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US 2004/0169447 A1Published application
Storage container and storage system including a stack of the same
AssigneeZag Industries Ltd.
InventorFeodor Bezzubov
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Abstract
The present application relates to a storage container and a storage system include a stack of such storage container.
Claims31
A storage system comprising:
- a plurality of stackable storage containers arranged in a vertical stack, each of the containers comprising:
- (i) a drawer having a bottom wall and a peripheral wall defining a storage space for receiving articles and an upwardly facing opening for accessing the storage space,
- (ii) a drawer housing having at least an upper wall, the drawer being slidably mounted to the drawer housing for movement between (a) a retracted position wherein the drawer is positioned beneath the upper wall and (b) an extended position wherein the drawer is moved outwardly from beneath the upper wall, thereby allowing access to the storage space therein through the upwardly facing opening, the drawer housing being constructed to enable at least the upper wall of the drawer housing to be pivoted between (a) a closed position closing the upwardly facing opening of the drawer in its retracted position and (b) an open position uncovering the upwardly facing opening of the drawer in its retracted position,
- (iii) at least one upper coupling on an upper portion of the storage container and at least one lower coupling on a lower portion of the storage container, and
- (iv) a carrying handle for enabling the user to carry the storage container;
- the upper and lower couplings of each container being constructed such that, for each pair of vertically adjacent storage containers in the stack, (a) the upper coupling of a lower storage container of the pair is engaged in an interlocked relation with the lower coupling of an upper storage container of the pair to secure the storage containers of the pair together, and (b) the upper and lower couplings of the vertically adjacent storage containers of the pair can be disengaged to enable separation of the storage containers of the pair.
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A storage container for stacking together with one or more similar storage containers, the storage container comprising:
- a drawer having a bottom wall and a peripheral wall defining a storage space for receiving articles and an upwardly facing opening for accessing the storage space,
- a drawer housing having at least an upper wall, the drawer being slidably mounted to the drawer housing for movement between (a) a retracted position wherein the drawer is positioned beneath the upper wall and (b) an extended position wherein the drawer is moved outwardly from beneath the upper wall, thereby allowing access to the storage space therein through the upwardly facing opening, the drawer housing being constructed to enable at least the upper wall of the drawer housing to be pivoted between (a) a closed position closing the upwardly facing opening of the drawer in its retracted position and (b) an open position uncovering the upwardly facing opening of the drawer in its retracted position,
- at least one upper coupling on an upper portion of the storage container and at least one lower coupling on a lower portion of the storage container;
- the upper coupling being constructed to be (a) engaged in an interlocked relation with a lower coupling of a similar storage container stacked atop the storage container to thereby secure the storage container and the similar storage container stacked atop thereof together, and (b) disengaged from the lower coupling of the similar storage container stacked atop the storage container, thereby allowing the storage container and the similar storage container stacked atop the storage container to be separated;
- the lower coupling being constructed to be (a) engaged in an interlocked relation with an upper coupling of a similar storage container stacked below the storage container to thereby secure the storage container and the similar storage container stacked below the storage container together, and (b) disengaged from the upper coupling of the similar storage container stacked below the storage container, thereby allowing the storage container and the similar storage container to be separated;
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- a carrying handle for enabling a user to carry the storage container.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.