Collapsible container detachably secured to vehicle seat

Claim 1

A collapsible container for use with conventional bench-type automobile seats, comprising: a horizontal rectangular base; two like, opposed rectangular side walls, each side wall being hingedly attached to a corresponding side of the base in a manner that the side walls may be folded inwardly towards each other to lie flat on top of the base; two like, opposed end strips having horizontal top surfaces, each end strip being attached to a corresponding end of the base; two like, opposed rectangular end walls, each end wall being hingedly attached to the top surface of a corresponding end strip, in a manner that the end walls may be folded up to vertical positions to enclose the side walls between them, and may be folded inwardly towards each other to lie flat upon the side walls after the side walls have been folded to lie flat upon the base; lock means disposed upon each side wall and cooperating with both end walls, in a manner that the lock means will lock all the walls into vertical orientations when locked and will leave all the walls free to be folded flat when unlocked, each lock means has a manually rotatable cam disposed on the outside surface of a corresponding side wall and each lock means further has a pair of like opposed elongated bars biased inwardly towards each cam and slidably attached to the outside surface of a corresponding side wall, each bar may be pushed outwardly away from each other by the cam as the cam is rotated and subsequently allowed to return to their original positions as the cam is further rotated; and two like parallel flexible flat arms fixed to and extending downwardly and rearwardly from the rear end of the base, whereby the device may be detachably secured to a conventional bench-type automobile seat by placing the arms in the space between the back and the bottom of the seat.