US887411A - Basket. - Google Patents

Description

N0. 8873.411. PATENTED MAY 12, 1908. 0. E. MILLER.

BASKET.

APPL IOATION FILED MAY14 ,1906.

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COLONEL ELLSWORTH MILLER, OF EDGERTON, OHIO, ASSIG-NOR OF ONE-HALF TO FREDERICK .llIlQl/EBRAND, OF PEltRYSBURG, OHIO.

BASKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 12, 1908.

Application filed May 14, 1906. Serial No. 316,664.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, COLONEL ELLswou'rn MILLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Edgerton, in the county of lVilliams and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Baskets and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and ligures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to baskets and is designed to furnish an article of this character which shall be strong, durable, light, and cheap.

My invention is also designed to provide a basket which shall dispense with the usual basket-material and which shall be woven out of stout strips of paper, strawboard, or the like.

My invention is further designed to furnish a handle for a basket which may be disposed in such fashion as to permit the convenient nesting of the baskets for transportation, and which, in its mode of attachment, furnishes means for strengthening and stiffening the basket.

I attain these objects by means of the devices and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and shown, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my basket, and Fig. 2, a transverse sectional elevation of my handle, hereinafter referred to, showing the manner of placing the same in and out of operative position.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in both figures.

In the drawings, 11 are stri )s or ribbons of tough strong paper of suitable width and length. These strips, or the paper from which they are cut, may, if desired, be

treated with parallin or other waterproofing substance and they may be, for the sake of ornamentation, of various colors. These strips are woven in the usual manner into any desired basket form. The upper edge of the basket is reinforced on its inner side by sup plemental strip 2 and on its outer side by supplemental strip These reinforcing strips may be secured to the basket and to each other by means of stout rivets or eyelets 1, or equivalent devices.

5-5 are wires woven into the body of the basket and spaced symmetrically a art, as illustrated in the dra\\"ings. Each of the extremities of each of these wires projects upwardly beyond the margin of the basket, the projecting part being turned back upon itself to form a hook or eye (3. Thus these hooks or eyes are formed in pairs at opposite sides of the basket.

77 are wire bails, the extremities of which are formed as hooks 8 and are engaged respectively with the corres )onding hooks or eyes 6. Secured to one of tlie bails, midway of its length, is a handle 9 composed of a rectangular sheet metal blank one of the mar gins of which is crimped loosely around the bail 7 as at 10, thus forming an eye or pivot upon which the part S) may be turned freely. The handle is formed as a cylinder and has a longitudinal opening 11 on one side, one of the margins of the opening being connected with the eye 10 by the llat radial portion 12, as clearly illustrated in both figures of the drawings. The bail 7 to which the handle is pivoted is brought into proper position with the opening 11 presented to the opposed bail which is slipped laterally into the opening 11 of the handle, as illustrated by the dotted lines in Fig. 2. The handle is now turned as indicated by the arrow and is caused to describe a complete revolution upon its pivotal support on bail 7. This movement of the handle brings the bail 7 into the closed angle of the part 12 and the cylindrical wall of the handle, as illustrated in Fig. 1. Now the two bails are locked securely to the handle in such fashion that they cannot become accidentally displaced. When the handles are not to be used or when the basket is to be nested with other baskets for transportation, the reverse movement of the handle 9 will disengage the bail 7 so that the two balls may be thrown out of the way, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1. By this construction it will be seen that the basket is supported from four points upon the ends of stout wires which embrace the basket, and that by this arrangement of the handle and bails and the wires 0 the basket i is given stability and is given added strength.

claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of said bails and having in its side a ongituis dinal opening adapted for lateral engage- A basket comprising a series of strips ment with the other of said bails.

5 Woven into basket form, reinforcing strips In testimony whereof I affiX my signature 15 for the edge of the basket, a pair of Wire mernin presence of two Witnesses. bers Woven into the bottom and sides of the C. ELLSl/VORTH MILLER. basket and having upwardly projecting ends Witnesses: which are turned back upon themselves, a PREsToN V. ROSE,

Having described my invention, What I said pair of Wires, a handle pivoted u on one 0.pair of bails engaged with the extremities of SAMUEL FRITZ.

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