Abstract: A magnet holding structure comprising a magnet holder for holding a permanent magnet and a mounting frame formed integrally with a container such as a plastic basket for holding the magnet holder, the mounting frame including at least one pair of projecting walls having an engaging pawl on each of opposed inner surfaces thereof and the magnet holder having engaging projections corresponding to the engaging pawls, the interval of the engaging projections being slightly larger than the interval of the engaging pawls.

Abstract: A developing apparatus for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on an image bearing member includes a developer carrying member for carrying a developer containing toner particles and magnetic carrier particles. The developer carrying member moves through a developing zone for applying the developer to the electrostatic latent image. A stationary magnet assembly is disposed in the developer carrying member. The magnet assembly comprises a rare earth magnet having a first magnetic pole for forming a magnetic field in the developing zone and a resin magnet having a second magnetic pole disposed adjacent to the first magnetic pole downstream of the first magnetic pole with respect to a movement direction of the developer carrying member, wherein a maximum magnetic flux density on a developer carrying member provided by the first magnetic pole is larger than a maximum magnetic flux density on the developer carrying member by the resin magnet.

Abstract: A plurality of permanent magnets contained within a flexible non-magnetic strap assembly which is wrapped about the exterior casing of an oil filter or a conduit for other fluids or particulate substances. The magnetic force fields created by the magnets penetrate the interior of the casing or conduit to attract and capture magnetizable particles entrained within the fluid or other substance and retain them against the interior peripheral wall of the casing or conduit. The flexible magnetic strap assembly may be spirally wound about the container for an oil filter, or the conduit for other fluids or particulate substances any number of times to thus maximize the magnetic effect and to fit different size containers or conduits. The flexible magnetic strap assembly may be elastic, with adjustable or non-adjustable joining devices at the ends, or the ends may be permanently joined, to enable fitting the elongated flexible and elastic magnetic strap to different size containers and conduits.

Abstract: A machine part used as a magnet roll for developing and a process for producing the same. The machine part constitutes a member of a developing machine for an electrophotographic process such as a copier and facsimile, and a laser printer as well. The machine part comprises a shaft having a resin-bonded magnet layer provided on the outer periphery thereof. The composite molding of a resin-bonded magnet is produced by molding and establishing a composition for a thermoplastic resin-bonded magnet comprising from 35 to 60 % by volume of a thermoplastic resin and from 40 to 65 % by volume of a hard ferrite powder into a cylinder of uniform thickness on the outer periphery of a shaft, obtained is a thin resin-bonded magnet layer having a surface roughness of 5 .mu.m or less and free of seams which have generated during molding, the thin resin-bonded magnet layer further having provided on the surface a plurality of magnetic poles at a small spacing.

Abstract: An adjustable band (10) is provided which utilizes magnetic force to retain the desired circumference. The band is fabricated from a planer strip of flexible magnetized material (12), and allows a continuous range of circumferential adjustment. Magnetized or magnetic guides (22, 24) hold the ends (18, 20) of the adjustable band (10) together.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electron beam adjusting device which is attached around the neck of a color picture tube, a CRT display, etc., and aims at providing an electron beam adjusting device in which each pair of constituent magnets can be readily magnetized with minimal magnetization variations and which is less costly. The present invention provides an electron beam adjusting device having pairs of two-, four- and six-pole ring-shaped magnets formed of an alnico metal system bonded magnet material, which are attached around the neck of a cathode-ray tube, wherein the two-pole ring-shaped magnets and the four- and six-pole ring-shaped magnets are made of respective bonded magnet materials which are different in the alnico metal magnetic powder content.

Abstract: A magnetic object having a plurality of pole regions of small dimensions and adapted to be molded in a molding device. The object includes a body of a given shape, for instance a cylindrical block or a cylindrical sleeve having an outer diameter smaller than 5 mm, and including alternating north and south poles. The body is made of a mixture of grains of fully magnetized anisotropic permanent magnet material and a hardening binding agent. The grains are reduced from a permanent magnet until all grains are smaller than the smallest dimension of a pole region and in the pole regions at least those grains having a size of the same range of size as the smallest dimension of a pole region are distributed in accordance with the alternating north and south poles.

Abstract: A continuously magnetizing magnet for use in bedding for magnetic medical treatment is made of magnetic material whose semicircular crests and semicircular bases are alternately combined in series and the crests are magnetized so that they have alternately N and S magnetic poles.As the magnetic poles are isolated via the base, the magnetic lines of force are vertically generated and the magnetic density at a position upwardly far from both magnetic poles increases.

Abstract: A miniature electric motor having a stator composed of a strip of rubber magnet having a varying width. The stator strip has; polarized regions of wide width, non-polarized regions of narrow width, and regions which bridge said polarized regions having a continuously varying width. The periphery of the polarized and non-polarized regions of the stator strip contains indents and protrusions to improve the cogging characteristics of the motor.

Abstract: An electromagnet insert for a data coupler comprises a dielectric member defining positions for at least one electromagnet with mating faces of the electromagnet exposed in one direction along a common planar surface. The member includes a pair of wire-receiving arcuate channels coursing from one side to an opposite side of the member defining pathways on each side of a central leg of the electromagnet. The arcuate channels are shaped to match the optimum-shaped loop of a twisted pair cable of a data bus.

Abstract: The magnet article for attracting foreign matters in the stomach is constituted by (a) a hollow cylindrical case made of a corrosion-resistant, non-magnetic material: (b) a plurality of disc-shaped yokes made of a soft magnetic material; (c) a plurality of disc-shaped magnet members made of an R-Fe-B permanent magnet material and having magnetic poles on both end surfaces, the disc-shaped magnet members being arranged alternately with the disc-shaped yokes in the hollow cylindrical case such that the magnetic poles having the same polarity of the adjacent disc-shaped magnet members face each other via each disc-shaped yoke; and (d) a pair of end covers made of a corrosion-resistant, non-magnetic material, each end cover being fixed to each end of the hollow cylindrical case so that the inside of the hollow cylindrical case is sealed.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing complex magnetization patterns in a sheet of magnetic material. A fixture having top and bottom plates with a matching conductor pattern embedded in one surface of each plate. The conductor pattern covers substantially the entire surface of each plate. To magnetize the sheet of magnetic material, it is placed between the plates and a magnetizing current is applied to the conductors with a capacitor discharge magnetizer. The resulting sheet of magnetized material is useful as a magnetic deactivator for electromagnetic security articles.

Abstract: A magnet roll for an electrophotographic device includes a magnet carrier assembly constituted by a plurality of identical cylindrical segments of injection molded plastic material. The segments are coaxially arranged and longitudinally aligned in an end-to-end relationahip on a spindlelike metal rod constituting the magnet roll axis of rotation. The segmented carrier assembly provides a plurality of longitudinally extending channels circumferentially spaced about the carrier assembly. The bottom of each channel has along its length a central groove that functions as a locator for an extruded, flexible magnet strip that mounts within the channel, each magnet strip having along the length of its underside a centered tongue that fits into the locator groove of its respective channel. Such a magnet roll provides for highly accurate positioning of the outer working surfaces of the magnet strips.

Abstract: In order to locate, trace, and identify hidden elongated objects, such as buried fiber optic cables, the objects are provided with elongated permanent magnet identifier devices having magnetic fields that may be detected at a distance from the objects. In one embodiment the identifier device comprises an elongated strip magnetized in the direction of its width and formed into a long-pitch helix, producing a characteristic "magnetic field signature" that enhances detection and identification of the object, as by a portable gradiometer that is moved over the surface of the earth along a line generally parallel to the length of the object. This embodiment may provide a magnetic field that diminishes as the square of the distance from the identifier device (rather than the usual cube of the distance), thereby enabling detection at substantial distances.

Abstract: In order to locate, trace, and identify hidden elongated objects, such as buried fiber optic cables, the objects are provided with elongated permanent magnet identifier devices having magnetic fields that may be detected at a distance from the objects. In one embodiment the identifier device comprises an elongated strip magnetized in the direction of its width and formed into a long-pitch helix, producing a characteristic "magnetic field signature" that enhances detection and identification of the object, as by a portable gradiometer that is moved over the surface of the earth along a line generally parallel to the length of the object. This embodiment may provide a magnetic field that diminishes as the square of the distance from the identifier device (rather than the usual cube of the distance), thereby enabling detection at substantial distances.

Abstract: A magnetic fixing member is produced by fitting a metal plate having suitable magnetism to one of the surfaces of a thin sheet-like ferrite type anisotropic rubber manget. The size of the fixing member is determined so as to be fitted into a gap defined between a paper package box to be held by the force of magnetic attraction of the rubber magnet and the contents of the paper package box. The rubber magnet sheet has at least two poles magnetized on one of its planes.

Abstract: A magnetic float for a magnetic sensor wherein magnetized magnetic powder is dispersed into a foamed synthetic resin, and the magnetic flux thereof acts on a reed switch in the magnetic sensor to turn on or off the reed switch. The magnetic powder is substantially wholly coated with the synthetic resin.

Abstract: This specification discloses a method of manufacturing a magnet roller having the step of disposing a plurality of pairs of magnetic poles each comprising the starting magnetic pole and terminal magnetic pole of a magnetic line of force on the peripheral surface of a cavity in a metal mold in which a resin magnet is molded and oriented so that straight lines passing through the starting magnetic poles and terminal magnetic poles of the pairs of magnetic poles are substantially on the same plane and extend through the cavity substantially in parallelism to one another, molding and orienting a resin magnet material poured into the cavity while applying a plurality of magnetic lines of force for orientation into the cavity in the same direction, thereby obtaining a molded article having at least four magnetic peaks, and the step of inverting part of the magnetic properties of the magnetic peaks of the molded article so that the magnetic properties of the adjacent magnetic peaks differ from each other.

Abstract: A method of preparing corrosion resistant neodymium-boron-iron magnets is provided. The cleaned magnet is coated with zinc phosphate which neutralizes surface effects of contaminants and rinsed with chromic acid. A relatively large surface area having numerous mechanical interlocking sites receptive to adhesives and coatings is obtained. In one embodiment a durable, corrosion-resistant coating such as amide imide or specially formulated zinc-or chromium-rich epoxy primer is applied to the zinc phosphate coated magnet. This can be bonded to a substrate using a suitable adhesive. A flexible epoxy adhesive is used for bonding motor field assemblies.

Abstract: A Stud Finder includes a one-piece magnet assembly molded from a moldable plastic material containing a dopant capable of being permanently magnetized along a desired axis. The one-piece magnet assembly includes integral pivot bosses for pivotably supporting the magnet assembly in a location where it can be influenced by the nearby presence of magnetic metals such as steel nails. The plastic material is capable of accepting integral coloring.

Abstract: There is provided a soft magnetic material composition comprising 70 to 95 vol % of soft magnetic material powder, with the balance being a liquid thermosetting resin. The composition has a high density and initial permeability. According to the process of this invention, the composition can be efficiently made into molded products of high permeability having a high strength and dimensional accuracy.

Abstract: A permanently magnetizable composite is made from rare earth permanent magnet material by incorporating coarse particles of the material into a workable binder at a gradual rate such that sparking and combustion are avoided, until the particles are coated with or embedded in the binder, and then working the mixture under shearing forces sufficient to break up the particles in situ, thereby forming much finer particles directly within the binder. Extremely high particle packing fractions can be obtained in this manner, yet the residual induction of even an isotropic composite substantially exceeds the maximum that would be expected for a magnet having that packing fraction.

Abstract: A waterproof resin coated permanent magnet is provided. The resin coating is either a waterproof fluoroplastic resin material or a mixture of fluoroplastic resin material and at least one organic resin such as epoxy resin, polyester resin, acrylic resin, phenol resin and mixtures thereof. The magnet has superior corrosion and weathering resistance.

Abstract: Described herein is an improved method for the fabrication and use in modifying the physicochemical properties of water, as in strong, high density gradient application. This new approach provides in situ devices capable of inexpensive and effective water modification and treatment. The underlying concept is based upon the use of fine particle super ferromagnets or super paramagnets dispersed in nonmagnetic media. These media can be materials such as brass, cellulose or a wide variety of ceramics. Nonaqueous applications include the removal of impurities from liquid polymer streams. Other applications involve pseudo polymers or fluids exhibiting weak inter- and intra molecular forces.

Abstract: The invention relates to a portable and foldable magnetic tool holder. The magnetic tool holder has a front face and a rear face and includes at least one set of a plurality of magnetic bars which are positioned side by side on the interior of the holder, such that both faces of the holder are magnetic. Preferably, the holder contains an apron and can be folded in multiple directions.

Abstract: The permanent magnet which is excellent in moldability, capable of maintaining the dimensional stability and magnetic properties during manufacturing steps, and having good dimensional stability at high temperature, water proofness, oil resistance and solvent resistance, can be constituted by a shaped substance containing, as major ingredients, rare-earth magnet powder and, as binder materials which has been cured and the process for producing the same.

Abstract: An enclosure for a rectangular magnet is formed by injection molding of five fixed sides in a rectangular box-like configuration, with a sixth side formed as a door on a plastic hinge. The door has a series of catches so that, with the magnet inserted in the enclosure, the door can be snapped shut permanently.

Abstract: A sheet (10) of anisotropically conductive material may be fabricated by mixing a quantity of electrically conductive, ferromagnetic particles (16), typically spheres, in an uncured polymer (12). The polymer is then cured in a magnetic field which causes the particles to align in chains (14) each parallel to the lines of the field. In accordance with the invention, a spatially varying magnetic field, comprised of first and second substantially uniformly spaced regions (22 and 24) of high and low field strength, respectively, is applied to the polymer (12) during curing. The difference in the strength of the magnetic field in the first and second regions is such as to give rise to a lateral force on the particles which urges them into the first regions of high field strength where the particles align into chains. Since the first regions of high field strength are substantially uniformly spaced, the chains of particles in the polymer will be likewise substantially uniformly spaced.

Abstract: A mold package with article mounting and paint means, comprising a package, having recessed molds formed in the cover thereof, for receiving a liquid plaster compound mix to form articles, such as ornaments, berries, animals, and the like. The molds are self-leveling when the closed package is placed on a table, or other level surface, and the package includes a bag of dry plaster compound; a water measuring cup; a plurality of anchors for embedding in the plaster and adhesive backed magnetic pieces for adhering to the anchors so as to mount the finished products to a magnet receiving metal surface, or, in the alternative, a plurality of jewelry pin tacks and clutch backs so as to pin the finished products to clothing and other penetratable materials; a plurality of connected containers of different colored paints; a container of finishing glaze; and a brush for applying the paints and glaze.

Abstract: A magnetic wedge for use in an electromagnetic device, arranged at the opening portion of a core slot for receiving a winding, comprising a magnetic member consisting of a group of magnetic strips arranged in non-contact from one another and at a predetermined inclination angle for the depth direction of the core slot, and a plastic member for molding said magnetic member. Such a construction of the wedge permits the magnetic property at the opening portion of a core slot to be improved.

Abstract: A detenting device used in the form of a puzzle including magnets and balls using a nonmagnetic tube around which an annular tubular magnet surrounds the tube with one magnetic pole on the entire inside surface of the tubular magnet and the opposite magnetic pole on the entire outside surface of the magnet wherein the ball or other magnetically attracted body is positioned at either one end or at the other end of the magnet requiring force to dislodge it from either position to the other position.

Abstract: A magnet assembly having means for reducing release of magnet material particles from the magnet element includes a body of permanently magnetizable material and a shell at least partially surrounding the body. The shell is disposed and located so as to reduce release of particles shed from the surface portion of the body which is surrounded by the shell, and is preferably attached to the body by an adhesive which bonds the adjacent surfaces of the shell and the body together. A plurality of such magnet assemblies may be fastened to a flux ring in order to provide a rotatable assembly for a dynamoelectric machine in which migration of magnet material particles into the stator-rotor air gap is reduced. In accordance with a preferred embodiment, the magnet assemblies of the present invention are employed in a molded rotor assembly for such a machine.

Abstract: There is provided a multipolarly magnetized anisotropic plastics magnet formed by molding, followed by solidifying, a composition composed of a magnetic powder and an organic binder in the presence of a magnetic field, and subsequently multipolarly magnetizing the thus obtained anisotropic plastics magnet, said magnetic powder being magnetoplumbite ferrite which is characterized by that the green density is not less than 3.1 g/cm.sup.3 and the intrinsic coercive force of the green compact is not more than 2500 oersteds. The plastics magnet is useful as an anisotropic plastics magnet rotor having a great value of surface magnetic field.

Abstract: A resin-bonded magnet comprising particles of a melt-quenched ferromagnetic material of the formula, Fe-B-R, in which R represents Nd and/or Pr, and a binder resin dispersing the particles throughout the resin and fixing the particles. The binder resin comprises an oligomer having at least an alcoholic hydroxyl group and a block isocyanate with an active hydrogen-bearing compound. The resin-bonded magnet is preferably used in the from of a cylinder, ring or column having a defined outer diameter and a defined density when applied to permanent magnet motors.

Abstract: A flexible, low mass coated abrasive sheet material magnetically held on a support surface of a magnetized pad providing more than 6 magnetic poles per inch in one direction along the support surface. The coated abrasive sheet material incorporates sufficient ferromagnetic material that only the force of magnetic attraction between the magnetized pad and the ferromagnetic material and any force applied to the sheet material through the magnetized pad normal to the support surface will produce sufficient static friction between the support surface and the coated abrasive sheet material to retain the abrasive coated sheet material on the support surface while it is driven by the magnetized pad to abrade a workpiece.

Abstract: An encapsulated magnet device which is made from bar stock having a hole drilled in, which receives a magnet, and thereafter the hole is plugged with a cap or plug of like material and subjected to a fusion process so that a magnetic device is obtained which is finely balanced and which is inert to the environment in which it is utilized. The method of fabricating the magnetic device of the invention comprises drilling out bar stock, inserting a magnet, closing the bore with a plug of like material, fusing the plug to the surrounding bar stock and thereafter milling or machining the encapsulated magnet member to the desired configuration.

Abstract: A magnetic roll for electro-photographic copy machines is provided with a carrier to which strip-shaped permanent magnetic components are fastened in an axial direction. Recesses are provided in the carrier having a cross-section larger than the magnetic components so as to permit selective radial, tangential and pivotal movement for universal positioning of the components within the recess. The components are selectively oriented to provide a predetermined induction value as measured at a predetermined distance outwardly of the carrier or with respect to adjacent poles as determined by discretely located Hall probes. The permanent magnetic components are fixed in the prescribed orientation by an injection moldable plastic material such as a plastic foam.

Abstract: A magnetic shielding device, adapted to protect a magnetic recording member against external magnetic fields, includes a plurality of spaced apart sheets of ferromagnetic material and the total thickness of the spacings between adjacent sheets of ferromagnetic material is selected to be larger than 0.5 mm. In a modification, the spaced sheets are covered with covers and the peripheral portions thereof are welded together. In another modification a sheet of insulating material having a surface area larger than those of the sheets of ferromagnetic material is interposed therebetween.

Abstract: A printing head assembly having a permanent magnet to attract magnetic members such as armatures to store the strain energy in resilient members such as leaf springs, electro-magnets to cancel the magnetic flux generated by the permanent magnets in order to drive the magnetic members, first yokes related to cores of the electro-magnets, and second yokes forming surfaces by the permanent magnet and serving to form fulcrums of rotation of the magnetic members. The permanent magnet is mounted on the first yoke and the second yoke is mounted on the permanent magnet respectively. In order to equalize attracting force by the permanent magnet among a plurality of armature actuating mechanisms and to adjust the height of the surface of the second yoke, with a predetermined height, there is applied a powdery magnetic material mixed into a bonding agent on at least one side of the permanent magnet.

Abstract: A rotor for a synchronous motor including a bar magnet with a cross-section that is circular, square, square with beveled corners, etc., is inside the hollow central part of a plastic resin support which has been molded over the magnet, and which has windows formed in the support providing access to the magnet. The motor shaft projects from the ends of the support, and may either be molded with the support or may be inserted into the ends of the support, and a drive gear may be formed in one end of the shaft. The invention avoids the need for forming holes in the magnet for the shaft.

Abstract: A magnet roll for use in a developing device for developing an electrostatic latent image in an electrophotographic copier is provided. The magnet roll may be rotatably disposed inside of a developing sleeve so that magnetic toner may be transported along the circumference of the sleeve as magnetically attracted to the peripheral surface of the sleeve. The present magnet roll includes an impeller-shaped support and a plurality of magnet members provided as mounted on the support only at desired locations. The magnet member contains a matrix component, such as nitrile-butadiene rubber, and a magnetic component, such as ferrite powder. Therefore, the present magnet roll is light in weight and sturdy in structure.

Abstract: A magnet roll comprising a shaft having a polygonal cross section and a plurality of magnet blocks bonded to the shaft and to each other. At least one of the magnet blocks has mating means contacted with the corresponding mating means of the shaft, and an adjacent pair of the magnet blocks are bonded to each other in a positional relationship determined by mating means provided on the contacting surfaces of the adjacent blocks and by contact with the shaft surface. This magnet roll can be assembled very precisely without difficulty.

Abstract: A formed permanent magnet which comprises a base made of magnetic material and having gaps with a predetermined width formed between portions thereof serving to form magnetic poles and which is formed by magnetizing those portions serving to form magnetic poles, the formed permanent magnet ensuring high accuracy in the distance between respective magnetic poles.

Abstract: A plastic bonded magnet is formed of a solidified mixture of thermoplastic powder and magnetic particles capable of being permanently magnetized. The magnet in one form is cylindrical and provided with a coaxial bore. The particles are substantially uniformly dispersed throughout the magnet in coaxial sections extending between the cylinder axis and the periphery of the magnet. Also the particles are substantially commonly aligned throughout. A given quantity of the particles may be orientable which leads to the common alignment.The method of fabricating the magnet includes the steps of mixing quantities of plastic material and solid magnetizable particles to obtain a substantially uniform mixture. The mixture is injection molded to form the magnetic body, the molding step including the injection of the mixture into a cavity having a form of the body, primarily cylindrical, and through a disc-shaped gating orifice on the aforesaid axis, which is midway between the body ends.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a composite permanent magnet and a circuit which employs a plurality of such magnets. The composite magnet combines discrete sections of a first magnet material with at least one discrete section of a second magnetic material. The first material has a high residual magnetic strength and a moderate energy product. The second material is many times more expensive than the first material and is characterized by a high residual magnetic strength and a high energy product.Also disclosed is a circuit combining a plurality of such composite magnets. The circuit combines the above magnets in such a way that there is a reduction in magnetic leakage in the circuit.

Abstract: A display board for displaying a menu of daily fare for restaurants, post exchanges, and the like, wherein the items listed for sale are printed on a long thin flexible plastic strip located in tracks that extend substantially the full width of the display board. The prices for the items listed are printed on a much shorter plastic strip which may be changed instantly and independently of the item strip. Both strips include a smaller width strip of iron ink on their back side, so that both strips are held in place by the same flexible magnetic source strip that is imbedded in the display board in parallel fashion to the display board tracks wherein the plastic strips reside. A clear plastic cover is locked in place over the finished menu to retain the displayed menu and prices until a change in fare is desired, at which time this cover is instantly removable.

Abstract: Bonded magnets are aligned around a shaft so as to form a roller shape magnetic body as shown in FIG. 2. In this case, a magnet A' having a portion B which does not change the breadth of a magnet in the circumferential direction even if the distance from the center of revolution changes, is arranged.

Abstract: A rotor for small motors, or generators, having circumferentially arranged segmental poles which extend over the entire axial length of the rotor can be fabricated by molding a pair of elements from particulate magnetic material of high coercivity with a binder in the shape of identical crown gears; the rotor being completed by arranging the elements on a shaft with the toothed portions facing each other in interfitting engagement. Other modifications are disclosed in which the pole pieces may be formed separately from, or integrally with, a radial pole carrier, and the pole carrier may be in the shape of a spool with the segmental pole pieces assembled thereon.

Abstract: A plastic bonded magnet is formed of a solidified mixture of thermoplastic powder and magnetic particles capable of being permanently magnetized. The magnet in one form is cylindrical and provided with a coaxial bore. The particles are substantially uniformly dispersed throughout the magnet in coaxial sections extending between the cylinder axis and the periphery of the magnet. Also the particles are substantially commonly aligned throughout. A given quantity of the particles may be orientable which leads to the common alignment.The method of fabricating the magnet includes the steps of mixing quantities of plastic material and solid magnetizable particles to obtain a substantially uniform mixture. The mixture is injection molded to form the magnetic body, the molding step including the injection of the mixture into a cavity having a form of the body, primarily cylindrical, and through a disc-shaped gating orifice on the aforesaid axis, which is midway between the body ends.

Abstract: A portable container for food and miscellany capable of protecting and preserving its contents in the rough handling environment of the construction worker. The container comprises an insulated hollow body with a compartmented, covered tray therein and a hinged, insulated lid for closing the body and for holding the tray in place within the body. The body also has a permanent magnet in the bottom thereof for holding the container in place on a magnetically attractable surface.