General Electric Company

James W Dennisson

Brian E Ingersoll

Ross C Nicholson

A heavy duty packaging container for tools includes a body portion having an open end, a closed base, a front wall, a back wall, and a pair of opposed sidewalls. The body has a pair of cover engagement members each having a cutout portion, each being fixedly attached to one of the sidewalls. The body includes a pair of handle support members attached to the cover engagement members. The container has a cover which is hingedly connected to the body portion. The cover has a pair of peg members, attached to the cover sidewalls. Each peg is receivable in one of the cover engagement member portions. There is a generally 'U' shaped handle having a grip portion and a pair of arm portions. Each arm portion has an aperture for receiving one of the handle support members. Each of the handle arms includes an annular flange which is pivotally mounted over one of the handle support members so as to cooperate with the cover engagement member associated with each handle support member. Each annular flange has a slot portion such that when the handle is in a first position, one of the cover pegs may be received in each cover engagement member cutout, and such that when the handle is pivoted to a second position, each annular flange overlies its associated cover engagement member cutout portion so as to enclose the respective peg received therein, thus locking the container cover to the container body.

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Atlanta, GA, United States of America

James W Dennisson