Patent ID: 7578385

Claim:
A basket-style carrier, comprising: a tubular structure comprising a first side wall and a second side wall; a collapsible bottom wall for at least partially enclosing an end of said tubular structure, said bottom wall comprising a first bottom panel and a second bottom panel, said first bottom panel being hingedly connected to an end edge of said first side wall along a first fold line and said second bottom panel being hingedly connected to an end edge of a second side wall along a second fold line; and at least one gusset structure, comprising: a gusset attaching tab, said gusset attaching tab being secured in a face contacting arrangement with a surface of said tubular structure; and a gusset panel, said gusset panel being hingedly connected to said gusset attaching tab along a third fold line and being hingedly connected to an edge of one of said first bottom panel and said second bottom panel along a fourth fold line; wherein said carrier can toggle back and forth between an erected condition and a collapsed condition, said gusset panel being sized and positioned such that said bottom panels and said tubular structure spring into position when moving between a collapsed condition and an erected condition.