Drill holding case

Jan. 30, 1962

3,018,876

Η. E. HUOT

DRILL HOLDING CASE

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Jan. 30, 1962

Η. E. HUOT

DRILL HOLDING CASE

3,018,876

Filed Aug. 19, 1959

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3,018,876

Patented Jan. 30, 1962

United States Patent Office

FIG. 9 is a bottom plan view on an enlarged scale of the portion of applicant’s device indicated in FIG. 5..

Referring to the drawings, a casing 10 is shown. . Said casing is substantially parallelepiped in form having a base portion 12 and a cover portion 13. Said base portion comprises sides 15 and 16, a bottom 17, a rear end portion 18, and a front inclined end portion 19.

Said cover 13 comprises a top side 20, depending sides 21 and 22 reducing in height from the rear to the front thereof terminating in a front end portion 23 of small height. Said sides 21 and 22 and said end 23 are adapted to overlie corresponding portions of said base 12.

Said casing may be variously formed and is here indicated as being made of a blank of sheet metal material and comprising a very simple structure. The upstanding sides of said base 12 and the depending sides of said cover 13 are formed by merely being bent to right-angled positions in relation to their respective bottom and top sides. Said casing is very simply and relatively inexpen20 sively formed.

Said cover 13 has an open rear end 25.. Adjacent said open rear end and the rear of each of said sides 21 and 22 in transverse alignment are elongated inclined or slanted slots 27. Only one of said slots is shown as in25 dicated in FIGS. 1 and 4. Disposed through said slots and through corresponding apertures 28 in said base por' tion 12 are pins 29 extending inwardly from either side of said cover 13 to form a hinge whereby when said cover 13 is raised, said cover is moved upwardly and rear30 wardly by means of ^qaid slots to overlie the end portion 18 of said base 12 to rest thereagainst to be retained in an outwardly inclined upwardly raised position, as indicated in FIG. 4.

Disposed within said base portion 12 are drill holding 35 members 30 and 31. Said drill holding members may be formed of various material but are here indicated as being formed of a tough resilient form of plastic material adapted to receive drills therein without dulling the edges by contact.

Said drill holding member 30 in the embodiment of the applicant’s invention here presented is shown to be substantially rectangular in plan having outer side members 32 and 33 of uniform height and length connected by a flat bottom 34. Extending between said, sides 32 and 33 in parallel spaced arrangement are partition members 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 and 43, with said partition members decreasing in height from right to left as viewed in FIG. 5 and as indicated in FIG. 7. Said partition members 39—43 are shown to be of successively shorter length with an inclined member 45 forming a bottom for said members to accommodate drills of lesser length, as will be hereinafter indicated.

Extending substantially centrally transversely of said member 30 at the rear side thereof are a pair of ribs 47 and 48 integral with said sides 32 and 33 and with said partition members having their upper surfaces in the plane of the upper surfaces of said sides 32 and 33 and having increasing depth from right to left, as viewed in FIG. 5 and as indicated in FIG. 8, to offset the successive decrease in height of said partition members 37—43. Extending between said ribs 47 and 48 in the plane of their bottom edge portions and extending transversely of said member 30 is a plate member 50 bearing indicia 52 thereon with said indicia being indicated in connection with respective slots formed by said partition members 37—43. Extending between said sides 32 and 33 connecting the upper ends of said partition members 37—43 and in the plane of the upper sides of said partition members is an end member 54.

Extending between the outer sides 32 and 33 of the front of said member 30 at the upper and lower portions thereof are panel members 55 and 56 leaving open

3,018,876

DRILL HOLDING CASE Henry E. Huot, St. Paul, Minn., assignor to Huot Manufacturing Company, St. Paul, Minn., a corporation ot Minnesota __,

Filed Aug. 19, 1959, Ser. No. 834,737

Claim. (Cl. 206—17)

This invention relates to an improvement in a drill holding casing having compartments therein for respec- : tively containing certain various sized drills.

It is desirable to have such a casing in which said drills may be disposed in order of size with the respective sizes of said drills being clearly indicated for a ready selection of the same. . . It is an object of this invention to provide a drill holding casing having a plurality of compartments therein, for respectively receiving and holding certain various sized drills and indicia in connection with said compartments to respectively identify said drills, with said compartments being arranged for a convenient endwise insertion and withdrawal of said drills.

It is another object of this invention to provide a drill holding casing having a lid thereon adapted to be suppored in a raised open position to provide ready access to the drill holding compartments within said casing. .

It is still another object of this invention to provide a drill holding casing having a plurality of drill holding members pivotally held therein each comprising a plurality of drill holding compartments respectively, adapted to hold certain various sized drills and easily visible indicia in connection with said compartments to readily identify each of said drills.

It is a more specific object of this invention to provide a drill holding casing substantially parallelepiped in form having a lid thereon pivoted to a base portion thereof, said lid having a pair of transversely , aligned inclined elongated slots through which said lid is pivoted to said base portion whereby said lid may be opened having its open rear end disposed over the end of said casing to rest 40 thereagainst in an upraised position, and a plurality of holding members pivoted within said base portion each having a plurality of compartments graduated in size with said compartments being respectively identified by indicia to form an indexing system whereby said compartments will receive therein respectively certain of various sized drills, said holding members being pivoted to be easily raised to an upstanding position and being spaced longitudinally of asid casing for easy removal or replacement of said drills from either of said holding members.

These and other objects and advantages of the invention will be fully set forth in the following description made in connection with the accompanying drawings in which like reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views and in which:

FIG. 1 is a view in side elevation of applicant’s device;

FIG. 2 is a view in end elevation of applicant’s device; FIG. 3 is a top plan view taken on line 3—3 of FIG.

as indicated by the arrows and having a portion thereof in horizontal section;

FIG. 4 is a view of applicant’s device in side elevation in open position with a portion thereof broken away and some parts thereof shown in alternate position in dotted line; . ,

FIG. 5 is a top plan view of a portion of applicant s device;

FIG. 6 is a view in vertical section taken on line 6—6 of FIG. 4 as indicated by the arrows;

FIG. 7 is a view in perspective on an enlarged scale of the portion of applicant’s device indicated in FIG.. 5;

FIG. 8 is a view in front end elevation of the portion of applicant’s device indicated inFIG. 5; and

3,018,876 therebetween a central portion exposing central portions of said partition members 37—43. Said plate members 55 and 56 bear indicia thereon corresponding to respective slots between said partition members. Thus said slots formed between said sides 32 and 33 and the partition members therebetween are faced at one side by said plate member 52 and at the other side by plate members 55 and 56 to form compartments of certain different sizes to. receive therein endwise drills 70 of certain different sizes whereby said drills may be selectively withdrawn therefrom with the sizes of the drills clearly indicated at either side of said member 30.

At either outer end of said bottom 34 is a projection 58 forming a stud adapted to be received in transversely . ®?_T^ed cavities 60 in said base portion 12, as indicated 15 m MG. 6, for pivotal engagement. Said cavities 60 are shown here formed by being pressed into the sides of said base portion 12 as is obviously indicated.

Said drill holding member 30 may be formed to have therein any certain number of compartments and is shown 20 nere formed to have eight compartments. Said drill holding member 31 is similar in construction to said drill hqidmg member 30 and is adapted for holding larger sized drills, and as here indicated is formed to have five compartments therein, and as indicated in FIG. 3 bears indicia 61 thereon corresponding to the respective compartments formed therein. Only the differences in construction of said holding member 31 as compared to said holding member 30 will be here described The five comnarfmenR nf X. ~ ^{r spec} ^ugnuuiuaiiy extending partition mem ³⁰ “?“· ** —Hiemher 31 having their bottoms in the common plane ot the bottom member 65. Depending from said bottom member 65 are a plurality of alternating semiS‘^CaI ^reversely curved portions 67 which in com- 35 tending between said ribs b7aring^ndic17thereonTavFna hinged pintas ^s^ZteiinFl'G ^^Wh ^{the Sp}?.^ciflc_t^r.f?^ation \^the respective slots formed between ing position sail holding membef £ in’ be^’^ 'ΛΆ ho£ . , ,.^{pp Γ p}°r^tlons of ^{saicl and over}h’e said member spaced longitudinally thereof overlvintr the nn ⁴⁰ they are either withdrawn or inserted in position. Said drills are securely held in slots of substantial length having fully exposed open upper end portions for the convenient withdrawal or insertion of said drills.

Στ ^US ΐ* ^Seen I have provided an improved drill holding case of· exceedingly simple construction which is very efficient and convenient for use and which has proved to be very successful in use.

It will of course be understood that various changes may be made in the form, details, arrangement and proportions of the parts, without departing from the scope of applicant’s invention which, generally stated, consists in a device capable of carrying out the objects above set forth in the parts and combinations of parts disclosed and defined in the appended claim.