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A fastener storage and organizer tray for storing, organizing, transporting headed fasteners, mating nuts, washers, screws, and other fasteners and fittings. The tray has a bottom wall bounded by upstanding peripheral side walls, and a plurality of individual compartments defined by upstanding later

A fastener storage and organizer tray for storing, organizing, transporting headed fasteners, mating nuts, washers, screws, and other fasteners and fittings. The tray has a bottom wall bounded by upstanding peripheral side walls, and a plurality of individual compartments defined by upstanding lateral and transverse divider walls. At least one compartment has a generally rectangular raised platform with a horizontal top surface and a recessed trough at each end. The shanks of headed fasteners are supported on the platform surface with the heads and ends of the shanks in laterally adjacent alternating inverted side-by-side relation over the troughs at the ends of the platform. A fastener is easily removed by pressing down on the end of the shank to pivot it downward and raise the head of the fastener, and grasping the head of the fastener to remove it from the compartment, or vice versa.

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1. A fastener storage and organizer tray for storing, organizing and transporting a supply of headed fasteners and bolts of different bolt shank diameters, thread configuration and length, mating nuts, washers, screws, and other fasteners and fittings of different shapes and sizes, comprising: a gen

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A fastener storage and organizer tray for storing, organizing and transporting a supply of headed fasteners and bolts of different bolt shank diameters, thread configuration and length, mating nuts, washers, screws, and other fasteners and fittings of different shapes and sizes, comprising: a generally rectangular tray having a bottom wall bounded by upstanding peripheral side walls, upstanding lateral and transverse divider walls extending upwardly from said bottom wall terminating in a plane approximately flush with a top end of said peripheral side walls dividing said tray into a plurality of individual storage compartments of different lengths and widths; andat least one of said storage compartments having at least one generally rectangular raised platform, each said raised platform having a top surface disposed horizontally in a plane a distance below top ends of said peripheral side walls and said divider walls, and said raised platform spaced a distance inwardly from two opposed said transverse divider walls defining a generally rectangular recessed transverse trough at each respective opposed end of each said raised platform; whereinshank portions of a number of headed fasteners disposed in laterally adjacent alternating inverted side-by-side relation are supported on said raised platform top surface with a portion of the heads of alternate headed fasteners disposed in one said transverse trough at one of said respective opposed ends of said raised platform. 2. The fastener storage and organizer tray according to claim 1, wherein each said raised platform top surface has a length correlated to the length of the shank portion of the headed fastener supported thereon such that when the head of a headed fastener is pressed downwardly into said recessed transverse trough at one end of said raised platform, the end of its shank portion will pivot upwardly above one of said divider walls at an opposed end of said raised platform to facilitate grasping the shank portion and removing the headed fastener from a respective one of said storage compartments. 3. The fastener storage and organizer tray according to claim 1, wherein each said raised platform is spaced inwardly a distance from two opposed said transverse divider walls a distance sufficient to support the shank portions of a number of headed fasteners on said top surface in laterally adjacent alternating inverted side-by-side relation with a portion of the heads of alternate headed fasteners disposed in a transverse trough at one of said opposed ends of said raised platform, and the end of their shank portions extending over said transverse trough at the opposed end of said raised platform. 4. The fastener storage and organizer tray according to claim 3, wherein each said raised platform top surface has a length correlated to the length of the shank portion of the headed fastener supported thereon such that when the end of the shank portion of a headed fastener is pressed downwardly into said recessed transverse trough at one end of said raised platform, the head of the headed fastener will pivot upwardly above one of said divider walls at an opposed end of said raised platform to facilitate grasping the head and removing the headed fastener from a respective one of said storage compartments. 5. The fastener storage and organizer tray according to claim 1, wherein each said raised platform has at least one side spaced inwardly a distance from at least one said lateral divider wall and between each said transverse trough at said respective opposed ends of said raised platform, and a shorter transverse divider wall extends transversely between said at least one side of said raised platform and said at least one lateral divider wall defining a pair of generally axially aligned rectangular recessed lateral troughs disposed along said at least one side of said raised platform, said shorter transverse divider wall extending upwardly from said bottom wall terminating in a plane approximately flush with said top surface of said raised platform; andthe shank portion of at least one of said headed fasteners is supported on said shorter transverse divider wall with a portion of the head of said at least one headed fastener disposed in a said transverse trough at one of said opposed ends of said platform and the end of its shank portion extends over one of said recessed lateral troughs. 6. The fastener storage and organizer tray according to claim 5, wherein said recessed lateral troughs have a length correlated to the length of the shank portion of the headed fastener supported on said shorter transverse divider wall such that when the end of the shank portion of the headed fastener is pressed downwardly into one of said lateral troughs, the head of the headed fastener will pivot upwardly above one of said divider walls at an opposed end of said recessed lateral troughs to facilitate grasping the head and removing the headed fastener from a respective one of said storage compartments. 7. The fastener storage and organizer tray according to claim 1, wherein said at least one raised platform comprises at least two said raised platforms spaced a distance inwardly from two opposed said transverse divider walls in adjacent spaced end to end relation defining a first generally rectangular recessed transverse trough between said two opposed transverse divider walls and one end of each of said raised platforms and a shorter transverse divider wall extends transversely between opposed facing ends of said adjacent spaced raised platforms;said shorter transverse divider wall extending upwardly from said bottom wall terminating in a plane approximately flush with said top surface of each of said adjacent spaced raised platforms defining second generally rectangular recessed transverse troughs between respective opposed ends of each of said raised platforms. 8. The fastener storage and organizer tray according to claim 1, wherein said upstanding lateral divider walls at lateral sides of said raised platform top surface define a compartment having a width to accommodate the combined diameters of abutting shank portions of a number of adjacent alternating inverted side-by-side headed fasteners of a known size. 9. The fastener storage and organizer tray according to claim 1, wherein said tray has a number of said compartments, each having a said raised platform top surface and said transverse troughs, and a number of compartments without platforms and troughs for accommodating mating nuts, washers, and other fasteners and fittings. 10. The fastener storage and organizer tray according to claim 1, further comprising: a cover member hingedly attached to said tray and having a latch mechanism for latching said cover member in a closed condition over said tray. 11. The fastener storage and organizer tray according to claim 1, wherein said tray is configured to be selectively stacked with a number of similar trays on top of another in a tool box or other container, or slidably supported in a cabinet. 12. The fastener storage and organizer tray according to claim 1, further comprising: hand grip means at two opposed ends of said tray for lifting said tray or sliding it in and out of a cabinet. 13. The fastener storage and organizer tray according to claim 12, wherein said hand grip means comprises a cutout portion in said bottom wall at two opposed ends adjacent to a respective one of said upstanding peripheral side walls defining a handle at respective opposed ends of said tray. 14. The fastener storage and organizer tray according to claim 13, further comprising: a cover member hingedly attached to said tray and having a latch mechanism for latching it in a closed condition over said tray;said cover member having a cutout portion in a top wall at two opposed ends adjacent to said two opposed ends adjacent to said respective one of said upstanding peripheral walls, each of which is aligned with a respective said cutout portion in said tray bottom wall at two opposed ends in the closed condition to jointly form a handle for lifting the tray or sliding it in and out of a cabinet. 15. A method for storing, organizing, transporting and accessing a supply of headed fasteners and bolts of different bolt shank diameters, thread configuration and length, mating nuts, washers, screws, and other fasteners and fittings of different shapes and sizes, comprising the steps of: providing a generally rectangular tray having a bottom wall bounded by upstanding peripheral side walls, and a plurality of individual compartments of different lengths and widths defined by upstanding longitudinal and transverse divider walls, at least one of said compartments having a generally rectangular raised platform with a top surface disposed horizontally in a plane a distance below top ends of said peripheral side walls and said divider walls, and a generally rectangular recessed trough at each of two opposed ends of said raised platform;storing a number of headed fasteners on said raised platform top surface in laterally adjacent alternating inverted side-by-side relation with shank portions of said headed fasteners supported on said platform top surface, with a portion of the heads of alternate headed fasteners received in one said trough at one of said opposed ends of said raised platform and the end of said shank portions extending over said trough at the opposed end of said raised platform; andremoving respective headed fasteners by pressing down on the end of the shank portion of a respective headed fastener to pivot it downward and raise the head of the respective headed fastener above one of said divider walls, and grasping the head of the respective headed fastener to remove it from a respective one of said compartments, or vice versa.