COVER FOR BASKET-TYPE CONTAINER AND COMBINATION THEREOF

A cover for use with a marketing container of the basket-type for holding perishable agricultural products. The cover includes a bottom wall joined to four side walls. The side walls incline and diverge toward the bottom open end of the cover for seating over the upper end portion of the container. Means are provided on the cover to form a cooperative locking engagement with the container, and the cover is formed of a relatively rigid material permitting some flexing of the side walls so that the locking means may be readily engaged with, and disengaged from, the container. In one embodiment the locking means comprises inwardly projecting indentations formed in the cover side walls for overlapping engagement with the container rim. In another embodiment the locking means includes vertical indentations in the side walls formed with horizontal slots positioned above inclined surfaces. In another embodiment the locking means includes slots or openings formed in the four corners of the cover together with inwardly projecting locking lips integral with a peripheral rim on the cover. In another embodiment the locking means includes T-shaped slots formed in the four corners of the cover.