Improvements in the manufacture or Froduction of Daskęt work, Wicker Work, and Lattice Work for various Purposes.
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Improvements in the manufacture or Froduction of Daskęt work,
Wicker Work, and Lattice Work for various Purposes.
I, GEORGE PROSSOR TAYLOR of William Edward Street, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Wicker Worker, do hereby declare the nature of said
invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OR PRODUCTION OF BASKET
WORK, WICKER WORK, AND LATTICE WORK FOR VARIOUS PURPOSES," to, be as
follows:-
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My invention relates to the manufacture or production of the bodies of
bassinettes, perambulators, cradles, basket work, wicker work and other lattice
work composed essentially of wicker lengths cane, rods or wire interwoven or
interlaced one within each other, so as to form a basket or the sides of a basket,
or other object; that is, the wicker bars or rods cross each other diagonally or they
may be formed of combined perpendicular and horizontal bars crossing each other
in any desirable way, so as to form diamond square or other form of pattern; the
meshes of the interlacings entirely depend upon the character of the work to be
produced. The object of my invention is the production of the said wicker work,
basket work or lattice work hereinbefore described, in a simpler and less expensive
manner than heretofore; and the essential feature of my invention is the pro-
duction of wicker work or part wicker work objects upon a mould or an internal
support.
For convenience of description, I will describe my invention as applied to a
bassinette.
The mould upon which the bassinette is to be made, consists essentially of
a frame with open sides) of the conformation or shape to be given to the object
to be made thereon; that is, the frame has top and bottom boards supported
by inclined ends. This mould is of the exact internal shape of the bassinette
to be made. The bottom which is to form the bassinette has headed nails or pins
running around its edge at equal distances apart, according to the character of
open work latticeing to be produced, which is to form the sides of the object.
The heads of the nails or pins around which the wicker work strands or rods are
passed, are raised to a distance equal to the thickness of the bars being used.
This bottom described, with the nails running around its edge is placed under the
bottom of the mould, and around the top of the mould, an edging or beading is

page_text: placed in the form of a hoop which follows the exact conformation that is to be
given to the top of the bassinette; in fact this hoop forms the bassinette top, and
follows the contour of the bottom but widened out. This hoop is pierced with
vertical holes at suitable distances apart according to the mesh or character that
the wicker work shall have at that part near to its upper edge. When the
bottom and the edging which is to form the top, is in the position as already
described with respect to the mould, one end of the wicker work rod is first
placed through one of the vertical holes in the frame, while the rod is brought
from top to bottom of the frame in an inclined or in an oblique direction, and
then passed over one of the nails or other headed object, and then again returned
in an oblique direction contrary to the first, the terminal end of the rod or
wicker work length is then passed into and affixed in one of the holes in the top
edging herein-before described. The figure enclosed between the two sides of
the wicker work length, and the top of the frame is triangular. This is repeated
all around the frame work, leaving intervening nails upon the bottom edge and
intervening holes in the top edging, for the next course of wicker work strands,
which are disposed in a contrary direction to those forming the first course; thus
the wicker work strands or rods cross each other diagonally so as to form
diamond or lozenge shaped pattern, and this open work pattern forms the side of
the bassinette. The open work interlacings may be passed over and around each
other, so as to form a continuous network of plaitings or interlacings as may
be desired. Additional strength may be imparted to the wicker work by plaiting
or intervening borders or stitch work around the wicker work.
Instead of using headed nails or studs around the bottom edge of the bassinette,
loops or other suitable attachments may be employed; and further, a track border
may be placed at the junction of the wicker work and the top or bottom edge,
which may be of wood or any other suitable material. Or instead of the headed
pins running along the edge of the base, they run along the side of the top
edging, which takes the place of a border, while the holes pass vertically through
the base. The terminal ends of the wicker lengths when coming through the
base as described, are interlaced around and under each other so as to fix them
permanently in position.
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After the wicker work interlacings have been performed, the mould is withdrawn,
and the bassinette covered or finished in any desired way.
Instead of employing holes in the top, and nails in the bottom, nails may be
employed both top and bottom with like effect.
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page_text: Improvements in the Manufacture or Production of Basket Work,
Wicker Work, and Lattice Work for various Purposes.
I, GEORGE PROSSOR TAYLOR of William Edward Street, Birmingham in the
County of Warwick, Wicker Worker, do hereby declare the nature of said
invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OR PRODUCTION OF BASKET
WORK, WICKER WORK AND LATTICE WORK FOR VARIOUS PURPOSES," and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained.
in and by the following statement :—
My invention relates to the manufacture or production of the bodies of
bassinettes, perambulators, cradles, basket work, wicker work and other lattice
work composed essentially of wicker lengths, cane, rods or wire interwoven or:
interlaced one within each other, so as to form a basket or the sides of a basket, or
other object; that is, the wicker bars or rods cross each other diagonally, or they
may be formed of combined perpendicular and horizontal bars crossing each other
in any desirable way, so as to form diamond, square or other form of pattern; the
meshes of the interlacings entirely depend upon the character of the work to be
produced. The object of my invention is the production of the said wicker work,
basket work or lattice work hereinbefore described, in a simpler and less expensive
manner than heretofore; and the essential feature of my invention is the
production of wicker work or part wicker work objects upon a mould or an
internal support.
For convenience of description, I will describe my invention as applied to a
bassinette.
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The mould upon which the bassinette is to be made, consists essentially of a
frame (with open sides) of the conformation or shape to be given to the object to
be made thereon; that is, the frame has top and bottom boards supported by
inclined ends. This mould is of the exact internal shape of the bassinette to be
made. The bottom which is to form the bassinette has headed nails or pins
running around its edge at equal distances apart, according to the character of
openwork latticeing to be produced, which is to form the sides of the object. The
heads of the nails or pins around which the wicker work strands or rods are
passed, are raised to a distance equal to the thickness of the bars being used. This
bottom described, with the nails running around its edge is placed under the
bottom of the mould, and around the top of the mould, an edging or beading is
placed in the form of a hoop which follows the exact conformation that is to given
to the top of the bassinette; in fact this hoop forms the bassinette top, and follows
the contour of the bottom but widened out. This hoop is pierced with vertical
holes at suitable distances apart according to the mesh or character that the wicker
work shall have at that part near to its upper edge. When the bottom and the
edging which is to form the top and bottom, are in the position as already described
with respect to the mould, one end of the wicker work rod is first placed through
one of the vertical holes in the frame, while the rod is brought from top to bottom
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page_text: of the frame in an inclined or an oblique direction, and then passed over one of
the nails or other headed object, and then again returned in an oblique direction
contrary to the first, the terminal end of the rod or wicker work length is then
passed into and affixed in one of the holes in the top edging hereinbefore described.
The figure enclosed between the two sides of the wicker work length, and the top
of the frame is triangular. This is repeated all around the frame-work, leaving
intervening nails upon the bottom edge and intervening holes in the top edging,
for the next course of wicker work strands, which are disposed in a contrary
direction to those forming the first course; thus the wicker work strands or rods
cross each other diagonally so as to form diamond or lozenge shaped pattern, and
this openwork pattern forms the side of the bassinette. The openwork interlacings
may be passed over and around each other, so as to form a continuous network of
plaitings or interlacings as may be desired. Additional strength may be imparted
to the wicker work by plaiting or interweaving borders or stitch work around the
wicker work.
Instead of using headed nails or studs around the bottom edge of the bassinette,
loops or other suitable attachments may be employed; and further, a track border
may be placed at the junction of the wicker work and the top or bottom edge,
which may be of wood or any other suitable material. Or instead of the headed
pins running along the edge of the base, they run along the side of the top edging,
which takes the place of a border, while the holes pass vertically through the base.
The terminal ends of the wicker lengths when coming through the base as
described, are interlaced around and under each other so as to fix them permanently
in position.
After the wicker work interlacings have been performed, the mould is withdrawn,
and the bassinette covered or finished in any desired way.
Instead of employing holes in the top, and nails in the bottom, nails may be
employed both top and bottom with like effect.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawings,
the manner in which the same is to be performed.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a bassinette made according to one form of my
invention. Figure 2 is a portion of the same upon a larger scale, part in elevation
and part in section; the ends of the wicker lengths take respectively into the wood
bottom of the bassinette, and into the wicker work skirting running in juxta
position to the wood base. Figure 3 is another form of wicker work in which
both the terminal ends of the wicker lengths take into the wood base which forms
the bottom of the bassinette. Figure 4 shows another form in which the lengths
are disposed vertically, or what is called perpendicular wicker work. The terminal
ends like the last are secured to the base. Figure 5 is another form of somewhat
the same pattern and formation as figure 3, but without a continuous edging at the
top, although if desirable, a wicker edging may be interwoven between and within
the bent or return parts of the wicker lengths. Figure 6 shows a modification in
which the wicker work is made up of a series of continuous lengths of cane or
other wicker lengths disposed in a zig-zag direction. Figure 7 represents in side
elevation a mould upon which the said wicker work or basket work objects are
formed. Figure 8 represents a bassinette upon a mould figure 7 both of which are
part in section and part in elevation, the left hand end being broken off in order
to show the particular construction of both bassinette and mould. Figure 9
represents a plan of figure 8 without being in section. Figure 10 is a cross section
on the dotted lines A B figure 9.
The mould upon which a bassinette is to be made, consists essentially of an open
Bided frame a of the conformation or internal shape of a bassinette upon which the
wicker work sides of the latter are to be made; that is, the frame has a top and
bottom a a³ supported by inclined ends a' so as to form a frame which constitutes
an internal support or mould, around the sides of which, the wicker work lengths
and top edging are disposed. b b are supporting bars or bolts, which take holes a³
in. the ends a. These bolts constitute the means whereby the top edging of a

page_text: bassinette is elevated during the working or placing of the wicker lengths in
position.
In making or building up a bassinette, I proceed as follows.-
I take a base c (see figures 8 and 9) which is to form the bottom of the
bassinette, and place the mould a centrally upon it, leaving a space between
the outside edges of the mould and the base of the bassinette to be made. The
said base is provided near its outside edges with a series of holes c* placed. at
suitable distances apart, and into which the two terminal ends of a wicker length
are placed and fixed. The position of these holes are best seen in the part plan
figure 8A; or instead of holes as represented, headed nails may be driven into
the outside edging, with which the ends of the wicker lengths engage and are
fixed.
After the mould has been placed in a central position as described, the top edging
or hoop d, which to form the edging of the bassinette, is placed in position,
resting upon the standing out bolts or pegs b. These pegs support the elevated top
edging during the time the wicker work sides are being made. This top edging d
is internally of the shape of the top of the mould; and running at equal or suitable
distances apart around the outside of the said edging or hoop d are headed nails e,
which stand out a short distance from the face of the hoop or edging, so as to form
a neck, around which the middle of the wicker length is bent and returned to
the base.
When the base o, and edging d are thus placed in position, a wicker work length
is taken, and one of its ends g³ is placed through one of the holes c³ in the base c;
the rod g is now inclined upwards, and brought to the top edging of the bassinette
and then turned or bent over one of the headed nails; the other end gl is now
returned to the base at the same angle at which the front part g left the base. The
terminal end g of the now downward length g¹ is made, to take into one of the
other of the said holes c, thus completing one length which forms two bars, out of
the strand.
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A second length is now taken, and one of the terminal ends like the first, is fixed
within one of the holes in the base as before, the wicker length is then obliquely
inclined upwards, at the same angle as the first named length, and afterwards
passed over the head of another or second nail, and returned obliquely, downwards
and its terminal end, fixed into the base as before. This is repeated all round the
frame work, leaving intervening nails upon the top edge, and intervening holes in
the base for the next course of wicker work strands, which are worked in a
contrary, or in the same direction, and applied in the same manner, as those
forming the first course; or the lengths may be worked continuous thus the
wicker work strands or rods affixed and applied as described, cross each other
diagonally, and form diamond or lozenge shaped wicker worked sides.
The nails instead of being fixed upon the top edging or hoop d, they may be
fixed around the base o, while the holes c³ are made or pierced within the hoop d.
This simply inverts the order of fixing..
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In figure 1 the terminal ends of the wicker or rods take respectively into the
base and into horizontal and plaited wicker work i situated at the base of the
sides of the bassinette. The ends which take into the bassinette base are marked g*
while the ends which take into and are secured into the wicker work are marked gʻ,.
of which figure 2 is upon an enlarged scale.
In figure 5 the top edging or hoop d is removed, leaving a scolloped open worked
top which may be left plain, or it may be interlaced with a border of wicker-work
of the kind marked i in figure 1.
In figure 4, the wicker worked lengths are made to take a perpendicular
direction, with both of the ends secured within holes in the base..
In figure 6 the wicker work sides may be made from continuous lengths of rods,
first taking under one nail on the bottom, and then passing over the nail at the
top, down again and under a nail at the bottom, up again over the nail at the top,
and so on in a zig-zag course-This is repeated by overlapping an intermediate
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lengths, thus compelling the open worked sides of a bassinette or other object―
These continuous lengths are marked j-The nails are marked j
The wicker lengths may be bound together by wicker work plaitings, borders or
stitchings marked in the several figures of the Drawings; or the said stay
supports may be simply in the form of a wicker length, interlaced or threaded
through and around the open worked sides, and secured by stitchings-Or border
work of varying designs and patterns, may be interlaced and interwoven on the
edgings or other parts of the sides of the bassinettes.
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The wicker lengths may also be made to take through loops or staple eyes driven
or secured into the under edge or upon the outside of the top edging or hoop; so
that the wicker lengths or wicker bars support directly the said hoop or edging-
Or the wicker lengths instead of passing around the necks of headed nails or other
like objects, they may pass through holes made through the sides of the edging
or hoop.
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The end wicker lengths or bars are extended through the base or bottom and
plaited or interlaced together, thus slightly elevating and marked l.
The application of my invention to perambulator work, cradles, basket work,
wicker work and other lattice work, composed essentially of wicker lengths, cane
rods, or other lengths of various materials as described, differs in no essential
respect from its application to a bassinette.
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
First. Forming the sides of the bodies of bassinettes, perambulators, cradles,
basket work, wicker work and the like, from a series of continuous wicker or cane
lengths that will form in each length, two bars as described and illustrated in
figures 3, 5, 8 and 84 of the accompanying Drawing; that is to say, making two
bars out of one strand or length of a series of lengths, by securing the two ends of
each length within or to the base of a bassinette or other object, whether made of
wood or basket work, with the middle of the said length taking or bending over
the neck of a headed nail, or otherwise secured to or fixed under the edging or
hoop forming the upper frame, or the reverse in which the nails are on the base,
and the wicker ends secured to the edging. Or in securing one end of a length
into wicker border work, and the other into or to a wood or wicker bottom, as in
figures 1 and 2; or the top edging may be left plain or without a hoop frame as in
figure 5. Also forming the said wicker or basket work from continuous wicker,
cane or other lengths as in figure 6, substantially as described and illustrated.
Secondly. Making or forming the sides of the bodies of bassinettes, cradles,
perambulators, basket or wicker work and the like upon a mould or internal
support, provided with clamping and supporting devices, substantially as described
and illustrated in figures 7, 8, 9 and 10 of the accompanying Drawings.
Dated this Thirteenth day of March 1886.