Patent ID: 8960469
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: B65B,B65D,B65G,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A system for holding items, comprising: a base tier comprising two or more totes; and one or more higher tiers stacked on the base tier, each of at least one of the higher tiers comprising one or more totes stacked on one or more totes of at least one lower tier, wherein each of the totes comprised in the base tier and the one or more higher tiers comprises a top opening, a bottom base, and a plurality of lateral faces, at least two of the lateral faces having a lateral opening and at least one coupling portion, wherein at least one of the lateral openings is configured to allow removal of items from the bottom base of the tote through the lateral opening while the tote is stacked in place in one of the tiers, wherein at least two of the totes are configured to laterally cross couple to each other, at respective coupling portions of respective lateral faces having respective lateral openings; and at least two dividers each comprising a front wall and a rear wall and configured to couple with a separate lateral opening of a lateral face of a separate tote of the at least two totes which are cross coupled to each other via coupling of respective lateral faces including the separate lateral openings, based at least in part upon: wherein an upper tote of the totes in at least one of the upper tiers is nestable within a lower tote of the totes when the upper tote is placed in a first orientation with respect to the lower tote and stackable on the lower tote when the upper tote is placed in a second orientation with respect to the lower tote.