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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2003
Hsi-Ming Cheng, Chung-Hua Hsien, TW;
R. Neal Post, Springfield, IL (US);
Christopher Hardy, Springfield, IL (US);
Design Ideas, Ltd., Springfield, IL (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a container comprising a first piece of mesh material and at least one separate second piece of mesh material. The first piece of mesh is bent to form a bottom wall and a first pair of sidewalls. The second piece of material forms a second pair of sidewalls. When the pieces are joined together, a basket portion with an upwardly-extending opening is formed. The basket portion may further include a runner portion that may be a separate rail connected to the basket portion, thus forming a drawer. When the container is used with a drawer system including a frame, the runner portion is slidably received in a pair of frame runners. This allows the drawer to move with respect to the frame between retracted and extended positions. The present invention is also directed to a method for making such containers.