US Patent: 6,811,232 - Lockable Sliding Drawer Tray


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US Patent: 6,811,232

Lockable Sliding Drawer Tray

Patentees:

Jimmy T. Doan (exact or similar names) - Kenosha, WI

Vincenzo Ditta (exact or similar names) - Pickering, CA

Jason C. Chan (exact or similar names) - North York, CA

Robert Steven Burns (exact or similar names) - Bradford, CA

Russell W. Carruthers (exact or similar names) - Newmarket, CA

USPTO Classifications:

312/204, 312/291, 312/301, 312/348.3, 70/86, 70/86312

Tool Categories:

Assignees:

Snap-On, Inc. - Pleasant Prairie, WI

Manufacturer:

Not known to have been produced

Witnesses:

none listed

Patent Dates:
Applied:	Jan. 03, 2002
Granted:	Nov. 02, 2004

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Description:

Seyfarth, Shaw LLP - patent attorneys

Abstract

A rectangular drawer has an upstanding partition extending between the drawer side walls and dividing the drawer into front and rear compartments. A rectangular tray has a bottom wall and upstanding front, rear and opposed side walls, the tray side walls having lateral flanges at their upper edges, slidably supported on upper edges of the drawer side walls for movement of the tray between an open and closed positions, respectively uncovering and covering one of the compartments. A key-actuated lock mechanism locks the tray to the partition in the closed position. In one embodiment, the lock mechanism is mounted forwardly of the tray and has a movable latch member movable into engagement in a slot in the partition and, in another embodiment, the latch mechanism is on the partition and the latch member moves into engagement with one of two different slots in the bottom wall of the tray, arranged so that the tray can be reversibly mounted.