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United States Patent6405864   
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Inventor(s)Streich; John P. (Appleton, WI); Findle; Daniel G. (White Hall, MD); Keenan; Patrick S. (Pittsburgh, PA); Namey, Jr.; David (Pittsburgh, PA); Snider; Gregory S. (Bel Air, MD); Pangerc; James (Baltimore, MD); Holland; Matthew J. (Baltimore, MD)
AbstractA tool container (20, 520, 620) has a pair of clamshell housing members (22, 24, 422, 424) hingedly coupled to be moved between opened and closed positions. At least one of the members (22, 24, 422, 424) defines a cavity defined by a base (42, 44, 442, 444) and a wall (58, 60, 62, 64, 458, 460, 462, 464) extending from the base (42, 44, 442, 444), and a two-retaining insert (32, 34, 36, 37, 431, 433) is provided in the cavity. The insert (32, 34, 36, 37, 431, 433) and wall (58, 60, 62, 64, 458, 460, 462, 464) include alternating complementary dovetail tenons (74, 132, 474, 532) and recesses (76, 134, 476, 534) secure a tool-retaining insert in the cavity of the housing member (22, 24, 422, 424). The tool-retaining insert (32, 34, 36, 37, 431, 433) includes a number of tool-receiving recesses (120, 520, 620) therein with tool-receiving cradles (152, 552, 652) and various alternate retaining finger arrangements (124, 524, 525, 624) being provided for releasably retaining elongated tools (170, 570, 670) therein and for facilitating the ease of their removal. Such alternate arrangements including opposed pairs of tool-retaining fingers (124, 524, 525, 624) and split finger (624) configurations. A latch mechanism (28, 428) is included to releasably lock the pair of housing members (22, 24, 422, 424) in their closed position.



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Inventor     Streich; John P. (Appleton, WI); Findle; Daniel G. (White Hall, MD); Keenan; Patrick S. (Pittsburgh, PA); Namey, Jr.; David (Pittsburgh, PA); Snider; Gregory S. (Bel Air, MD); Pangerc; James (Baltimore, MD); Holland; Matthew J. (Baltimore, MD)
Owner/Assignee     Black & Decker Inc. (Newark, DE)
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Publication Date     June 18, 2002
Application Number     09/696,777
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Filing Date     October 26, 2000
US Classification     206/373 206/378 206/443 211/69
Int'l Classification     B65D 085/28
Examiner     Luong; Shian
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Attorney/Law Firm     Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
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Parent Case     This is a division of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/372,743, filed Aug. 11, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,213,296 which is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 09/134,109, filed Aug. 14, 1998.
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