An Improved Basket Hinge.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left. 13th June, 1893-Accepted, 26th Aug., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Basket Hinge.
I WILLIAM ALEXANDER BOWIE of 26 Aberdeen Place Maida Hill London
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
To provide a cheap basket hinge which cannot be easily cut or broken.
I provide a straight rod of wire bent into a loop at each end, each loop to he at
right angles to the rod & I place within each loop a stout metal ring.
When supplied for use my metal rings would be left open in the form of a
letter C.
In fixing the hinge to a basket the loops of the rod would be pushed up through
the rim of the basket & then the C shaped rings would be made to connect the
ends of the loops with the rod which goes round the edge of a basket lid & forms
its frame the rings would then be closed with a pair of pliers and the basket hinge
would be complete.
The hinge would be durable & cheap & could not be wilfully broken without
considerable trouble.
Dated this 12th dew of Contambon 1900
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Basket Hinge.
I, WILLIAM ALEXANDER BOWIE of 26 Aberdeen Place, Maida Hill, London,
Gentleman 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 my invention is to provide a cheap and durable hinge for connecting
the lid to a basket.
For this purpose I bend a length of straight rod of wire at or near each end into
an eye or loop at right angles to the rod. This part of the hinge is fixed in the
basket with the loops protruding through the upper edge or rim of one side part
of same. Or the loops may be made in separate pieces. Within each loop or eye
I place a stout metal ring which is mounted upon the rod that runs along one edge
of the basket lid. To complete the hinge the rings are closed by a suitable pair of
pliers.
Fig. 1 shews a piece of wire consisting of a straight part A and two loops or
eyes A
This piece is built in or afterwards inserted in the wicker work of the
basket with the loops protruding at the upper edge of one side part of same.
Fig. 2 shews the form of a ring B which is inserted through each loop A' and
connected to the lid of the basket.
Fig. 3 shews the form of the rings when they have been closed, the ends being
slightly twisted so as to pass each other. The rings are by preference made of
wire.
A wire rod A made with loops A' having rings E threaded therein as shewn
in Fig. 4 is in Fig. 5 shewu applied to a basket, the piece A A' being so inserted
in the wicker work of the side of the basket that the loops A' protrude above.
The rings B threaded therein are mounted on the rod D¹ which runs along the edge
of the lid D and forms part of its frame.
Figs. 6 and 7 and Fig. 8 shew respectively two forms of loop A' which may be
used separately instead of those described. But many other forms may be adopted
without departing from my invention.

page_text: The form of ring as shown in Fig. 3 is used where additional strength is required
but the ends of the ring may if desired be made to butt against each other as
shewn in Fig. 9.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of any said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A. hinge for basket lids consisting of loops or eyes made of wire fixed to the
wicker work of the basket and metal rings threaded in the eyes and mounted on
the rod forming part of the frame of the l:d substantially as set forth.
2. The basket hinges shewn on the diawings.
FOOD May out love.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.