Receptacles – Sectional – Knockdown
Patent
1994-11-15
1996-12-10
Sholl, Linda J.
Receptacles
Sectional
Knockdown
220 422, 220334, 224328, 312111, 3122655, 403335, B65D 616, B60R 9055
Patent
active
055823130
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention generally relates to a deposit container of the type which is nowadays commonly used as a motor car roof-box, a ski box, or as a container for any kinds of goods.
There exist many various types and sizes of roof boxes of the above-mentioned type. Most roof boxes are relatively long, often between 2 and 2.5 meters long, and they have generally been made as a bottom box part which can be clamped to a couple of roof racks, load racks or any other mounting means at the roof of a motor car, and which bottom box part has a rotatably connected lid box part, which is usually rotatably connected at the front edge or the rear edge of the bottom box part, but which may alternatively be rotatably connected at any of the long sides of the car roof box.
A deposit container of the above mentioned type also is useful as a load container for boats, ski sleighs and for many other purposes.
A problem in connection to roof boxes of the priorly known type is that said boxes are very bulky, and that the boxes often must be hoisted up to the garage ceiling by means of blocks and pulleys when the roof boxes are removed from the car or the bus, or from the boat etc. It is also possible to put the roof box down standing on its rear end and to strap the box e.g. to a wall so that the box does not tilt over and damages objects or persons standing in the vicinity the the roof box. Many car drivers have no garage and can often not have the roof box standing or hanging in his home, and in such cases it may be necessary to let the roof box remain on the motor car all the year. This leads to unnecessarily increased fuel consumption upon driving the car, there appear problems when the car is to be washed, wind noise, destruction of the lacquer etc.
Upon sale in a store, such roof boxes also occupy so large space that they are generally exposed in special storage stands with several boxes placed above each other. Such storage stands are large, bulky and expensive.
The known roof boxes mostly are manufactured by a vacuum forming process of a suitable plastic material generally using large plastic plates. The tools for vacuum formation are large and are difficult to handle, and the plastic plate material from which the roof box bottom and the roof box lid is press-formed are expensive.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The object of the invention therefore is to suggest a deposit container which can be used for many different purposes, for instance as a roof box for a motor car, as a ski box, as a deposit box for boats, buses, caravans, motor homes, snow sleighs etc.
Further objects of the invention include a deposit container: dismounted condition, occupies less than half the space as compared with the above mentioned known roof boxes; particular without the need of using tools; and two identical lid box parts; like parts for the bottom box part and two like parts for the lid box part; polypropylene, and the manufacturing process makes use of of a relatively cheap tool the size of which is not more than half the size as compared with the tools for the priorly known roof boxes; and the lid box part in which connection means hinges or locks can be introduced and secured as desired; dismounted condition can be partly introduced in each other, whereby the entire system of roof box parts can be packed in a plastic box or a carton that can be used both for sale and for storing of the roof box parts in their dismounted condition, whereby the roof box can be handled like any type of standard goods in stores, and whereby there is no need to hoist the roof box to the garage ceiling, but whereby the roof box can be placed standing or laying down anywhere without the risk of turning over.
The transport container or the roof box according to the invention is mainly characterized in that the bottom box part and the lid box part are similar to each other and that both said box parts are composed of two identical box part halves, each of said two box part halves being manufactured in one and the same injection mo
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Dynamid Co., Ltd.
Sholl Linda J.
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