Collapsible storage containers and related methods
AssigneeTOPS Products LLC
InventorsSu Chew Lee, Stephen Bantle
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Abstract
Collapsible storage containers and related methods are disclosed. An example collapsible storage container movable between a deployed position and a collapsed position disclosed herein includes a front panel, a back panel, a side panel including a first side panel portion coupled to the front panel, the first side panel portion including a first face and a second side panel portion coupled to the back panel, the second side panel portion including a second face, the first face coplanar with the second face in the deployed position, the first face parallel to and abutting the second face in the collapsed position.
Claims20
A storage container movable between a deployed position and a collapsed position, the storage container comprising:
- a front panel including an interior face, the interior face including a tab;
- a back panel;
- a side panel including:
- a first side panel portion coupled to the front panel, the first side panel portion including a first face;
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- a second side panel portion coupled to the back panel, the second side panel portion including a second face, the first face coplanar with the second face in the deployed position, the first face parallel to and abutting the second face in the collapsed position;
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- a bottom panel orthogonal to the side panel and the front panel in the deployed position, the bottom panel parallel to the front panel in the collapsed position, the bottom panel including a cylindrical portion, the tab removably coupled to the cylindrical portion of the bottom panel in the collapsed position.
A storage container movable between a deployed position and a collapsed position, the storage container comprising:
- a front panel;
- a back panel;
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- a side panel including:
- a first side panel portion coupled to the front panel, the first side panel portion including a first face and a first edge;
- and
- a second side panel portion coupled to the back panel, the second side panel portion including a second face and a second edge, the first face coplanar with the second face in the deployed position, the first face parallel to and abutting the second face in the collapsed position, the second edge abutting the first edge in the deployed position, the first edge and the second edge forming a press-fit connection in the deployed position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.