Carton handle and top retainer
AssigneeA & G Manufacturers, Inc.
InventorIrwin A. Stavin
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Abstract
A box includes an open topped body and a removable cover, the body having a pair of opposite apertures in its peripheral wall directly below the cover skirt wall. A short elastic retainer and a long flexible cord bail have opposite pairs of ends thereof joined to respective anchoring elements which are insertable through and larger than the apertures and engage the peripheral wall inside face, the retainer being stretched and holding the cover in closed position and the bail extending above the retainer and functioning as a handle. Each anchoring element is a resilient T-shaped plastic member or a deformable metal channel, a part of which clinches the bail and retainer respective ends.
Claims3
A hand carried receptacle device comprising an open topped receptacle including a peripheral wall having formed in the upper border thereof a pair of opposite apertures, a cover member overlying said open topped receptacle and a combined cover retainer and bail including a bail defining elongated flexible member, a retainer defining elastic member of normally lesser length than said ball member and a pair of anchoring elements, each provided with a terminal portion having at least one dimension greater than the width of said aperture and another dimension of lesser width whereby said terminal portion is insertable through an aperture, said terminal portions being disposed along the inner face of said peripheral wall proximate said apertures, opposite pairs of ends of said bail and retainer being connected to respective anchoring elements and said retainer engaging said cover member and said bail extending above said retainer, each of said anchoring element terminal portions comprising an elongated arm of a width less than the width of said apertures and of a length greater than said aperture width, each of said elongated arms includes an elongated deformable channel, a pair of ends of said retainer and bail registering with a fraction of the length of said channel, the side walls of said channel member fraction being secured to engage said bail and retainer ends, said channel member extending along the inside face of said peripheral wall and said bail and retainer extending therefrom through a respective aperture.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.