Claims
- 1. A piece of wire mesh to be formed into a fry basket, comprising:
- (a) a first series of strands running in a first direction and a second series of strands running in a second direction generally transverse to said first direction;
- (b) said first series of strands running generally parallel to each other;
- (c) said second series of strands running generally parallel to each other;
- (d) said piece of wire mesh having a generally central zone and a generally marginal zone;
- (e) said piece of wire mesh having top, bottom, and side edges;
- (f) said edges having central and outer portions;
- (g) said first series of strands running generally parallel to said top and bottom edges;
- (h) said second series of strands running generally parallel to said side edges;
- (i) one of said first and second series of strands being spaced to form openings with the other of said first and second series of strands; and
- (j) the openings formed in said central zone of said piece of wire mesh being smaller than the openings formed in said marginal zone thereof, wherein when the wire mesh piece is molded into a basket, the basket has uniform openings throughout the wire mesh.
- 2. The mesh piece of claim 1, wherein:
- (a) the spacing between the strands in said marginal zone is about 16 mm and the spacing between the strands in said central zone is about 8 mm, and said central zone is about 1/4 of the total surface of the wire mesh piece.
- 3. The mesh piece of claim 1, wherein:
- (a) said openings are rectangles and the strands in said marginal zone are spaced apart from about 10 to about 25 mm and the strands in said central zone are spaced apart from about 5 to about 15 mm.
- 4. The mesh piece of claim 1, wherein:
- (a) a plurality of said pieces of wire mesh are interconnected into a strip.
Priority Claims (1)
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Parent Case Info
This is a Request for filing a continuation application under 37 CFR 1.62 of prior application Ser. No. 924,327, filed on 10/29/86 entitled, now abandoned.
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Continuations (1)
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