Patent ID: 8080295

Claim:
A hollow plastic article, which comprises: a hollow blow molded plastic article having a wall with an inside wall portion and an outside wall portion, said outside wall portion including a body portion and a handle portion; wherein a part of the outside wall portion has a blow molded slip resistant surface with increased coefficient of friction relative to the remainder of the outside wall portion to provide an improved gripping surface on said article, the blow molded slip resistant surface blow molded with the blow molding of the outside wall portion of the wall of the container; wherein the handle portion is blow molded and hollow, ends of the handle portion connect to the body portion at two vertically spaced portions of the body portion, and the handle portion is spaced from the body portion to provide a horizontally-extending pass through area that is beneath at least a portion of the handle and is between a portion of the handle and an adjacent portion of the body portion, said pass through area comprising an open portion extending horizontally from one side of the handle completely through to the opposing side of the handle, said handle having a handle outerside surface and a handle underside surface spaced from the article body portion, and wherein said slip resistant surface extends over the handle outerside surface and at least in part over the handle underside surface to permit one to grasp the handle slip resistant surface on the handle outerside surface and underside surface.