Tool-storage device comprising a pivoting lid

• US 20070084740A1
• Filed: 11/24/2004
• Published: 04/19/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pierre Malek
• Original Assignee: Pierre Malek
• Inventors: Malek, Pierre
• Application Number:
  US10/580,370
• Publication Number:
  US 20070084740A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 206/373
• CPC Class Codes: A61C 19/02 Protective casings, e.g. boxes for instruments; Bags A61C5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B25H 3/003 Holders for drill bits or the like

Abstract

The invention relates to an essentially parallelepiped-shaped tool storage device having at least two bodies affixed to one another by at least two fixing points of a pivot axis, one body forming the lid and the other being complementary to the lid-forming body. The lid-forming body is pivot-mounted and includes a pivot axis for opening the device.

Claims

1. A stowage device for stowing tools, substantially in the shape of a parallelepiped, and comprising at least two bodies fastened together via at least two fastening points, one of said two bodies forming a lid and being mounted to pivot about a pivot axis (X′

X) for opening said device, said two fastening points belonging to the pivot axis (X′

X) of the lid-forming body, the other body forming a complementary body that is complementary to said lid-forming body, said stowage device being characterized in that said lid-forming body is provided with means suitable for receiving tools, and in that said lid-forming body is provided with a protuberant portion at one of its ends for triggering pivoting of said body by pressing on said protuberant portion.

2. A stowage device according to claim 1, wherein the lid-forming body is provided with a plurality of fastening elements that are secured to or integral with the inside face of said body, and that serve for fastening the tools.

3. A stowage device according to claim 1, said device being provided with at least one opening abutment and at least one closure abutment for the lid-forming body.

4. A stowage device according to claim 3, wherein the opening abutment is constituted by the bottom of the complementary body (2) or by an abutment fastened to said bottom.

5. A stowage device according to claim 3, wherein the closure abutment is constituted by two lugs on the complementary body.

6. A stowage device according to claim 5, wherein the two lugs are disposed in respective ones of two consecutive corners, or they are constituted by an inside lip extending over the length of one of the small sides.

7. A stowage device according to claim 6, wherein the complementary body is provided with a truncated or beveled portion allowing contact to be established with the protuberant portion throughout the path along which the lid-forming body pivots.

8. A stowage device according to claim 1, wherein the fastening points consist of two flanges on the lid-forming body, which flanges are inserted into two slots in the complementary body.

9. A stowage device according to claim 1, wherein the complementary body is provided with a plurality of small-diameter orifices.

10. A stowage device according to claim 2, wherein the fastening elements consist of a plurality of hollow tubes, each of which serves to receive at least one tool.

11. A stowage device according to claim 1, wherein the lid-forming body is provided with at least two catches extending perpendicularly to its plane face or “

lid”

, so as to come into contact with at least one tool.

12. A stowage device according to claim 1, wherein the two bodies are made of a plastics material.

13. A stowage device according to claim 1, wherein the complementary body and the lid-forming body present two colors that are different from each other.

14. A housing provided with an opening/closure system, said housing containing a plurality of stowage devices according to claim 1.