| 摘要 |
<p>It is common practice by the grocery trade ( Super Markets ect.) in the retailing of soft fruits and berries to use open faced basket containers, losses due to customer " sampling " are a ever growing problem, this invention endeavers to mitigate the problem by the introduction of a two part self locking basket container; the cap or basket cover having a series of arrow like teeth projecting at even spaced intervals around the edge, at the base of the teeth a ledge projecting at right angles to the wall of the cap I. stabilizes and add's substance to the teeth, the lower basket container having a smooth finished rim the said rim to fit snuggly inside the teeth of the cap so that the teeth slide smoothly down the outer wall of the rim on the basket container to enter slots provided for them in a matching ledge on the basket container, the slots are smaller longitudinally than the arrow head's of the teeth so that the head is constricted as it is forced through the slot aperture expanding back to size as it exits, the cap is thus locked to the basket container and the contents are secured, to 2. open the basket container a tear strip is incorporated in the cap, the tear strip must be cut free in order to gain accoss to the contents.</p> |
