CN102548863A

CN102548863A - Utility box lid

Info

Publication number: CN102548863A
Application number: CN2010800299314A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 约翰·轩尼诗·惠伦
Original assignee: Plano Molding Co LLC
Current assignee: Plano Molding Co LLC
Priority date: 2009-07-01
Filing date: 2010-06-18
Publication date: 2012-07-04
Also published as: EP2448838A2; WO2011002618A3; WO2011002618A2; CA2766557A1; US20110000919A1; AU2010266553A1

Abstract

A utility box lid is provided which includes multiple storage levels. The utility box includes a plurality of inner compartments configured to receive lift out trays, which when inserted form the multiple storage levels. The utility box has a plurality of split covers, each one hinged by a separate, individual hinge, where the hinges are positioned relatively in parallel with the diameter of the bucket.

Description

Practical lid

Technical field

The present invention relates to the practical box of high-mobility, multipurpose, wheeled vehicle, it is configured to be assemblied on existing tube, the jar etc.

Background technology

Many people with suitable taking in be regarded as protecting that treasure are avoided losing, damage etc. and the key factor that finds them when needs or when expecting them.In this regard, related to combined tool box and fish container cover to the United States Patent(USP) No. 6,460,287 that Louie sends on October 8th, 2002; The United States Patent(USP) No. 5,802,760 that sent to Campbell on September 8th, 1998 relates to the fishing tube; The United States Patent(USP) No. 5,755,057 of the Dancer of promulgation on May 26th, 1998 relates to fishing annex container; The United States Patent(USP) No. 5,659,995 that sent to Hoffman on August 26th, 1997 relates to fisherman's instrument cases of tube size; On August 20th, 1996 related to the container with stackable dish and adjustable compartment to the United States Patent(USP) No. 5,647,098 that Jordan sends; Relate to container with stackable dish to the United States Patent(USP) No. 5,386,922 that Jordan sends February 7 nineteen ninety-five; On August 16th, 1994 related to instrument cases and assembly to the United States Patent(USP) No. 5,337,892 that Zaffina sends; Relate to a tin catch pan to the United States Patent(USP) No. 4,911,295 that Venegoni sends March 27 nineteen ninety; The United States Patent(USP) No. 4,759,148 that sent to Love on July 26th, 1988 relates to fishing annex container; And the United States Patent(USP) No. 3,751,845 that on August 14th, 1973 sent to Van Leeuwen relates to the fishing tube.

Have unconsummated needs for the practical box of high-mobility, multipurpose, wheeled vehicle, it can be integrated so that available accommodation space maximization with existing tube, jar etc.

Summary of the invention

According to an aspect of the present invention, a kind of equipment is provided, has comprised practical box, its can be configured to tube lid (such as, for example, 1 gallon, 2 gallons, 3 gallons, 4 gallons, 5 gallons, 6 gallons or any other capacity).Practical box can be divided into a plurality of housing units (for example, 4 unit).The main body of practical box can comprise a plurality of in compartments (such as, for example, the compartment of two identical (or inequality) sizes), each compartment has independent split lid.A plurality of (for example, two) can be set can the proposition dish, and each can be configured to kept by the one or more dish ribs in the compartment inside the Pass the phase of practical box by the proposition dish.The split lid each can be undertaken by hinge separation, grid hinged, wherein hinge can with the diameter of tube relative positioning abreast.The split lid can comprise integrally formed snap close, and the base portion of practical box can comprise the one hook that is configured to receive snap close.At least one base plate of the following storage area of practical box can remove, so that the approach of the content that leads to tube to be provided under the situation that does not remove practical box.

Supplementary features of the present invention, advantage and embodiment can consider following detailed description and accompanying drawing and illustrate or obviously.And, notice that aforementioned summary of the present invention and following detailed description are exemplary, and be intended to not limit under the situation of the scope of being advocated of the present invention further explanation is provided.

Description of drawings

Accompanying drawing is included to provides the present invention further to understand, and accompanying drawing is incorporated into this paper and constitutes the part of this specification sheets, and the diagram embodiments of the invention, and is used for explaining principle of the present invention with detailed description.And be not intended to exceed basic comprehension of the present invention and to realize that the higher degree of the required the level of detail of modes of the present invention shows CONSTRUCTED SPECIFICATION of the present invention

Fig. 1 principle according to the present invention shows the three-dimensional side view of the example of the practical box of friendly type with the tube matching environment;

The practical box of friendly type with the tube matching environment that Fig. 2 illustrates Fig. 1 dissect three-dimensional side view;

Fig. 3 principle according to the present invention shows the three-dimensional side view of the environmentally friendly practical box of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 principle according to the present invention illustrate can use with the environmentally friendly practical box of Fig. 1 can the proposition dish the three-dimensional side view of example; And

Fig. 5 principle according to the present invention shows the birds-eye view of the environmentally friendly practical box of Fig. 1.

In following detailed description, further describe the present invention.

The specific embodiment

With reference to the unrestriced embodiment and the example that illustrate and in following specification sheets, describe in detail in the accompanying drawings, embodiments of the invention and its various characteristics and favourable details will be described more fully.Should be noted that graphic characteristic needn't be drawn in proportion in the accompanying drawing, even and do not offer some clarification on herein, the characteristic of an embodiment can be used with other embodiment as those skilled in the art can discern.Can omit the description of known parts and processing element, to highlight embodiments of the invention.The example of here using only is intended to promote the understanding of the mode that can implement the present invention, and further enables those skilled in the art to embodiment of the present invention.Thereby example here and embodiment should not be construed as the restriction to scope of the present invention, and scope of the present invention is only limited claim and the law that is suitable for.In addition, notice that identical Reference numeral is represented similar parts in the accompanying drawings.

At the household construction trade, general practice be tube or jar in provide building materials (such as, for example, aquaseal, coating, gypsum, adhesives, colorant etc.), this often finally brings rubbish.Tube or jar are processed by the material that comprises plastics, metal etc. usually.Tube with jar can have various capacity, usually from 1 gallon to 6 gallons scope.Because some degradeds in these materials are very slow, tube has shown significant environmental problem with jar.For example, a tube and a jar filling dump bring the problem that needs centuries (even several thousand) degraded.

Fig. 1 shows the three-dimensional side view of the example of the environmentally friendly practical box 115 of principle according to the present invention, and this practicality box 115 can be used as lid and tube 110 couplings.As visible, practical box 115 can be inserted in the tube 110 to form whole container structure 100.Practical box 115 and/or tube 110 can include but not limited to, for example, and the material of plastics, metal, timber, fiber glass, glass, pottery, stone material etc.At least one base plate removable (can open) of the following storage area of practical box 115 is to be provided at the approach that the content that leads to tube is provided under the situation that does not remove practical box.

Practical box 115 can comprise a pair of split lid 150A, 150B.Each of

split lid

150A, 150B can comprise limit 140A, the 140B of pivotally attached

limit

130A, 130B and locking.Pivotally attached

limit

130A, 130B can have longitudinal axis (for example, along the z axle), and it is roughly parallel to the diameter of tube 110, and is roughly parallel to the plane that is formed by x axle and z axle.Each of

split lid

150A, 150B can comprise linkwork 135 (such as; For example; Pivot hinge, butt joint/mortise hinge, continuous hinge, piano hinge, dark formula hinge, dish-shaped hinge, parliament hinge, strap hinge, H hinge, HL hinge etc.) pivot around the lid 150A of separation, vertical z axis of 150B (that is the longitudinal axis of 130A, 130B) to allow

split lid

150A, 150B around the pivotally attached

limit.Split lid

150A, 150B can be configured to be connected to practical box 115 via hasp locking fastening device (not shown), and hasp locking fastening device can be arranged on one among pivotally attached

limit

130A, 130B and/or lock bolt limit 140A, the 140B or both.Practical box 115 can also comprise can be configured to removable molded hook and be used for the aeration equipment pipeline be connected to tube 110 the belt carcass through hole.

Tube 110 can for example include, but are not limited to the tube of five gallon bottle (the perhaps capacity of any reality).Tube 110 can comprise columniform basically shape as shown in fig. 1, and perhaps it can comprise any other shape, for example include but not limited to rectangular shape (for example, be provided with some foods (for example, cheese etc.) rectangular tube or jar).Tube 110 can comprise the pivoting handle 120 that is used to carry tube 110.According to an aspect of the present invention, tube 110 can be provided with practical box 115 structure 100 as a whole.Alternatively, the user can obtain new tube 110, perhaps from existing tube 110 remove content (such as, for example, aquaseal, gypsum, coating, food etc.) and practical box 115 inserted in the tube 110.The user can clean tube 110 before practical box 115 is inserted tube 110.

Fig. 2 shows the three-dimensional side view that dissects of integral structure shown in Figure 1 100, comprises the practical box 115 that matches tube 110.Practical box 115 can along its periphery comprise mating component 250 (such as, for example, but be not limited to lid, tongue, groove etc.) but will cover the cooperation of member 260 locking ground with periphery along tube 110, thus practical box 115 is fastened to tins 110.Visible from Fig. 2, practical box 115 can comprise that at least one can proposition dish 170 (170A, 170B).As shown in Figure 2, can proposition dish 170A, 170B each can be configured to be arranged in the practical box 115, making can proposition dish 170A, 170B forms four housing units in using box 115.For example, in the time of in inserting practical box 115, can proposition dish 170A, 170B can form two and go up 210,220 and two lower unit incorporating sections 230,240, incorporating section, unit.At least one base plate 340 (shown in Figure 3) of lower unit 230,240 can be removed (opening) under the situation that does not remove practical box 115, to obtain towards the approach of the content of tube 110.Base plate 340 can be configured to by means of opening such as but not limited to hinge, glossal canal layout (for example, being used for the sliding floor part) etc.

Notice that practical box 115 is not limited to four housing units, but can comprise any amount of housing unit (such as, for example, 1,2,3,4 etc.).In this regard, can proposition dish 170A, 170B can comprise the multilayer disc (not shown).For example, can insert other dishes by proposition dish 170A (perhaps 170B), this other dish on the y direction (for example) along the y axle than can proposition dish 170A (perhaps 170B) darker, but more shallow than the degree of depth of practical box 115, three layers incorporating section is provided thus.Another can be set can the proposition dish, and it has on the y direction than can the littler degree of depth of proposition dish 170A (170B), and can be inserted in can proposition dish 170A (170B) in to form the incorporating section of extra play.Can also comprise one or more dish ribs (not shown) by proposition dish 170A (perhaps 170B), be used for receiving and keep other can the proposition dish.

Fig. 3 shows the three-dimensional side view according to the practical box 115 of Fig. 1 of principle of the present invention.As visible in Fig. 3, practical box 115 can comprise snap close 310 and snap close receptor 320, receives snap close 310 but snap close receptor 320 can be configured to locking ground.Snap close 310 can (for example form with the lid 150 of split; Molded); Perhaps it can be by means of such as but not limited to adhesives (for example; Glue, adhesive, epoxy resin etc.), physical construction (for example, bolt, nut, screw, nail, rivet etc.) etc. is attached to the lid 150 of split.Snap close receptor 320 can (for example form with practical box 115 bodies (perhaps base portion); Molded); Perhaps it can be by means of such as but not limited to adhesives (for example; Glue, adhesive, epoxy resin etc.), mechanical fasteners (for example, bolt, nut, screw, nail, rivet etc.) etc. is attached to practical box 115 bodies.

As shown in Figure 3, practical box 115 can comprise a plurality of dish ribs 330.Dish ribs 330 can be arranged on any side or the many sides of interior compartment of practical box 115, can proposition dish 170A (170B) to support.In addition, dish ribs 330 can comprise all lengths and all thickness along the y direction, thereby provides support for a plurality of dishes in the single compartment of practical box 115.For example, dish ribs 330 can comprise first group four dish ribs on the interior compartment near pivotally attached limit 130, and near lock must the interior compartment on limit 140 on comprise second group four dish ribs.Two the dish ribs of first group four dishes in the ribs can have first length (such as; Such as but not limited to four inches); And first group four the dish ribs all the other two ribs can have second length (such as; Such as but not limited to six inches), and second group of dish ribs has similar length.In the case, shorter dish ribs can keep first can proposition dish 170A (perhaps 170B), and longer dish ribs can keep other can proposition dish (not shown).Dish ribs 330 can (for example form with practical box 115 bodies; Molded); Perhaps ribs 339 can be by means of adhesives for example (for example; Glue, adhesive, epoxy resin etc.), mechanical fasteners (for example, bolt, screw, nail, rivet etc.) etc. is attached to practical box 115 bodies.

Fig. 4 shows according to principle of the present invention, the three-dimensional side view of example that can proposition dish 170, and this can use with the practical box shown in Fig. 1-3 115 by the proposition dish.Can comprise one or more plug-in unit 410 and dish 420 by proposition dish 170.Plug-in unit 410 can be configured to when inserting, cooperate with the recess that coils in 420.In addition, plug-in unit can form (for example, molded) with dish 420.What comprise plug-in unit 410 and dish 420 can comprise one or more material by proposition dish 170, and these materials comprise such as but not limited to plastics, metal, timber, fiber glass, glass, pottery, stone material etc.

Fig. 5 principle according to the present invention shows the birds-eye view of the practical box 115 of Fig. 1.

Although practical box 115 be described as have be configured to receive can proposition dish 170 two interior compartments, note practical box 115 can comprise any amount of in compartment (such as, for example, one, two, three, four or more).In this regard, practical box 115 can comprise be configured to cover in compartment any amount of split lid 150 (such as, for example, one, two, three, four or more).

Although described example embodiment of the present invention, person of skill in the art will appreciate that the present invention can implement through the spirit of claim and the modification in the scope.These examples that more than provide only are casehistory character, do not mean that to get rid of any feasible design of the present invention, embodiment, application or modification.

Claims

1. practical box, its be configured to be inserted into tube or jar in, said practical box comprises:

Interior compartment, it is configured to keep can the proposition dish; And

The split lid, it is configured to open and close,

Wherein, said split lid comprises at least one in hinged limit and the locking limit.

2. practical box according to claim 1, wherein, said interior compartment comprises:

The dish ribs, its be configured to keep said can the proposition dish.

3. practical box according to claim 2, wherein, said dish ribs is built on the wall near said hinged limit of said interior compartment.

4. practical box according to claim 2, wherein, said dish ribs is built on the wall near said locking limit of said interior compartment.

5. practical box according to claim 1,

Wherein, said interior compartment comprises two interior compartments, and

Wherein, said split lid comprises two split lids.

6. practical box according to claim 1 also comprises:

Can the proposition dish, it is configured to kept by at least one dish ribs.

7. practical box according to claim 5 also comprises:

Two can the proposition dish, and it is configured to kept by a plurality of dish ribs of in said two interior compartments, constructing.

8. practical box according to claim 1, wherein, said practical box comprises a plurality of housing units.

9. practical box according to claim 1, wherein, said practical box comprises four housing units.

10. practical box according to claim 1, wherein, the base plate of said interior compartment is removable, and the approach that leads to the content in the said tube is provided.

11. an integral structure, said integral structure comprise practical box and tube, and comprise:

Interior compartment, it is configured to keep can the proposition dish; And

The split lid, it is configured to open and close,

12. integral structure according to claim 11, wherein, said interior compartment comprises:

The dish ribs, its be configured to keep said can the proposition dish.

13. integral structure according to claim 12, wherein, said dish ribs is built on the wall near said hinged limit of said interior compartment.

14. integral structure according to claim 12, wherein, said dish ribs is built on the wall near said locking limit of said interior compartment.

15. integral structure according to claim 11,

Wherein, said interior compartment comprises two interior compartments, and

Wherein, said split lid comprises two split lids.

16. integral structure according to claim 11 also comprises:

Can the proposition dish, it is configured to kept by at least one dish ribs.

17. integral structure according to claim 15 also comprises:

18. integral structure according to claim 11, wherein, said practical box comprises a plurality of housing units.

19. integral structure according to claim 11, wherein, said practical box comprises four housing units.

20. the practical box with circular periphery comprises:

Interior compartment, it is configured to keep can the proposition dish; And

The split lid, it is configured to open and close,

Wherein, said split lid comprises at least one in hinged limit and the locking limit, and

Wherein, said split lid comprises the part with circular shape.