Receptacles – Compartmented container – Compartments fold together
Patent
1996-03-27
1997-10-14
Castellano, Stephen J.
Receptacles
Compartmented container
Compartments fold together
220507, 220505, 220 2386, 220 238, B65D 3700
Patent
active
056762747
ABSTRACT:
A rollable storage device having a plurality of compartments for storing objects therein. Each compartment includes a bottom wall and outwardly extending side walls and end walls, and an open upper side. Each of the compartments includes a different cross-sectional shape. The bottom walls of the compartments are hingedly interconnected to form a unitary continuous row of compartments with at least a majority of the bottom walls formed from a unitarily molded sheet of plastic which extends beneath a majority of the compartments, wherein the hinges are formed from same single sheet of plastic as the bottom walls. The row of compartments is rollable between a first extended open position in which the compartments rest on their bottom walls with the upper sides of the compartments turned upwardly, and a second, rolled-up closed position in which the row of compartments has been spirally wound from the open position to form a substantially closed block of hexagonal shape. Each of the open upper compartment sides is matingly covered by the bottom wall of a compartment situated radially inwardly thereof in the spirally wound block. The end walls in a majority of the compartments include an elongated flange extending across the top surface of the end wall which is fitting received within corresponding elongated groove formed in a lower side of the corresponding end wall of a compartment lying inwardly of in the spirally wound block.
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Green Dwight C.
Van Styn Ingo F. M.
Castellano Stephen J.
Euromart Media International Inc.
Sixbey Daniel W.
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