Container assembly

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11459008-B2
Application number	US-202016797540-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 21, 2020
Priority date	Dec 10, 2015
Publication date	Oct 4, 2022
Grant date	Oct 4, 2022

Abstract

Provided are container assemblies, including at least two containers detachably attached to one another by locking arrangements.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A containers assembly comprising at least one first, bottom container and at least one second, top container, detachably attachable to one another by a sliding locking mechanism; the sliding locking mechanism interacts between the at least one first container and the at least one second container, the at least one first container is configured at a top portion thereof with a first locking member and the at least one second container is configured at a bottom portion thereof with a second locking member; such that when the second container rests over the first container, the first locking member and the second locking member are aligned and are configured for lockingly interacting with one another, the sliding locking mechanism comprises a sliding unit that comprises a slider member and at least one arresting member, the sliding unit being configured at the at least one first container, and constitutes one of the first locking member and the second locking member; and a corresponding at least one static locking element configured at the at least one second container and constituting the other one of the first locking member and the second locking member, the slider member being reciprocally displaceable along a linear sliding path extending parallel to and along a top edge of the first container, between a locked position and an unlocked position thereof,
wherein the slider member is slidingly displaceable below a guard lip, the guard lip comprises an opening, such that the second locking member projects into the opening upon resting the second container over the first container, and
wherein in the locked position, the at least one arresting member projects into the opening to arrest the second locking member.

2. The containers assembly of claim 1 , further comprising at least one additional container, the at least one additional container being configured with a second locking member at a bottom portion thereof and with a first locking member at a top portion of thereof, such that the at least one additional container being mountable over the second container and locked therewith.

3. The containers assembly of claim 1 , wherein the sliding unit is slidingly displaceable between a locked position, in which the at least one arresting member arrests the corresponding static locking element, thereby locking the second container in position above the first container; and an unlocked position, wherein the arresting member is disengaged from the corresponding static locking element whereby the second container can be removed from the first container.

4. The containers assembly of claim 1 , wherein the first container is configured at a top portion thereof with the sliding unit, and the second container is configured at a bottom portion thereof with the corresponding static locking element.

5. The container assembly of claim 1 , wherein the slider member of the sliding unit is snapingly displaceable between the locked position to the unlocked position.

6. The container assembly of claim 1 , wherein the slider member is spontaneously displaceable into arresting the static locking element, whereby one or both of the arresting element of the sliding unit and the respective static locking element are configured with a chamfered gliding surface, whereby positioning of the second container over the first container results in spontaneous displacement of the slider member into arresting the static locking element.

7. The container assembly of claim 1 , wherein the sliding unit is configured with a biasing mechanism for biasing the slider member into the locked position.

8. The container assembly of claim 1 , wherein each container in the assembly is configured with at least two sliding locking mechanism disposed at opposite side faces of each container.

9. The container assembly of claim 1 being configured as a portable container assembly.

10. The container assembly of claim 1 , wherein a bottom most container of the assembly is fitted with a locomoting arrangement.

11. The container assembly of claim 1 , comprising one or more bucket-like containers, one or more drawer containers configured with a drawer-housing container, one or more organizer containers configured with an organizer container, one or more sliding containers, one or more pivoting containers, and/or one or more parallel mechanism containers.

12. The container assembly of claim 1 , being configured with a handle.

13. The container assembly of claim 1 , wherein the slider member having a longitudinal axis, and being reciprocally displaceable along the longitudinal axis, the longitudinal axis being parallel to the top edge of the first container.

Assignees

• Keter Plastic Ltd

Inventors

• Brunner Yaron

Classifications

• B25H3/02 Primary

  Boxes · CPC title

• B65D21/0212

  Containers presenting local stacking elements protruding from the upper or lower edge of a side wall, e.g. handles, lugs, ribs, grooves (B65D21/0211, B65D21/0215, B65D21/023 take precedence) · CPC title

• B65D21/00

  Nestable, stackable or joinable containers; Containers of variable capacity · CPC title

• B25H3/023

  movable relative to one another for access to their interiors · CPC title

• B25H3/026

  by displacement in a direction substantially perpendicated to th base · CPC title