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US 5,042,674 AGranted
Moving and storage container
AssigneeRent A Boxx Moving Systems Inc.
InventorsSusan J. Ramsay, Krzysztof D. Otoka, Raymond Calistus
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Abstract
A container made up of a box and a lid. Three internal container volumes can electively be obtained in use. Two container volumes are obtainable by different orientations of the lid on the box. The third volume is achieved by use of a second box placed in inverted fashion on the first box, in place of the lid.
Claims17
A container comprising:
- i) a box having a base, walls and a rim defining an open end, the box shaped so as to be nestable in a second substantially identical box;
- ii) a lid for the box, the lid dished such that a first volume enclosed by the container in a first assembled orientation is larger than a second volume enclosed by the container in a second assembled orientation;
- iii) first mating means located on the box at the open end to permit the box to act as a lid in aligned, mated open-end-to-open-end relation with a substantially identical second box;
- iv) second and third mating means located on the lid to permit the lid and box to mate in the respective assembled orientations;
- v) first lid rim portions which in the first assembled orientation abut outer wall portions of an above-stacked substantially identical second box in mated stacking relation;
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- vi) second lid rim portions which in the second assembled orientation abut outer wall portions of an above-stacked substantially identical second box in mated stacking relation.
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A container comprising:
- i) a box having a rim defining an open end;
- ii) a lid for the box, the lid dished such that a first volume enclosed by the container in a first assembled orientation is larger than a second volume enclosed by the container in a second assembled orientation;
- iii) first and second mating means located on the lid to permit the lid and box to mate in the respective assembled orientations;
- iv) first lid rim portions which in the first assembled orientation abut outer wall portions of an above-stacked substantially identical second box in mated stacking relation;
- v) second lid rim portions which in the second assembled orientation abut outer wall portions of an above-stacked substantially identical second box in mated stacking relation;
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- vi) box mating means located at the open end of the box to permit the box to act as a lid in aligned, mated open-end-to-open-end relation with a substantially identical second box.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.