USRE2894E - Improved fruit box or basket - Google Patents

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`UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

-..metz Hxvssno'ir NEWARK, ,New JERSEY.

lImprim/'Eu FRUIT-Box osg B AS'K'ET.

Speciication forming part of `Lett-ers Patent No. 15,5l4, dated August l2, 1856 Reissue No. 2,894;A dated :March 10, 186s. I

.To all whom t maylcon'cen: length equal tothe width of the bottom added Be it known that I, JABEZ W.- HAYES, of to the height ofthe two sides. Theveneers, Newarkiu the county of Essex and State of when laid acrosseach other, project at their New J ersey,have invented, made, and applied ends, as seen in Fig. 3, leaving the sides sinto use a certain new and usefullnprovement gle and the bottom double when the portions in Baskets or Boxes forI Holding Berriesor d d d d are bentl up at right angles, or nearly ,other Fruit; and-I do hereby declare the fo1-A softoforrn the box, as seen in Fig. 4.

. lowing to be a correct, full, and clearwdescripf I have shownthe veneer B as. formed with:

tion of the samefreferenoe/being had to fthel` longitudinal incisions c c, 1 f a length to allowannexed drawings; making part of this `speakv :the veneer A to be, introduced,v as illustrated cation, whereinx.

` in-Eig. `3 vso that the'tw'o thicknesses forming Figure 1 is a View vof a veneer adapted tothe the bottdln Imay thereby beheld-together with ofthe second piece of veneer employed in malfi" The sides of the basketor box, when'bent up "ing said basket. Fig. 3..represents the said at right angles, or'nearly so,l to the bottom,

two pieces .of veneer laid across each other; maybe connected together or secured in place and Fig. 4 is a perspective view ofthe box.or by any lconvenient means. I have, however, basket. complete. shown'a cord, e, as passed around the said bx Similar letters denote the same parts. 0r basket, and, entering the notches ata, is pre- The object of this invention is to produce a Vented .from slippingwhenthe box or basket basket or box for berries-for other fruit that; is iuiuse."

is very cheap and easilyhmade, and hence may What Iclaim, and desire tos'ecure by. Letf be sold or given away without charge to the ters Patent, is-

' purchaser ofthe berries or fruit, thereby renv1. A box or basket formed of veneers or deringit unnecessary to trausfer'the fruit from laminas of wood 'laid across each other and lhe box o r basket when sold. turned up to form the sides, so that, nth'e;bot The nature of my saidinvention consists in tom is made of two thicknesses secured toa box or basket formed of two pieces of veneer`- gether, substantially as speciiied, and the sidesl or thin-laminas of wood laid across each otherl -of single thicknesses.

box'orbasket is made of twolthicknesses of tom aud'turned uptoform the sidesin. comsuch Yeneer secured together, and the sides b1 nation with a cord o r its equivalent passing are of youly'one thicknessturned up atright aoundthe sides to holdthefnv .togetherksubi angles, or nearly so, '.t'oHthe bttoma'nd com-" stat'ially-as orth. posed of the end portions ofthe pieces ofveneerk 3. A box .dij basket infwh ,-thateompo'se the bottom. M y invention enwood vforms two fthe sides and one thickness ablesjjne t9 make a .very cheap box or basketl v of the double bottom, siibstantiallyas set forth.

ed' of "great strength, and especially adapted tothe 4before-mentioned,purpos=:s. signature this 18th; day of December, '1867.

The laniin-or pieceslof-vener. A and B are' I `.of a widthcorrespondingnearly to the size of Witnesses:

the-bottom of the' box 'onbaskeq say from two CRAs. HAY

to-i`our inches wide,\mcre orA less, and of 'a- A j JOHN H. FULLER.

JABEZ W. HAYES.

ich onelamina of I' Iu witness 'whereof I hafve hereunto set my

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