Latch assembly for collapsible storage bin

A latch mounted on wall members of a container for latching the wall members having a base member and a sliding locking member that are movable relative to one another, comprising:

• said base member being secured to one of said wall members and having a pair of parallel channels;
• said locking member having a pair of flanges that are correspondingly received in said pair of channels for guiding sliding movement of said locking member relative to said base member back and forth along a sliding direction into and out of a locking position in which said wall members are secured to one another;
• said base member having a spring member projecting from said base member between said channels including an engaging portion and a resilient portion extending between said engaging portion and said base, said base member and said spring member being of one monolithic piece;
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• said locking member having projections that are received in a recess of the other of said wall members and said locking member having an engaging surface for engaging said engagement portion of said spring member to resiliently urge said projections to extend outwardly from said base into said recess in said locking position to latch said wall members to one another,
• wherein said engaging portion of said spring member is substantially perpendicular to the sliding direction of said locking member during the sliding movement of said locking member and said resilient portion extends at an angle between said engaging portion and said base member.

A latch having a base member and a sliding locking member, comprising:

• one of said base member and said locking member having a pair of parallel channels and the other one of said base member and said locking member having a pair of flanges to be correspondingly received in said pair of channels for guiding sliding movement of said locking member relative to said base member back and forth along a sliding direction into and out of a locking position;
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• one of said base member and said locking member having a spring member projecting from said one of said base member and said locking member between said channels and flanges, said spring member including an engaging portion and a resilient portion extending between said engaging portion and said base member, said base member and said spring member being of one monolithic piece;
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• the other one of said base member and said locking member having an engaging surface for engaging said engagement portion of said spring member to resiliently urge said locking member to extend outwardly from said base into said locking position,
• wherein said engaging portion of said spring member is substantially perpendicular to the sliding direction of said locking member during the sliding movement of said locking member and said resilient portion extends at an angle between said engaging portion and said base member.