Containers, such as boxes, baskets and the like

Jan. 20, 1959 a. g. robinson 2,869,769

CONTAINERS, SUCH AS BOXES, BASKETS AND THE LIKE

Filed Jan. 30, 1957

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2,869,769

Patented Jan. 20, 1959

United States Patent Office

2,869,769 CONTAINERS, SUCH AS BOXES, BASKETS AND THE LIKE

Alice Gram Robinson, Washington, D. C. Application January 30, 1957, Serial No. 637,215 5 Claims. (Cl. 224—46) as each end of the bottom part 12 exteriorly of the box part. One of these handles is positioned at each end of the box and these two handles are shown at 20, 22. These handles are preferably formed integrally with the bottom part 12 and extend outwardly from the respective ends thereof at the central parts of such ends and beyond the ends of the side walls 4, 6. The handles are elongated transversely of the box part to, provide openings within Which the user’s hands may be inserted to lift the sewing box.

Means are provided by the invention for covering the normally open top of the sewing box and such means comprise two cover members 30, 32 which are respectively hinged, at their one ends, at the opposite ends of the box part 2 between the side wall extensions 13 on hinge or pivot means 31, clearly shown in Fig. 5, positioned closely adjacent the upper edges of the side walls. Each of the two cover members is of such length that it extends from its pivotal support to the nearest side of the central partition 14 where it rests on suitable stops 33. Each cover member is formed in its outer edge with a central recess 34. Those recesses register with each other when the cover members are in closed positions, as shown in Fig. 1, and when in such position they are ad²⁵ jqcent the hand aperthre 16 in partition 14, thus permitting a' user of the sewing box to insert his hand through the aperture 34 to grasp the handle means provided by aperthre 16.

Each of the cover members 30, 32 has formed therein ³⁰ an opening 36 which is elongated laterally of the cover member and has such dimensions and is so positioned that when the cover members are moved from their closed positions to their fully opened positions in which they abut the end wall members the handle members 20, 22 35 on the ends of the box part pass through these openings 36 and extend therethrough outwardly of the cover members, which are now in vertical position as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. It will be apparent that in this open position the cover members form legs or supports holding the box ⁴⁰ part in an elevated position in which it is readily accessible. Also, when the cover members are in this open, supporting position the handles 20, 22 which extend therethrough may be grasped by the user in order to move the sewing box from place to place.

In a modified form of the invention shown in Fig. 4, each of the handles 20, 22 is provided, within its central aperture, with a locking member 40 which is supported on a pivot 42 for movement from the plane of the handle 22 to a position outside that plane and in which it holds the cover member in opened position.

It is believed that the construction and mode of operation and use of my invention will be clearly understood from the foregoing specification and that no further description of the operation and use of the device is required.

While I have described and illustrated certain embodiments of the invention it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that other embodiments, as well as modifications of those disclosed, may be made and practised without departing in any way from the scope of the invention, for the limits of which reference must be made to the appended claims.