US350376A - Basket-cover - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

J. MARVIL. BASKET COVER.

No. 350,376. Patented OGt. 5, 1886.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSHUA H. MARVIL, OF LAUREL, DELAWARE.

BASKET-COVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,376, dated October 5,1886.

Application filed August 19, 1886. Serial No. 211,821. (No model.)

To alZ'whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I,JosHUA H. MARVIL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Laurel, in the county of Sussex and State of Delaware, have invented new and useful Improvements in Covers for Fruit-Baskets, of which the fol lowing is a specification.

The object of the present invention is to provide a strong, neat, and light cover for fruit baskets, which is so constructed that when not in use a series of covers can be nested together or packed one within the other, so as to take up comparatively little space in storage or transportation, and thus obtain decided advantages over covers which require to be tied together or must be-loosely shipped.

The invention consists in a cover which is formed of a series of slats, blocks, and fastening means, constructed and arranged in the manner hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a fruit-basket provided with my improved cover. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the cover removed from the basket. Fig. 3 shows two covers nested together.

The reference- numerals 1 and 2 designate four sheets, strips, or pieces, which are of auniform size or length, and are so shaped and secured together as to form a frame of an octagonal shape. This latter form is given to the frame by cutting off each end of the strips or slats 1 and 2 tea square miter, or, in other words, cutting off said pieces obliquely and matching and securing them tOg6l3h61,S0 as to form the aforesaid octagonal frame. Blocks 3, running parallel with the mitered ends of the frame, are. secured to the under side of parallel bottom strips or slats, 1. Nails or other means are used for securing the blocks and the respective slats comprising the frame, and, as seen in Fig. 2, the blocks 3 extend diagonally across the slats and have their outer faces flush with the mitered portions of the frame. The aforesaid slats 1 and 2 constitute a border-fran1e, as has been stated, and the middle of this frame is slatted across or covbeing clinched or bent down. on the top surfaces of the slats 2. These wires 6 are passed through the divided rim of the basket, and are bent up around the outer hoop of such rim, so as to cause the blocks 3 to be firmly pressed down upon the rim of the basket and hold in place upon the same until such time as the wires are straightened by hand to release the A cover constructed as shown is very easily and cheaply made, and is neat in appearance, and by reason of the presence of the cornerblocks it is raised sufficiently far above the basket-rim to allow the basketto be heaped and its contents to be well exposed.

Another great advantage inherent in my cover is that when it is not in use it can be nested with a seriesof others and made into a compact package, taking up comparatively little space, and resulting in a saving of return-freights when the baskets and covers are returned to the shipper. It will be apparent that this nesting is made easy by the mitered corners of the frame and the blocks located thereat, and, referring to Fig. 3, it will be seen that the end slats, 1 2, of one cover lie in close contact with the inner sides of a cover located beneath, and hence it follows that a series of covers will be held together by friction alone, and that no binding devices are required to prevent the displacement of a series of nested covers during transportation or handling.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1'. A cover for fruit-baskets, comprising an octagonal border-frame, one or more slats extending across said border-frame, and blocks running parallel with four alternate sides of said border-frame and secured to the under side thereof, substantially as described.

2. A cover for fruit-baskets, consisting of two pairs of parallel slats having mitered ends and secured together to form an octagonal frame, one or more cross -slats, the cornerblocks, and fastening-wires extending from two diamctricallyopposite corner-blocks, substantiall y as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSHUA H. MARVIL.

Witnesses HARVEY F. MARVIL, J. DALLAS MARVIL.

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