Appeal No. 96-1834
Application 08/046,945
The appellant’s invention pertains to a method of providing
a clothes storage closet using a rectangular closet component of
fabric construction material and a skeletal support of
interconnected structural members. Of special importance are the
steps of assembling and disassembling the skeletal support within
the rectangular closet component. The claim is further
illustrative of the appealed subject matter and reads as follows:
1. A method of providing a clothes storage closet using a
rectangular closet component of fabric construction material
having panels forming a top, a bottom, a front, a back, a left
side and a right side which cooperate to bound a storage
compartment for said closet, and having zipper means in said
front panel for gaining access therethrough into said storage
compartment, said method comprising the steps of opening said
front panel zipper means incident to obtaining access to the
interior of said fabric closet component; erecting within said
interior of said fabric closet component a skeletal support of
interconnected structural members of a type having cooperating
male and female connecting means so as to hold in spaced apart
relation said top panel, said bottom panel, said front panel,
said back panel, said left side panel, and said right side panel
without including as a part of said skeletal support any
structural members adjacent to said front panel across the area
defined thereby to bound therebetween said storage compartment
for said closet, said erected skeletal support being sized to
have a snug fit within said storage compartment; closing said
front panel zipper means so as to both form a closure for said
closet and also to draw taut said fabric of said closet component
about said skeletal support so that said male and female inter-
connecting means are held in place by said fabric tautness during
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