Patent ID: 7104408

Claim:
A sorter/organizer, comprising: at least three substantially planar walls arranged substantially parallel to one another; side walls connected to said at least three walls; a first, stepped bottom wall connected to at least three of said walls and at least one of said side walls, at least two compartments being formed each by an adiacent pair of said at least three walls and said first bottom wall, said compartments being staggered in relation to one another and receivable of objects, said at least one side wall being arranged to enable a bottom of said compartments to be positioned at varied heigths, said at least one of said side walls having upper edge portions connected to said first bottom wall; and a plurality of ledges, each of said ledges being arranged at a respective end of one of said compartments, each of said ledges extending above said upper edge portion of said side wall at the respective end of said one of said compartments only partially along a heigth of said adjacent pair of said at least three walls forming said compartment such that at least one side of said compartment is open above said ledges to enable objects received in said compartment to extend laterally outward therefrom above said ledge and such that an upper surface of said ledge is above a bottom of said compartment to prevent objects received in said compartment and contacting the bottom of said compartment from inadvertently slipping out therefrom.