Container and bail construction

Claim 1

A BAILED CONTAINER COMPRISING IN COMBINATION A CONTAINER HAVING A TOP, A SIDEWALL DEFINING THE OUTER CONTOUR OF THE CONTAINER AND A BASE; TWO DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED DIMPLES IMPRESSED INTO THE SIDEWALL PROXIMATE THE BASE; A SET BACK PORTION OF THE BASE SET BACK FROM THE OUTER CONTOUR EXTENDING AROUND ABOUT ONE-HALF THE CONTAINER FROM ONE DIMPLE TO THE OTHER, A PORTION OF THE SIDEWALL PROXIMATE THE SET BACK PORTION OF THE BASE SLOPING INWARDLY TO JOIN THE SET BACK PORTION OF THE BASE AND DEFINE THEREWITH A POCKET; A BAIL ADAPTED TO FIT WITHIN SAID POCKET COMPRISING A PLANAR MEMBER HAVING TWO INWARDLY HOOKED ENDS MOUNTED IN THE DIMPLES AND AT LEAST THREE APEXES; CURVED END SECTIONS PROXIMATE EACH END OF THE MEMBER, EACH SAID SECTION BEING A SEGMENT OF THE SAME ELLIPSE; A PLURAL SERIES OF CURVED INTERMEDIATE SECTIONS JOINING ONE ANOTHER AT AN APEX AND THE FIRST AND LAST MEMBER OF THE SERIES CONNECTED TO THE END SECTIONS; THE INTERMEDIATE SECTIONS HAVING A CURVATURE REVERSE TO THE CURVATURE OF THE END SECTIONS AND AT LEAST IN PART HAVING A CROSS-SECTION WITH A MAJOR AND A MINOR DIMENSION, SAID MAJOR DIMENSION LYING THE PLANE OF THE MEMBER AND SAID MINOR DIMENSION IN ANOTHER PLANE.