Mold for making a bucket with bail

A mold assembly for forming a bucket having a pivotal handle secured in opposed sides of the bucket, said bucket having integrally molded handle retention chambers at opposed sides of the bucket with the handle terminating at each end in an enlargement positioned within one of said handle retention chambers, said handle retention chambers each defining on its outer surface a first slot opening extending thereacross through which said handle extends. said mold assembly comprising openable and closable first and second mold halves defining a first mold chamber between them of the shape of said bucket and including handle retention chamber-defining means, said means including opposed, movable mold members capable of end-to-end abutment in a molding position, and a spaced relation in a mold-open position to permit removal of the bucket molded therein, said mold members defining inner molding chambers formed between them in their end-to-end abutting relation for molding said enlargements on the handle ends, and gate means communicating between the first and inner molding chambers, said mold members being movable only in motion which is essentially linear between the molding position and the mold-open position in a direction which is normal to the direction of the opening and closing of said first and second mold halves, said mold assembly also having means for forming said first slot opening in walls defining each handle retention chamber whereby said first slot opening extends in a direction longitudinal to the direction of opening and closing of said first and second mold halves.