Portable storage container

• US 6,612,436 B1
• Filed: 09/27/2002
• Issued: 09/02/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Emilio Zullo
• Original Assignee: Emilio Zullo
• Inventors: Zullo, Emilio
• Primary Examiner(s): Bui, Luan K.
• Application Number:
  US10/256,961
• Time in Patent Office: 340 Days
• Field of Search: 206/380, 206/389, 206/391, 206/392, 206/394, 206/403, 206/408, 206/409, 206/418, 206/419, 242/588.3, 242/588.5, 242/588.6, 242/514.6, 242/900
• US Class Current: 206/391
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 51/28 with auxiliary containers for additional articles or materials B65D51/247 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/04 for coils of wire, rope or hose
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2701/3915 Strings of lights, e.g. Christmas lighting
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2701/533 Storage compartments for accessories
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 49/38 Skips, cages, racks, or containers, adapted solely for the transport or storage of bobbins, cops, or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 75/40 mobile or transportable
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 75/4471 Housing enclosing the reel

Abstract

A carousel suitable for storing dolls having a plurality of compartments with doors opening into each compartment and a top storage above the compartments with doors that cover the storage space and for the top of the carousel.

Claims

1. ) A storage container having a bottom section and an upper section, said bottom section comprising:

a base and a plurality of walls extending upwardly from said base, each wall having a bottom edge positioned adjacent to and connected to said base, and having side edges which are in juxtaposition to side edges of other walls to form a rectangular shaped cavity in combination with said base, each said side edges of said walls being fixedly attached to side edges juxtaposed thereto and each having a top edge, said walls and base so formed to envelope a storage volume in the interior of said bottom section;

said upper section having walls that correspond to in the shape of and contact said top edge of said bottom section;

said bottom section and said upper section being affixed to each other by hinged means along a common side of one of said upper section and said bottom section to allow the upper section to close over and be fixed to said bottom section, there being means for securing said upper section to said bottom section;

within the interior of said bottom section, a plurality of stationary storage posts which extend upwardly from said base of said bottom section, each said storage post accommodates a plurality of spools around which flexible wire filaments are wrapped;

said spools have a core diameter which allows one or more of them to be stored on said storage post;

one side of said walls of said bottom section having a vertical slit comprising two edges fitted with guide means, said vertical slit allowing direct passage from said interior of said bottom section to the outside and vice versa;

and a retrieving post having a rotatable base positioned diametrically opposite said vertical slit which also accommodates a spool and is used to receive a rotating spool while a flexible wire filament is wound up on said spool as a result of rotating said spool on said rotatable base, said wire having been wound on said spool as it was extended from said outside through said vertical slit onto said spool.

2. The storage container defined in claim 1 wherein said upper section contains one or more storage compartments that are accessible from the external top of said upper section.

3. The storage container defined in claim 2 wherein said spool on said storage post mounted on said rotatable base, contains an aperature at the top used in combination with a cranking handle to wind said filament about said spool.

4. The storage container contained in claim 3 wherein said rotatable base contains an opening configured to receive locking means positioned on the bottom of a spool on said rotatable storage post.