Patent ID: 7343918

Claim:
A stowage box for an emergency breathing mask for the flight crew of an airplane, the box comprising: means for receiving the mask, such means comprising a frame forming a receptacle for the mask, the frame having an open face through which the mask is inserted and extracted; and at least two doors closing the open face of the frame, at least in part, the two doors being hinged about two hinge axes situated respectively on two adjacent edges of the open face and substantially perpendicular to each other, each of the doors (i) being substantially in the form of a triangular plate, with a vertex having two sides forming a right angle, one of these sides being hinged about one of the two hinge axes and (ii) having a diagonal edge interconnecting the two sides of the vertex forming a right angle, said diagonal edge including a notch that is symmetrical about the bisector of the angle between the two hinge axes with the corresponding notch in the edge of the other door; and in which the notch in each door is situated at the opposite end of the diagonal edge from the point of intersection between the two hinge axes.