An Improved Basket for Textile Factories, Warehouses, and General Purposes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Mar., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 30th Nov., 1899-Accepted, 3rd Mar, 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by JOHANNES MARTIN WILHELM HEETMANN,
12, Antonistrasse, Hamburg, in the Empire of Germany, Basket Manu-
facturer.]
An Improved Basket for Textile Factories, Warehouses, and General
Purposes.
JOHN LILLY PALMER, of Ceylon House, 49, and 51, Eastcheap, London, E.C.,
in the County of Middlesex, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this in-
vention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to construct baskets for textile factories, ware-
houses, and for general purposes, by the use of a metallic frame.
According to my invention I construct a frame of metal, preferably of gal-
vanised or tinned flat iron wire, the ribs being supported round the base and
the rim respectively by metal hoops, preferably covered with split cane or the
like, and upon this frame the basket is built by interlacing cane, peeled wicker,
rush, fibre, rope, or any other material suitable for basket ware.
In order to attach the ends of the ribs to the hoop round the rim I may bend
them inwards and outwards alternately. I may also strengthen the bases by
fastening battens to them with metallic tics. My invention is applicable to
baskets of any shape, size or use.
Dated this Fifteenth day of March 1899.
An Improved Basket for Textile Factories, Warehouses, and General
Purposes.
I, JOHN LILLY PALMER, of Ceylon House, 49, and 51, Eastcheap, London, E.C.,
in the County of Middlesex, Merchant, 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 consists of a hamper or basket the frame or skeleton of which
is composed of bands, or rods, of metal whereby the baskets are rendered extra-
ordinarily durable and in consequence offer very special advantages in com-
parison with those of ordinary construction and in general use.
The accompanying drawing illustrates a method of carrying out the invention;
Figure 1 being a vertical section through the basket, and Figure 2 shewing
the bottom of the basket.

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The bands or rods a of which the frame-work or skeleton is composed are of
more or less broad or flat iron, or rods, or wires of iron, aluminium or other suit-
able metal; and are interlaced with cane, peeled wicker, rush, fibre, rope, or
similar material b. The metallic rods offer a great resistance to pressure and
blows; ut in some cases they may be still further strengthened by imparting to
the metal a curved, half round, corrugated, or other bent form in transverse
section. Compared with the use of wire or round iron for the same purpose,
the flat iron framework or skeleton has the advantage that it occupies more space
in the width of the walls; and flat sided articles made in this way possess a
great power of resistance.
Baskets made in accordance with this invention may be furnished with either
a metal or cane ring e, and the metal framework a is carried up from the bottom
and lapped round the said ring which in some cases may form the handles d.
As a means of strengthening the bottom, several wooden or iron supporting.
rails or laths are advantageously attached thereto, as shewn in full. lines in
Figure 1 and in dotted lines in Figure 2, e being wooden laths attached to the
bottom of the basket by wires f which are preferably passed through holes
formed in the thickness of the lath e as shewn.
When the baskets are to be exposed to wet or damp the iron work is prefer-
ably galvanised, tinned or otherwise suitably protected.
Baskets constructed in accordance with this invention may be employed in
textile factories, warehouses, or as hampers, travelling baskets, and for such pur-
poses generally.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what.
I claim is:-
First. A basket, which consists of a framework or skeleton of metal bands,
rods or wires of any suitable section, interlaced with cane, wicker, rush, fibre,
rope or other suitable material, substantially as described with reference to the
drawings.
Second. The improved method of making baskets and the like of the kind
referred to in the First Claiming Clause hereof, substantially as described with
reference to the drawings.
Dated this 28th day of November 1899.