Container with handle

Details Container with handle Container with handle

1997-05-16

1998-10-06

Moy, Joseph M.

Receptacles

Container attachment or adjunct

Handle, handle component, or handle adjunct

220761, 220770, 220776, B65D 2532

Patent

active

058164391

DESCRIPTION:

BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a container with a handle, and especially to a container with a handle attached to opposite sides of the exterior of the container. In embodiments, the container is a pail.
Many containers are difficult to move or carry and for this reason it is common practice to provide a handle on the container. Such handles may come in a wide variety of forms, including separate handles on opposite sides of the container e.g. particularly when the container is in the form of a box, or a handle that extends from one side to the other side of the container e.g. when the container is in the form of a pail or similar construction.
For containers made from wood, metal, cardboard or the like, the handle may be attached to the container by suitable welding, adhesive or gluing methods. Alternatively in some constructions and with some materials, it is possible to integrally form the handle on the container during manufacture of the container e.g. in a moulding process.
With containers made with some materials e.g. plastics and especially polyolefins, it is more difficult to attach the handle using adhesive or melt bonding technology. Other methods tend to be used to attach the handles, for instance suitable slots may be provided on the exterior of the container such that the handle may be inserted into the slots to attach the handle to the container.
A variety of shapes of slots have been provided on containers, with the dual purpose of facilitating assembly of the container as well as providing a container with a handle that is not readily detachable from the container during use. Such slots have included slots in the shape of a keyhole or other similar shapes, with the handle being snap-fitted onto the container using the slot.
The constricted portion of key-hole shaped slots has to be designed such that it is possible to snap fit the handle through the constricted part but retain the handle on the container during normal use and especially when the container is not being moved e.g. when the handle falls downwardly over the side of the container. Such assembly of handles on containers using snap fitting techniques can be done using machines, but it is frequently carried out in a manual operation. Manual operation requires significant strength and effort by the person who is attaching the handles to the containers, and may over a period of time result in strains to joints of the operator e.g. to wrist and elbow joints and consequent occupational health problems.
A container having its handle attached by snap-fitting in an alternative manner has now been found.
Accordingly the present invention provides a container having walls and a handle attached to the exterior of the container; container, each of said ends having a shaft with two spaced-apart flanges thereon; keyhole-shaped slot spaced apart from the wall of the container by a distance sufficient to accommodate the flange distal to the handle, said keyhole shaped slot having an orifice connected to a tapered slot, said tapered slot being open at the end opposed to the orifice; shaft may be slid along the tapered slot and forcibly inserted into the orifice, passes from the perimeter of the flange to the shaft and thereafter curves back towards the perimeter on the opposed side of the shaft, forming a hook shape; distance from the orifice such that the fulcrum is spaced apart from the flange when the shaft is located in the orifice but at a distance from the longitudinal axis of the keyhole that is less than the radius of the sectioned flange; flange during installation of the handle on the container.
The present invention further provides a container having walls and a handle attached to the exterior of the container; container, each of said ends having a shaft with two spaced-apart flanges thereon; keyhole-shaped slot spaced apart from the wall of the container by a distance sufficient to accommodate the flange distal to the handle, said keyhole shaped slot having an orifice connected to a tapered slot, said tapered slot being open at the

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