| 摘要 |
A laundry organizer has a plurality of enhanced laundry bags suspended by a plurality of drop bars and a cross bar. The organizer can be hung from doors, walls, seat-backs, chair-backs, etc. and encourages people to pre-sort and organize dirty laundry. In another embodiment, appealing animal likenesses are incorporated into the mouths of the laundry bags in order to interest children in using the system. In yet other embodiments, sports team names, logos, cartoon characters, comic book characters, personalities, caricatures, faces, or other two- or three-dimensional depictions can be incorporated onto the mouths of the bags to further enhance the desire of people to utilize the system. The enhanced laundry bags can be used to organize and hold other items. |
| 主权项 |
1. A laundry organizer, comprising:
a plurality of drop bars that are each adapted to extend over and engage a top of a door using an over-the-door hook portion; the plurality of drop bars each extending longitudinally from the over-the-door hook portion to a cross bar locking mechanism; a cross bar attached to the plurality of drop bars and mounted such that the cross bar extends generally perpendicular to the plurality of drop bars; the cross bar locking mechanism comprising a cross bar hook and a locking dimple receiver; a plurality of hanging cutouts on the cross bar that each comprise a cutout port in the cross bar adapted so that the cross bar hook of the cross bar locking mechanism can be inserted into said cutout port; the cross bar hook extending outwards from a face of the drop bar and adapted so that a thickness of the cross bar can form a friction fit when the cross bar is placed between the cross bar hook and the face of the drop bar; a plurality of locking dimples each located above one of the plurality of hanging cutouts on the cross bar and adapted to fit within the locking dimple receiver of the cross bar locking mechanism; a plurality of laundry bag suspension slots in the cross bar each adapted to receive therein one of a plurality of laundry bag suspension straps; the plurality of laundry bag suspension straps each extending from one of the plurality of laundry bag suspension slots to one of a plurality of bag loops attached to an enhanced laundry bag; and the enhanced laundry bag comprising a support rim, a handle edge, and a hanging bag portion, and wherein the hanging bag portion hangs from the support rim and handle edge, the support rim and handle edge forming a mouth of the enhanced laundry bag. |
