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US 4,887,874 AGranted
Knockdown drawers and bins
OwnerEdward J. Joffeinventor
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Abstract
Knockdown units forming drawers or bins include a one-piece molded plastic bottom and side panel unit with the side panels being connected to the bottom panel by reduced thickness thickness zones and molded plastic front and rear panels. Interengaging connecting means are formed integrally at the upper portions of the side panels and the upper ends of the front and rear panels.
Claims6
A knockdown drawer and bin assembly comprising:
- a one-piece molded plastic bottom and side panel unit having a rectangular bottom panel with upwardly extending side flanges, and a pair of side panels connected, respectively, to opposite sides of said bottom panel by reduced thickness hinge zones, each side panel having a side wall, end flanges projecting from the lateral edges of said side wall, said side flanges of said bottom panel and said end flanges of said side panels together forming the peripheral portions of the front and rear faces of the assembly in its erected configuration, and, adjacent each upper corner of said side panel, at least one projection attached to and extending inwardly from said end flange;
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- front and rear panels, each of said front and rear panels being of one-piece molded plastic construction and each having, adjacent the upper corners thereof, at least one opening therein for reception of the corresponding one of said projections.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.