Breadbasket with merchandiser window and flaps
View Patent ↗A basket for shipping and displaying of baked products, wherein the basket comprises several features that substantially inhibit or reduce lateral motion, as well frontward and rearwards motion. Similar baskets can be stacked in a 0°, 90° or 180° configuration, and in the 0° and 180°, an upper basket can pivot and slide about a lower basket. Preferably, three window flaps are provided in one or more merchandising windows of the basket to allow consumers to retrieve baked product from an interior portion of the basket. The window flaps can moved from an open position to provide customers access to the tray, to a closed position to substantially inhibit or prevent product spillage when being transported or stored.
1. A basket for shipping and storing goods, comprising:
a base;
a left sidewall and right sidewall,
each of the left sidewall and the right sidewall joined to and substantially perpendicular to the base, and
each of the left sidewall and the right sidewall substantially parallel to each other;
a front wall and rear wall, wherein,
the front wall and rear wall are joined to, and substantially perpendicular to, the base, and further wherein
the front wall and rear wall are substantially parallel to each other, and further wherein
the front wall and rear wall are joined to, and substantially perpendicular to, the left sidewall and right sidewall, and still further wherein,
the front wall and rear wall each include a top surface, and wherein, the front wall further includes
a window flap area configured to allow a user access to the stored goods,
and wherein
the front wall further includes
a movable window flap located in the window flap area, wherein the movable window flap is movable between a closed position for shipping and an open position for display and retrieval of stored goods wherein the movable window flap comprises:
a bail arm configured to rotate from an open position to a closed position, and vice versa, wherein,
the closed position comprises the bail arm being above the top surface of the front wall, and
the open position comprises the bail arm being recessed within the front wall,
wherein the bail arm comprises:
a bail arm rod configured to substantially inhibit goods from spilling out of the basket;
a first and second bail arm crank member, wherein
the first bail arm crack member is connected to a first end of the bail arm rod, and
the second bail arm crack member is connected to a second end of the bail arm rod;
a first and second bail arm outwardly turned portion, wherein
the first bail arm outwardly turned portion is connected to the first bail arm member, and
the second bail arm outwardly turned portion is connected to the second bail arm member, and wherein
the first and second bail arm outwardly turned portion are configured to recess into the front wall of the basket; and
a first and second bail arm nipple, wherein
the first bail arm nipple is connected to the first bail arm outwardly turned portion, and
the second bail arm nipple is connected to the second bail arm outwardly turned portion, and wherein
the first and second bail arm nipples are configured to rotationally and slidingly engage the basket such that the bail arm can rotate from a closed upper position and slide downwardly and rotationally to an open lower recessed position, and further wherein,
the first and second bail arm nipples are further configured to rotationally and slidingly engage the basket such that the bail arm can rotate from an open lower position and slide upwardly and rotationally to a closed upper position.
2. The basket according to claim 1 , wherein the bail arm rod comprises:
a plurality of bail arm knobs configured to allow a user to grip the bail arm and rotate it upwardly or downwardly.
3. The basket according to claim 1 , wherein the bail arm is configured to recess substantially wholly within an outer perimeter of the basket.