Method and apparatus for collapsible container
A hollow container or box formed from a roof, a first side (i.e., or first upper and lower sides), a second side (i.e., for second upper and lower sides), a rear side (i.e., or rear upper and lower sides), a door (i.e., or upper and lower door), and a base placing the container or box in a fully assembled position. Unique side and end access doors are provided. Each of the sides are releasably coupled or hingedly connected to one another and the adjacent sides are hingedly coupled to the base. Upon releasing the sides from one another and rotating each relative to one another in a particular order along various axis rotation, the container or box is transitioned from a fully assembled position into a flat, parallel orientation, fully collapsed position.
1. A hinge for securing a first part of a container to a second part of a container, comprising:
a knuckle providing a first end and a second end separated from one another with the first end containing a first opening and the second end containing a second opening, the first opening and the second opening in alignment along a first plane between them, each of the first end and the second end being fixedly secured to the first part of the container;
a pin having a body and opposed ends and in slideable engagement with the knuckle with one of the opposed ends situated within the first opening of the first end and the other of the opposed ends situated within the second opening of the second end, the pin moveable along the first plane between the first end and the second end with one of the opposed ends freely moveable within the first opening and the other of the opposed ends freely moveable within the second opening;
a leaf having a leaf body and opposed leaf ends with one of the opposed leaf ends fixedly secured along the body of the pin, the leaf body extending outwardly and perpendicular to the first plane and providing a leaf hole adjacent the other of the opposed leaf ends;
a bracket having a bracket body and fixedly secured to the second part of the container, the bracket body providing a bracket hole;
means for fastening the leaf to the bracket; and
whereby, when securing the first part of a container to the second part of a container, if the leaf hole of the leaf body is not in alignment with the bracket hole of the bracket body to secure the leaf to the bracket, the pin may be moveable along the first plane with one of the opposed ends being freely moveable further into the first opening of the first end and the other of the opposed ends being freely moveable further out of the second end with the in remaining slideable engagement with the knuckle or the pin may be moveable along first plane with the other of the opposed ends being freely moveable further into the second opening of the second end and the one of the opposed ends being freely moveable further out of the first end with the pin remaining in slideable engagement with the knuckle to move the leaf hole of the leaf body into alignment with the bracket hole of the bracket body for securing the first part of the container to the second part of the container.
2. The hinge of claim 1 wherein a spacing is created between each of the opposed ends of the pin and a distal end in each of the first end and the second end of the knuckle.
3. The hinge of claim 2 wherein the spacing between each of the opposed ends of the pin and the distal end in each of the first end and the second end of the knuckle permits the pin to slideably traverse in relation to the knuckle.
4. The hinge of claim 1 wherein the first part of the container is a different part than the second part of the container.
5. The hinge means of claim 1 wherein the one of the opposed leaf ends of the leaf is fixedly secured along the body of the pin in a location between the first end and the second end of the knuckle.