Improved Combined Case, Skip or Basket and Oot
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Nov., 1899;
Complete Specification Left, 25th July, 1900-Accepted, 29th Sept., 1900
Improved Combined Case, Skip or Basket and Oot,
I, JAMES HECTOR BROOKES-SMITH, of Olrig House, St. Mary Church, South
Devon, in the County of Devon, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention is intended to provide a case, basket, or skip in which wearing
apparel and like articles may be packed when travelling, and that may at the
termination of the journey be converted so as to be employed as a cot for a child.
For the purpose of this invention I prefer to employ a basket such as is used
for the conveyance of parcels by post, said basket being provided with battens
or runners on the underside and preferably having a lid that can be entirely
removed when not required; I fit a socket that is provided with a spring catch
in each end of the aforesaid battens in which to insert feet or legs when the
basket is intended to be used as a cot.
I form said feet or legs of any preferred length one end being provided with a
metallic ferrule, or cap that will fit into the sockets hereinbefore named. When
the basket is to be used as a cot the ends of the legs are retained in the sockets
by a spring catch the point of which enters a hole in the ferrule, and which when
it is required to remove the leg can be withdrawn by pressure of the finger.
Dated this 7th day of November 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION:
Improved Combined Case, Skip or Basket and Oot.
I, JAMES HECTOR BROOKES-SMITH, of Olrig House, St. Mary Church, South
Devon, in the County of Devon, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly.
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention is intended to provide a case, basket, or skip in which wearing
apparel and like articles may be packed when travelling and that may at the
termination of the journey be converted so as to be employed as a cot for a child.
For the purpose of this invention I prefer to employ a basket such as is used
for the conveyance of parcels by post, said basket being provided with battens or
runners on the underside, and having a lid that can preferably be removed
entirely when not required.

page_text: In the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a side view of a basket such as before
named, Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a side view of the
same basket converted into a child's cot by the.application thereto of legs or feet.
Fig. 4 comprises details drawn to an enlarged scale showing the manner in
which the legs are secured to and released from the bottom of the basket. In
these views similar letters refer to similar parts.
1 secure to the bottom of a basket as a batteus having metallic sockets c
fitted therein, in which to place legs as d that are provided with a catch or stud
as e or an equivalent for locking the ends of said legs in the sockets. When the
basket is to be used as a cot the ends of the legs that are provided with the
ferrule e and studs are inserted in. the sockets c said studs passing along the
grooves g: the leg is then turned partly round thereby firmly securing the leg
in the socket: when the legs are required to be detached to re-convert the cot into
a basket the legs can be readily withdrawn from the sockets by turning them
partly round in a reverse direction so that the studs e may pass down the
grooves g. A spring catch may if preferred be employed in place of the studs &¹
for retaining the end of the leg in the socket.
Other forms of legs or feet than the form of leg shown, or rockers, may in like
manner be fitted in the sockets e¹ without departing from the nature of my
invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
The combination with any ordinary case traveller basket or skip of detachable
legs feet or the like by which said case basket or skip may be readily converted
so as to be employed either for the conveyance of luggage when travelling or at
the end of the journey as a cot for a child in the manner substantially as herein-
before described.