Basket

Claim 1

AN OPEN MESH BASKET COMPRISING A FLAT BLANK FORMED OF A SINGLE PIECE OF PLASTIC HAVING INTERSECTING RODS THAT EXTEND IN THE LONGITUDINAL AND TRANSVERSE DIRECTIONS OF THE BLANK AND WHICH ARE UNITED AT THEIR INTERSECTIONS BY THE MATERIAL OF THE PLASTIC TO CONSTITUTE IN OPEN GRID PATTERN, SAID BLANK HAVING A CENTRAL RECTANGULAR PORTION AND A PROJECTION EXTENDING OUTWARDLY FROM EACH OF TWO OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE CENTRAL PORTION, EACH PROJECTION HAVING TWO MARGINS THAT EXTEND SUBSTANTIALLY AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE SIDES OF THE CENTRAL PORTION AND WITH SAID MARGINS OF ONE PROJECTION BEING IN SUBSTANTIAL ALIGNMENT WITH THE CORRESPONDING MARGINS OF THE OTHER PROJECTION, EACH PROJECTION ALSO HAVING AN END THAT INTERSECTS ONE OF THE TWO MARGINS OF THE PROJECTION TO FORM AN ANGLE, THE RODS OF SAID CENTRAL PORTION THAT RUN IN ONE OF THE TWO DIRECTIONS EACH HAVING A PAIR OF GROOVES THAT REDUCE THE THICKNESS OF THE RODS TRANSVERSELY THEREOF AND WITH THE GROOVES FORMING SUBSTANTIALLY STRAIGHT PARALLEL FOLD LINES THAT EXTEND SUBSTANTIALLY ROM ONE OF SAID SIDES OF THE CENTRAL PORTION TO THE OTHER AND WHICH ARE SUBSTANTIALLY IN ALIGNMENT RESPECTIVELY WITH THE SAID MARGINS OF THE PROJECTIONS, THE FOLD LINES DIVIDING THE CENTRAL PORTION INTO THREE ADJACENT SUBSTANTIALLY RECTANGULAR SECTIONS WITH ONE OF THE SECTIONS BEING ADJACENT TO ONE OF THE MARGINS OF THE PROJECTIONS AND HAVING A WIDTH APPROXIMATELY EQUAL TO THE LENGTH OF SAID LAST-MENTIONED MARGIN, A SECOND OF THE SECTIONS BEING BOUNDED BY THE FOLD LINES, AND THE THIRD OF THE SECTIONS BEING ADJACENT TO THE OTHER OF SAID MARGINS OF THE PROJECTIONS AND HAVING A WIDTH APPROXIMATELY EQUAL TO THE LENGTH OF SAID OTHER OF SAID MARGINS, THE RODS IN SAID SECOND SECTION THAT RUN IN THE OTHER OF THE TWO DIRECTIONS EACH HAVING A PAIR OF GROOVES THAT REDUCE THE THICKNESS OF THE RODS TRANSVERSELY THEREOF AND FORM SUBSTANTIALLY STRAIGHT PARALLEL FOLD LINES THAT ARE AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE FIRST MENTIONED FOLD LINES AND ARE AT THE JUNCTURES OF SAID PROJECTIONS AND SAID SECOND OF THE SECTIONS AND WHICH EXTEND SUBSTANTIALLY THROUGHOUT SAID JUNCTIONS, EACH OF THE GROOVES LYING REMOTE FROM THE INTERSECTIONS OF THE RODS AND THE GROOVES OF EACH FOLD LINE BEING ENDWISE SPACED APART, SAID BLANK BEING FOLDABLE ABOUT SAID FOLD LINES SO THAT THE SECOND OF THE SECTIONS FORMS THE FRONT WALL THEREOF, THE THIRD OF THE SECTIONS FORMS THE BACK WALL THEREOF, AND THE PROJECTIONS FORM THE SIDE WALLS THEREOF WITH THE ENDS OF THE PROJECTIONS EXTENDING FROM THE TOP EDGE OF THE BACK WALL TO THE TOP EDGE OF THE FRONT WALL TO FORM THEREWITH AN OPENING INTO THE BASKET, AND COOPERATING MEANS ON THE SAID MARGINS OF THE PROJECTIONS AND THE ADJACENT SIDES OF THE FRONT AND BACK WALLS FOR SECURING THE WALLS OF THE BASKET TOGETHER TO RETAIN ITS SHAPE WHEN THE BASKET IS FORMED.