Improvements in or in connection with Basket-work Cases or the like Protectors for Bottles, Jars, Demi-johns, or the like, and Appliance in connection therewith.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Dec., 1893-Accepted, 20th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or in connection with Basket-work Cases or the
like Protectors for Bottles, Jars, Demi-johns, or the like, and
Appliance in connection therewith.
I, THOMAS STERICKER, Wine and Spirit Merchant, of Pickering, in the County
of Yorks, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in or in connection with the well-known
basket-work cases or the like protectors or envelopes for jugs bottles jars demi-johns
carboys or the like vessels and furthermore relates to a tool or appliance to assist
in carrying out the said improvements.
It is well known that all sorts of glass stone or earthenware jars and similar or
other vessels have been placed in envelopes or protecting cases made of basket work
and the like and it has been found to be a great drawback and source of trouble and
expense that the bottom part of such basket work gets rotten especially when stood
in wet or damp places consequently rendering it constantly necessary to renew or
replace same.
Now my present invention is designed to remedy this drawback and is as
follows:-
Either in addition to the basket-work etc. bottom or without using such basket-
work bottom-I use and attach in a special manner as hereinafter described a plate
or piece or pieces of material such as wood or other suitable solid material but for
the sake of example I will describe a wooden disc attached according to my invention
to the bottom of an ordinary two-gallon jar having a basket-work case enclosing
same as is well understood in the wine and spirit trade.
The wooden disc is formed of about the full diameter of the jar and case and has
around its edge several holes to receive wires therethrough.
These wires are headed or secured to washers or otherwise suitably secured at one
end thereof to the wooden disc while the other end is passed up through the basket-
work (by means of a tool such as hereinafter described or in any other desired or
suitable manner) and is firmly secured in and to such basket-work by bending over
the ends and twisting together or in other convenient or suitable manner.
Such wires may be led up to the top of the basket-work or only partially up
the same.
This bottom is advantageously perforated to permit ventilation and assist drying
and these bottoms may be thus applied either to new basket-work cases or to old
ones either over the basket-work bottoms or without same as desired.
The appliance to assist in passing the wires up through the basket-work
or between the basket-work and the jar or vessel consists of a hollow tool
advantageously curved and having a hole therein of a size to freely pass the wire
through.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or in connection with Basket-work Cases or the
like Protectors for Bottles, Jars, Demi-johns, or the like, and
Appliance in connection therewith.
I, THOMAS STERICKER, Wine and Spirit Merchant, of Pickering, in the County
of Yorks, 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 relates to improvements in or in connection with the well-known
basket-work cases or the like protectors or envelopes for jugs bottles jars demi-johns
carboys or the like vessels and furthermore relates to a tool or appliance to assist
in carrying out my present invention.
It is well known that all sorts of glass stone or earthenware jars and similar or
other vessels have been placed in envelopes or protecting cases made of basket-work
and the like and it has been found to be a great drawback and source of trouble and
expense that the bottom part of such basket work gets rotten especially when stood
in wet or damp places consequently rendering it constantly necessary to renew or
replace same.
Now my present invention is designed to remedy this drawback and is as
follows:-
Either in addition to the basket-work etc. bottom or without using such basket-
work bottom-I use and attach in a special manner as hereinafter described a
plate or piece or pieces of material such as wood or other suitable solid material
but for the sake of example I will describe a wooden disc attached according to
my invention to the bottom of an ordinary two-gallon jar having a basket-work
case enclosing same as is well understood in the wine and spirit trade.
The wooden disc is formed of about the full diameter of the jar and case and
has around and towards its edge several holes to receive wires therethrough.
These wires are headed or secured to washers or otherwise suitably secured at one
end thereof to the wooden disc while the other end is passed up through the
basket-work (by means of a tool such as hereinafter described or in any other
desired or suitable manner) and is firmly secured in and to such basket-work by
bending over the ends and twisting together or in other convenient or suitable
manner.
Such wires may be led up to the top of the basket-work or only partially up
the same.
This bottom is advantageously perforated to permit ventilation and assist drying
and these bottoms may be thus applied either to new basket-work cases or to old
ones either over the basket-work bottoms or without same as desired.
The appliance to assist in passing the wires up through the basket-work or
between the basket-work and the jar or vessel consists of a tool advantageously
curved and having a U-shaped or equivalent shape channel therein of a size to
freely pass the wire through.
And in order that my present invention may be easily understood and readily
carried into practice I will proceed to further describe same with reference to the
sheet of drawings hereunto annexed.

page_text: Fig. 2 represents the tool or appliance by means of which the wires are inserted
in the basket-work.
Fig. 3 is a cross section on line 1-1 Fig. 2.
a is the stone-ware jar.
b is the ordinary basket-work covering extending under the bottom and up the
sides of such jar or if desired this basket-work need not extend under the
bottom.
c is the bottom plate of wood or other suitable material attached and secured to
the basket-work by means of the wire or rod d (advantageously copper wire)
which is inserted through the interstices of the basket-work and turned over and
clinched at the top as shown or secured in any other suitable way.
e is ventilating hole or passage in the centre of the bottom c to prevent any wet
lying in the bottom.
is a flange of hoop-iron or equivalent or the like (which may or may not be
used-
-as desired) to further strengthen the bottom part of the basket-work
having my improvements applied thereto.
9 is the handle of the tool or appliance for inserting the wire d and such tool
consists merely of a metal channel h approximately U-shaped (see Fig. 3) this
tool being inserted through the hole in the bottom c is forced through and
between the basket-work up to the top thereof or as desired and then while thus
inserted in the basket-work the wire d is inserted in the U-shaped channel and
thus readily passed through the basket-work and the top part of the wire d is then
seized and held while the tool is withdrawn. The head of the wire d² is then
drawn up tightly against the counter-sunk hole in the bottom e (a washer being
used if desired) and the top end of the wire having thus been drawn up very tight
the end is then turned over and twisted upon its own part or secured in any other
equivalent or suitable manner.
In practice I have found three such wires d sufficient to firmly secure the bottom c
to the basket-work but it will be obvious that any other number of wires may be
used as desired.
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 :-
1. The arrangement and combination with a basket-work cover such as b of
a bottom plate such as c and wires such as d to fasten and secure same together
substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.
2. I claim a solid bottom plate in combination with and secured to a basket-
work cover both substantially as described and a U-shaped channelled tool through
and by means of which the fastening wires are passed into and through the basket
work substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described and
as illustrated by way of example in the drawings hereunto annexed.
Dated this 2nd day of December 1893.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.