Improvements relating to Basкets.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Dec., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 6th Sept., 1900-Accepted, 20th Oct., 1900
I, HENRY STAINSBY, Secretary of the General Institution for the Blind, of Car-
penter Road, Edgbaston, in the City of Birmingham, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object the attachment, in a more effective manner
than heretofore, of the wooden bases or bottoms of jar baskets, bottle baskets,
and baskets employed for other purposes.
In carrying my invention into effect I bore through the shaped wooden bottom
for the required basket, suitable holes to admit the stakes which form the
foundation of the side or sides of the basket. At certain intervals, usually between
every two or three stakes, a groove is formed in the under surface of the wood
from one of the aforesaid holes to another, of sufficient depth to allow a cane runner
of the same size as the stakes, to lie in it without projecting beyond the level of
the outer surface of the base or bottom.
Cane runners are then inserted in the holes joined by the grooves, drawn
through, and the loops thus formed forced into the grooves in wood bottom, and
are there protected from the wearing action to which the bottom itself is sub-
jected when the basket is in use.
The cane runners where fixed take the place of the stakes, and are carried up
and either formed into the border of the basket or into the handle or handles, or
both the border and the handle, and the whole basket is thus effectually woven
into one piece.
Improvements relating to Basкets.
I, HENRY STAINSBY, Secretary of the General Institution for the Blind, of Car-
penter Road, Edgbaston, in the City of Birmingham, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:―
This invention has for its object the attachment in a more effective manner

page_text: than heretofore, of the wooden bases or bottoms of jar baskets, bottle baskets,
and baskets employed for other purposes.
On the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter referred to.
Figure 1 is a side elevation representing the construction of a basket in accor-
dance with my invention.
Figure 2 is a plan showing the underside of the wooden base of the basket.
The same reference letters in the two views illustrate the same parts.
In carrying my invention into effect I bore through the shaped wooden bottom
or base as A for the required basket, suitable holes to admit the stakes as B
which form the foundation of the side or sides of the basket. At certain intervals,
usually between every two or three stakes, a groove as C is formed in the under
surface of the wood from one of the aforesaid holes to another, of sufficient depth
to allow a cane runner as B¹ of the same size as the stakes, to lie in it without
projecting beyond the level of the outer surface of the base or bottom, as
illustrated.
The cane runners B are then inserted in the holes joined by the grooves,
drawn through, and the loops thus formed forced into the grooves in the wood
bottom, and are there protected from the wearing action to which the bottom
itself is subjected when the basket is in use.
The cane runners B' where fixed take the place of or serve as the stakes, and
are carried up and either formed into the border D of the basket or into the
handle or handles if desired, or both the border and the handle, and the whole
basket can thus be effectually woven into one piece.
It will be understood that the lateral or circumferential cane-work as E (of
which only a portion is shown at Figure 1) extends the whole length of the
basket.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
Baskets, for containing jar, bottles, and other articles having wooden bases or
bottoms secured to the cane-work or like part, substantially in the manner de-
scribed and as illustrated.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, and 25, Cross Street, Manchester,
Agents for the Applicant.