Portable tool tray

• US 6,315,120 B1
• Filed: 06/26/2000
• Issued: 11/13/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lisle Corporation
• Original Assignee: Lisle Corporation
• Inventors: Siemen, Peter A., Tally, Kevin L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gehman, Bryon P.
• Application Number:
  US09/603,048
• Time in Patent Office: 505 Days
• Field of Search: 206/350, 206/373, 206/557, 206/561, 108/43, 108/44, 270/628, 270/630, 270/632, 270/634, 270/636, 248/146, 248/148, 248/346.05, 248/346.2, 248/910
• US Class Current: 206/373
• CPC Class Codes: B25H 3/00 Storage means or arrangements for workshops facilitating access to, or handling of, work tools or instruments containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents B65D83/00; nail dispensers B25C3/00
• CPC Class Codes: B25H 3/06 Trays
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 1/36 with moulded compartments or partitions
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 25/24 for spacing bases of containers from supporting surfaces, e.g. legs for pallets B65D19/40
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 248/91 Weighted base

Abstract

A portable tray includes a formed plastic receptacle including various compartments with a circumferential retainer ring cooperating with a flexible bag that is filled with bag fill material to provide a tray assembly which can be fitted on an uneven surface.

Claims

1. A portable tool tray comprising, in combination:

(a) a formed receptacle having a circumferential side, a bottom, and a circumferential rim, said rim including an outwardly extending ledge, downwardly extending retainer clips integrally formed in the ledge of the rim, said clips positioned at intervals about the circumference of the rim and spaced laterally from the side of the receptacle;

(b) a flexible bag of bag material with a closed loop edge, said edge having a thickness exceeding the thickness of the bag material, adjacent the loop edge;

(c) bag fill in the bag; and

(d) a circumferential retainer ring including an inside and outside, a recess on one side, said ring retained by the retainer clips with the loop edge of the bag in the ring recess and the bag extending between the ring and a side of the receptacle and fitted over the bottom of the receptacle.

2. The tray of claim 1 wherein the receptacle includes formed dividers.

3. The tray of claim 1 wherein the receptacle is a formed plastic.

4. The tray of claim 1 wherein the ring has a uniform cross section which is generally rectangular with a recess on the inside.

5. The tray of claim 1 wherein the bag fill material comprises plastic beads.

6. The tray of claim 1 further including a magnetic material within the formed receptacle.

7. The tray of claim 1 wherein the retainer ring includes a series of slots in the outside edge of the ring and said clips are fitted into the slot to retain the ring.

8. The tray of claim 7 wherein the ring includes a recess in each for receiving and engaging a clip to retain the clip.