A container assembly includes at least one container that can be stacked, which has a base unit having a main accommodating body and having a carrying handle and which also has two auxiliary accommodating bodies, which sit on the main accommodating body and cover a main accommodating chamber formed
A container assembly includes at least one container that can be stacked, which has a base unit having a main accommodating body and having a carrying handle and which also has two auxiliary accommodating bodies, which sit on the main accommodating body and cover a main accommodating chamber formed therein in a basic position. Each auxiliary accommodating body has an auxiliary accommodating chamber that can be closed by means of a pivotable closing cover. The auxiliary accommodating bodies can be moved into an access position, in which the auxiliary accommodating bodies make the main accommodating chamber accessible. In addition, couplers are arranged on the base unit wherein the couplers enable vertical coupling of a plurality of stacked containers.
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1. A container assembly, comprising at least one stackable container, which has a base unit with a main accommodating body, the main accommodating body defining a main accommodating chamber, which is accessible at its top via a main opening and which is bounded by a bottom and a continuous side wall
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A container assembly, comprising at least one stackable container, which has a base unit with a main accommodating body, the main accommodating body defining a main accommodating chamber, which is accessible at its top via a main opening and which is bounded by a bottom and a continuous side wall projecting upwards from an edge of the bottom in a vertical direction of the container, wherein the container has a carrying handle on the main accommodating body in the region of its top side, and wherein coupling means suitable for the releasable coupling of at least two containers stacked in the vertical direction to form a stacked composite preventing a mutual lift-off in the vertical direction are provided on the base unit, wherein the container comprises two auxiliary accommodating bodies, which in a retracted home position are placed adjacent to one another on the main accommodating body while covering the main opening and each of the auxiliary accommodating bodies defines an auxiliary accommodation chamber, which is accessible at its top via an auxiliary opening and which is bounded by a bottom and a continuous side wall projecting upwards from an edge of the bottom in a vertical direction of the container, wherein each auxiliary accommodating body can be moved relative to the main accommodating body, while maintaining its spatial orientation adopted relative to the main accommodating body owing to bearing means provided, and while performing a transitional movement, into an extended access position, which at least partially uncovers the main opening for access to the main accommodating chamber while laterally projecting beyond the main accommodating body, and wherein a closing cover movable between a closed position covering the associated auxiliary opening and at least one release position uncovering the auxiliary opening is provided on each auxiliary accommodating body, wherein, in the stacked and coupled state of several containers, the auxiliary accommodating bodies of a respective lower container, which adopt the home position, are, together with their closing covers adopting the closed position, placed between the main accommodating bodies of the containers located directly on top of one another. 2. A container assembly according to claim 1, comprising a plurality of the stackable containers, which both can be used individually and can be stacked on top of one another in the vertical direction and releasably coupled in pairs using the coupling means to form a stacked composite preventing a mutual lift-off in the vertical direction. 3. A container assembly according to claim 1, wherein the at least one container has a longitudinal axis, which is perpendicular to the vertical direction, wherein the auxiliary accommodating bodies are arranged adjacent to one another at right angles to the longitudinal axis and are moved away from one another or towards one another in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis in the transition between the home position and the access position. 4. A container assembly according to claim 1, wherein the bearing means are configured as pivot bearing means in such a way that the transitional movement is at least partially a pivoting movement in which the respective auxiliary accommodating body is pivoted while maintaining its spatial orientation relative to the main accommodating body. 5. A container assembly according to claim 4, wherein the pivot bearing means are designed such that each auxiliary accommodating body traverses an arc-shaped path curve in its transitional movement in such a way that it changes its vertical position adopted relative to the main accommodating body during the transitional movement. 6. A container assembly according to claim 1, wherein the pivot bearing means are implemented by means of a plurality of articulated parallelograms. 7. A container assembly according to claim 6, wherein each of the plurality of articulated parallelograms comprises guide arms, wherein the guide arms of the articulated parallelograms project into bearing chambers of the main accommodating body and of the auxiliary accommodating body which are formed by double-walled sections of the side walls, in such a way that they are covered towards the outside in the home position of the associated auxiliary accommodating body and in addition are bulkheaded towards the inside both from the main accommodating chamber and from the associated auxiliary accommodating chamber. 8. A container assembly according to claim 1, wherein the at least one container has a longitudinal axis perpendicular to its vertical direction, and wherein the transitional movement of the auxiliary accommodating bodies, if viewed in the vertical direction of the container, is oriented in the axial direction of a transverse axis of the container, which is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, the coupling means being located in the region of opposite axial end faces of the base unit, which are oriented in the axial direction of the longitudinal axis. 9. A container assembly according to claim 8, wherein each of the coupling means comprises, in the region of the two axial end faces of the base unit, at least one coupling unit consisting of a lower coupling element located near the bottom of the main accommodating body and an upper coupling element located at a higher level, wherein at least one of these coupling elements is movable for optionally establishing or releasing a coupling engagement between two containers sitting on top of one another, wherein the coupling units are designed such that, in the stacked state of two containers, an upper coupling element of the bottom container can be releasably coupled to a lower coupling element of the top container. 10. A container assembly according to claim 9, wherein one coupling unit is provided on each axial end face of the base unit in the middle of its width, and/or in that the upper coupling element is a coupling element which is movable relative to the main accommodating body, while the lower coupling element is stationary on the base unit. 11. A container assembly according to claim 9, wherein the movable coupling element is a coupling tab pivotably mounted on the base unit, the other coupling element being at least one coupling projection which can be encompassed by the coupling tab. 12. A container assembly according to claim 9, wherein the upper coupling elements are placed at the level of the auxiliary accommodating bodies adopting the home position. 13. A container assembly according to claim 9, wherein the upper coupling elements are located on support columns of the base unit, which project upwards beyond the side wall of the main accommodating body. 14. A container assembly according to claim 9, wherein the at least one container is provided with locking means, which are located partly on the base unit and partly on the closing covers and which allow the closing covers to be releasably locked when the auxiliary accommodating bodies are in their home position. 15. A container assembly according to claim 14, wherein the locking means are at least partially designed as an assembly with the coupling means in such a way that, when containers stacked on top of one another are coupled, the closing covers are locked in the closing position at the same time. 16. A container assembly according to claim 14, wherein the coupling means and the locking means comprise at least one common combined coupling and locking element, which is movable relative to the base unit and which can be positioned in an active position locking the closed closing covers or in an inactive position unlocking the closing covers, wherein the combined coupling and locking element is, if adopting its active position when a further container is placed on the container to form a stacked composite, in coupling engagement with this further container as well, and wherein the coupling engagement with the further container is cancelled in the inactive position of the combined coupling and locking element. 17. A container assembly according to claim 16, wherein the coupling means comprise, in the region of each of the two axial end faces of the base unit, at least one coupling unit consisting of a lower coupling element located near the bottom of the main accommodating body and an upper coupling element located at a vertical distance therefrom at a higher level on the base unit, a combined coupling and locking element being represented by the movable upper coupling element of each of the coupling units. 18. A container assembly according to claim 1, wherein the carrying handle, starting from the main accommodating body, projects upwards between the two auxiliary accommodating bodies and is flanked on opposite sides by the two auxiliary accommodating bodies, wherein the carrying handle projects upwards above the auxiliary accommodating bodies in the home position of the two auxiliary accommodating bodies, and wherein the main accommodating body further has a slot-shaped cavity open towards its underside, into which cavity the carrying handle of a further container placed below the container can dip in the stacked state of two containers. 19. A container assembly according to claim 1, wherein there is a gap between the auxiliary accommodating bodies adopting the home position, through which gap the carrying handle extends upwards from the main accommodating body, the carrying handle projecting upwards beyond the auxiliary accommodating bodies. 20. A container assembly according to claim 1, wherein each closing cover is pivotably mounted relative to the associated auxiliary accommodating body in order to be movable between its closing position and its release position. 21. A container assembly according to claim 5, wherein each auxiliary accommodating body adopts, in the access position, the same vertical position relative to the main accommodating body as in the home position. 22. A container assembly according to claim 6, wherein each of the articulated parallelograms comprises two guide arms hinged at the auxiliary accommodating body on the one hand and at the main accommodating body on the other hand, the pivot points lying in the corner points of a parallelogram. 23. A container assembly according to claim 13, wherein the support columns extend upwards between the auxiliary accommodating bodies in the home position of the auxiliary accommodating bodies. 24. A container assembly according to claim 14, wherein the locking means are designed for the simultaneous locking and unlocking of both closing covers.
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