Laundry basket and handle therefor
AssigneeMobil Oil Corporation
InventorsWalter P. Koda, Paul Santarisiero, William Seabolt
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Abstract
A laundry basket and a handle assembly therefor are disclosed. The laundry basket includes a walled container including a peripheral rim and a hand opening adjacent the rim. A handle extends about the rim and through the hand opening. The handle is preferably constructed from two pieces which are snapped together above and below the rim. Each piece includes a curved exterior surface to facilitate lifting and carrying the basket. The rim of the basket preferably includes an opening above the hand opening to facilitate the interlocking of the upper and lower pieces forming the handle.
Claims11
A laundry basket comprising:
- a walled container including a peripheral rim and a pair of opposing hand openings adjacent said rim, and a pair of handle members extending, respectively, about said rim and through said hand openings, each of said handle members including a bottom portion positioned below the rim and defining an upper boundary of one of said hand openings and a top portion, said bottom portion being connected to said top portion, said bottom portion including a curved exterior surface;
- said rim of said walled container including a pair of upper openings positioned, respectively, above said hand openings, one of said top or bottom portions of each of said handle members including a protrusion extending through said respective upper rim openings;
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- first and second pairs of opposing walls extending upwardly from said peripheral rim, the first pair of opposing walls adjoining one of the upper rim openings, the second pair of opposing walls adjoining the other of the upper rim openings, said top portions of said handle members each including a pair of slots which receive one of said pairs of opposing walls.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.