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US 12,311,527 B2Granted
Container
AssigneeStanley Black & Decker MEA FZE
InventorsShun-Chi Yang, Wan-Chiang Wang, Ching-Yi Tu
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Abstract
A storage container including a plurality of drawers for holding items therewithin. Each drawer may be held closed within the container by selective rotation of a detent mechanism which interacts with engagement means formed on each drawer. When the detent mechanism is in its open position, each drawer may be freely opened or closed. Whereas, when the detent mechanism is in its closed position, each drawer may be moved from an open to a closed position, but not from a closed to an open position.
Claims19
A container comprising:
- a plurality of storage sections for containing items therein;
- each storage sections of the plurality of storage sections being movable between an open position and a closed position independently of any of the other of the storage sections of the plurality of storage sections;
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- wherein, in the open position, items within the storage sections are accessible, and, when in the closed position, items within the storage sections are inaccessible;
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- a rotatable detent mechanism comprising an elongate body including a series of both cams and flats disposed along it length between first and second ends, wherein the flats are defined in the elongat body, the detent mechanism having locked and unlocked states wherein, when in the locked state, the detent mechanism is arranged to restrain each storage section of the plurality of storage sections in its respective closed position, and, when in its unlocked state, the detent mechanism permits movement of each storage section of the plurality of storage sections freely between its open and closed positions;-and
- wherein each storage section of the plurality of storage sections includes engagement means for interacting with a respective cam in the series of cams of the detent mechanism when the detent mechanism is in its locked state, such that, if a storage section of the plurality of storage sections is in its closed position, it may not be moved to its open position, and if a storage section of the plurality is in its open position, it may be moved to its closed position.
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A container, comprising:
- a body;
- a plurality of drawers disposed in the body, each drawer in the plurality of drawers having a wedge disposed on an exterior surface thereof, and each drawer in the plurality of drawers being independently movable between an open state and a closed state;
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- a detent mechanism rotatably disposed in the body and movable between an unlocked state in which each drawer in the plurality of drawers is freely movable to the open state and to the closed state and a locked state in which each drawer in the plurality of drawers is movable to the closed state but immovable to the open state, the detent mechanism comprising an elongate body including a plurality of cams configured to interact with respective wedges of the plurality of drawers, and a plurality of flats defined in the elongate body between its first and second ends.
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A container, comprising:
- a plurality of drawers independently movable between an open state and a closed state, each drawer in the plurality of drawers having a wedge disposed on an exterior surface thereof;
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- a detent mechanism having an elongate body including a series of both cams and flats disposed along its length between first and second ends, wherein the flats are defined in the elongate body, the detent mechanism being movable between:
- an unlocked state in which the wedge of each drawer in the plurality of drawers is freely movable past the elongate body to place drawer in the open state or to place the drawer in the closed state;
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- a locked state in which the wedge of each drawer in the plurality of drawers is freely movable past the elongate body to place the drawer in the closed state and immovable past the detent mechanism such that the drawer cannot be placed in the open state.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.