U.S. patent application number 09/778089 was filed with the patent office on 2002-08-08 for innovation of containing box.
Invention is credited to Hsiao, Szu-Chang.
Application Number | 20020104839 09/778089 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 25112268 |
Filed Date | 2002-08-08 |
United States Patent
Application |
20020104839 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Hsiao, Szu-Chang |
August 8, 2002 |
INNOVATION OF CONTAINING BOX
Abstract
An innovation of containing box, in particular with a
transparent upper cover to allow the laid object to be clearly
observed and under protection, which is inserted by a transparent
board with tenon and mortise structure, inserted to the base;
besides providing preservation for the contained object free from
dust pollution, it is also easily assembled, with panel structure
claiming little space, and providing a clear view from all angles
without restriction from frame.
Inventors: |
Hsiao, Szu-Chang; (Taipei,
TW) |
Correspondence
Address: |
BACON & THOMAS, PLLC
4th Floor
625 Slaters Lane
Alexandria
VA
22314-1176
US
|
Family ID: |
25112268 |
Appl. No.: |
09/778089 |
Filed: |
February 7, 2001 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
220/4.28 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A47F 3/005 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
220/4.28 |
International
Class: |
B65D 006/16; B65D
006/24; B65D 006/26; B65D 008/14 |
Claims
I claim:
1. An innovation of object containing box, comprised of an upper
cover and base; within, the upper cover includes 3 independent
boards of top board, face boards and side boards, 3 edges of the
top board and face boards form flange strip shaped tenons, and the
rest edge forms a mortise in counter and mutual complimentary shape
to a tenon; side boards where along one side of its external shape
forms one ring-shaped groove mortise and at each corner of the said
mortise, one extruded stabilizing clamp jaw plate is fitted; a base
as one entity shaped seat unit with an object holding counter in
the center and surrounding box frame, one ring-shaped groove is
devised between the said object holding counter and the surrounding
box frame; one trigger fastener is devised to the center of each of
the two terminal sides of the object holding counter while the said
trigger fastener has one lateral flange strip from where extended
to connect to the terminal side of the object holding counter,
forming a support axial shaped connection with slight bending
rotation at the object holding counter; by means of the mutual
inserted connection of the tenons and mortises of the upper cover
top board, face boards and side boards, the top board, face boards
and side boards can be jointly connected to form a 5-sides-closed,
1-side-open upper cover; then the opening end of the upper cover is
planted downward over the base, making each edge of the opening end
to be planted into the ring-shaped groove of the base, and with the
lateral flange strip bottom end of the trigger fastener of the base
leaning against the upper part of the mortise of side board,
ensuring the upper cover not easily detached from the base, and
jointly forming an innovation of object containing box.
2. An innovation of object containing box as claimed in claim 1,
within, the 4 sides of the top board of its upper cover are
separately connected to one side of the face boards and side boards
in an integral unit, while the 4 sides of the top board of the said
connection area and one side of the face boards and side boards all
show 45.degree. mutually complimentary wedge-shaped edges; two
opposite sides closely next to the wedge-shaped edges devised to
face boards and side boards are also in 45.degree. wedge-shaped
edges, and at one opening terminal end of the said wedge-shaped
edge, mutually inserted connection shaped tenon and mortise are
devised, while the last side of the face board or side board
between two counter tenons or counter mortises is a flat and
straight side; by means of the tenons and mortises devised to face
boards and side boards, after the top board serving as bottom and
it is folded to the wedge-shaped edge direction to make the tenons
and mortises in mutually inserted connection, it forms
5-sides-closed, 1-side-open upper cover, and the said upper cover
to be assembled with the base can form an innovation of object
containing box.
3. An innovation of object containing box as claimed in claim 1 and
claim 2, its upper cover is provided with transparent outlook.
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] (1) Field of the Invention
[0002] The present invention relates to a transparent containing
box, in particular with a transparent upper cover, to allow easy
fabrication, full view of the contained object, and minimal storage
space before assembling.
[0003] (2) Description of the Prior Art
[0004] Whereas, in a developed industrial and commercial community,
each one is used to rapid living pace, often realizing the
importance of recreation after fatigue in work. Some are in favor
of dynamic activities, while some the static ones. Talking about
static activities, the majority people are fond of painting, or
writing articles, practicing calligraphy, while some collecting
some objects such as stone, model, handicraft ornament, etc. Many
people are fond of the last mode.
[0005] Taking object collection for example, whether it be stone,
model, or handicraft ornament, etc., to a collector, one hopes to
permanently preserve his favorite object and minimize its damage to
the least. In response to such a demand, exclusive boxes for
ornament and object preservation are available in market. An object
can be laid in a box and kept away from random touch. For watching
purpose, a box is usually made of transparent material, able to be
laid at an apparent place and free from damage through random
touch.
[0006] But in view of the object laying boxes in market at present,
taking the 3D square-shaped one for example, besides the base is
not transparent, the rest 5 facades are transparent. Besides, at
the folding edge of each two connected sides, one intermediate edge
connection material A shall be provided to ensure the connection
(as shown in FIG. 1). The said intermediate edge connection
material A is not transparent, that partial show facades of the
object containing box are shielded to certain extent. If this kind
of object containing box shielded by intermediate edge connection
material A is in small size, it is difficult to enjoy a full view
of the observing object inside.
[0007] Since the application of intermediate edge connection
material A causes the visible area of a small containing box to be
reduced, making the possibility of a full view of the contained
object to be reduced, it cannot only demonstrate the beauty of the
laid object inside it, but also with great discount in its
practical value. Therefore, an alternative product with gluing
connection device appears in market for replacement. However, this
kind of device requires accurate counter-position gluing
technology; any slightest deviation would turn a product to be
non-conforming. It is not only time consuming but also causes
increase of material and cost load. Therefore, it is rather
disturbing to either a manufacturer or a DIY user. To some object
containing boxes of general sizes in practice, due to their large
demand quantity, they cannot be fabricated through gluing device
individually. Therefore, the 5-facade material is normally ejected
in one entity to form a square-shaped box unit. Through this kind
of box unit is free from vision shielding of intermediate edge
connection material and the trouble of time and material consuming
through individual gluing, yet since their size is in uniform and
unable to be mounted in over laid manner, they claim considerable
warehousing space. In addition, during handling process, since they
cannot be laid tightly, hid damage situations often occur to cause
loss to a manufacturer.
[0008] In view of this, the applicant, based on production &
sales and manufacture experience of the said product through many
years, has engaged in deliberate research, through repeated
experiment, finally creates this innovation of containing box, and
its detailed structure assembly diagrams are described as
follows.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0009] FIG. 1 is a 3D view showing the appearance of the assembly
of an object containing box of the prior art;
[0010] FIG. 2 is a blowout view of the structure for the present
invention;
[0011] FIG. 3 is an enlarged detail of the trigger fastener of the
base taken from FIG. 2;
[0012] FIG. 4 is a sectional view of the present invention with its
tenon and mortise in inserted connection condition;
[0013] FIG. 5 is a sectional view of the present invention with
loading/unloading structure of its upper cover and base;
[0014] FIG. 6 is a 3D sectional view of the structure for the
present invention in another practice with its upper cover
extended
[0015] FIG. 7 A, B respectively are enlarged details of the tenon
and mortise taken from FIG. 6.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
[0016] Referring to FIGS. 2-3, the present invention includes upper
cover 1 and base 2 in two parts, where upper cover 1 is composed of
top board 10, two face boards 11 and two side boards 12. At three
edges of the above top board 10 and face boards 11, tenons 100 and
110 with extruded edge are devised, while counter complying
mortises 101 and 111 of the other sides are devised. At one side of
side board 12, one ring-framed mortise slot 121 is formed, and at
each corner of mortise 121, one stabilizing clamp jaw plate is
fitted. Base 2, a seat unit with object holding counter 20 and box
frame 21, with one ring-shaped slot 22 between its object holding
counter 20 and box frame 21. A trigger fastener 23 in hooker shape
is devised to the center of both terminal sides of the object
holding counter 20. The said trigger fastener 23 is provided with
one lateral flange strip 230 and by means of which to form a
support axial shaped connection with the object holding counter 20,
and with this as support shaft to allow trigger fastener 23 to
perform slight bending rotation at the side terminal face of the
object holding counter 20.
[0017] Referring to FIGS. 4 and 5, mutually insert the tenons and
mortises 110 (110), 101(111, 121) and a 5-sides-closed, 1-side-open
upper cover 1 can be composed; then plant the opening end of upper
cover 1 in insertion manner into the ring-shaped slot groove 22 of
base 2, the assembling of the invention is completed. In the above
mentioned assembling structure, since trigger fastener 23 in base 2
is provided with minor bending rotation property, therefore, as the
bottom edge of side board 12 of upper cover 1 is inserted into the
ring-shaped slot groove 22 of base 2, it would cause trigger
fastener 23 to bend forward slightly to cause the bottom edge of
side board 12 across the lateral flange strip 230 of trigger
fastener 23, and then after completion of insertion layout, the
bottom end of lateral flange strip 230 will resist against the
upper edge of mortise 121 of side board 12, to make the said upper
cover 1 to be firmly fitted to base 2. Similarly, by pushing the
hollow bottom part 24 bending forward, making the trigger fastener
23 bend backward slightly with its lateral flange strip 230
detached from the top of upper edge of mortise 121 of counter side
board 12, upper cover 1 can be easily detached from base 2, to
provide convenient object retrieving or laying for operation of
this invention.
[0018] By means of this kind of independent device with top board
10, the tenons and mortises 110 (110), 101(111, 121) of face boards
11 and side boards 12, the upper cover 1 is made to, through simple
assembling, form a kind of exhibition frame facade without vision
block; and its storage before assembling is also provided with the
feature of claiming the minimum space under the status of
independent and loose boards without connection, contributing
greatly to reduction of storage space. This innovation contributes
most to the object containing box of larger dimension, because its
piece-shaped storage manner can better save storage or handling
space in both dynamic and static terms.
[0019] The above structure is designed in view of innovation of an
object containing box of larger size, in independent piece-shaped
assembling structure. Concerning innovation of an object containing
box of smaller size or innovation if desired to produce mass
quantity of object containing box of larger size, the following
structure options are provided. Similarly, plan the upper cover 3
to be a fabrication unit with top board 30, two face boards 31 and
two side boards 32 (as shown in FIG. 6, FIG. 7 A and B). Concerning
the upper cover 3 in this shape, 4 sides of its top board 30 are
connected to one side of two face boards 31 and two side boards 32
in one entity, while each side at the connection area shows
45.degree. wedge-shaped edges 300, 310, 320. Further, one
45.degree. wedge-shaped edge 311 also exists next to the former
wedge-shaped edge 310 as two tightly fitted edges of the two side
boards 31, and one tenon 312 is devised at the opening end of the
said wedge-shaped edge 311 after bending assembly of side boards
31, while one edge of the face board 31 between two tenons 312
shall be a flat and straight edge 313. The two side boards 32,
similar to the structure of face boards 31, similarly with the
other two 45.degree. wedge-shaped edges 321 next to the
wedge-shaped edge 320 with connection to top board 30, while at the
terminal of its wedge-shaped edge 321, a pair of mortise 322 in
counter compliance with the tenons 312 of the above face board 31
are also devised, and between two mortises 322 is one flat and
straight edge 323. Develop the above connected top board 30 face
boards 31 and side boards 32, centered by top board 30 internally
for folding storage, and make the tenons and mortises 312 and 322
of face boards 31 and side boards 32 to be mutually inserted in
connection, they form a 5-sides-closed, 1-side-open cover entity,
which can, through mutual complimentary insertion of each
wedge-shaped edge 300, 310, 320, 311, and 321, formulate the packet
sealing effect almost to an airtight extent, to prevent dust.
Besides, a small section of tenon and mortise 312 and 322 devised
to the area near the opening end can also facilitate convenient
assembling and dismantling operation.
[0020] The above mentioned upper cover 3 similarly can be inserted
into the above mentioned base 2 to formulate a kind of innovation
to the transparent object containing box without vision block.
Concerning the above mentioned tenon 312 devised to face board 31
and mortise 322 devised to side board 32, mortise may also be
devised to face board 31 and tenon devised to side board 32
alternatively. Similarly, this kind of upper cover may also be a
cube, that is top board, face board and side board share the same
size, or be a rectangular shape, with face boards and side boards
in the same size. Therefore, the above mentioned structure is only
one of the invention practices, and not to restrict its technical
scope. Any technical structure shall still be governed by the scope
of patent claim mentioned later.
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