IMPROVEMENTS IN HAMPERS OR BASKETS FOR TRANSPORTING BOTTLES OR CARBOYS OF ACIDS OR OTHER CORROSIVE OR DANGEROUS MATERIALS COLORS VARNISHES OR THE LIKE
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Brunner of Widnes in the county of Lancaster
for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN HAMPERS OR BASKETS FOR
TRANSPORTING BOTTLES OR CARBOYS OF ACIDS OR OTHER CORROSIVE OR
DANGEROUS MATERIALS COLORS VARNISHES OR THE LIKE
" a communication
to him from Charles Garneri, Captain of Engineers of Italian Army at present
resident at Paris, France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Brunner at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th June 1883.
HENRY BRUNNER of Widnes in the County of Lancaster. "IMPROVEMENTS IN
HAMPERS OR BASKETS FOR TRANSPORTING BOTTLES OR CARBOYS OF ACIDS OR
OTHER CORROSIVE OR DANGEROUS MATERIALS, COLORS, VARNISHES, OR THE
LIKE" a communication to me from Charles Garneri Captain of Engineers of
Italian Army at present resident at Paris, France.
In transporting carboys of acid and the like great losses are occasioned through
breakages or expensive means used to prevent these; it is therefore with a view of
reducing these fosses that this strong cheap form of carboy container is designed.
This basket is built up of numerous standards of wood thin and elastic. The
base is preferably composed of two conical and concentric rings, thin and of 5 to
6 centimetres in diameter. The standards are bound and fixed at equal distances
between the two conical rings. Wooden rings placed at intervals in the height of
the basket are fixed as well on the oxterior as interior by means of a jointed mould,
which gives to the basket the desired contour according to the carboy or other
article it is intended to contain.
The handles are made in similar fashion to those of osier baskets, but with
stronger material such as cane, cord, cloth impregnated with india rubber, or the
like. The bottom of the basket is made of a network of thin wood or cords, or of
cloth well covered with a varnish capable of resisting humidity, and the acid or
other chemical or substance carried.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the, conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Henry Brunner in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th December
1883.
HENRY BRUNNER of Widnes in the county of Lancaster, "IMPROVEMENTS IN
HAMPERS OR BASKETS FOR TRANSPORTING BOTTLES OR CARBOYS OF ACIDS OR 5
OTHER-CORROSIVE_OR_DANGEROUS MATERIALS, COLOURS, VARNISHES OR THE
LIKE" A communication to me from Charles-Garneri,-Captain_of_Engineers, of
Italian Army, at present resident at Paris. France.
In transporting carboys of acid and the like, great losses are occasioned through
breakage or expensive means used to prevent these, it is therefore with a view of 1
reducing these losses that this strong cheap form of carboy container is designed.
This basket is built up of numerous standards of wood thin and elastic. The
"base is preferably composed of two thin conical and concentric rings, the standards
are bound and fixed with distancing pieces at equal distances between the two
conical rings. Wooden hoops placed at intervals in the height of the basket are
fixed as well on the exterior as interior, by means of a jointed mould, which gives
to the basket the desired contour according to the carboy or other article it is
intended to contain.
The handles are made in similar fashion to those of osier baskets but with
stronger material such as cane, cord, cloth impregnated with india-rubber or the
like. The bottom of the basket is made of a network of thin wood or cords, or of
cloth well covered with a varnish capable of resisting humidity, and the acid or
other chemical or substance carried.
I make this carboy in the following manner and by means of machinery
protected under another application, but referring to the accompanying drawings
Figs. 1 and 2 are elevations of the machine used for building the baskets, Figs. 3,
4, 5. and 6, mandril cones and rings for use, as hereafter explained. Figs. 7, 8 and 9
vertical section elevation and plan respectively of finishing machine. Fig 10. view
of basket completo.
A boy makes the thin wood cones on simple conical mandrils of the required
sizo such as Fig. 3, and closes them by iron hoops F Fig. 4, as shown complete at
Fig 6.
These cones are placed the inner one on the surface of cone A of machine Fig. 1,
the other loosely round it against disc B. The standards are now inserted with
their ends between the two wooden cones, a distance piece between each. The
mandril A and accompanying mechanism being turned round on shaft I by hand
for the purpose. The other extremities are caused to lie one between each of the
divisions or teeth G G by which means they are evenly spaced. The disc B is now
pressed home by fly-nut D and screw E and the wooden cones firmly nailed to the
standards. The disc B is then withdrawn and the body of the carboy basket carried
to machine Figs. 7, 8 and 9, and placed on cone C free ends downward. HH are
clamps, clamping a wooden hoop F onto cone C and against this ring tho
body rests, another outer ring is placed over the body above this inner ring and the
shorter piece is placed between each standard and the next, and is nailed to the
two hoops, which are all nailed to the standards, and the standards are adjusted
-to fall upon the spacing-blocks QQ and over two hoops clamped to the projections
PP by clamps K. A wire or flexible hoop or band is now wound once or twice
round the standard ends and is drawn tight by means of winches R till the
standards and spacing-pieces are strained over the pieces Q to the required curve
or bulge, the spacing-pieces or subsidiary standards being only long enough to

page_text: just overlap the first of the two hoops on P, P'. The outer wooden hoops are now
slipped on one over each of the inner ones, and forced down onto the basket
standards. The screw M is now applied causing the basket and the mandril
surfaces to advance over the cone N and thus to force out the slides S carrying
projections P P¹, and by this moans bring the inside hoops tight against the
standards which are held in place by the wire, all the hoops are then nailed in
place. The screw M is now drawn back, the wire slackened, the basket taken off,
the handles and bottom fixed to it, and the whole plunged into hot paraffin or
other protective material to soak, when sufficiently permeated it is taken out and
is complete.
Instead of the whole basket and mandril moving the cone N can be made to
slide on shaft L.
Having now described my invention I claim as new and to be protected under
the lotters patent the basket or hamper for transporting bottles or carboys of acids
or other corrosive or dangerous materials, colors, varnishes or the like, substantially
as above described, also hampers or baskets for aforesaid purposes built up of
skeleton sides and rims substantially in the manner heroin set forth.
In witness whereof I the said Henry Brunner, have hereunto set my hand and
scal this twenty-fourth day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-three.
HENDY DONNED
ATLET