Patent ID: 9247811
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: A47B,E05G,F41C

Claim Text:
1. A firearm safe for storing firearms and other valuables, comprising: a substantially enclosed outer housing defined by a plurality of walls with at least one surface of the housing defining an opening for access to an interior of the housing; a door rotatably mounted within the opening of the housing about a central vertical axis of the door; and a storage assembly having a plurality of collapsible and expandable storage members secured along a surface of the door, wherein the storage assembly includes a pair of outer racks, wherein each outer rack defines an upper support member and a corresponding lower support member extending along respective horizontal planes and held in overlapping, parallel-planar, spaced apart relationship to one another by a plurality of supports, wherein each upper support member is defined by a planar segment extending along a substantially quarter-circle arcuate path, such that each upper support member defines an inner curved edge and an opposite outer curved edge, and wherein each inner and outer curved edge defines a plurality of notches adapted to receive one end of a long gun, and each of the notches of the inner curved edge is offset along an arc of the upper support member between two notches of the outer curved edge such that a long gun received by a notch of the inner curved edge is positioned between two other long guns received by adjacent notches in the outer curved edge.