An Improvement in or applicable to Baskets, Hampers, and Skips.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 28th July, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 11th Apr., 1894-Accepted, 21st Apr., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in or applicable to Baskets, Hampers,
and Skips.
I JOHN GIDMAN of Kuutsford in the County of Chester, Cooper and Basket
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to strengthen baskets, hampers, and skips used
for various purposes and especially to prevent the handles from breaking or being
pulled off.
The invention consists principally in the combination with the withics or other
twigs or cane or other strips (of which the baskets, hampers, or skips are made)
of metallic wires which are worked in with the withies or twigs in the process of
manufacture.
The principal wires are carried round the ends and under the bottom of the
basket hamper or skip and through the handles so that they carry the principal
portion of the weight the wire being preferably double where it passes through
the handles thus giving greatly increased strength to the basket hamper or skip
and causing it to last a much longer time than those made in the ordinary way.
Transverse or cross wires are also worked down the sides and under the bottom,
the ends of the wires being carried up and worked in with the withies round the
top border.
In open shallow baskets without handles the ends of the wires are worked in
with the withies, twigs, or strips round the hazel or other bent rod or twig which
forms the foundation of the border or edge of the basket.
Dated this 27th day of Luin 1802
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in or applicable to Baskets, Hampers,
and Skips.
I JOHN GIDMAN of Knutsford in the County of Chester, Cooper and Basket
Maker, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to strengthen baskets, hampers, and skips used
for various purposes, and especially to prevent the handles froin breaking or being
pulled off.
The nature of my invention and the manner in which the same is to be performed
or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference to the sheet
of illustrative diagrams hereunto annexed and the following explanation thereof.
Fig. 1 is a diagram showing in perspective the application of my invention to an
ordinary withy basket or hamper and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.
The invention consists principally in the combination with the withies or other
twigs or cane or other strips (of which the baskets, hampers or skips are made) of
metallic wires which are worked in with the withies or twigs in the process of
manufacture.

page_text: The principal wires a are carried round the ends and under the bottom of the
basket, hamper, or skip, and through the handles so that they carry the principal
portion of the weight, the wire being preferably double (as shown) where it passes
through the handles thus giving greatly increased strength to the basket, hamper,
-or skip, in those parts which are subject to the greatest strain and causing them
to last a much longer time than those inade in the ordinary way.
Transverse or cross wires c are also worked down the sides and under the bottom,
the ends of these wires being carried up and preferably worked round the withies
forming the top border as shown at c¹ so as to give strength to the border, or they
may be worked in longitudinally with the withies.
In open shallow baskets without handles, the ends of the wires a are also worked
in with the withies twigs or strips round the hazel or other bent rod or twig which
forms the foundation of the border or edge 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 :-
The improvement in or applicable to baskets, hampers, and skips consisting in
strengthening the saine by the combination of metallic wires worked in with the
withies twigs, cane or other strips (of which they are made) during the process of
manufacture substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein before set forth
.and described.
TYYLI J
A 1801
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant