Bucket divider for tool transport

Abstract

A transport assembly for hand tools and small hardware items, including a bucket having a side wall, a plurality of partition dividers, each partition divider having an end wall angled cooperable with the angle of the side wall of the bucket, the lower longitudinal edge of each partition divider having a length equal to the inner diameter of the bucket at its lowest point, and also having rounded lower corners, each of the partition dividers having a plurality of partial vertical slits formed therein and aligned with parallel ridges on each side of the partition, the ridges spaced apart the width of the slit, thereby permitting the partition dividers to slidably interlock with each other to form a honeycomb arrangement defining a plurality of segmented cavities within the bucket for the storage, transport and retrieval of hand tools and small hardware items.

1 . A bucket with removable divider for transport of tools or small hardware items comprising:
 a bucket chamber defined by a planar bottom wall, upstanding outwardly tapered side wall terminating in an upper circular periphery, there being an arcuate handle member spanning said upper circular periphery;   a removable divider insert receivable within said bucket chamber, said removable divider insert comprising a plurality of lower partition dividers interlocking with a plurality of upper partition dividers to define a plurality of partitioned segregated spaces within said bucket chamber for the receipt of tools, or small hardware items, said lower partition divider having a planar first side wall and planar second side wall, said first and second side walls terminating in upwardly, outwardly tapered end edges conforming to said outward taper of said side wall of said bucket chamber, said lower partition dividers have depending from an upper edge, a plurality of vertical slits extending halfway between said upper edge and a lower edge of said lower partition divider, said lower partition divider further having a plurality of parallel ridges extending upwardly from said lower edge of said lower partition divider to the terminus of said downwardly depending slits, said parallel ridges spaced apart the width of said downwardly depending slits;   said upper partition divider defined by a planar first side wall and planar second side wall terminating in two end edges tapered upwardly and outwardly from a lower edge to an upper edge of said upper partition divider to conform to said side wall of said bucket chamber, said upper partition divider having a plurality of upwardly extending vertical slits from said lower edge terminating halfway between said lower edge and said upper edge, said upper partition divider having a plurality of depending vertical parallel ridges extending downwardly from said upper edge to the terminus of said upwardly extending slits, said parallel ridges spaced apart a distance equal to the width of said upwardly depending slits, said plurality of lower partition dividers and said plurality of upper partition dividers interlocking by means of said slits and said parallel ridges to form a plurality of partition spaces within said bucket defined by said upper and lower partition dividers and said side wall of said bucket chamber.   
   
   
       2 . The bucket with removable divider for transport of tools or small hardware items in accordance with  claim 1  wherein said side walls of said lower partition divider and said upper partition divider are frictionally engaged with said tapered side wall of said bucket chamber. 
   
   
       3 . The bucket with removable divider for transport of tools or small hardware items in accordance with  claim 1  wherein said intersection of said end edges with said lower edge of said lower partition divider and said upper partition divider are shaped to conform to the intersection of said planar bottom wall and said upstanding outwardly tapered side wall of said bucket chamber.