Patent ID: 8047397

Claim:
A storage container holder for holding a storage container, the holder comprising: a storage container having an open top with a rim and a raised protrusion on the outside of the container, and the protrusion has a bottom edge furthest from the rim; a lid that is placed on the rim of the open top of the container to seal the container, the lid having an edge to which are flexibly attached a plurality of locking tabs that extend outward from the lid; wherein when the lid is placed on the rim of the open top of the container the locking tabs are pushed toward the storage container and the locking tabs pass under bottom edge of the raised protrusion to lock the lid to the storage container; and a holder with a top having sides fastened thereto that extend away from the top at an angle, some of the sides having an L-shaped extension extending from the sides furthest from the top of the holder, and the extensions are generally parallel to the top of the holder and extend toward each other; wherein when the storage container with lid locked thereto is inserted between the sides of the holder the locking tabs of the lid sit on the L-shaped extensions of the sides of the holder; and wherein sides of the holder contact two opposing sides of the container with locked lid thereon when the container with locked lid is inserted into the holder, and this contact is an interference fit that deforms the holder sides away from the container, maintains the lid being locked on the container and thereby helps retain the container with locked lid within the holder.