Snap-on Tools Company

Snap-on Tools Corporation

Walter K Krahenbuhl

Henry P Ricke

Adron S Moen

Kevin E McGuire

Bart K Bieker

Theodore J Caron

Glenn A Kaufman

David A Huebschen

Robert L Schmale

Gerald P McGlinn

Gary J Erdman

Dean A Hoskins

Robert J Blair

Tool chest

A tool chest is provided which includes a housing having a top wall, a bottom wall and two substantially parallel side walls. Each side wall connects the top and bottom walls. The bottom wall has an interior surface facing the top wall and an exterior surface facing away from the top wall. The chest also includes a pair of legs connected to the exterior surface of the bottom wall for supporting the housing on a support surface with the bottom wall disposed above the support surface, and a tray slidably supported on the legs. A drawer is supported on drawer supports which are connected to the bottom wall and spaced from the side walls.

Maximum storage tool chest

A tool cabinet is formed without the use of fasteners or weldments by providing back and side panel sections in an integral unit having top and bottom flanges, and separate top and bottom panel sections having attachment flanges adapted to be interfitted with the flanges on the back and side panel unit to form an open-front housing. Three continuous loop frame members are spaced apart front-to-back inside the housing and are adhesively secured to the top, bottom and side panel sections and support drawer assemblies mounted in a front opening. A lock bar guide is adhesively secured to the back panel section and receives a lock bar which is inserted through a notch in the bottom panel section after the housing has been assembled. Adhesive or frictional interengagement may also be used to secure together the flanges of the panel sections. An internal framework comprising a single, wide loop frame member with spaced-apart ribs is also disclosed.

Adhesively bonded tool cabinet and method of assembly thereof

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Algona, IA, United States of America

Walter K Krahenbuhl