Patent ID: 7686180

Claim:
A pivoted tray storage apparatus, comprising: a parallelepiped base, the base having a bottom, two spaced apart sides, and two spaced apart ends; a base compartment formed within the bottom, sides, and ends; each base end further comprising: a concave endpiece; a shelf extended from a bottom of the concave endpiece; a pneumatic cylinder vertically disposed upon the shelf; a lip bevel on a lip at a top of each base side; a pair of opposed pivoted trays, each tray comprising two spaced apart sides, an outer end and an inner end, and a bottom; a tray compartment formed within the bottom, outer end, inner end, and sides; a tray bevel on a bottom of each tray side, the tray bevel a counterpart to the base lip bevel; each outer end further comprising: a convex endpiece; a plunger slideably fitted within the pneumatic cylinder of one of the base ends; a bushing fitting each plunger to one of the convex endpieces; a fastener retaining each plunger to one of each of the bushings; a longitudinal groove within an inner surface of each tray side, the groove proximal to a top of the sides, the groove open to the inner end; a sliding lid removably fitted within each tray groove; a exterior latch securing one side of each tray to one of the base sides.