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A mold for making a bucket having a pivoted handle. The mold has cooperating mold parts defining cavities for molding a bucket and slotted bail retention means. The mold parts are movable only linearly to release the molded product.

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In a mold assembly for making a bucket having a pivotable handle secured at opposed sides of said bucket plus integrally molded handle handle retention chambers, said handle terminating at each end in an enlargement positioned within one of said handle retention chambers, said handle retention chamb

In a mold assembly for making a bucket having a pivotable handle secured at opposed sides of said bucket plus integrally molded handle handle retention chambers, said handle terminating at each end in an enlargement positioned within one of said handle retention chambers, said handle retention chambers each being defined by walls having a first slot opening extending thereacross through which said handle extends, said first slot opening being of insufficient size to allow removal of the enlargement from the handle retention chamber, said mold assembly comprising openable and closable first and second mold halves defining a first molding chamber between them of the shape of said bucket and including handle retention chamber-defining means, said means including opposed, movable mold members capable of end-to-end abutment in a molding position, and a spaced relation in a mold-open position to permit removal of a bucket molded therein, said mold members defining inner molding chambers formed between them in their end-to-end abutting relation for molding said enlargements on the handle ends, and gates means communicating between the first and inner molding chambers, said mold members also having means for forming said first slot in buckets molded in said mold halves, and means for moving only in substantially linear motion said mold members between said end-to-end abutment and spaced relation.