Patent ID: 8859914
Filing Date: 2014-10-14
Classification: G01G

Abstract:
1. A digital scale having electrically powered circuits and with an outside housing generally enclosing a microprocessor and one or more load cells connected with the microprocessor and a weigh surface, where the microprocessor controls and receives inputs from a user interface, the improvement comprising: (a) the outside housing defining an outside wall form factor and an adjunct tool container cavity inward from said outside wall form factor, which adjunct tool container cavity is adapted to supportively receive an adjunct tool container; (b) the adjunct tool container comprising an open top or closed top drawer structure for containing one or more adjunct tools, where the drawer structures are adapted to be releasably secured within said adjunct tool container cavity in a stored position and to be removed from the said adjunct tool container cavity in a removed position; (c) the open top drawer structure comprises tool electrical contacts which are connected with electrical circuits of the digital scale when in the stored position; (d) an electrically powered insert is removeably fixed within a drawer space of the adjunct tool container and has electrical contact with the tool electrical contacts; and (e) the electrically powered insert is a rechargeable battery which is recharged only from electrical power supplied from the electrical circuits of the digital scale, which, in turn receives electrical power from an external source; and (f) an engagement structure cavity further extends inward relative to the adjunct tool container cavity and is adapted to receive an extended end of an extensible slider piece of the adjunct tool container.