Fruit basket and handle

• US 3,276,660 A
• Filed: 03/30/1965
• Issued: 10/04/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Joseph Vesak
• Original Assignee: Joseph Vesak
• Inventors: JOSEPH VESAK
• Application Number:
  US04/443,914
• Time in Patent Office: 553 Days
• US Class Current: 229/117.19
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/2019 with at least partially curved edges or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/46016 Straps used as handles fixed to the container by glueing, stapling, heat-sealing for packages in wrappers B65D75/56
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 229/914 Basket-type with handle

Claims

1. A COLLAPSIBLE OPEN TOP BASKET WITH AN INTERENGAGING HANDLE, THE BASKET HAVING UPWARDLY AND OUTWARDLY FLARING WALLS WITH CURVED END PORTIONS, THE BASKET FORMED FROM A FOLDABLE BLANK AND COMPRISING A BOTTOM PANEL WITH LONGITUDINAL SIDE EDGES DEFINED BY FOLD LINES AND CURVED FREE EDGE END PORTIONS, SIDE WALLS CONNECTED TO THE BOTTOM PANEL LONGITUDINAL EDGES BY THE FOLD LINES AND HAVING INNER AND OUTER PANELS WITH A TOP FOLD CONNECTION THEREBETWEEN, END WALLS WITH A MULTIPLICITY OF SCORES THEREIN EXTENDING BETWEEN FREE TOP AND BOTTOM EDGES AND SUBSTANTIALLY CONFORMING TO THE BOTTOM PANEL CURVED END EDGES, END WALL EXTENSIONS FOLDABLY CONNECTED TO THE REMOTE ONES OF THE MULTIPLICITY OF SCORES, SAID END WALL EXTENSIONS EACH HAVING REFLEX SCORES THEREIN DETERMINING FIRST AND SECOND SECTIONS THEREOF FOLDED TO MUTUAL FLATWISE RELATION IN COLLAPSING AND ERECTING THE BASKET, THE END WALL EXTENSIONS EACH BEING DISPOSED INTERVENING THE SIDE WALL INNER AND OUTER PANELS IN SECURED RELATION THEREWITH, A HANDLE SLOT IN EACH SIDE WALL TOP FOLD, A HANDLE MEMBER WITH A GRIPPING PORTION EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY OF THE BASKET AND END POSTS EXTENDING THROUGH THE HANDLE SLOTS WITH BOTTOM ENDS OF THE END POSTS BETWEEN THE SIDE WALL INNER AND OUTER PANELS EXTENDING LUGS ON THE END POSTS IN THE PLANE DEFINED BY THE HANDLE GRIPPING PORTION AND END POSTS, SAID EXTENDING LUGS ABUTTING FREE EDGES IN THE WALLS TO RESTRICT THE HANDLE AGAINST VERTICAL MOVEMENT.