US 4,577,773 AGranted

Utility box

AssigneeThe Rogers Manufacturing Co.

InventorVincent J. Bitel

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Abstract

A utility box for storing small parts and the like has a container molded from a transparent plastic material exhibiting natural flexural characteristics with a generally rectangular configuration defined by a bottom wall and upwardly extending and outwardly tapering side and end walls. The bottom wall has a multiplicity of transversely extending ribs thereon each formed with concave side surfaces and a planar upper surface with a groove therein. The side walls of the container have pairs of aligned slots therein above the ribs of the bottom wall and recesses in the outer surface of the side wall above the slots. The side walls are also provided with pairs of aligned ribs extending upwardly from adjacent the bottom wall to the slots to form channels therebetween. A multiplicity of removable compartment dividers matingly received are seated within the grooves and channels therein, and arm portions at the upper edges thereof lock into the slots of the side walls.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A utility box having a generally rectangular configuration comprising:

A. a container having a generally rectangular bottom wall, and a pair of end walls and a pair of side walls extending upwardly from said bottom wall and defining a generally rectangular cavity, said side walls having aligned slots extending through the upper edges thereof, said side wall having opposed pairs of vertically extending ribs on the inner surface thereof aligned with said slots to form channels said bottom wall having upstanding ribs extending transversely between said side walls;
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B. a plurality of compartment dividers extending between said side walls of said container member and having engagement arm portions adjacent the upper end thereof extending through said slots and having flange portions exending along the outer surface of said side walls about said slots to maintain said dividers and side walls in assembly, said dividers having their side edge portions seated in said channels of said side walls and their bottom edges seated on ribs of said bottom wall, said dividers being of a height not greater than that of said container.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 06/639,451Filed 10 Aug 1984
Granted: 25 Mar 1986
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

B25H 3/02
Storage means or arrangements for workshops facilitating access to, or handling of, work tools or instruments: boxes
A47B 88/90
Drawers for tables, cabinets or like furniture; Guides for drawers: constructional details of drawers
A47B 88/975
Drawers having means for organising or sorting the content: in the form of repositionable partition walls
A47B 88/994
Drawers having means for organising or sorting the content: in the form of trays or inserts