Basket with handle
AssigneeDiscovery Limited
InventorMark W. Levie
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Abstract
A basket having a handle for organizing products on a shelf includes a solid base wall, a plurality of peripheral walls, and a handle. The plurality of peripheral walls extends upwardly from the base wall and define an upper rim of the basket and a recess therebetween. The handle has at least a first and a second part. The first part is substantially perpendicular to the second part and has an upper surface that is flush with the upper rim of the basket. The first part lies in a plane defined by the upper rim of the basket. The second part is spaced from an adjacent peripheral wall in order to fit a hand of a user between the peripheral wall and the second part. The second part extends downwardly from an end of the first part.
Claims20
A basket having a handle for organizing products
- on a shelf comprising:
- a solid base wall;
- a plurality of peripheral walls extending upwardly from the base wall and defining an upper rim of the basket and a recess therebetween;
- and
- a handle having at least a first and a second part cantilevered from a first of the peripheral walls, with the first part being substantially perpendicular to the second part and the first part having an upper surface that is flush with the upper rim of the basket and lying in a plane defined by the upper rim of the basket, and the second part being coupled to the first part and spaced from the first peripheral wall in order to fit a hand of a user between the first peripheral wall and the second part, with the second part extending substantially downwardly from an end of the first part,
- with the first peripheral wall having a bowed out portion where the handle attaches to the first peripheral wall.
(canceled)
A basket having a handle for use on a shelf comprising:
- a substantially flat base wall having upwardly extending walls positioned around an outer periphery thereof, said upwardly extending peripheral walls including a front wall, a rear wall, and at least a side wall, with the base wall and at least part of the upwardly extending peripheral walls being closed in order to deter the movement of solids or fluids through the base wall;
- and
- a handle extending outwardly from the front wall of the basket, said handle having a first part and a second part, with the first part extending in a plane away from the front wall and a second part extending downwardly at an angle relative to the adjacent front wall of the basket, with a space provided between a bottom surface of the first part and a rear surface of the second part, said space being big enough to accommodate a hand of a user, said handle being strengthened by the provision of a bowed out portion defined on the front wall in the vicinity where the handle mates with the front wall, said bowed out portion provided by a bumped out section of the front wall relative to the remainder of the front wall.
A basket having a handle comprising:
- a basket body including a base wall, upwardly extending peripheral walls positioned around the base wall, and an upper rim positioned at the top of the peripheral walls of the basket, with the base wall being closed in order to deter movement of fluids or objects through the base wall, and the base wall and upwardly extending peripheral walls together defining a recess in the basket body;
- and
- at least one handle extending outwardly from one of the peripheral walls of the basket body, said handle having a first part with an upper surface that is flush with the upper rim of the basket and a second part that extends downwardly from the first part, with a space being defined between the peripheral wall, the first part, and the second part that is sized to fit a hand of a user,
- wherein the basket is sized based upon consideration of the fifteen top high volume food groups of the U.S. supermarket industry such that each basket can organize about three to about seven of the high volume food groups and the about three to about seven high volume food groups interchangeably fit in the recess of the basket at different times, with the upper rim of the basket on the peripheral wall adjacent the first part of the handle being enlarged outwardly relative to the upper rim of the basket such that the rim of the basket remains parallel to the adjacent peripheral wall in order to strength the basket in the vicinity of the handle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.