A collapsible detachable bicycle basket is constructed so as to be easily and readily mountable upon a luggage rack of a bicycle without the use of any threaded fasteners. To facilitate such mounting, the collapsible basket has a pair of spaced hooks attached to the top edge of one side of the baske
A collapsible detachable bicycle basket is constructed so as to be easily and readily mountable upon a luggage rack of a bicycle without the use of any threaded fasteners. To facilitate such mounting, the collapsible basket has a pair of spaced hooks attached to the top edge of one side of the basket and a resilient flexible connector in the form of a loop of bungee cord attached near the bottom of the same side of the basket. The hooks of the basket are receivable over a portion of the deck of the luggage rack and the loop of the bungee cord is attachable to a lower portion of the luggage rack to secure the basket to the luggage rack.
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1. A folding basket adapted to be detachably secured to a luggage rack of a bicycle without the use of any threaded fasteners, said folding basket comprising: a pair of opposed front and back walls, each front and back wall comprising a pair of hingedly interconnected rigid panels;a pair of opposed
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A folding basket adapted to be detachably secured to a luggage rack of a bicycle without the use of any threaded fasteners, said folding basket comprising: a pair of opposed front and back walls, each front and back wall comprising a pair of hingedly interconnected rigid panels;a pair of opposed side walls, each side wall comprising a rigid panel hingedly connected at its opposite ends to one of said front and back walls;a bottom wall comprising a rigid panel, said bottom wall being hingedly connected along one edge to the bottom edge of one of said side wall panels;said basket being adapted to be folded into a flat condition when said bottom wall is folded upwardly into a position parallel said side walls and said front and back walls are collapsed inwardly about a hinge connector between the panels of said front and back walls;said basket having a pair of spaced hooks fixedly secured to one of said side walls adjacent to the top edge of said one side wall, said hooks being adapted to be received over a portion of a luggage rack of a bicyclesaid basket having a resilient connector mounted upon said one side wall of said basket, said resilient connector being adapted to extend between a lower portion of said one side wall of said basket and one of either a lower portion of luggage rack or said bicycle frame so as to pull said one side wall of said basket downwardly to maintain said hooks in engagement with said portion of said luggage rack over which the hooks are adapted to be received; anda spacer fixedly mounted upon the lower portion of said one side wall of said basket, said spacer having an outer surface adapted to receive the braces of said luggage rack and maintain said one side wall spaced from said braces. 2. The folding basket of claim 1 wherein said resilient connector comprises an endless loop of bungee cord. 3. The folding basket of claim 1 wherein each of said panels comprises a rectangularly shaped border wire and a plurality of parallel connector wires extending between opposite sides of said border wires, said connector wires being welded at their ends to said border wires. 4. The folding basket of claim 3 wherein the connector wires of each of said side wall and bottom wall panels has a first plurality of said connector wires extending laterally between opposite sides of said border wires of said side and bottom wall panels and a second plurality of connector wires extending normal to the first plurality of connector wires, said first and second plurality of connector wires being welded at their intersections. 5. The folding basket of claim 1 wherein the basket includes a generally hook-shaped locking clip hingedly connected to the top edge of one of said side walls of said basket, a hooked portion of said locking clip being adapted to be secured over the top edge of the other of said side walls when said basket is collapsed so as to maintain said basket in a collapsed condition. 6. In combination, a bicycle rear luggage rack and a folding basket detachably secured to said rear luggage rack without the use of any threaded fasteners; said rear luggage rack comprising:a generally planar deck section and a brace bracket extending forwardly from said deck section adapted to be secured to the frame of a bicycle;said luggage rack having first and second pairs of converging braces extending downwardly from opposite sides of said deck section of said rack, said first and second pairs of converging braces being adapted to be received over opposite sides of a rear wheel of a bicycle upon which said luggage rack is to be mounted, and each pair of braces having lower ends adapted to be attached to a lower portion of the frame of the bicycle to which the luggage rack is to be mounted;said folding basket comprising:a pair of opposed front and back walls, each front and back wall comprising a pair of hingedly interconnected rigid panels;a pair of opposed side walls, each side wall comprising a rigid panel hingedly connected at its opposite ends to one of said front and back walls;a bottom wall comprising a rigid panel, said bottom wall being hingedly connected along one edge to a bottom edge of one of said side wall panels;said basket being adapted to be folded into a flat condition when said bottom wall is folded upwardly into a position parallel said side walls and said front and back walls are collapsed inwardly about a hinge connector between the panels of said front and back walls;said basket having a pair of spaced hooks fixedly secured to one of said side walls adjacent to the top edge of said one side wall, said hooks being received over a portion of the deck section of the rear luggage rack; andsaid basket having a resilient connector mounted upon said one side wall of said basket, said resilient connector extending between a lower portion of said one side wall of said basket and a lower portion of the braces of the luggage rack so as to pull said one side wall of said basket downwardly to maintain said hooks in engagement with said portion of said deck section of the luggage rack over which the hooks are received; anda spacer fixedly mounted upon the lower portion of said one side wall of said basket, said spacer having an outer surface, the braces of said rear luggage rack being received within indentations of said outer surface of said spacer to maintain said one side wall spaced from said braces and limit movement of said basket relative to said braces. 7. The combination of claim 6 wherein said resilient connector comprises an endless loop of bungee cord. 8. The combination of claim 6 wherein each of said panels comprises a rectangularly shaped border wire and a plurality of parallel connector wires extending between opposite sides of said border wires, said connector wires being welded at their ends to said border wires. 9. The combination of claim 8 wherein the connector wires of each of said side wall and bottom wall panels has a first plurality of said connector wires extending laterally between opposite sides of said border wires of said side and bottom wall panels and a second plurality of connector wires extending normal to the first plurality of connector wires, said first and second plurality of connector wires being welded at their intersections. 10. The combination of claim 6 wherein the basket includes a generally hook-shaped locking clip hingedly connected to the top edge of one of said side walls of said basket, a hooked portion of said locking clip being adapted to be secured over the top edge of the other of said side walls when said basket is collapsed so as to maintain said basket in a collapsed condition. 11. The combination of claim 6 wherein the generally planar deck section of said rear luggage rack comprises a generally rectangularly shaped border wire having an upturned forward end portion. 12. In combination, a bicycle rear luggage rack and a folding basket detachably secured to said rear luggage rack without the use of any threaded fasteners; said rear luggage rack comprising:a generally planar deck section comprising a generally rectangularly shaped border wire having an upturned forward end portion and a brace bracket extending forwardly from said deck section adapted to be secured to the frame of a bicycle;said luggage rack having first and second pairs of converging braces extending downwardly from opposite sides of said deck section of said rack, said first and second pairs of converging braces being adapted to be received over opposite sides of a rear wheel of a bicycle upon which said luggage rack is to be mounted, and each pair of braces having lower ends adapted to be attached to a lower portion of the frame of the bicycle to which the luggage rack is to be mounted;said folding basket comprising:a pair of opposed front and back walls, each front and back wall comprising a pair of hingedly interconnected rigid panels;a pair of opposed side walls, each side wall comprising a rigid panel hingedly connected at its opposite ends to one of said front and back walls;a bottom wall comprising a rigid panel, said bottom wall being hingedly connected along one edge to a bottom edge of one of said side wall panels;said basket being adapted to be folded into a flat condition when said bottom wall is folded upwardly into a position parallel said side walls and said front and back walls are collapsed inwardly about a hinge connector between the panels of said front and back walls;said basket having hooks fixedly secured to one of said side walls adjacent to the top edge of said one side wall, said hooks being received over a portion of the deck section of the rear luggage rack; andsaid basket having a resilient connector mounted upon said one side wall of said basket, said resilient connector extending between a lower portion of said one side wall of said basket and a lower portion of the braces of the luggage rack so as to pull said one side wall of said basket downwardly to maintain said hooks in engagement with said portion of said deck section of the luggage rack over which the hooks are received wherein the generally planar deck section of said rear luggage rack further comprises a generally rectangularly shaped inner frame wire spaced inwardly from the rectangularly shaped border wire and cross wires extending laterally between opposite sides of said border wire of said deck section, said cross wires being welded at their opposite ends to said opposite sides of said border wire of said deck section and welded intermediate of their ends to opposite sides of said rectangularly shaped inner frame wire. 13. The combination of claim 12 wherein upper ends of said pairs of converging braces of said luggage rack are welded to opposite sides of said rectangularly shaped inner frame wire. 14. A folding basket comprising: a pair of opposed front and back walls;a pair of opposed side walls;a bottom wall;said basket being adapted to be folded into a flat condition when said bottom wall is folded upwardly into a position parallel said side walls;said basket having hooks, said hooks being adapted to be received over a portion of a luggage rack of a bicycle;said basket having a resilient connector mounted upon said one side wall of said basket, said resilient connector being adapted to extend between said one side wall of said basket and one of either a luggage rack or a bicycle frame; anda spacer mounted upon the lower portion of said one side wall of said basket, said spacer being adapted to receive braces of said luggage rack and maintain said one side wall of said basket spaced from said braces of said luggage rack. 15. The folding basket of claim 14 wherein said resilient connector comprises an endless loop of bungee cord.
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