Method of connecting a bail to a container
OwnerPeter A. Woinarskiinventor
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Abstract
A container having a pair of diametrically opposed bail ears, each of which is arranged to connect with a bail and each of which comprises a bearing portion, a flange portion and at least one limb. The bearing portion is arranged to provide a pivot bearing for the associated eye of the bail, the flange portion is arranged normally to prevent axial displacement of the eye onto or from the bail and the or each limb has a free end that is resiliently deformable between an unstressed first position and a stressed second position. Axial displacement of the eye of the bail is accommodated when the free end of the or each limb is deformed into the second position.
Claims4
A container formed from a deformable plastics material and having a pair of diametrically opposed bail ears to which a bail can be fitted, each bail ear comprising:
- (a) a bearing portion which projects outwardly from a wall of the container and which provides a pivot bearing for an eye of the bail,
- (b) at least one flange portion which is formed integrally with the bearing portion, the flange portion being spaced from the container wall by the bearing portion and being arranged normally to prevent axial displacement of the eye of the bail relative to the bearing portion, and
- (c) two limbs which project outwardly from the container wall,
- the bearing portion and the two limbs forming a U-shaped element that projects outwardly from the container wall with the bearing portion being constituted by an arcuate part of the U-shaped element, each limb having a free end that is resiliently deformable relative to the bearing portion between an unstressed first position and a stressed second position, each limb being engageable with the eye of the bail when the bail is fitted to the bearing portion and the free end of the limb is in the first position, and axial displacement of the eye of the bail past the flange portion being accommodated when the free end of each limb is in its second position.
A container formed from a deformable plastics material and having a pair of diametrically opposed bail ears to which a bail can be fitted, each bail ear comprising:
- (a) two limbs which project outwardly from the container wall, the limbs being constituted by separate rectilinear projections which subtend an acute angle between themselves,
- (b) a bearing portion which projects outwardly from the wall of the container and which provides a pivot bearing for an eye of the bail, the bearing portion being constituted by a recess which is formed in a lower margin of each of the limbs, and
- (c) a flange portion constituted by a downwardly projecting portion of each of the limbs, the downwardly projecting portion of each limb being separated from the container wall by the recess,
- each limb having a free end that is resiliently deformable relative to the bearing portion between an unstressed first position and a stressed second position, each limb being engageable with the eye of the bail when the bail is fitted to the bearing portion and the free end of the limb is in the first position, and axial displacement of the eye of the bail past the flange portion being accommodated when the free end of each limb is in the second position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.