Tool box with a lighting apparatus

• US 5,624,029 A
• Filed: 06/18/1996
• Issued: 04/29/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Yi L. Shih
• Original Assignee: Yi L. Shih
• Inventors: Shih, Yi L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sewell, Paul T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): LUONG, SHIAN TINH NHAN
• Application Number:
  US08/666,629
• Time in Patent Office: 315 Days
• Field of Search: 206/372, 206/373, 206/234, 362/190, 362/191, 362/154, 362/156, 43/17.5
• US Class Current: 206/372
• CPC Class Codes: B25H 3/02 Boxes

Abstract

A tool box with a lighting apparatus including a casing formed with two perforations at an end thereof and a circular opening between the two perforations, a lighting apparatus including a holder and a cover, a conical reflector being fitted within a tubular neck of the holder, a bulb threadedly engaged with a socket of the holder, an annular member threadedly engaged with the tubular neck, and a lens arranged on the conical reflector and kept in place by engaging a locking member with the tubular neck, whereby the tool box can give light as desired thereby offering much convenience in use.

Claims

1. A tool box with a lighting apparatus comprising:

a casing formed with two perforations at an end thereof and a circular opening between said two perforations;

a lighting apparatus including a holder and a cover, said holder being a rectangular member formed at a central portion of a first side thereof with an internally threaded socket and an externally threaded tubular neck at a central portion of a second side thereof, said holder being mounted within said casing with said tubular neck extending out of said circular opening, said tubular neck being larger than said socket in diameter and coaxial with said socket, said holder having two recesses at two opposite end walls thereof, said cover being rectangular in shape provided at one end with a hook-like member adapted to engage with one of said recesses of said holder and at another end with a U-shaped member having a protuberance adapted to engage with another one of said recesses of said holder;

a conical reflector being fitted within said tubular neck;

a bulb threadedly engaged with said socket;

an annular member threadedly engaged with said tubular neck and

a lens arranged on said conical reflector and kept in place by engaging a locking member with said tubular neck, said first side of said holder being formed with a pair of battery chambers.