is on the side where the cabinet doors providing access to the interior of the cabinet are located, by no more than an inch when the door is in the closed position.
  • the cabinet is totally confined within planes P54 and P55 when the door is closed.
  • Opposite surrounding moldings 43a are each of generally upside-down U-shape, projecting from respective wall surface a pre-determined distance d.
  • a volume is defined by the jamb and extending laterally from a distance d from one wall surface to a distance d from the other wall surface.
  • the central cabinet may be of standard cabinet configuration; that is, a rectangular box having at least one cabinet door 24 (with handle 26) and having a plural ⁇ ity of shelves 28 therein.
  • the cabinet has two access doors (with handles), mutually opposed and hinged on opposite sides of the front of the cabinet, as shown in Figures 1 and 4. This configuration allows more convenient access to the cabinet when the user is in a confined room such as a bathroom where open ⁇ ing a single large door can' be difficult.
  • the cabinet may be surrounded with a decorative trim or molding 32 along the seam where the cabinet intersects the periphe ⁇ ral door face of the rails and styles.
  • the cabinet extends into the interior of the door 10 and thereby converts the otherwise wasted interior space of the door into storage space.
  • the cabinet preferably is recessed into the central cavity through one peripheral door face 36 to the opposite peripheral door face 34,
  • the cabinet may extend even beyond the opposite peripheral door face 36, as shown in Figs. 2, 4 and 5.
  • the door face(s) surrounding the cabinet may be formed of a thin veneer, such as about 1/16 - 1/8 inches thick.
  • the cabinet is contained within the volume defined by the door jamb, permitting the cabinet to be about 4% to about 5% inches deep.
  • the inside depth of the cabinets, and the cabinet shel ⁇ ves may be up to about 5 inches in typical settings.
  • the cabinet shelves should be about 3-_ inches (as in conventional medicine cabinets) to 5 inches deep.
  • Figs. 1 and 2 also show the preferred embodiment in which the cabinet does not extend all the way to the side edges 38, 42 of the door thereby to avoid interfer ⁇ ence with the door jamb 43, which includes surrounding molding 43a, or other objects while opening and closing the door. If the cabinet protrudes through the planes of both door faces 34 and 36, then the presence of the door stop 23 renders it preferable for the cabinet not to extend all the way to the top edge 44 of the door. In a particularly preferred design as shown in Fig. 1, the cabinet does not extend to any of the door edges.
  • the cabinet may be secured to the remaining por ⁇ tion of the door by conventional means such as nails or screws 46, as shown in Figs'. 2 and 4.
  • the cabinet in- eludes means for securing shelves therein, such as shelv ⁇ ing brackets 48, as shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 6.

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Cette porte (10) comportant un espace de rangement se constitue d'un cadre composé de deux montants essentiellement verticaux (16, 18) et de deux traverses supérieure et inférieure essentiellement horizontales (14, 15) entre ces montants, ces éléments définissant entre eux une cavité centrale, qui accueille un espace de rangement (11).
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CN1091774C (zh) * 1994-10-24 2002-10-02 埃克森美孚化学专利公司 长链支化聚合物及其制备方法
US20140132131A1 (en) * 2011-08-31 2014-05-15 Vicky Renee Thomas Fashion Accessory Internal Door Storage Cavity
US8944531B2 (en) 2012-09-06 2015-02-03 Odl, Incorporated Container assembly mountable to a door
US9140049B2 (en) * 2013-10-15 2015-09-22 Rhino Metals, Inc. Safe storage panels
WO2018127805A1 (fr) * 2017-01-03 2018-07-12 Chan Koon Lin Eunice Ensembles de rangement pour vestibule et appareil de rangement
US10352094B1 (en) * 2018-12-18 2019-07-16 Jimi Lopez-Isa Storage system within a door

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US1984977A (en) * 1934-06-26 1934-12-18 Robert W Forbes Refrigerator
US3822925A (en) * 1971-10-06 1974-07-09 M Osroff Utility-door storage container

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US1984977A (en) * 1934-06-26 1934-12-18 Robert W Forbes Refrigerator
US3822925A (en) * 1971-10-06 1974-07-09 M Osroff Utility-door storage container

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
CN1091774C (zh) * 1994-10-24 2002-10-02 埃克森美孚化学专利公司 长链支化聚合物及其制备方法
US20140132131A1 (en) * 2011-08-31 2014-05-15 Vicky Renee Thomas Fashion Accessory Internal Door Storage Cavity
US8944531B2 (en) 2012-09-06 2015-02-03 Odl, Incorporated Container assembly mountable to a door
US9140049B2 (en) * 2013-10-15 2015-09-22 Rhino Metals, Inc. Safe storage panels
US9888771B2 (en) 2013-10-15 2018-02-13 Rhino Metals, Inc. Safes having interior storage panels
WO2018127805A1 (fr) * 2017-01-03 2018-07-12 Chan Koon Lin Eunice Ensembles de rangement pour vestibule et appareil de rangement
US10352094B1 (en) * 2018-12-18 2019-07-16 Jimi Lopez-Isa Storage system within a door

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