Collapsible container
AssigneeDart Industries Inc.
InventorsDavid D. Kusuma, Raymond J. Trudeau, Hector J. Barea
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Abstract
A collapsible container having a rigid base, a rigid top ring, and rigid intermediate rings extending therebetween. A flexible peripheral wall is intimately bonded to the base, top ring, and intermediate rings, to form wall sections having alternating sections of flexible material and flexible material intimately bonded to the intermediate rings, whereby the container is adjustable between an expanded position with the top ring spaced upward from said base and forming a container interior, and a collapsed position with said top ring surrounding said base in outwardly spaced substantially concentric relation thereto.
Claims20
A collapsible container having a plurality of sections, said collapsible container comprising:
- a rigid top ring;
- a rigid base;
- two or more rigid intermediate rings disposed between said top ring and said base;
- and a flexible wall peripherally fixed to said base, said top ring, and said two or more rigid intermediate rings, wherein said flexible wall is over-molded and bonded to said base, said top ring, and said two or more intermediate rings;
- wherein:
- said collapsible container is adjustable between an expanded position with the top ring spaced upward from said base and forming a container interior, and a collapsed position with said top ring surrounding said base in outwardly spaced substantially concentric relation thereto.
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