Wire-mesh material handling container with improved latches

An improved material handling wire-mesh container having a bottom wall secured to a support frame, a rear and front wall hinged respectively to a rear and front edge of said bottom wall, and side walls hinged to a respective vertical end edge of said rear wall;

• lock members secured to said front wall adjacent opposed vertical edges thereof for locking said side walls and front wall in a vertical position with said rear wall disposed vertically, each said lock member having a latch secured to said front wall adjacent said vertical edge, said latch having a straight lock rod formed with a handle member and with said straight lock rod guidingly slidable in a keeper member secured to said front wall and having a pair of loop wire members spaced apart a predetermined distance so that said lock rod may be displaced axially, arresting means secured to said lock for maintaining same in a locked position, bolt receiving means secured to each said side wall for receiving a straight free end of said lock bolt therein when slidingly displaced toward said bolt receiving means to secure said side walls to said front wall, said handle member having stopper means to restrict said axial displacement of said lock rod and permitting axial rotation of said lock rod to engage and disengage said arresting means, said handle pivoting on said lock rod to permit full arcuate displacement of said handle over a front surface of said front wall, said arresting means being a projection formed on said lock rod and extending rearwardly of said rod when said handle member is positioned in a depending position relative to said lock rod, said projection extending in the plane of said front wall for abutment with an arresting vertical wire rod therein to resist said axial displacement of said lock rod when in a locked position with said handle member depending, said handle member when displaced arcuately in an upward position causing said axial rotation of said lock rod and moving said projection out of said plane of said front wall to permit said lock bolt to be retracted axially out of engagement with said bolt receiving means of said adjacent side wall, said pair of loop wire members being secured to said front wall and extending outwardly thereof about said straight lock rod, said loop wire members being positioned at predetermined distances from said vertical edge of said front wall to permit limited axial displacement of said lock bolt relative to said vertical edge, a first of said loop wire members closest a vertical edge of said front wall being disposed at a predetermined distance from said vertical edge to abut an abutment end of said handle member after said straight free end is retracted from said bolt receiving means, said arresting vertical wire rod in said front wall being spaced inwardly of said first of said loop wire members at a predetermined distance therefrom, a second of said loop wire members engaging said loop end of said handle member to limit engaging axial displacement of said lock rod and positioning said projection on said lock rod in a transverse plane between said first of said loop wire members and said arresting vertical wire rod, said locking rod being retracted to a disengaged position by lifting said handle to displace said projection outwardly of said front wall and retracting said lock rod through said loops.