Patent ID: 7481328

Claim:
An organizer adapted to store and manage various items in a vehicle comprising; a pair of spaced apart sidewalls interconnected by a bottom panel, each sidewall having a front face and a rear face, one of the sidewalls adapted to be oriented towards the driver of the vehicle having an internal support shelf extending inwardly from and permanently fixed to the one sidewall only, and an external support shelf projecting outwardly from and permanently fixed to the one sidewall only and raised above the bottom panel; and a series of vertically disposed, spaced-apart, parallel panels engageable with the bottom wall and extending completely between the sidewalls at various locations between the front faces and rear faces of the sidewalls for defining a series of adjacently disposed, completely open-topped storage compartments adapted to hold the various items in the vehicle; wherein the vertically disposed panels include a front panel fixed to the front faces of the sidewalls and fixedly attached to the internal support shelf, and a rear panel fixed to the rear faces of the sidewalls, the front panel being formed with a cutout extending downwardly from a top edge and adapted to receive a handle of a cup adapted to be held on the internal support shelf, wherein the vertically disposed panels further include a first interior panel connected to the internal support shelf and having side edges retained in front portions of the sidewalls, a second interior panel spaced rearwardly of the first interior panel and having side edges retained in the front portions of the sidewalls, and a third interior panel spaced rearwardly of the second interior panel and having side edges retained in rear portions of the sidewalls, the front panel and the second interior panel having generally identical height, the first interior panel having a height greater than a height of any of the other vertically disposed panels, the third interior panel and the rear panel having heights less than the heights of the front panel, the first interior panel and the second interior panel.