Receptacles – Container attachment or adjunct – Handle – handle component – or handle adjunct
Patent
1999-05-13
2000-07-11
Castellano, Stephen
Receptacles
Container attachment or adjunct
Handle, handle component, or handle adjunct
220775, 220776, B65D 2532
Patent
active
060859334
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention concerns a basket with arc shaped handle, more precisely it concerns a basket comprising an arc shaped or upturned U handle extending from one side to the other of the basket.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Baskets with arc shaped or upturned U handles, that we shall simply term "handle" herein, of the kind concerned with this application, can be made of various materials, but especially and traditionally of wicker, straw, chestnut strips, plastic strips or strings; this feature makes them a specially suitable product for craft-ware in countries where the cost of labour is low and from which these products are exported in considerable quantities.
The drawback of these baskets lies in the very high transport costs owing to the impossibility of piling the baskets in such a way as to form packagings with a convenient weight/volume ratio.
In addition to the above baskets, made of wicker, straw and other above mentioned material, also document U.S. Pat. No. 2,405,310 is known that discloses a basket handle connectable with a container. The handle is made of sheet material, the container is formed by fiber board and similar materials side walls in the form of an outer panel and an inner panel and therebetween connecting means in the handle and in the container are cooperating; the handle disclosed in said document results detachable.
We shall conventionally term the part of the basket that holds objects--the tray--and the part of the basket that serves as a handle--the handle.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention obviates the above mentioned drawback and, as characterized in the claims, is a basket in which the tray bears at least a first engagement means on each opposite side, and at each of its sides the handle bears at least a second engagement means, the first and second engagement means being suited to engage rigidly so that the tray and handle result as being solidly and permanently locked to one another so as to form a single object.
The main advantage of this basket lies in the fact that the manufacturer separately produces the trays and the handles for the transport of which any desirable number of trays will be piled onto one another into packages and an equal number of handles will be packaged one next to another, with an enormous reduction in the volumes required and, consequently, in the cost of transport. Each tray and each handle will be assembled in the importing country.
The first engagement means is a body provided with a hollow, which body being held, thanks to retaining means, within a lodging formed on one side of the tray and the second engagement means is a pin shaped body formed by a first part held, thanks to retaining means, in the end of the handle and by a second part to be forced into the hollow of the first engagement means.
Alternatively, the first engagement means in the tray is the pin shaped body and the second engagement means in the handle is the body provided with a hollow into which the first means may be forced.
The lodging for the first engagement means is formed in the border of the tray.
Alternatively, the lodging for the first engagement means is formed in the side of the tray.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The invention will be illustrated in further detail below with an example of an embodiment and with the support of the drawings in which the baskets represented are made of wicker-work, though the material is not shown in detail owing to the complexity that the pattern of the wicker-work features; in the drawings,
FIG. 1 is a first perspective view,
FIG. 2 is a second perspective view,
FIG. 3 is a third perspective view,
FIGS. 4a-4b and 5a and 5b show details,
FIGS. 6 and 7 are other perspective views and
FIG. 8 shows a further detail.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
FIG. 1 shows a tray 1 and handle 2 of a basket that, fastened to one another thanks to the engagement means foreseen, form a basket complying with the present invention.
FIG. 2 shows how the tray 1 of the basket, incorporated i
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Brunazzo s.n.c.
Castellano Stephen
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