Improvements in Handles for Baskets to contain Fruit, Flowers, and the like.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 14th May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 20th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 25th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Handles for Baskets to contain Fruit, Flowers,
and the like.
I, GEORGE LEEDHAM of Broom Road, Rotherham in the County of York Market
Gardener do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention is to enable chip handles, or handles made from thin strips of wood
to be used for baskets to contain fruit, flowers, and other articles, and it refers more
particularly to the strengthening of such handles so as to avoid the risk of the
handle which is necessarily light, giving way when being used: for carrying the
basket with its contents.
It will be understood that the baskets more particularly referred to are light chip
baskets, such as are used to contain fruit for retail buyers, and that such baskets,
being usually made without handle, the juice of fruit contained therein is very liable
to run through the interstices, and to stain the hands, or gloves of the person
carrying it.
To obviate this unpleasantness, and for convenience of carrying I have constructed
a basket of chip having a handle made from a strip of wood or chip that will shut
down over one end of the basket but owing to the necessary thickness of such chip
the handle if made solely from wood is unreliable, and possibly might give way with
the weight of the fruit etc.
To remedy this defect I propose to combine with the strip, (and preferably placed
upon its underside) a support of linen, calico or other material of considerable
strength, and attach thereto by any suitable adhesive substance. I prefer to attach
the fabric to the wood in broad strips, and afterwards to eut such combined or
compound material into strips of a size suitable for the handles.
Dated th 12th L 1000
ROBT. F. DRURY,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Handles for Baskets to contain Fruit, Flowers,
and the like.
I, GEORGE LEEDHAM of Broom Road, Rotherham, in the County of York, Market
Gardener 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:-
My invention is to enable chip handles or handles made from thin strips of wood
to be used for baskets to contain fruit, flowers and other articles, and has reference
to the strengthening of such handles at the joints and angles, so as to avoid the risk
of the handle giving way when in use the said handles being necessarily of very
light construction. My invention is of great advantage in its application to the
handles of square formed baskets, as to enable the said handles to fit closely over
the corners and end of the basket it is usual to cut the wood of the handle partly
through at the point where it is bent to a right angle or thereabouts, thus making it
much weaker and liable to break at that point.
I wish it to be understood that the baskets particularly referred to, are light chip
baskets, such as are used to contain fruit in small quantities suitable for retail buyers,
and that being usually made without handles, the juice of fruit contained therein is
liable to escape through the interstices of the basket and stain the gloves or hands of
the person carrying it.

page_text: To obviate this well known unpleasantness and for the greater convenience in
carrying such baskets, I have constructed an oblong square cornered basket with a
chip handle that will close upon either end, fitting closely round same, such shape and
construction being advantageous, when baskets of fruit are packed together for
transport; and to this class of basket the invention is especially adapted, but I do not
confine it to these alone.
Such a handle if made of wood chip alone and nicked partly through at the
corners is unreliable, and likely to give way when filled with fruit.
To remedy this defect, I combine with the chip handle, a strip of linen, calico,
canvas, or other like material, preferably placed upon its underside, and attached
thereto by suitable adhesive substance or liquid; it may be attached in considerable
breadths before being divided into the narrower widths suitable for handles, if
desired. Although I prefer to use a fabric as above described in combination with
a chip handle, I may for some purposes use a thin metallic supporting strip, such
as a narrow strip of tin for example.
It will be seen that in addition to strengthening the bent corners of square handles,
it will also prevent the handle (whether squared or arched) from splitting where
the nail or joint pin upon which it turns, is passed through into the side 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 :-
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The combination with the chip handles of chip baskets for fruit and the like, of a
strip of linen, canvas, or other like material attached thereto, for the purpose specified,
and substantially as herein before described.
The combination with the chip handles of baskets for fruit, and the like, of a
strip of thin metal, for the purpose specified and substantially as hereinbefore
described.
the day of December 10.
ROBT. F. DRURY, Fel. Inst. P.A.,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield, Agent for Applicant.