Multi-part cargo organizer assembled with snap-fit barbs

Abstract

A cargo organizer has a base and one or more upstanding walls. The organizer walls are joined to the base by inserting barbs disposed on the lower surface of the walls into respective barb receivers. In one embodiment, side margins of the barb receivers mate with side margins of recesses in the lower margin of the wall. Relieved areas formed in the front surface of the organizer wall mate with upstanding plates of the base.

1 . A cargo organizer comprising:
 a base including a base plate adapted to be disposed underneath an article of cargo;   at least one upstanding wall joined to the base to bound the base plate, the wall having a lower surface and a plurality of horizontally spaced-apart, downwardly facing recesses formed in the lower surface, and for each recess, a downwardly extending barb within the recess, each recess having a left margin spaced to the left of the barb in the recess and a right margin spaced to the right of the barb in the recess;   the base further having a plurality of horizontally spaced-apart barb receivers for receiving respective ones of the barbs of the wall, each barb receiver having an upwardly facing central opening for a barb, an upstanding left margin of the receiver spaced leftwardly from the central opening and an upstanding right margin of the receiver spaced rightwardly from the central opening, the left margin of each barb receiver mating with a left margin of a respective barb recess of the wall, the right margin of each barb receiver mating with a right margin of the respective bar recess of the wall, such that upon assembly any lateral movement of the wall relative to the base and in the plane of the wall will be prevented.   
     
     
         2 . The cargo organizer of  claim 1 , wherein the wall has a front surface adjacent the base plate, and for each recess, a relieved area surrounds the recess and has a surface parallel to and backwardly spaced from the front surface of the wall by a relief depth, the relieved area having a periphery;
 each barb receiver having an upstanding front plate formed adjacent the base plate, a periphery of the front plate matching the periphery of a corresponding relieved area of the wall, a thickness of the front plate being substantially equal to the relief depth of the relieved area, such that upon assembly the front plate of each receiver will mate with a corresponding relieved area of the wall.   
     
     
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