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.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 11, 2003
Date of Patent:
April 13, 2004
Assignee:
Design Ideas, Ltd.
Inventors:
Hsi-Ming Cheng, R. Neal Post, Christopher Hardy
Abstract: Two illustrative candle holding modules, each of which have a plurality of openings for receiving candles therein for display and a plurality of projections which individually fit into a selected opening in other similar modules. The combination allows the building of an innumerable variety of three dimensional arrays of candles. One module includes a linear array of candle receiving cells with an equal number of projections beneath them, each cell and its associated projection being structurally related to allow combining a plurality of such modules together in a variety of arrangements. A second module includes a square array of identically sized and shaped cells and projections to interfit with other first or second type modules.