Patent ID: 8714355

Claim:
A container system comprising: a base unit, the base unit having a plurality of container receiving regions, a base carrying handle to facilitate lifting and carrying of the base unit; a plurality of containers, each of said containers being constructed to be received in an associated one of the container receiving regions so as to be vertically stacked in the base unit, each of the containers having a container handle to facilitate transport of each container separately from the base unit, each container having a first portion and a second portion, wherein relative movement of the first and second portions between an opened and closed position permits and prevents access to contents of the container, each container having at least one container latch to enable the container to be latched in the closed position, wherein the base carrying handle is positioned above and in alignment with the vertically stacked containers; and a plurality of base unit latches, each base unit latch arranged to latch an associated one of the containers at least partially within the associated one of the container receiving regions, wherein each base unit latch comprises a manually engageable release member that is configured to be actuated to unlatch the associated one of the containers in the closed position from the associated one of the container receiving regions in the base unit and to remove the associated one of the containers completely from the associated one of the container receiving regions.