Receptacles – Sectional – Folding
Reexamination Certificate
1999-10-28
2001-05-15
Castellano, Stephen (Department: 3727)
Receptacles
Sectional
Folding
C220S004290, C220S004330, C217S122000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06230915
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a basket, and more particularly, to a rattan basket which is able to be assembled after delivery. The basket is woven piece by piece and then connected with one another by connectors, such that the space will be greatly reduced when stored and delivered.
2. Description of the Related Art
The reason for the popularity of rattan furniture is because the way it is woven such that the objects stored therein is not easy to have fungus. Normally, a piece of rattan furniture uses twigs or rods to form the main body and then strips of rattan are woven between the twigs to form a plan. Therefore, plans of rattan are connected with one another to gradually form the contour of a furniture. Although, this kind of weaving method do meet the requirements of various customers, most of the weaving process involves manual labor, which is troublesome and too time consuming. Furthermore, once the rattan furniture is finished, it requires a large space for storage and shipment. Accordingly, the cost is intentionally increased.
To solve such a problem, a new process of assembling rattan furniture is introduced to the market. This kind of rattan furniture uses iron rods as the main body of the furniture. Once the plan formed by strips of rattan is finished, retainers such as bolts or rivets are used to secure one plan with another. According to this kind of new formation, rattan furniture can be assembled after delivery and the cost for storage and shipment is greatly reduced because the furniture is able to be disassembled before being delivered to the customers. Again, this kind of assembly also requires a lot of labor to connect all the plans together. Other kinds of damage may also happen if the retainers used to connect the plans together are loose.
In order to obviate and mitigate the aforementioned problems, the present invention provides an improved rattan basket which is able to be disassembled when stored and shipped and the assembly of which is easy and simple, such that the rattan basket is economic labor efficient.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The main objective of the invention is to provide a rattan basket which is able to be disassembled for storage and shipment.
Another objective of the invention is that the each plan of the basket contains a main frame and a secondary frame. With such an arrangement, the plans of the basket are able to be easily connected together by retainers inserted in the secondary frames. When disassembly of the rattan basket is necessary, the user can just detach the retainers from the secondary frames of two adjacent plans, so that the basket is once again become isolated plans.
Still, another objective of the invention is to provide an improved rattan basket containing a cover. The cover is pivotally connected with the basket so as to achieve the purpose of covering the basket. The rattan basket uses a second retainer to pivotally connect the cover to one side of the rattan basket, such that the cover is able to pivot relative to the basket.
Other objective of the invention will be clear after the detailed description of the package with the reference of the accompanying drawings.
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Castellano Stephen
Dougherty & Troxell
Pro-Winnex Worldwide Corp.
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