(a) Technical Field of the Invention
The present invention is related to a basket, and more particularly to a collapsible basket to facilitate storage and assembly.
(b) Description of the Prior Art
Baskets either found available at home or in shopping malls are usually made of plastic or fabric material. However, those baskets occupy too much space since the plastic basket is not foldable. On the other hand, certain baskets, although made of fabric, which is foldable, prevents easy folding in and reassembly.
The primary purpose of the present invention is to provide a collapsible basket with added value that is collapsed for easy storage and allows easy reassembly into a basket for use. To achieve the purpose, the present invention is essentially comprised of a fabric body, a base rack and a snap-in frame. Magic tape is attached to the inner circumference of the opening of fabric body to cover up the snap-in frame. Hooks each adapted with mobile locking levers are respectively provided on both sides of the base rack to hold the base rack at the bottom of the inner edge of the fabric body. The locking levers are collapsed and stacked for easy storage when the basket is not used; and are respectively fitted in the snap-in frame to stretch up the fabric body with a base board placed flat on the bottom of the base rack when the basket is in use.
The base rack is provided with multiple locking levers with both ends of each lever to be folded upward along the side of the frame to define the hook for the levers to snap in.
The foregoing object and summary provide only a brief introduction to the present invention. To fully appreciate these and other objects of the present invention as well as the invention itself, all of which will become apparent to those skilled in the art, the following detailed description of the invention and the claims should be read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Throughout the specification and drawings identical reference numerals refer to identical or similar parts.
Many other advantages and features of the present invention will become manifest to those versed in the art upon making reference to the detailed description and the accompanying sheets of drawings in which a preferred structural embodiment incorporating the principles of the present invention is shown by way of illustrative example.
The following descriptions are of exemplary embodiments only, and are not intended to limit the scope, applicability or configuration of the invention in any way. Rather, the following description provides a convenient illustration for implementing exemplary embodiments of the invention. Various changes to the described embodiments may be made in the function and arrangement of the elements described without departing from the scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.
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The snap-in frame 3 includes a frame 31 and multiple sleeves 32 provided on both shorter sides of the frame 31 for two locking levers 33 to penetrate through thus to rotate in the sleeves.
The base rack 2 is placed flat on the bottom of the inner edge of the fabric body 1 and the snap-in frame 3 is received and concealed in the edge of the opening of the fabric body by means of both male and female magic tapes 11, 12 separating from each other for a certain spacing to define a basket 100. When the basket 100 is not used, both locking levers are turned and overlapped on each other for the fabric body 1 to be flatted for facilitating storage. When the basket 100 is used, just stretch up the fabric body 1 and respective press down both locking levers to snap in hookers 23 on the base rack 2 to hold the basket body 1 in shape to accommodate commodities.
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It will be understood that each of the elements described above, or two or more together may also find a useful application in other types of methods differing from the type described above.
While certain novel features of this invention have been shown and described and are pointed out in the annexed claim, it is not intended to be limited to the details above, since it will be understood that various omissions, modifications, substitutions and changes in the forms and details of the device illustrated and in its operation can be made by those skilled in the art without departing in any way from the spirit of the present invention.