improvements in and in the Manufacture: of Baskets or Holders" for Oil Lamps:
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 12th June, 1895 -Accepted, 13th July, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
improvements in and in the Manufacture: of Baskets or Holders" for
Oil Lamps:
I, WALTER JOSEPH CHARLES, of 72 Hampton Road, Birchfields, near the City
of Birmingham, Manager of Works, do hereby declare the nature of this invention'
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in, and in the manufacture of, holders,
commonly called baskets, for receiving the containers or reservoirs of either pedestal
or hanging oil lamps, and has for one of its objects, simplicity of construction, for
another object, neatness of appearance, and for a further object, cheapness of
manufacture.
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In carrying out my invention in connection with a pedestal lamp, I take a length
of etrip metal or flat wire, and make, upon the inside face of the same, three equi-
distant sinkings, and part sinkings at the inner sides of the terminal. ends, so that
when the said strip is turned up into a band, there are four equi-distant sinkings,
into which the terminal ends of intersecting strips, forming the sides to the basket,
(which is simply a skeleton cup, or half cage) take and lie flush with the inside
surface of the ring, which forms the top boundary edge to the basket.
These said terminal ends are rivetted or secured by indentation, to the band, or
they may be split and be made to grip the ring clip-wise.
As a further form, the ends of the strips may be cranked or set forward, whilst
the band is left plain, so that when the band takes into the set forward part, the
ends of the strips, which form branches, are turned over the band, hence the
connection of the terminal ends of branches of the basket to the band without
rivetting.
One of the two strips, which pass in the direction of a diameter, is sunken or
well-shaped, to receive the other and crossing strip or member, which intersecting
parts are secured to the connection, cup, boss or screwed terminal by rivetting or
by a screw pin, or by a peg formed integral with the said connection and then
passed through the holes in intersecting parts of the strips and rivetted.
Or the strips forming the branches or side members may be secured to the
connection or boss by the ends of the same being passed through slots or piercings
therein, and with one part being rolled upon or under the other part.
Instead of making up the band from a continuous strip, it may be made up of
sections and so also may the strips or arms.
The boss may, if necessary, be made from sheet metal, and when the basket is a
Buspended one, no boss is necessary but an attached ornament may be employed in
lieu thereof, to hide the joint of the crossing arms.
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page_text: Improvements in and in the Manufacture of Baskets or Holders for
Oil Lamps.
J, WALTER JOSEPH CHARLES of 72: Hampton Road, Birchfields, near the City
of Birmingham, Manager of Works, 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 relates to improvements in, and in the manufacture of, holders,
commonly called baskets, for receiving the containers or reservoirs of either pedestal
or hanging oil lamps, and has for one of its objects, simplicity of construction, for
another object, neatness of appearance, and for a further object, cheapness of
manufacture.
'
In carrying out my invention in connection with a pedestal lamp, I take a length
of strip metal or flat wire, and make, upon the inside face of the same, three equi-
distant sinkings, and part sinkings at the inner sides of the terminal ends, or a sinking
in one of the ends, so that when the said strip is turned up into a band, there. are.
four equidistant sinkings, into which the terminal ends of intersecting body strips,
forming the sides to the basket, (which is simply a skeleton cup or half cage) take
and lie flush with the inside surface of the ring, which forms: the top boundary edge
to the basket.
These said terminal ends are rivetted or secured by indentation, to the band.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a front élevation of a lamp
basket constructed according to my improvements.
Figure 2 is a topside plan of the same.
Figure 3 is a vertical section of Figure 2-upon the dotted lines 2.
Figure 4 represents a section of the ring band separately.
Figure 5 is a cross section of one of the frame strips and Figure.6 is a longitudinal
vertical section of the same.
Figure 7 is a vertical section of the boss or connection of the strips and Figure 8
represents a plan thereof.
Figure 9. represents the band from which the ring is made;. Figure 10 shows the
bands from' which the frame strips are made and Figure 1 is a length of the metal
from which the band's Figures 9 and 10 are cut.
The said skeleton' basket is composed of a ring band a, a screwed connection boss
or pummel b, with the ring and boss connected together by skeleton frame bands.o
crossing each other upon the base and lying within gaps. or recesses bl; sunken
within the topside of the boss or punimel, whilst the terminal or free ends c, lie
within inside and equidistant flush'siukings a!, formed around the inner side of the
ring a, and being there' connected by rivets d.
Instead of the terminal ends of the crossing strips being secured to the ring, by
rivetting, they may be split and be made to grip the, ring clip-wise. in. horizontal
section in Figure 12 and vertical section in Figure 13. Figure 14 represents the
split end of the strip, before being made to embrace the ring.
a is the ring, a' the depression therein, cithe, strip, and the split end, thereof,
secured to the ring a, by rivettings d
As à further form, the ends of the strips may be cranked or set forward, whilst
the band is left plain, so that when the band takes into the set forward parts, the
ends of the strips, which form branches, are turned over the band, hence the
connection of the terminal ends of branches of the basket to the band without
rivetting.
One of the two strips, which pass in the direction of a diameter, is sunken or
well-shaped, to receive the other and crossing strip or member, which intersecting
parts are secured to the connection, cap, boss or screwed terminal by rivetting or

page_text: by a screw pin, or by a peg formed integral with the said connection and then
passed through the holes in intersecting parts of the strips and rivetted.
Figure 15 represents a section of such a means of connecting the strips to the
ring, with the plain band lying within the set-back seatings in the ends of the
strips.
Figure 16 is a section of the same.
Figure 17 is a modification of this connection in which the ends of the strips are
turned over the top of the band to save rivetting.
In Figures 15 and 16, a is the plain ring seated within the set-back part c¹, of
the terminal ends of the skeleton arms c. d is the rivetting.
In Figure 17, a is the plain ring, with the terminal ends c', of the strips cat
and back and turned round, thus saving rivetting.
Figure 18 represents a further form of basket, in which the overlapping and
meeting ends of the ring are respectively rabated.
Figure 19 is a side elevation of this form of basket.
a is the band with the overlapping ends d', rabated, and connected by rivettings d
to the upper ends e', of the strips c, which are secured together by a sheet metal
boss b.
Figure 20 represents a sheet metal boss or connection produced from a cupped
blank, whose mouth is subsequently gathered in and the closed end cross-gapped to
receive the crossing strips.
b is the body of the connection, with the head cross gapped at 6' and the contracted
open end outside screwed at b³.
Instead of making up the band from a continuous strip, it may be made up of
sections and so also may the strips or arms.
When the basket is a suspended one, no boss is necessary but an attached
ornament may be employed in lieu thereof, to hide the joint of the crossing
arms, and instead of employing one top ring only, two or more may be used when
desirable.
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 :-
First. In baskets for the oil-containers of oil-lamps, making the same inside
flush by inside sinking the rings to receive the ends of the crossing body strips,
substantially as described and set forth in Figures 1, 2, 3 12 and 13.
Secondly. In baskets for the oil-containers of lamps, making the same inside
flush by cranking back the terminal ends of the crossing body strips in order to
form seatings for the reception of plain rings, substantially as described and set
forth in Figures 15, 16 and 17.
Thirdly. In the connection bosses of baskets for oil lamps containers as referred
to in the preceding claims, making the same from sheet metal, as described and set
forth in Figure 20.
Fourthly. The improvements in holders or baskets for the oil-containers of lamps,
substantially as described and set forth.
Fifthly. The improvements in the manufacture of the body parts of the container-
baskets of oil lamps from strip metal, substantially as described and set forth.
Dated this 10th day of June 1895.
WALTER JOSEPH CHARLES,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.