US254236A - phipps - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

w. PHIPPS.

BASKET.

Patented Feb. 28,1882.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFieE.

WILLIAM PHIPPS, on NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

BASKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,236, dated February 28, 1882,

0 Application filed January 12, 1882. (No model.)

'To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM PHIPPS, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Baskets, fully described and represented in the following specification and the aecom pan yin g drawings, forming a part of the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in meat-baskets; and it consists in the construction herein shown and described.

In the drawings annexed, Figure 1 is a plan of a basket constructed with my improvements. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same, and Fig. 3 is a side view. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a corner bracket or brace. Fig. 5 is a plan showing an alternative mode of construction for the stiffening-bars, and Fig. 6 is a view of a detail of the invention.

The class of baskets to which my invention relates consist in a receptacle of rectangular form and exceptional weight and strength, the

smallest baskets of the kind weighing about eight pounds, and the largest ones being adapted to carry half a ton of meat at once.

Various devices have been employed to stiffen the rim of the receptacle by which the weight is supported when the basket is lifted, among others the wrapping of the frame with hoop-iron,.instead of the splints employed in lighter baskets.

All the devices heretofore used have failed in durability, because the inner and outer bands composing the rim have never been drawn together by the means employed with sufficient force, and have thus failed to clamp the upper ends of the splints of which the sides or body of the basket was composed. The various bindings of wood and iron and the insertion of nails through the entire rim have proved ineffective in clamping the body between the inner and outer bands of the rim, because by its construction each band was first fitted to the body loosely, and was prevented from moving freely toward the other whenever its ends were covered by the binding or penetrated by a nail. It is obvious that in order to clamp the body firmly the inner hoop must be expanded or the outer one contracted, and that neither could yield in the required manner after its ends had been fastened and the dimensions of the band thus To overcome these diffiening-bar to each of the sides or ends of the basket,in'side the frame, and clamp the bar and top frame together with rivets and burrs. When using the stiffening-bars upon two opposite sidesof the frame only I insert them before riveting in a peculiar manner, so as to clamp those sides of the frame to which the bars are not applied.

The nature ofmyimprovemen ts will be understood by reference to the drawings, in which- A is the body of the basket, composed of splintsaa, woven together in the ordinary manner.

B is the band usually applied to the top edge of the basket upon the outside; 0, the hand applied to the inside.

D are the stiffening-bars, shown applied to the two long sides of the basket in Fig. 1 and one of the legs of the bracket, and carried down the sides and under the bottom, so as to materially support the latter. Two such straps are shown in Figs. 1 and 3 at the two ends of the basket, and when the bottom is provided with cleats, extending from end to end, in'the usual manner, it is obvious that-such straps tend to support the whole bottom as it rests upon the cleats.

To secure afirm hold upon the top frame,the straps are shown in Fig. 2 as folded over the top edge of the body A and inner band, C, and the bent end turned down inside the basket and secured to the" band outside the body by rivets e.

If preferred,the end may be passed through some opening in the splints and riveted directly to the strap, as shown at e in Fig. 6.

The corner-brackets are applied to theframe to make the latter more rigid, and consist of bent or cast angle-pieces, secured in the cor- 11ers by rivets 0, having burrs (I placed over their ends before riveting, to secure a more durable hold upon the wood and to extend the bearing of the point over as great a surface as the head.

The stifi'ening-bars D are preferably inserted into the frame after the outer band,B, isjoined' at its ends, so as to be firm and unchangeable as to its size, and the inside frame has been loosely fitted to the body and placed with it inside the outer band. The inner band, being unavoidably made with one or two splices, s, is capable of more or less expansion under pressure; and to join it strongly against the outerband before riveting, and thus clamp the body firmly between the two, I make the stiffening-bars D quite long, so that they have to be inserted diagonally, as shown in dotted lines at D in Fig. 5, and force them by strong pressure into their destined place. When fitting bars to the four sides, as shown in Fig. 5, I force two of them into their place first, as the long side ones, and then force the others between them at the ends, so as to press them out strongly. When thus braced the basket may be finished without any separate inside band, as O, the four bars being a substitute for it of very superior strength.

When ready for riveting the frame is clamped in a vise to press the combined parts into the closest contact, and the rivets Z) are then inserted in holes drilled in the frameand secured permanently in their places by burrs b and by heading over the ends. By such construction a frame almost as strong as iron is produced, but of convenient lightness, and so attached to the body of the basket as to remain firm so long as the body lasts. By the addition ofthe corner-brackets greater firmness and durability are secured in the larger baskets, and the lateral parts are rigidly joined to the ends.

I am aware that nails have been driven through the frame of abasketand clinched; but the function of such nails is different from that of the rivets I use, both in respect to the hearing secured by the head and burr of the rivet upon the wood and their power to retain the parts in such close contact as I secure by my method of manufacture before applying the rivets.

If nails are inserted in the holes I provide for the rivets, and are clinched in the ordinary manner, they are soon pulled out by the expansion of the wood to the shape it held before clamping in the vise.

By the ordinary mode of manufacture nails are often inserted in frames composed of two bands separated quite a considerable space more than the thickness of the body to be clamped. It results that no grasp is had upon the body, which soon tears away from the nails, while my frame is held permanently clamped upon the upper edge of the body by the rivets held in place by their burrs.

It will be seen from the above that the stiffening-bars, held, as described, by the rivets, form the essential feature of the invention, and that I also use them at pleasure by a peculiar mode of fitting to press the parts of the frame into close mutual contact to grasp the rim of the body.

I therefore claim my invention in the following manner:

1. In a meat-basket, the combination of the body A, band B, and stifiening-bars D, secured to the said band and body by rivets b and burrs b, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The combination, with the body A and band B, of four stifiening-bars, D, cut and forcedinside the bandin the manner described, and secured to the band and body by rivets b and hurts I), as herein shown and described.

3. In combination with the body A, band B, attached to its upper edge, and corner-brackets E, secured to the inner or outer corners as described, the strap F, secured to the corners of the basket and extended to or under the bottom, as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesscs.

WILLIAM PHIPPS.

Witnesses:

(J. G. HERRIeK, WM. F. D. CRANE.

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