Storage system
AssigneeThe Stanley Works
InventorsJames S. Amtmann, Louis G. Bobrowski
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Abstract
A storage system for items such as screws, nuts, bolts and other hardware parts includes a cabinet and drawers in which the parts are packaged and sold. Cooperating keyways and keys on the cabinet and drawers and the lack of supporting horizontal partitions in the cabinet preclude the use of drawers that are not appropriately formed.
Claims16
A combination cabinet and drawers to be combined as a storage system, the combination including a cabinet having multiple drawer receiving openings in a face thereof, and multiple drawers, said drawers being boxes, keying means cooperating between the cabinet and the drawers for permitting insertion of only correctly keyed drawers into the cabinet for use therein.
A storage system cabinet for use with multiple drawers that are boxes in which parts are packaged and sold and each of which has first keying support means thereon;
- the cabinet including outer walls forming the outer surfaces of the cabinet, plural vertical dividers separating plural vertical rows of drawer sites, second keying support means on said dividers for accepting only boxes with cooperatively formed first keying support means, the second keying support means on the dividers defining supporting surfaces adapted to hold the drawers for sliding movement, and the cabinet being free of horizontal dividers capable of supporting the drawers.
A box for packaging and selling parts and for use with a cooperating cabinet as drawers in a storage system, the box including first keying support means formed on sides thereof for engagement with second keying support means formed on the cabinet, said first keying support means defining supporting surfaces on the sides of the box adapted to engage surfaces on the cabinet to hold the box for sliding movement in the cabinet, the sides of the box that have said supporting surfaces differing in structural features forming a part of the first keying support means so as to cooperate with similarly differing features forming the second keying support of the cabinet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.