Appeal No. 1999-1567
Design Application 29/035,428
Kasin Des. 148,862 March 2, 1948
Stolte 2,631,747 March 17, 1953
Bourcart 2,663,450 December 22, 1953
Bourcart teaches a series of stackable containers such as
boxes and/or vials or bottles of such shape and dimensions as
to fit snugly but removably in a tubular shell 10 having
removable end closures 11 and 14. The shell holds four
cylindrical boxes 28, 29, 30, and 31, and a vial or bottle 40
at the top. The cylindrical boxes, shown in figure 2, have
lids with a projecting portion 49 which is engageable in
complementary shaped recesses 50 and 51 in the bottoms of the
superimposed boxes 28 to 31 and the vial 40, shown in
figure 3. Vial 40 has a flat disc 42 with a neck 43, a
cap 44, and a recess 51 dimensioned to receive the
projection 49 of one of the cylindrical boxes. The height of
the projections and the depth of the recesses are such that
the assembled containers will remain in stacked relation and
will not slide or tilt readily relative to one another when
the containers are removed from the shell 10. "The
projections preferably are between about one-sixteenth of an
inch and one-eighth of an inch in height and the recesses are
of corresponding depth." Col. 3, lines 48-51. Bourcart
discloses that the shell and containers may be made of
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