Abstract: A sound rectangular parallelepiped structure having 12 edges and being comprised of a wire lattice having sound absorbing material housed therein, said lattice having longitudinal wires and transverse wires which cross over each other at a plurality of locations, the longitudinal and transverse wires being fixedly interconnected to each other at at least a majority of said plurality of locations causing the structure to be inherently stable, a wire being located at each of said edges of the structure and the spacing between the wires in at least one direction of said lattice being the same as the thickness of the structure.

Abstract: Basket for stacking in or on top of another identical basket comprising a bottom and side walls, said side walls being substantially vertical and assembled from a number of rod-like elements obliquely upstanding from said bottom to the plane of the basket bottom.