Container assembly

• US 4,235,343 A
• Filed: 07/30/1979
• Issued: 11/25/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Harold E. Thompson
• Original Assignee: Harold E. Thompson
• Inventors: Thompson, Harold E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Norton, Donald F.
• Application Number:
  US06/061,672
• Time in Patent Office: 484 Days
• Field of Search: 215/10, 215/6, 220/23.4, 206/501, 206/504
• US Class Current: 215/6
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 21/0237 Rigid or semi-rigid containers provided with a recess on their external surface for accommodating a smaller container

Abstract

A container assembly comprising one large and two smaller containers, two opposed wall portions of the large container having cavities therein which receive in sliding relation the smaller containers, respectively. The exposed surfaces of the smaller containers blend with the adjacent surfaces of the wall portions thereby to provide an uninterrupted surface contour on the containers so assembled. The cavities provide indentations by means of which the larger container may be conveniently manually grasped.

Claims

1. A container assembly comprising a large and at least one smaller container, said large container having four flat sides at right angles to each other and opposite ends that are flat and parallel and intersect said sides at right angles, one side of the large container having a cavity therein which removably receives in nested relation the smaller container, the exposed surface of said smaller container, blending with the adjacent surface of the larger container thereby to provide an uninterrupted surface contour on the containers so assembled, said cavity having two first walls which are flat and parallel and two second walls which are also flat and parallel, the first walls intersecting the second walls at right angles'"'"' said cavity further having a flat bottom which is at right angles to said walls, said smaller container having a shape that complements the shape of said cavity, the first walls of said cavity being parallel to two opposite sides of said larger container, the second walls being parallel to the opposite ends, said walls being spaced inwardly from the respective sides and ends

2. The container assembly of claim 1 including a second cavity in the side of said larger container opposite the first cavity, said second cavity having four walls and a bottom disposed relative to said sides and ends the same as those of the first cavity, a second smaller container which complements the shape of said second cavity and has an outer surface flush with said opposite side, each side of said larger container having a recess therein which extends between one of said ends and the respective cavity, and said smaller containers having filler necks and caps which are snugly received by said recesses, respectively.