Patent ID: 9397489
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: A45D,H02G

Claim Text:
1. A bathroom butler system comprising: a housing having a front panel and a rear panel separated by a depth, a top panel and a bottom panel separated by a height, and side panels separated by a width, the height being between 2 and 3 times the depth; a plurality of elevationally spaced openings formed in the front panel; a plurality of chambers in the housing, each chamber in communication with an associated opening, a plurality of divider plates, each divider plate having a support surface within an associated chamber; a spool rotatably supported in each chamber, each spool having an electrical outlet rotatable with the spool; and a drive assembly including a motor within each chamber coupled to an associated spool for rotating the spool; each opening having an upper edge, curtains formed of flexible material with upper ends attached to, and depending from, each opening at the upper edge; each spool having an end cap with rotatable annular conductive rings and further including fixed electrical fingers for supplying electrical energy from a source, through the fingers and the rings and the electrical outlet to an electrical devices; the drive assembly further including a primary gear attached to each spool for rotation with the spool, an axial guide with a fixed spiral gear, a secondary gear coupling the primary gear and the spiral gear, a guide follower coupled to the spiral gear adapted to reciprocate parallel with the spool in response to rotation of the primary gear and the secondary gear, an aperture in the guide follower for the receipt of an electrical cord of an electrical device whereby powering of the motor will distribute an electrical cord onto the spool along the spool.