Product-carrying basket

Claim 1

A basket for carrying products and including: a plurality of vertically oriented sheet metal corner members; means extending between said corner members and defining a basket for receipt of products; at least one of said corner elements including means for applying identifying indicia to the basket while strengthening the corner member and comprising a vertically elongated recess stamped in the corner member, the recess having a planar base peripherally surrounded by a continuous wall defined by opposed elongated side walls and interconnecting, opposed end walls, each of said side walls being provided with outwardly protruding sections directed toward the other side wall and located on said side walls remote from said base to define nameplate retention means; an elongated name plate of rigid but slightly flexible material received in said recess in abutment with said base, said name plate having a width substantially equal to the width of said recess and greater than the distance between said outwardly protruding sections, a length substantially equal to the distance between said end walls, a periphery having a shape substantially the same as the shape of said continuous wall so that the periphery of the nameplate continuously abuts said continuous wall, and a thickness approximately equal to the distance between said outwardly protruding sections and said base, said nameplate being easily affixed to said basket by flexing the same to pass said outwardly protruding sections to be received in said recess and locked in place by said outwardly protruding sections, whereby said nameplate is substantially permanently affixed to said corner member and recessed therein to minimize wear to the nameplate and indicia thereon, and whereby said recess strengthens said corner member thereby providing a strong basket.