US259266A

US259266A - Cover foe baskets

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Publication number: US259266A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1882-06-06
Anticipated expiration: 1899-06-06

Description

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O 0 e W. R. BOERNER.

. COVER FOR BASKETS.

No. 259,266. Patented June 6, 1882.

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NHED STATES WUNIBALD It. BOERNEB, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GOTTHOLD FRED BINDER, OF SAME PLACE.

COVER FOR BASKETS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 259,266, dated June 6, 1882.

Application filed February 16, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WUNIBALD R. Bonn- NER, of the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain Improvements in Covers for Baskets, of which the. following is a specification.'

The object of my invention is to provide a cover for baskets, boxes, barrels, and like receptacles for sugar, crackers, fruits, and other articles which may be exhibited to the view of customers in and about markets and stores, such cover to be' provided with a'cheap and simple latching device, and be made of wirecloth, wire-gauze, or wire-netting, or slats of any suitable material, and having a suitable frame, so that it will protect the contents of the vessel against pilferers, and at the same time render them so fully visible that customers may judge of their character and quality without removing the cover. I have accomplished that object by means of the cover and latching device hereinafter described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a perspective from a point above of a cover and a part of the rim of a basket or barrel, showing the ear 0 extended through the handle B of the basket and latched in position; and Fig. 2, a plan ofthrough the small loops or rings 0 c, which confine and guide their motion,and their extremities are bent into eyes i, to inclose and slide upon two adjacent wires, m, of the cover, extending across the same, as shown, so that when unlatched the ear (3 can be run into and out of the handle B of the containing vessel at pleasure.

The latch H is made of a single piece of wire, bent into the form shown, with eyes L (No model.)

upon the ends to inclose one of the wires, W, extending at right angles to the ones upon which the ear 0 slides, so that it will turn freely back and forth to fasten or unfasten the ear 0, and at its free end it is provided with a loop, D, which, when the ear is to be latched, is brought down between the wires upon which the ear 0 is mounted with force enough to spring them asunder a little, so that they will grasp it between them with sufficient force to hold it in place as required, and the wire is so bent at the points L L on either side that when it is in position, as shown in Fig. 1, and an attempt is made to slide the ear G inward, the points L L act as stops and abut directly 6 5 against the eyes ion the two ends of the wire composing ear 0 and hold the ear in position. By turning the latch back, as itis shown to be in Fig. 2, the ear 0 will be free to move inward.

In the drawings the cover is shown to bein a circular form, corresponding with the form of the contaiuingvessel,upon the rim of which it rests, and flat; but it is obvious thatit may be dome-shaped, and that my improved cover may be adapted to a vessel having three or more sides, as well as to one having a circular form, and, moreover, upon a great many kinds of such receptacles varying in both form and material; and also the form of the ear 0 may be varied to suit the requirements of the containing vessel.

What I claim as myinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The movable ear 0, having the two ends of the wire of which it is composed bent nearly 8 straight, and their ends bent into eyes 6 around wires m and guided by rings 0, adapted to slide back and forth and fasten and unfasteu the cover, substantially as described.

2. The latching device H, hinged to the crosswire V by the eyes L at one end and having the loop D and the two stops L at the other end, in combination with and adapted to lock the movable ear 0 in position in the handle of the containing vessel when required, substan- 5 tially as described.

WUNIBALD R. BOERNER.

Witnesses:

J. G. HURZAGH, J N0. V. HAIR.