Deborah J Cross

US Patent:

63219298, Nov 27, 2001

Filed:

Jul 6, 1999

Appl. No.:

9/348223

Inventors:

Benjamin S. Weshler - Old Westbury NY
Deborah Ann Cross - Atlanta GA

Assignee:

The Coco-Cola Company - Atlanta GA

International Classification:

B65D 136

US Classification:

220555

Abstract:

A shopping basket has four walls, a bottom and handles for allowing the basket to be carried, and one wall of the basket is provided with a section that projects either outwardly from or inwardly into the shopping basket and is adapted to serve as a receptacle for a bottle or can. This projecting section is integrally formed with the shopping basket wall, is cylindrically shaped with a radius slightly larger than that of a typical can or bottle and has a flat bottom retaining wall so that it is suited to hold securely an open, fluid-filled can or bottle without spilling its contents. Thus, a shopper using the shopping basket will easily be able to drink from a can or bottle and then place it within the receptacle formed from the shopping basket wall, removing it and replacing it as desired, so that the shopper can conveniently and selectively shop and drink from the can or bottle as desired. The walls of the basket and of the section are slightly sloped outward in order to enable more than one basket to be stacked one within another.