Patent ID: 8317040

Claim:
A magnetic divider system for forming one or more sub-compartments to isolate and organize articles therewithin in the interior region of a compartment having a substantially planar ferruginous surface, said magnetic divider system comprising: at least one rail member for defining one or more sub-compartments in the interior region of the compartment, said at least one rail member having a substantially planar base portion and a distal portion, said base portion capable of being restrainably affixed to the ferruginous surface of the interior region of the compartment with said distal portion extending substantially normally away from the ferruginous surface, without requiring said at least one rail member to engage with the compartment beyond the ferruginous surface; and one or more attachment members for fixedly restraining said at least one rail member along the ferruginous surface in the interior region of the compartment, said one or more attachment members comprising one or more magnets, at least one of said one or more magnets including a flat surface adjacent said base portion, the flat surface is substantially parallel to said ferruginous surface, upon affixation of said at least one rail member thereto, said one or more attachment members being integrally pre-positioned along said base portion of said at least one rail member prior to the juxtapositioning of said rail member to said ferruginous surface and without preliminarily affixing said one or more attachment members to the ferruginous surface, said one or more attachment members restrainably affixing said at least one rail member to the ferruginous surface of the interior region of the compartment independent of the engagement of said at least one rail member with the compartment beyond the ferruginous surface, said at least one rail member defining at least one sub-compartment bounded along the bottom by the ferruginous surface in the interior region of the compartment; said at least one rail member capable of dividing the interior region of the compartment magnetically along the ferruginous surface by itself as well as in cooperation with other like rail members, said at least one rail member capable of dividing the interior region of the compartment by magnetically engaging the ferruginous surface thereof while being free of engagement with the compartment beyond the ferruginous surface, said at least one rail member capable of being sized to a desired length.