US1673076A - Hamper handle - Google Patents

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June 12, 1928. 1,673,076

s. H. HUNT HAMPER HANDLE Filed April 9. 1927 Patented June -12, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SYLVESTER HENRY HUNT, OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR TO FARMERS MANU- FACTURING COMPANY, OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, A CORPORATION OF VIRGINIA.

HAMPER HANDLE.

Application filed April 9, 1927. Serial No. 182,377.

serve, when the cover is detached, as a sturdy handle for the basket, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the drawing- Fig. l is a perspective View of a portion of a basket showing my inventipn applied thereto;

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the annexed drawing by reference-characters, 5 designates the usual stave or splint wall of the basket, whose upper edge is clamped between a pair of hoops 6 by nails in the usual manner. The cover is likewise constructed in the usual manner in that it includes a hoop 7 and slats 8 fastened to the top edge of the hoop 7, one of the slats extending beyond the hoop to en gage the handle.

The handle is constructed of a. single piece of wire. bent to form the handle-loop 9 (which rests upon the topedge of the slat 8) and two depending legs which are permanently attached to the body hoop 6. These legs each consist of a straight depending part 10. an inwardly-extending part 11 which lies upon the top edge of the double hoop 6, a depending part 12 lying against the inner face of the inner one of the hoops 6, an outwardly-extending part 13 which extends through the two hoops and the intermediate stave, and a terminal part 14 which extends upwardly and lies against the outer face of the outer hoop of the parts 10 and 11, The end parts 14 are clamped hard against the outer face of the outer hoop so as thus to bind the intermediate parts of the hoops and the stavesin a strong loop formed by the parts 11, 12, 13 and 14. By having the terminal parts 14 on the outside, I avoid the danger of this end-portion bruising the fruit or vegetables packed in the hamper. The parts 11, lying upon the top edges of the body hoops, afford a solid bearing for the cover-hoop 7.wl1en the same is clamped down by the slat 8 being insertedunder the handle-loop 9.

It will be understood, of course, that, as usual, one of these wire handles will be arranged at the other side of the hamper.

What I claim as new is:

In .combination with a basket'having a hoop structure at its rim embodying two hoops clamped upon the intermediate staves, and a cover embodying a hoop and a slat having its end extended, a combined coverfaste'ner-and-handle consisting of a handleloop adapted to engage over the extended slat andtwo depending legs each of which bends inwardly to lie upon the upper edge of the hoop structure. then downwardly to lie against the inner face of the inner hoop structure, then outwardly through the two hoops and intermediate staves and finally upwardly to lie against the outer face of the outer hoop, the hoop structure being solidly clamped in the loop thus formed in each leg.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature.

SYLVESTER HENRY HUN T..

6, this upwardly-extendmg end terminating near the juncture

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