US586342A

US586342A - Wire basket

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Publication number: US586342A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1897-07-13
Anticipated expiration: 1914-07-13

Description

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A. J. MUNGER.

WIRE BASKET. No. 586,342. Patented July 13,1897.

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I ANDREW J. HUNGER, "or ANT i'ER P, ouio.

WERE BASKET,

SEECIEICATZON forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,342, dateelJuly 13, 18 97. Expplica'tion filed August 17, l89fifaxial-m 803K337. (1T0 model.)

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Be it known that 1, ANDREW J. HUNGER, a citizen of the United States, residing atAntwerp, in the county of Peulding and State of Ohio,'bave invents certain newand' useful Improvements in "WireBaskets; and I do hereby declare the following" to be a. full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains tonic-ire and use the same.

My invent-ion relates to an improvement in wire basketsg'end is consists of certein'im provements in the construction of the same which makes a. bI zIisli t more rigid and stronger than an ominsry basket.

In the drawings, Figure 1 view'of my basket. Fig.2 is an elevation cf I one of the wires of my basket, showing the manner in which it is bens; Fig; d-isir Side View of the coil at theupper end of-one of the side wires. Fig. l is a. yiew showing Ta.

slightly-different manner of forming the upper ends of these wires.

The object of m y invention is to produce a basket out'of wire which shallbe of such a construct-ion that it may be cheaply formed and when made shall be strong and rigid.

' The wires 13, forming the sides of the basket, are coiled at their upper-ends, as shown in Fig. 3. The coil B is made of such a size as to lie snugly over the hoary wire rim, A. The coil is also made of such a length that itscts as a spacer to keep adjacent wires the proper distance apart.

Between the top and bottom of the basket the side wires are kinked, as shown at C and I). There may be one or more-of these kinks. I prefer two in the ordinary size of the basket. In these kinxs and running around the basketsre wires 0-. side Wires by fine. copper Wire and may in addition be crim'pcdso that they will not slide upon the side wires in either I direction.

These wires G,' which pass entirely around the basket, serve to. determine the diameter of the basket st that point, and consequently "the shape of'the basket.

At the bottom corner of the'bosket the Wires D are iven one or more turns about a large steel wire This wire is united at its ends and forms a. large ring and defines the diameter of the bottom of the basket.

A poris a. sectional,

wires are bound to the tion-of the side wires I) are continued from this point toward the centerof the basketandare given a turn Qbout the central ring 1*. This central. ring F is of comparatively small diameter. r

- teruete side wire 13 should be continued toward the center; The proportion, however, may be made anything desired.

A handle G, which I hsve'shoirn, is made of a stilf'steel wire having smaller wires coiled about the'same end fastcned'to the upper rim of. the. basket by having the central wire thereof coiled one or mo'retimes about the rim'of the basket.

spacing the wires about the, rim of a basket. In this the wire Bis given 2. little more um oue'curii'plcieTufii :iboul the Wire A.- it then given a turn about the same. bears against tbe'iirst turn'of the wire adjacent and serves to hold the two separate. 'lhisform of construction, however, does not make as good appearance-as the other dcsoribed. I

This basket, as described, forms a basket having great'st-ilfness and yet is springy. It possesses great strength snd yet is compare-- tively light. I It cannot-well be broken and willow-wear any form of ooden basket. It

price, all .of the-work-ot bending. the wires being done by simple and cheap machinery.- Having thus described my invention, what Ielaim as new, snddesirc to secure byletiers Potent, is'

' 1. In a wire-basket, the combination of top and bottom rims composed of stiff steel wires coiled about tbetop and bottom rim wires, so that the said coiis may act as spacers for the side wires, said side wires being uniformly kinked at one or more points interwires bound to the same at the kink, substantially as described. I

2. Ina. wire basket, the combination of top and bottom riins composed of stiff steel wires with the side wires, said side wires being so that the said coils may set as spacers for It will ordinarily be sufficient that caclral- I In Fig. 4 I have shown another nnn'ner of mediate their length, and a spacing wire or coiled about the to; and bottom riiu wires,

extends parallel to the Wire A and is then This latter end can be produced at s compsrativelysmail with the side wires, said wires being.

IOOI' the side wires, a portion of said side wires being continued from theioWer-rim wire toward the center, and a' ring in the center of the bottom of the basket around which the ends of said side wires are bent, substantially as described.

bent, substantially as described.

ivires bound to the same sit the kink, a por' :5

tion ofsaid side wires being continued from the lower-rim Wire toward the center, and a ring in the center of the bottom of the basket aroundwhich the ends of said side wires are In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ANDREW J. MU GER.

Witnesses-z J. M. CHORPENING,

W. H. WILKINS.