Combination reloading tray and die box

Claim 1

A combination reloading tray and container for storing a set of elongated reloading dies having radically extended locking nuts mounted thereon, the combination including a container having a body section consisting of a flat bottom wall and upwardly raised side walls depending from the bottom wall, and a removable cover having a planar top surface, the cover being mounted upon the body for enclosing the container, a plurality of laterally extended ribs located in the body section of the container to form compartments therebetween that are capable of slidably receiving the radial extended locking nuts of the dies in a set, a series of longitudinally extended contoured saddles formed in said ribs for supporting the elongated dies of a set in parallel alignment within the body of the container and whereupon the locking nuts of said dies are received in the compartments when the dies are seated upon the saddles, and said cover having a plurality of blind holes formed therein that are normal to the top surface of the cover and which pass downwardly from the top surface an equal distance so that the end walls of said blind holes are aligned to coplanar relationship at a depth such that the end walls retain the dies in a seated position upon said saddles when the cover is closed upon the body section and whereby shell cartridges to be reloaded are slidably supportable in an upright position within said holes said bottom wall of the body section includes a plurality of blind holes that are extended upwardly to an equal distance so that endwalls thereof are in coplanar alignment with the bottom surface of the contoured saddles.