US 6,804,860 B2Granted

Wide angled hinge for container

AssigneeNationalpak Limited

InventorKinsen Ka Fai Au

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Abstract

A container includes a container body which includes a base and a plurality of side walls peripherally and upwardly extended from the base to define a storage cavity, a container cover adapted to selectively cover the storage cavity, and one or more wide angled hinges. Each of the wide angled hinges includes a primary jointing frame and a secondary jointing frame to enable the container cover being moved between an opened position and a closed position. In the opened position, the primary jointing frame and the secondary jointing frame are pivotally moved and extended to open pivotally move the container cover away from the container body to form a wide opening angle with respect to horizontal. In the closed position, the primary joint frame and the secondary jointing frame are pivotally moved to receive in the storage cavity through the sliding slot so as to pivotally move the container cover to close the storage cavity.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A container, comprising:

a container body having a storage cavity surrounded by a surrounding wall, wherein a side of said surrounding wall has one or more sliding slots provided therein for communicating said storage cavity with outside;
a container cover adapted to selectively enclose said storage cavity;
and
one or more wide angled hinges for connecting said container cover with said container body to selectively cover said container body, wherein each of said wide angled hinges comprises:
a primary jointing frame, comprising:
a base member which has a securing portion mounted on said base of said container body and a free end portion longitudinally extended from said securing portion;
and
a primary connecting member, which has a lower supporting portion pivotally connected to said free end portion of said base member, and an upper end portion securely mounted on a bottom surface of said container cover;
and
a secondary jointing frame, comprising:
a hinging member which has a pivotal portion pivotally connected with said securing portion of said base member and a hinging end longitudinally extended from said pivotal portion;
and
a secondary connecting member, which has a first coupling end pivotally connected with said hinging end of said hinging member, and a second coupling end operatively connected with said upper end portion of said primary connecting member in such a manner that said primary connecting member and secondary connecting member are capable of sliding through said respective sliding slot of said side wall so as to pivotally and selectively operate said container cover with respect to said container body for opening or closing said container;
whereby said container cover is adapted to move between an opened position and a closed position, wherein in said opened position, said primary jointing frame and said secondary jointing frame are pivotally moved and extended to open pivotally move said container cover away from said container body, wherein in said closed position, said primary joint frame and said secondary jointing frame are pivotally moved to receive in said storage cavity through said sliding slot so as to pivotally move said container cover to close said storage cavity.

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A wide angled hinge for a container which comprises a container body having a storage cavity surrounded by a surrounding wall which has at least a sliding slot provided at a side of the surrounding wall for communicating the storage cavity with outside and a container cover connecting with the container body for selectively enclose the storage cavity, wherein said wide angled hinge comprises:

a primary jointing frame which comprises:
a base member which has a securing portion mounted on the base of the container body and a free end portion longitudinally extended from said securing portion;
and
a primary connecting member, which has a lower supporting portion pivotally connected to said free end portion of said base member, and an upper end portion securely mounted on a bottom surface the said container cover, wherein said primary connecting member further has a connecting slot formed on said upper end portion;
and
a secondary jointing frame, comprising:
a hinging member which has a pivotal portion pivotally connected with said securing portion of said base member and a hinging end longitudinally extended from said pivotal portion;
and
a secondary connecting member, which has a first coupling end pivotally connected with said hinging end of said hinging member, and a second coupling end operatively connected with said upper end portion of said primary connecting member;
whereby said primary connecting member and secondary connecting member are capable of sliding through the sliding slot so as to pivotally and selectively operate the container cover with respect to the container body, so that the container cover is adapted to be moved between an opened position and a closed position, wherein in the opened position, said primary jointing frame and said secondary jointing frame are pivotally moved and extended to open pivotally move the container cover away from the container body, wherein in said closed position, said primary joint frame and said secondary jointing frame are pivotally moved to receive in the storage cavity through the sliding slot so as to pivotally move the container cover to close the storage cavity.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.