US904026A - Basket. - Google Patents

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A. A. STYBRS. BASKET.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 25, 1907.

904,026. Patented Nov. 17,1908.

n4: nomus PETERS Cm, WASMINGIDN, n. c.

ABRAHAM A. STYERS, OF GLEMMONS, NORTH CAROLINA.

BASKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 17, 1908.

Application filed April 25, 1907. Serial No. 370,314.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM A. STYERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Clemmons, in the county of Forsyth and State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Baskets; and I do hereby 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.

This invention relates to baskets, and particularly to baskets designed from their formation for use in the picking and handling of tobacco leaves.

An object of the invention is to provide a basket of the class embodying improved trussing and staying means, and improved form of hoop or rim about the edge.

Vith these and other objects in view the invention comprises certain novel construetions, combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings :Figure 1 a bottom plan view of the improved basket. Fig. 2 is a transverse, sectional view of the improved basket shown in inverted position and taken on line 22 of Fig. 1.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The improved basket forming the subjectmatter of this application comprises a rim 10 provided with a groove or furrow 11 within which said furrow are inserted the ends, as 12, of a plurality of transverse hoops or splits 13 interwoven after the usual method of basket manufacture.

The ends 12 of the splits inserted within the single rim 10 are secured in any approved manner as by means of nails or rivets 1 f driven or otherwise inserted through the sides of the rim spaced upon opposite sides of the furrow and through the extremities of the said splits.

The corners of the rim 12 are preferably rounded as at 15 and from said corners diagonal braces 16 extend upon the exterior or bottom surface of the basket while similar braces 17 extend diagonally from corner to corner within the basket.

To further strengthen the parts of the basket subjected to the greatest strain, and particularly the hand holds 19, auxiliary strips 13 are interwoven between the two outer splits 13 with their ends engaged within the furrow 11 in the manner similar to the splits 13 so that the outer edge of the basket is reinforced entirely around.

Particular stress is laid upon the formation of the rim with the groove 11 therein, as by its employment, the rim of the basket is integral presenting a comparatively smooth surface to the hand of the operator and to tear the leaves of the tobacco to a minimum degree. Stress is also laid upon the reinforcing or auxiliary split 13 by which the edges of the basket and the hand-holds are reinforced and. strengthened without changing the general nature of the open-work features of the basket.

\Vhile the rim 10 is shown in Fig. 2 as beveled to be narrower at the top, it is to be understood that such feature may be varied as found desirable to make the rim with parallel sides or even wider at the top than at the bottom.

The splits employed in the manufacture of this basket are first rived from any suitable wood, splitting the splits with the grain of the wood and then shaving and drawingthem down to the proper size and thickness, thus making a split which will not crack in bending owing to being made in accordance with the grain of the wood and a safer and more durable basket than is produced when the splits are sawed in some places against the grain, which is the general practice.

lVhat I claim is z--- 1. In a basket, a rim provided with a furrow, splits having their opposite ends inserted in the furrow and extending transversely across the basket, and brace splits secured at their ends to the rim and extending diagonally across the basket above and below the first mentioned splits.

2. In a basket, a rim provided with a furrow, splits having their opposite ends inserted in the furrow and extending transversely across the basket, and brace splits secured at their ends to the sides of the rim and extending diagonally of the basket and above and below the first mentioned splits.

3. In a basket, a rim, splits secured at. their ends to the rim and extending transversely of the basket, certain of the strips J having their ends terminated short of the rim and secured to intersecting ones of the splits so as to afford hand-holds, and auxiliary splits secured in place between the outer pair of the said intersecting splits at each side of the basket.

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

ABRAHAM A. sTY'ERsi lVitnesses i JOSEPH E.- ALEXANDER, JOHN XV HALL

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