Patent ID: 8617177

Claim:
A wire basket comprising: several wire strands that extend between a front end of the wire basket and a rear end of the wire basket to define an orbital shape formed from one or more wire segments of the wire strands, and a fixing disc element coupled with the wire strands at the front end of the wire basket to form a front closure of the wire basket, wherein the fixing disc element has at least a first through-opening, a second through-opening, a third through-opening, and a fourth through-opening; wherein at least a first of the wire strands is formed from a first wire segment that is looped through the first of the through-openings of the fixing disc element along a path extending from the rear end of the wire basket forward through the fixing disc element to form a first U-shaped deflection that is looped through the second of the through-openings of the fixing disc element along a path extending from the fixing disc element to the rear end of the wire basket; wherein at least a second of the wire strands is formed from a second wire segment that is looped through the third of the through-openings of the fixing disc element along a path extending from the rear end of the wire basket forward through the fixing disc element to form a second U-shaped deflection that is looped through the fourth of the through-openings of the fixing disc element along a path extending from the fixing disc element to the rear end of the wire basket; wherein the first and second U-shaped deflections are disposed on a distal side of the fixing disc element at the front end of the wire basket, and the first and second U-shaped deflections extend without intersecting in substantially parallel longitudinal planes.