Container device and apparatus

• US 9,066,543 B2
• Filed: 07/31/2013
• Issued: 06/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Safe Cig LLC
• Original Assignee: Safe Cig LLC
• Inventors: Cameron, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Gehman, Bryon
• Assistant Examiner(s): Patel, Brijesh V.
• Application Number:
  US13/956,336
• Publication Number:
  US 20140097103A1
• Time in Patent Office: 699 Days
• Field of Search: 131/231, 131/238, 131/240.1, 131/242, 131/250, 206/38, 206/236, 206/242, 206/246, 206249-251, 206/256, 206264-268, 206/271, 206/273, 206/276, 229/120.04, 229/120.06, 229/120.08, 229/120.38, 229/160.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/95 structurally associated with cases

Abstract

An apparatus including a box having a plurality of compartments, a first cover movable to open a first compartment adapted to hold one or more fluid vaporization related products, and a second cover movable to open a second compartment adapted to hold an electronic charging device. The movement of the second cover can be restricted by one or more objects inserted through a partition between the first and the second compartments, such as an electronic cigarette battery and/or an electronic cigarette. A hinge can be adapted to move the covers between a first position in which a compartment is closed and a second position in which the compartment is open, the covers can be detached to open a compartment and reattached to close the compartment, and the cover can be a first portion of one or more exterior faces of the box and can slide to open the compartment.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a box having a plurality of compartments;

a first cover movable to open a first compartment, the first compartment being configured to hold one or more fluid vaporization related products; and

a second cover movable to open a second compartment, the second compartment being configured to hold an electronic charging device, the second compartment being further configured such that movement of the second cover is restricted when one or more objects are inserted through a partition between the first and the second compartments.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more objects comprise at least one of an electronic cigarette battery and an electronic cigarette.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a hinge configured to move the first cover between a first position in which the first compartment is closed and a second position in which the first compartment is open.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first compartment further comprises a drawer having at least a portion of the first cover as an external face.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first cover is configured to be detached to open the first compartment and reattached to close the first compartment.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first cover includes a first portion of one or more exterior faces of the box and is configured to slide relative to a second portion of the one more exterior faces of the box to thereby open the first compartment.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a hinge configured to move the second cover between a first position in which the second compartment is closed and a second position in which the second compartment is open.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the hinge couples the second cover to an obstruction member extending into the second compartment, such that the second cover and the obstruction member rotate in unison about the hinge.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the movement of the second cover is configured to be restricted by an object inserted through the partition between the first and the second compartments which presses against the obstruction member.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the second compartment further comprises a drawer having at least a portion of the second cover as an external face.

11. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the second cover is configured to be detached to open the second compartment and reattached to close the second compartment.

12. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the second cover includes a first portion of one or more exterior faces of the box and is configured to slide relative to a second portion of the one more exterior faces of the box to open the second compartment.

13. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more fluid vaporization related products comprise at least one of an electronic cigarette cartridge and an electronic cigarette battery.

14. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the electronic charging device comprises a USB device.

15. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the electronic charging device is configured to charge an electronic cigarette battery.