A container comprising a base portion, the base portion having at least one side support; and at least one end support at each end of the base portion; and a flexible, resilient lid portion, the lid portion configured to be installed to the base portion utilizing the resilience in the lid portion for inserting each end of the lid portion into the at least one end support. Further, a method for installing a flexible, resilient lid to a container, the container comprising a base portion having a side support at each side of the container and an end support at each end of the base portion, the method including bending the lid by applying pressure to each end of the lid; aligning the lid with each end support; and releasing the lid, wherein the lid re-forms into a flat lid within the end supports.

A storage box that includes a container, a lid and a circular seal. The lid includes a bottom part, a top part, a bottom cog-wheel part with sloping teeth, a spring, a snap part with stopping members, two lever bodies, a top cog-wheel with sloping pushing teeth, and a push button handle. The bottom part includes an indent for containing the spring and oriented holes for the snap part snaps. The top part includes the top button handle, the top cog-wheel part, the two lever bodies, and the bottom cog-wheel. The spring is positioned inside the indentation, the top part is assembled on the bottom part, the bottom cog-wheel is connected to the top cog-wheel in a way that enables a rotational movement between them and disables a relative vertical movement. The lid is in a retracted close position or in an extended open position.

A method of loading consumables into a sample processing instrument. In the method, a tray storing sample processing consumables is aligned with a support cavity defined by a support of the sample processing instrument. A flange is contacted with a portion of the support, where the flange extends outward from a wall of a cover coupled to the tray. The cover is decoupled from the tray by pressing a panel of the cover, and the tray is seated in the support cavity.

A sheet metal lid has a rim portion removably secured to a container and includes a vent button having a top wall portion surrounded by a side wall portion and an outwardly projecting flange portion. A portion of the button has an arcuate shear line extending substantially into or through the sheet metal, and the sheet metal is flattened or compressed at the shear line to form positively connected opposing sheet metal portions. A resilient sealant material is bonded to the inner surface of the vent button, and the opposing sheet metal portions and the sealant material form a small gap for releasing a vacuum or pressure from the container in response to downward pressure on the top wall portion of the vent button.

A cover includes a bistable flap mechanism made of a plastic with at least two material components. The cover can be produced in one piece in a multi-component injection molding technique. At a transitional area between a front wall and an edge portion, the plastic is sufficiently stiff (preferably due to greater material thickness) to ensure that an angle enclosed in the transitional area from the side wall to the edge portion remains constant in both bistable states. Expansion portions provided in the edge portion ensure that the outer circumference of the edge portion can increase/decrease from one bistable state to the other bistable state. A closing system including the cover is also provided.

A tooling assembly and related method of manufacture for making a push button container closure are provided. Advantageously, the tooling assembly only includes one all in one press station at which all score lines are cut into the blank that is being formed into the container closure. Furthermore, the profiles and features of the container closure are generally rotationally symmetrical except at the score lines, and as such, no orientation dimples or other features need to be formed in the blank or used to maintain an exact rotational position of the blank as it moves between the various press stations of the tooling assembly. As a result, the manufacturing tooling itself is easier to use and more efficient because at least one press/scoring station and the orientation equipment of conventional tooling designs are no longer necessary in this process.

A storage box that includes a container, a lid and a circular seal. The lid includes a bottom part, a top part, a bottom cog-wheel part with sloping teeth, a spring, a snap part with stopping members, two lever bodies, a top cog-wheel with sloping pushing teeth, and a push button handle. The bottom part includes an indent for containing the spring and oriented holes for the snap part snaps. The top part includes the top button handle, the top cog-wheel part, the two lever bodies, and the bottom cog-wheel. The spring is positioned inside the indentation, the top part is assembled on the bottom part, the bottom cog-wheel is connected to the top cog-wheel in a way that enables a rotational movement between them and disables a relative vertical movement. The lid is in a retracted close position or in an extended open position.

Provided is a portable insulated lunch box, including: a box body (1) and a cover body (2) adapted to the box body (1); the cover body (2) defines a mounting cavity (4) passing vertically through the cover body (2), an upper opening of the mounting cavity (4) is arranged with a pressing member (5), and multiple locking members (6), that are transversely, elastically, and movably connected, are arranged in the mounting cavity (4); an outer end of each locking member (6) passes through a cavity wall of the mounting cavity (4), and an inner end of each locking member (6) is arranged with an internal push bevel (7) matched with a lower edge of the pressing member (5); an inner side wall of the box body (1) is arranged with multiple clamping grooves (8) each matched with the outer end of a corresponding locking member (6).

A tooling assembly and related method of manufacture for making a push button container closure are provided. Advantageously, the tooling assembly only includes one all in one press station at which all score lines are cut into the blank that is being formed into the container closure. Furthermore, the profiles and features of the container closure are generally rotationally symmetrical except at the score lines, and as such, no orientation dimples or other features need to be formed in the blank or used to maintain an exact rotational position of the blank as it moves between the various press stations of the tooling assembly. As a result, the manufacturing tooling itself is easier to use and more efficient because at least one press/scoring station and the orientation equipment of conventional tooling designs are no longer necessary in this process.

Provided is a portable insulated lunch box, including: a box body (1) and a cover body (2) adapted to the box body (1); the cover body (2) defines a mounting cavity (4) passing vertically through the cover body (2), an upper opening of the mounting cavity (4) is arranged with a pressing member (5), and multiple locking members (6), that are transversely, elastically, and movably connected, are arranged in the mounting cavity (4); an outer end of each locking member (6) passes through a cavity wall of the mounting cavity (4), and an inner end of each locking member (6) is arranged with an internal push bevel (7) matched with a lower edge of the pressing member (5); an inner side wall of the box body (1) is arranged with multiple clamping grooves (8) each matched with the outer end of a corresponding locking member (6).