Organizer

Claim 1

A non free standing organizer for storing horizontally insertable assorted household items, namely kitchen utensils, in horizontally accessible compartments, said organizer being insertable within a horizontally accessible unit having a horizontal shelf panel, portions of which directly support the stored items and portions of which support said organizer and further having first and second vertical shelf panels extending upwardly from the horizontal shelf panel for limiting the longitudinal extension of said organizer and thereby providing lateral support for said organizer, said organizer comprising in combination: a continuous length of bendable wire mesh material folded into a repetitive pattern of an upper horizontally oriented element, a vertically oriented element and a lower horizontally oriented element, said vertically oriented element being greater in width than said upper and lower horizontally oriented elements whereby adjacent pairs of said vertically oriented elements in combination with one of said upper and lower horizontally oriented elements define opposed sides and the top or bottom sides, respectively, of each horizontally accessible compartment of said organizer, each said compartment thereby having a greater height than width, each said lower horizontally oriented element being locatable upon the horizontal shelf panel to receive support for and transmit support to the connected ones of said vertically oriented elements; whereby, said organizer compartmentalizes the horizontally accessible unit into a plurality of individually accessible compartments having vertical segregating elements for separating items stored within different ones of said individually accessible compartments.