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Dennis Katz

Mark A Feucht

Kevin W Bell

A connector is used to securely attach two nested, stacked buckets so they may be easily transported using the handle on the upper bucket but also maintains an air gap between the sidewalls of the buckets when in a nested, stacked configuration, enabling the buckets to be easily separated. Each bucket connector includes a biasing arm extending downward from an apron formed on the buckets. The biasing arm includes a hook that automatically engages the upper lip onto a lower bucket when the upper bucket is stacked inside the storage cavity formed in the lower bucket. The biasing arm disengages the hook from the upper lip. Formed on the biasing arm is a stop surface configured to limit the downward movement of the upper bucket into the storage cavity. The stop surface forms an air gap between adjacent sidewalls when the upper bucket is stacked over the lower bucket.

Bucket connector

An apparatus attached or formed on the sidewalls of a standard 5 gallon bucket with diverging sidewalls that enables stacked buckets to be vertically stacked and locked together so the handle on the upper bucket may be used to carry the stack of buckets and allows the individual buckets to be easily separated from the stack. The apparatus comprises a ring body made of elastic material with a center opening configured to fit transversely around the middle or upper region of the bucket. The ring body includes a downward facing circular groove sufficiently configured to receive and engage the upper edge on the bucket. Located inside the groove may be a protruding outer lip that extends inward and engages the upper edge. In another embodiment, a plurality of hooks are integrally formed on the top surface of the ring body that engage a laterally extending reinforcement ring on the bucket.

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North Bend, WA, United States of America

Dennis Katz