Rotatable storage rack

Abstract

A storage rack for storing an object rack includes a mounting component for mounting the storage rack to a mounting surface and a receiving component for receiving the object. The receiving component is rotatably attached to the mounting component. The receiving component includes a receiving component base plate defining a base plate central section, a base plate peripheral edge and a base plate intermediate section extending between the base plate central section and the base plate peripheral edge. A plurality of retaining walls extends from the base plate. The retaining walls are disposed circumferentially and oriented so as to extend in a radial direction leading from the base plate central section to the base plate peripheral edge. Each pair of adjacent retaining walls defines a corresponding wall spacing. The retaining walls diverge away from each other in the radial direction so that the size of the wall spacings increases in the radial direction. The object is adapted to be inserted in one of the wall spacings.

1 . A storage rack for storing an object, said storage rack being mountable to a mounting surface, said storage rack comprising: 
 a mounting component for mounting said storage rack to said mounting surface;    a receiving component for receiving said object;    said receiving component being rotatably attached to said mounting component for rotation relative thereto;    said receiving component including 
 a receiving component base plate, said receiving component base plate defining a base plate central section, a base plate peripheral edge and a base plate intermediate section extending between said base plate central section and said base plate peripheral edge; said receiving component base plate also defining a base plate first surface and an opposed base plate second surface;  
 a plurality of retaining walls extending from said base plate first surface, said retaining walls being disposed substantially circumferentially and oriented so as to extend in a substantially radial direction, such radial direction leading substantially from said base plate central section to said base plate peripheral edge; each pair of adjacent retaining walls defining a corresponding wall spacing therebetween, said retaining walls diverging away from each other in said radial direction so that the size of said wall spacings increases in said radial direction;  
 whereby said object is adapted to be inserted in one of said wall spacings.  
   
   
   
       2 . A storage rack as recited in  claim 1 , wherein said retaining walls extend substantially perpendicularly from said base plate first surface.  
   
   
       3 . A storage rack as recited in  claim 1 , wherein said plate peripheral edge has a substantially annular configuration.  
   
   
       4 . A storage rack as recited in  claim 1 , wherein each of said retaining walls defines a pair of opposed wall surfaces, at least a portion of at least one of said wall surfaces being provided with a friction enhancer for increasing the frictional force created between said at least one of said wall surfaces and said object when said object contacts said friction enhancer.  
   
   
       5 . A storage rack as recited in  claim 4 , wherein said friction enhancer includes a friction enhancing texture formed on said at least one of said wall surfaces.  
   
   
       6 . A storage rack as recited in  claim 1 , wherein each of said retaining walls defines a longitudinally extending wall anchoring edge anchored to said receiving component base plate and an opposed longitudinally extending wall free edge, at least one of said retaining walls being made of a resiliently deformable material allowing said at least one of said retaining walls to resiliently bend substantially laterally away from an adjacent retaining wall in a bent configuration, wherein, when in said bent configuration, said at least a portion of said wall free and anchored edges are in a substantially offset relationship relative to each other.  
   
   
       7 . A storage rack as recited in  claim 1 , wherein said retaining walls extend integrally from said receiving component base plate.  
   
   
       8 . A storage rack as recited in  claim 1 , wherein said retaining walls are releasably attached to said receiving component base plate.  
   
   
       9 . A storage rack as recited in  claim 1 , wherein said receiving component base plate has a substantially disc-shaped configuration and said receiving component base plate is rotatably mounted to said mounting component for rotation about a rotational axis located substantially centrally relative to said receiving component base plate.  
   
   
       10 . A storage rack as recited in  claim 9 , wherein said base plate central section has a substantially disc-shaped configuration and said base plate intermediate section has a substantially annular configuration; said receiving component base plate being configured and sized such that said plate peripheral edge is spaced relative to said mounting surface by a greater distance than said base plate central section when said storage rack is mounted on said mounting surface.  
   
   
       11 . A storage rack as recited in  claim 1 , wherein said base plate intermediate section is angled relative to said base plate central section by an intermediate-to-central section angle.  
   
   
       12 . A storage rack as recited in  claim 1 , wherein said mounting component includes 
 a mounting component base plate for contacting said supporting surface;    a mounting pin extending from said mounting component base plate;    said receiving component base plate being provided with a pin receiving aperture for receiving said mounting pin;    wherein when said mounting pin is inserted in said pin receiving aperture, said receiving component base plate is rotatable about said mounting pin relative to said mounting component base plate.    
   
   
       13 . A storage rack as recited in  claim 12 , wherein said mounting component base plate is provided with a fixing means for fixing said mounting component base plate to said supporting structure.  
   
   
       14 . A storage rack as recited in  claim 13 , wherein said fixing means includes a fixing aperture extending through said mounting component base plate.  
   
   
       15 . A storage rack as recited in  claim 12 , wherein said storage rack further includes a spacing protrusion extending between said mounting component base plate and said mounting pin, said spacing protrusion having a contacting surface for contacting said base plate second surface and maintaining said receiving component base plate in a spaced relationship relative to said mounting component base plate.  
   
   
       16 . A storage rack as recited in  claim 15 , wherein said contacting surface is substantially smaller than said mounting component base plate.  
   
   
       17 . A storage rack as recited in  claim 15 , wherein said contacting surface is provided with a friction reducing means for reducing the frictional force between said contacting surface and said receiving component second surface.