Portable collapsible container
AssigneeTechnical Materials, Inc.
InventorsPercy Rosenbloom, Jr., Percy Rosenbloom, III
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Abstract
A portable collapsible container made of flexible material the general form of a thin walled barrel, comprising a cylindrical body portion and a bottom cover removably attached to the lower end of the cylindrical wall; the body portion containing two enclosed hoop members one of which is adjacent the upper end of the cylindrical wall and the other which is spaced apart therefrom, the two hoop members being separated by a plurality of vertical stiffening members enclosed in the wall of said body portion and spaced substantially equidistantly around said wall and disconnected from both hoop members.
Claims20
A collapsible and flexible container comprising a generally thin walled cylindrical body having an upper end and a lower end, said body being made of collapsible and flexible sheet material, a removably attachable bottom cover, and fastening means for removably attaching said cover to said lower end of said body, said cover having an outside surface of wear resistant, low friction material, said body enclosing in its wall adjacent said upper end a first circumferential stiff hoop and spaced intermediate of said upper and lower ends a second circumferential stiff hoop substantially parallel to said first hoop, said body also enclosing in its wall a plurality of spaced stiffening members substantially perpendicular to and separated from said hoops and positioned intermediate of said first and second hoops.
A vertically collapsible trash container in the shape of an open top barrel comprising a body portion, a bottom cover portion, and fastening means for removably attaching said cover portion to said body portion, said body portion including a thin flexible and collapsible cylindrical wall having a top end and a bottom end, said wall enclosing a first hoop member in a fixed position adjacent said top end and a second hoop member in a fixed position intermediate said top end and said bottom end in spaced parallel relationship with said first hoop member, said wall further enclosing a plurality of vertical stiffening members positioned between and substantially perpendicular to said hoop members and being discretely separated therefrom, said stiffening members being positioned substantially equidistant from each other around said wall.
A collapsible and flexible container adapted to receive trash having solids and fluids therein comprising a generally thin walled cylindrical body having an upper end and a lower end, said body being made of collapsible and flexible sheet material, a first circumferential stiff hoop attached to said body adjacent said upper end, a second circumferential stiff hoop substantially parallel to said first hoop and spaced intermediate of said upper and lower ends, a plurality of spaced elongated stiffening members attached to said body and extending substantially perpendicular to and separated from and positioned between said first and second hoops.
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