Patents Assigned to Vandermolen B.V.
  • Patent number: 6070702
    Abstract: A portable device for the storage of items within a frame with two open ends. The two open ends may be removably closed with covers removably attached to the frame. A first storage device moveable between a first position and a second position is configured to contain items placed therein. The first position is a closed position, wherein the first storage device extends generally completely within the frame. The second position is a open position, wherein the storage device extends at least partially outside the frame. A second storage device is connected to the frame and is slidable between a first position and a second position. In the first position the second storage device extends generally completely within the frame. In the second position, the second storage device extends at least partially outward from the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Vandermolen B.V.
    Inventor: Johannes Martinus Petrus Der Kinderen
  • Patent number: 6026973
    Abstract: A device for storing or packing loose objects comprising a plurality of container elements, each having a bottom wall, upstanding side and end walls, and an open upper side, which elements are connected to one another by hinge joints arranged between the side edges of the bottom walls thereof to form a continuous row of elements having a first end and a second end and which elements are so shaped and dimensioned that this row of elements, from its extended position and starting from said first end and said second end, can be spirally rolled up into tow adjacently positioned blocks of prismatic form in which the open upper element sides are closed off by wall portions of other elements lying inwardly thereof in said blocks and engaging said open sides. Said blocks are interconnected through an intermediate portion of said row of elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2000
    Assignee: Vandermolen B.V.
    Inventor: Johannes Martinus Petrus Der Kinderen
  • Patent number: 5996834
    Abstract: A device for storing or packing loose objects comprising a plurality of container elements, each having bottom wall, upstanding side and end walls, and an open upper side, which elements are connected to one another by hinge joints arranged between the side edges of the bottom walls thereof to form a continuous row of elements having a first end and a second end and said elements are so shaped and dimensioned that this row of elements, from its extended position and starting from said first end can be spirally rolled-up into a block of prismatic form in which the open upper element sides are closed-off by wall portions of other elements lying inwardly thereof in said block and engaging said open sides. Abutment means on adjacent elements are provided abutting each other in the extended position and preventing further unrolling of the row of elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: Vandermolen B.V.
    Inventor: Johannes Martinus Petrus Der Kinderen
  • Patent number: 4320846
    Abstract: A device for storing or packing loose objects comprising a plurality of container elements, each having a bottom wall, upstanding side and end walls, and an open upper side, which elements are connected to one another by hinge joints arranged between the side edges of the bottom walls thereof to form a continuous row of elements and which elements are so shaped and dimensioned that this row of elements, from its extended position, can be spirally rolled-up into a block of prismatic form in which the open upper element sides are closed-off by wall portions of other elements lying inwardly thereof in said block and engaging said open sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1982
    Assignee: Vandermolen B.V.
    Inventors: Samuel Meyering, Engelbertus J. van der Molen
  • Patent number: D319549
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1991
    Assignee: Vandermolen B.V.
    Inventor: Paul C. J. van der Burg