US 12,129,091 B2
Mesh container and method for producing a mesh container
Peter Nilsson, Västervik (SE); and Tobias Ringenhag, Västervik (SE)
Filed by Elfa International AB, Västervik (SE)
Filed on Jun. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/355,122.
Claims priority of application No. 2050739-8 (SE), filed on Jun. 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0394954 A1, Dec. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. B65D 6/08 (2006.01)
CPC B65D 7/14 (2013.01) 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for use in making a metal mesh container that comprises four side panels made at least partly of metal mesh, a bottom panel made of metal mesh, and a surrounding metal rim extending outwardly from top edges of the side panels and made of solid metal; the method comprising:
cutting first and second precursors from a web of sheet metal comprising one or more portions that have been perforated and expanded along an expansion direction to form metal mesh, and one or more unstretched sheet metal portions, each of the first and second precursors having at least one solid metal portion from the one or more one or more unstretched portions of the web of sheet metal and at least one metal mesh portion from the one or more portions of web of sheet metal that have been perforated and expanded; and
for each of the first and second precursors, folding the precursor to make up in a single piece first and second adjacent side panels for the metal mesh container, part of the bottom panel, and a portion of the surrounding metal rim extending outwardly from top edges of the first and second side panels, wherein
the first and second side panels are at least partly made of metal mesh from the one or more metal mesh portions, and
the portion of the surrounding metal rim joins the first and the second side panels and is formed from the at least one solid metal portion; and
assembling the folded first and second precursors to form the four side panels of the mesh container from the first and second adjacent side panels from the first and second folded precursors and the bottom panel from the part of the bottom panel of from the first and second folded precursors.