Patent ID: 7946423
Filing Date: 2011-05-24
Classification: A44C,B65D

Abstract:
1. A portable bead workstation for arranging and maintaining beading supplies and projects on a user's lap, the workstation comprising: a base having a base surface, the base surface defining a plurality of curved, spaced-apart channels, each having a substantially semi-circular and concave cross-section sized and shaped to arrange beads in a linear series, said plurality of channels including: a linear channel extending transversely across the width of one end of said base; at least one “D”-shaped channel, said “D”-shaped channel having: a separable cover matingly engageable with the base and having a cover surface, the cover surface defining a plurality of cover channels corresponding to the base channels such that, when the base and cover are engaged with one another, the cover channels and base channels define tunnels suitable for maintaining the beading supplies and projects in said linear series, said plurality of cover channels including: a linear cover channel extending transversely across the width of one end of said cover; at least one “D”-shaped cover channel, said “D”-shaped channel having: the channels defined in said base being less rounded, having straight sidewalls and a rounded bottom wall having a smaller radius than the channels defined in said cover; the base further defining a base border portion substantially circumscribing the base surface, the base border portion having a vertically extending sidewall having a plurality of spaced apart rounded locking sites formed therein; and the cover further defining a cover border portion having a vertically extending cover sidewall depending therefrom, substantially circumscribing the cover surface, the cover sidewall having a plurality of spaced apart rounded locking sites defined on its interior surface, each said cover locking site being engageable with a base locking site, the locking site on one of said base and said cover comprising a protrusion, the locking site on the other of said base and said cover defining a depression , wherein when the base and the cover are engaged with one another, the base locking sites engage with the cover locking sites and detachably secure the base to the cover such that, upon engagement of the separable cover with the base, the tunnels defined therebetween do not communicate with one another.