Storage container

• US 7,886,905 B2
• Filed: 12/10/2007
• Issued: 02/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Goriki Kogyo Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Goriki Kogyo Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Kamada, Katsuyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): BUI, LUAN KIM
• Application Number:
  US12/000,201
• Publication Number:
  US 20080257766A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,163 Days
• Field of Search: 206/232, 206/337, 206/338, 206/342, 206461-464, 206/467, 206/470, 206/471, 206703-705
• US Class Current: 206/337
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 75/245 the sheet or blank comprising more than one fold line
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/18 for wearing apparel, headwear or footwear

Abstract

Even when a storage container is placed upside down by mistake or in an inclined state, stored items are prevented from falling down or being disordered from an arranged state. A container body having a body recess for storing a lower side of the stored item and a lid member having a lid recess for storing an upper side of the stored item and being superimposed with the container body are provided, and the container body is provided with locking portions for locking the stored item at a plurality of points for applying separation resistance from the body recess to the stored item on the inner peripheral surface of the body recess of the container body.

Claims

1. A storage container comprising:

a stored item;

a container body having a body recess for storing a lower side of the stored item, the body recess having a bottom wall; and

a lid member having a lid recess for storing an upper side of the stored item and being superimposed with the container body,

wherein the container body includes locking portions on an inner peripheral surface of the body recess of the container body, an edge of the stored item retained between the locking portions and the bottom wall of the body recess, and

wherein the stored item is an elongated barrette having edges which are engageable with the locking portions at both ends in a longitudinal direction.

2. The storage container according to claim 1, wherein the locking portions are locking projections projecting from the inner peripheral surfaces of the body recess toward the stored item, or locking recesses depressed from the inner peripheral surfaces of the body recess.

3. The storage container according to claim 2, wherein the container body and the lid member oppose each other at portions around the body recess and the lid recess in a superimposed state and

the storage container including:

flat portions continuing from the body recess and the lid recess;

shoulder portions bent from an outer peripheral edges of the flat portions; and

outer peripheral edge portions bent from the shoulder portions and extending substantially parallel to the flat portions.

4. The storage container according to claim 3, wherein the shoulder portions of the container body and the lid member include lock guide portions and locked guide portions to be engaged with each other for applying separation resistance from the superimposed state.

5. The storage container according to claim 4, wherein the lid member is formed of transparent synthetic resin and an item instruction sheet is placed between the flat portions of the container body and the lid member.

6. A storage container comprising:

elongated stored items;

a container body having a plurality of body recesses arranged in parallel to each other for storing lower sides of the elongated stored items, each body recess having a bottom wall; and

a lid member having a plurality of lid recesses for storing upper sides of the stored items and being superimposed with the container body,

wherein the container body includes locking portions on the inner peripheral surfaces of the body recesses of the container body, an edge of each elongated stored item retained between the locking portions and the bottom wall of the body recess, and

wherein the stored items are elongated barrettes having edges which are engageable with the locking portions at both ends in the longitudinal direction.

7. The storage container according to claim 6, wherein the locking portions are locking projections projecting from the inner peripheral surfaces of the body recesses toward the stored items, or locking recesses depressed from the inner peripheral surfaces of the body recesses.

8. The storage container according to claim 7, wherein the container body and the lid member oppose each other at portions around the body recesses and the lid recesses in a superimposed state;

and

the storage container including;

flat portions continuing from the body recesses and the lid recesses;

shoulder portions bent from an outer peripheral edges of the flat portions; and

outer peripheral edge portions bent from the shoulder portions and extending substantially parallel to the flat portions.

9. The storage container according to claim 8, wherein the shoulder portions of the container body and the lid member include lock guide portions and locked guide portions to be engaged with each other for applying separation resistance from the superimposed state.

10. The storage container according to claim 9, wherein the lid member is formed of transparent synthetic resin and an item instruction sheet is placed between the flat portions of the container body and the lid member.