Plastic basket
AssigneeUNR Industires, Inc.
InventorsRonald J. Jones, Lonnie W. Wright
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Abstract
A shopping cart comprises a wheeled chassis, a handle structure including two handle uprights, and a plastic basket comprising separate side, front, and bottom panel members molded from a suitable plastic and assembled without any need for an interior frame. The side and front panel members have tabs. The front and bottom panel members have slots. The tabs are received by the slots to assemble the panel members. A rim wire has side portions received by wire-receiving formations of near top edge portions of the side panel members and a bight portion bearing against a top edge portion of the front panel member. The side portions are bent to form prongs inserted into apertures in the handle uprights to position the basket before the basket is fastened to the handle uprights and to the wheeled chassis.
Claims7
A basket comprising separate panel members molded from plastic material, said panel members consisting of two side panel members, a front panel member, and a bottom panel member, said front panel member being generally U-shaped so as to define a planar portion and two side portions, each of said side portions being generally parallel with one of said side panel members, certain of the side, front and bottom panel members having spaced tabs thereon and certain of the side, front, and bottom panel members having spaced slots therein, the spacing between the tabs corresponding to the spacing between the slots and the tabs being received by the slots to rigidly assemble and interlock the side panel members to the front panel member and to rigidly assemble and interlock the front panel member to the bottom panel member, said front and side panel members having a top edge, member-receiving formations extending along the top edge of said side panel members, a U-shaped member being received by the member-receiving formations, the U-shaped member having a bight portion and connecting the side portion and side panel members and bearing against a top edge portion of the front panel member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.