Patent ID: 8074852

Claim:
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 bicycle said 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; and a spacer fixedly mounted upon the lower portion of said one side wall of said basket, said spacer having a generally saw-shaped outer surface adapted to receive braces of said luggage rack and maintain said one side wall spaced from said braces.