Patent ID: 6997338

Claim:
A collapsible container having a flexible frame so the container can collapse into a collapsed configuration in which the flexible frame coils into overlapping loops and can expand into an expanded configuration in which the frame forms a continuous loop, the container comprising: a plurality of adjacent side panels, each of the side panels including a sheet of flexible material having a perimeter, a pocket attached to substantially the entire perimeter of the sheet of material of each side panel, and with the continuous loop frame positioned within each pocket, the pocket being several times larger in cross-section than a cross-section of the flexible frame positioned within each pocket so the side panel can coil into overlapping loops, each of the side panels having a bottom, a top, and two opposing sides, each of the sides of each side panel being connected to the side of an adjacent side panel; a floor panel having a plurality of sides, the floor panel being connected to the bottom of the side panels; a first handle fastened to a first one of the side panels, the first handle having a first distal end extending through a first opening in the pocket of the first one of the side panels and fastening to that portion of the frame of the first one of the side panels that extends across that first opening.