Portable container with separate compartments
OwnerWilliam Sutylainventor
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Abstract
A container having a plurality of compartments for screws and the like is defined by a box having side walls and end walls leaving faces at right angles to the side and end walls open. Inside the box is inserted a convoluted or castillated divider sheet separating the box transversely into a plurality of separate compartments together with a divider plate parallel to the open faces and separating the compartments into upper and lower sections. The side and end walls each have outwardly extending flanges lying in the plane of the open face so that a door can slide over the flanges with channels at either edge of the door to hold the door in place. A handle is located on one side wall for carrying the container.
Claims10
A portable container comprising:
- a container body having two side walls and two end walls each formed from sheet metal with the side and end walls interconnected to form a hollow rectangular box;
- edges of the side and end walls defining first and second opposed parallel faces, at right angles to the side and end walls, which first and second opposed faces are open;
- a handle on one side wall by which the body can be lifted and carried suspended from the handle;
- a planar inner divider sheet in the box parallel to the opposed faces separating the box into a first part adjacent said first opposed face and a second part adjacent said second opposed face;
- means dividing each of said first and second parts into a plurality of separate compartments within the box;
- first and second door means each associated with a respective one of said first and second opposed faces for closing the respective opposed face;
- and cooperating engagement means on each of said side walls and on each of said door means allowing sliding movement of the door means from a closed position closing the respective opposed face longitudinally of the side walls toward one end wall for opening of the compartments on the adjacent side of the inner divider sheet:
- wherein the dividing means comprises an elongate strip of sheet metal which includes a plurality of transverse, parallel right angle bends forming between the bends a plurality of parallel divider walls and a plurality of parallel coupling walls at right angles to the divider walls, such that the divider walls alternate along the strip with the coupling walls, the dividing means being mounted in the container body such that each of the divider walls and each of the coupling walls is at right angles to the first and second faces and such that alternate ones of the coupling walls lie in contact with an inside surface of and attached to respective ones of the side walls of the box with the divider walls at right angles to the side walls and parallel to the end walls, each divider wall being spaced from the next so as to define a respective one of the compartments therebetween;
- wherein the planar inner divider sheet includes a plurality of parallel slots therein extending from one side edge partly thereacross with a space between each slot and a next adjacent slot being equal to a width of a respective one of the compartments;
- and wherein the dividing means includes a plurality of slots therein cooperating with the slots of the divider sheet and arranged so as to extend fully across alternate ones of the coupling walls and partly across each of the divider walls from an edge of the divider wall at said alternate ones of the coupling wall such that the divider sheet extends across the dividing means at a position thereon part way between the opposed faces.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.