US165417A - Improvement in grain-baskets - Google Patents

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H.'0. JONES.

Grain-Baskets. No. 165,417. Patentedjuly13,l875.

N. PETERS. FHOTO-LITHOGRAPNEB. WASHINGTON D. C

UN TED STATES PATENT Qrrron.

HORACE O. JONES, OF DOWAGIAC, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN GRAIN-BASKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 165,417, dated July 13, 1875; application filed April 8,1875.

CASE H.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HORACE O. JONES, of Dowagiac, in the county of Cass and State of Michigan, have invented an Improvement in Stave-Baskets; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specificatiom'in which- I Figure 1 is a horizontal section, in the line 00 x of Fig. 2, of a stave-basket constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same in the line y y of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a face view of a portion of one of the staves formed with upper splint extension. I

My invention consists in both an inside and outside series of staves, ofv full width, which extend upward from the bottom of the basket only to or near the upper edges of the middle hoops, and from this point extend up in form of narrow splints to or near the upper edges of the rim hoops of the basket, in combination with splints interwoven horizontally withsaid splint extensions of the inner and outer series of staves.

In the drawings of the stave-basket represented, AA are the rim-hoops B B, handles; D D, outside and inside bottom hoops; E E, staves; c d, splint extensions of the staves, and a 1) horizontal interwoven splints. The splint extensions of the staves are formed by reducing the width of the staves from about the middle hoops to their upper ends, as shown in Fig. 3. The horizontal splints are interwoven with the vertical splint extensions in the whole space which is between the rim and middle hoops, the manner of weaving being the same as is practiced in making ordinary splint-baskets.

The construction of stave-baskets in the manner I have set forth greatly reduces their weight and cost, and when compared with regard to strength with ordinary splint-baskets will be found much firmer and stronger than splint extensions, but not to form the up per part of a stave-basket of the ordinary construction; and, further, the horizontal splints may be made out of cheap lumber, which will not answer for staves.

My invention is applicable to stave-baskets with any style of bottoms, and which have that portion of their body which is between the middle and bottom hoops made of staves of the full width and lapped in the usual manner. In the drawing the bottom portions of the staves are shown confined together, centrally, by a washer, F, fastened in place by a rivet. But if the ends of the staves are cut off, as indicated by the dotted lines s 8, this washer is dispensed with, and the inner series ofstaves are terminated inside of the inner bottom hoop D.

I am aware of B. F. Tuthills patent, dated June 27, 1871, and, therefore, do not claim anything shown in said patent but That I do claim is Astai e-basket, as herein set forth, made up of horizontal splints and inner and outer staves, the upper ends of both the inner and outer staves being reduced to splints between the middle and the rim hoops, all combined substantially as and for the purpose described.

HORACE O. JONES. Witnesses:

J 0s. B. CLARKE, MARY A. JoNEs.

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