Maximum storage tool chest
AssigneeSnap-on Tools Corporation
InventorsBart K. Bieker, Walter K. Krahenbuhl, Kevin E. McGuire, Adron S. Moen, Henry P. Ricke
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Abstract
A tool chest is provided which includes a housing having a top wall, a bottom wall and two substantially parallel side walls. Each side wall connects the top and bottom walls. The bottom wall has an interior surface facing the top wall and an exterior surface facing away from the top wall. The chest also includes a pair of legs connected to the exterior surface of the bottom wall for supporting the housing on a support surface with the bottom wall disposed above the support surface, and a tray slidably supported on the legs. A drawer is supported on drawer supports which are connected to the bottom wall and spaced from the side walls.
Claims21
A tool chest comprising:
- a housing having a top wall, a bottom wall and two substantially parallel and planar side walls, each side wall connecting the top and bottom walls, the bottom wall having an interior surface facing the top wall and an exterior surface facing away from the top wall;
- a plurality of drawers disposed in the hous4ng above the interior surface of the bottom wall;
- a pair of legs fixed to and depending from the exterior surface of the bottom wall for supporting the housing on and the bottom wall above a support surface, each leg being disposed in-board of the planes of both side walls and having an inner portion;
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- a tray disposed below the exterior surface and slidably supported on the inner portions of the legs.
A tool chest comprising:
- a housing having a top wall, a bottom wall and two substantially parallel side walls, each side wall integrally connecting the top and bottom walls, the bottom wall having an interior surface facing the top wall and an exterior surface facing away from the top wall, the housing further having a face plate integral with the bottom wall and the side walls of the housing, the face plate being disposed above the bottom wall and having aperture upper and lower surfaces and a pair of aperture side surfaces each connecting the aperture upper and lower surfaces, the aperture surfaces defining an aperture for receiving a tote drawer;
- a plurality of drawers disposed in the housing and above the face plate;
- a pair of tote drawer supports, each tote drawer support connected to the interior surface of the bottom wall and spaced apart from each of the side walls;
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- a tote drawer disposed through the aperture and slidably supported on the tote drawer supports.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.