Appeal No. 96-1604
Application 08/272,906
application, stand withdrawn from further consideration by the
examiner pursuant to the provisions of 37 CFR § 1.142(b) as being
drawn to a nonelected invention.
The subject matter on appeal is directed to a collapsible
container. Claim 6 is exemplary of the invention and reads as
follows:
6. An easily collapsible to save space container that
may be readily reassembled without special tools comprising:
a plurality of reusable identical and nestable U-shaped
continuously slightly curved and convex relatively rigid molded
sidewalls and rounded corners, each sidewall being defined
between two longitudinal edges;
an equal plurality of reusable H-shaped connectors for
connecting said sidewalls by said edges to form a generally
rectangular tubular body with slightly curved and convex
sidewalls connected with rounded corners each of said edges
being located intermediate a sidewall and between a pair of
rounded corners, said connectors having grooves so shaped and
dimensioned to form an interference fit with said edges so that
the side walls and connectors may be assembled and disassembled
without special tools;
a top member including a top plate and a top skirt extending
below said top plate and arranged and constructed to form an
interference fit with said tubular body when said tubular body is
telescopically joined to said top member; and
a bottom member including a bottom plate and a bottom skirt
extending above said bottom plate and arranged and constructed to
form an interference fit with said tubular body when said tubular
body is telescopically joined to said bottom member.
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