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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2012
Rubbermaid Incorporated, Huntersville, NC (US);
Brian D. Furlong, Davidson, NC (US);
RUBBERMAID INCORPORATED, Huntersville, NC (US);
Abstract
A storage container system has a plurality of container bases and lids. Each base has a bottom, a continuous side wall terminating at a top edge, an open top bounded thereby, and an interior storage space. The plurality of bases can be stacked to form a base stack. Each lid has a main panel section, a perimeter skirt, a top side, and a bottom side. Each lid can close off the open top of any of the plurality of bases by connecting a part of the perimeter skirt to the side wall near the top edge. Each lid has a first connecting structure with a lid-to-lid component and a mating lid-to-lid component. Each lid-to-lid component can connect to the mating lid-to-lid component on another of the lids to form a lid stack. Each lid also has a lid-to-base component of a second connecting structure different from the first connecting structure. Each base has a mating lid-to-base component of the second connecting structure. The lid stack can be connected to the base stack by connecting an exposed lid-to-base component on the lid stack to an exposed mating lid-to-base component on the base stack.