Abstract: A refuse container and corresponding lid for storing and transporting goods, wherein the lid is slightly domed and provided with one or more drain channels for conducting accumulated liquid out of a recessed portion of the lid. The container is also provided with handles having a double vertical wall support structure at the point of attachment to the container for increasing the rigidity and vertical and lateral load bearing capacity of the handle. The bottom of the container is shaped to correspond to the lid to allow for vertical stacking and to limit the lateral motion of the stacked containers. The container bottom also contains radially extending ribs which provide additional material to wear away when the container is dragged over floor surfaces. The ribs, which provide a very small contact patch area, reduce friction when the container is dragged over a floor surface. Also, the container bottom is provided with an indented hand grip which assists in the handling of the container.

Abstract: A container and complementary sealing lid both of which are of plastic, in which the container has a sealing bond on its wall around its upper peripheral edge of two different radii, the larger one on the outside, and the lid has a U-shaped peripheral sealing channel with inner and outer side walls and an upper wall joining the side walls. The inner surface of the upper wall is formed with areas of two different radii with the larger on the inner surface of the channel outer side wall and the container sealing bead and lid sealing channel being sized so that sealing engagement occurs between the bead and channel smaller radii areas and there is a clearance between the other parts of the bead and channel to aid in fastening and removing the lid.

Abstract: A shoe rack formed of identical end pieces and identical shoe holding cross pieces which have integral connectors. The end pieces have legs with a foot which is to rest on the supporting surface or which stacks a rack on top of another rack of similar construction. The end pieces accept and hold the cross pieces at selected locations so that the cross-pieces of stacked racks can be offset, or staggered, from each other to permit ready access to the shoes on a lower rack.