Patent Application
20230406229
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The disclosure relates to toolbox assemblies and more particularly pertains to a new toolbox assembly for improving access to contents of drawers of a toolbox. The present invention discloses a toolbox assembly comprising the housing that is mountable to a bed of a pickup truck. A set of swinging drawers allows access to tools from an associated opposed side of the bed without requiring a user to climb onto the bed.
The prior art relates to toolbox assemblies. Prior art toolbox assemblies may comprise pickup trucks having doors in their sidewalls for accessing tool compartments or allowing for extension of drawers, upwardly extendable toolboxes, siderail mountable toolboxes with doors in their sides, which may have extensible drawers, and toolboxes that are slidably attached to the siderails. What is lacking in the prior art is a toolbox assembly comprising the housing that is mountable to bed of a pickup truck behind its cab, from which a set of swinging drawers can be pivoted to allow access to tools, equipment, and supplies from an associated opposed side of the bed.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a housing, which defines an interior space and which is configured to be mount to a bed of a pickup truck behind a cab of the pickup truck. A set of swinging drawers is positioned in the interior space, with each swinging drawer being aligned with an associated aperture of a plurality of apertures positioned in the front of the housing. Each swinging drawer is pivotable relative a respective opposed end of the housing and thus is selectively extensible from the front of the housing. The contents of the swinging drawer are accessible from an associated opposed side of the bed.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
A set of swinging drawers 36 is positioned in the interior space 14, with each swinging drawer 36 being aligned with an associated aperture 38 of a plurality of apertures 38 that is positioned in a front 40 of the housing 12. Each swinging drawer 36 is pivotable relative a respective opposed end 42 of the housing 12 and thus is selectively extensible from the front 40 of the housing 12. The contents of the swinging drawer 36 are accessible from an associated opposed side 28 of the bed 16, as shown in
The swinging drawer 36 is hingedly engaged by a forward corner 44 to the housing 12 proximate to the respective opposed end 42 of the housing 12. The swinging drawer 36 is selectively positionable in a stowed configuration and an extended configuration, as shown in
As shown in
The truck mountable toolbox assembly 10 also may comprise a set of sliding drawers 52. Each sliding drawer 52 is selectively extensible from the front 40 of the housing 12. A front face 54 of the sliding drawer 52 substantially closes an associated aperture 38 when the sliding drawer 52 is closed. As shown in
Each of a plurality of handles 58 is attached to a respective one of the set of swinging drawers 36 and the set of sliding drawers 52. Each swinging drawer 36 and each sliding drawer 52 thus is affixed with a handle 58, as shown in
The present invention also anticipates a plurality of locks (not shown) with each lock being engaged to a respective one of the lid 34, the set of swinging drawers 36, and the set of sliding drawers 52. The locks would be selectively couplable to the housing 12 to secure the lid, the swinging drawers 36, and the sliding drawers 52 in a closed, inaccessible configuration.
In use, the housing 12 is mounted to the bed 16 of a pickup truck 18 behind its cab 20, as per prior art toolbox assemblies. Tools, equipment, and supplies are stowed in the set of swinging drawers 36. Each swinging drawer 36 can be pivoted relative a respective opposed end 42 of the housing 12 to allow access to the tools, equipment, and supplies from an associated opposed side 28 of the bed 16. The present invention provides access to the contents of the swinging drawers 36 without requiring a user to climb onto the bed 16 of the pickup truck 18.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
