Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 12th May, 1886.
Complete Left, 9th Feb., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 7th Apr., 1887.
I, CHARLES HAIGH Bankfield Road Huddersfield Skip Manufacturer do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention relates to skips or baskets such as are used in mills and textile
factories for carrying and storing yarn or other materials. These skips through
constant use are liable to break in pieces at the top parts of the sides, and after this
has gone on for some time the sides bulge out, the ends are drawn in, the top parts of
the sides break away altogether and the skip becomes useless.
My invention consists in protecting the top parts of the sides and ends from wear
by placing upon the top of each side and end a flat piece of wood of suitable length
and breath, the surface or upper part of which may be rounded or flat. This piece of
wood is secured in position and attached to the skip by any convenient means,
preferably by means of narrow strips of metal which pass over it, and the ends of
which are secured together by bolts or split nails passing through the sides and ends
of the skip.
CHARLES HAIGH.
Per Thos. K. Mellor,
His Agent.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Skips and Baskets.
I, CHARLES HAIGH of Bankfield Road, Huddersfield, Skip Manufacturer do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN SKIPS AND BASKETS and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to skips or baskets such as are used in mills and textile
factories for carrying and storing yarn or other materials. These skips through
constant use are liable to break in pieces at the top parts of the sides, and after this
has gone on for some time, the sides bulge out, the ends are drawn in, the top parts of
the sides break away altogether, and the skip becomes useless.
My invention consists in protecting the top parts of the sides and ends from wear
by placing upon the top of each side and end a flat piece of wood of suitable length
and breadth, the surface or upper part of which may be rounded or flat. These pieces
of wood are secured in position and attached to the skip by any suitable means,
preferably by means of narrow strips of metal, which pass over it, and the ends of
which are secured together by bolts or spilt nails passing through the sides and ends
of the skip. These pieces of wood thus placed upon the sides and ends of the skip are
prevented from working endways by any suitable means, preferably by means of a few
short pegs which are driven through them into the wickerwork of the skip, the tops of
the pegs being cut off flush with the surface of the rail through which it is driven.
These pieces of wood which are placed upon the sides of the skip extend the whole
length of the sides, and those pieces which are placed upon the ends are as long as is
necessary in order that they may touch the pieces which are upon the sides, but the
various pieces of wood are not fastened together in any way, nor do they overlap or
dovetail with each other at the corners.
In order that my invention may be better understood I append hereto some
drawings. In Figure 1 is shewn a side elevation of my improved skip, and in Fig. 2
a plan of the same as seen from above. Fig. 3 shews a method of attaching a top rail
to the side or end of a skip as seen in section and in Fig. 4 is shewn a manner of
attaching the rail to the skip to prevent in slipping in an endwise direction, also shewn
in section.
The wooden rail is shewn at A, and is attached to the skip by the strips of metal as
shewn at B, the ends of which are bent over and secured together by a bolt or split
nail as shewn at C. The rail is prevented from slipping endwise by the pegs shewn
at D and the rails are shewn in their relative positions in Figure 2 which shews the
positions of the corners.
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 :
The use of a wood rail placed upon the top of the sides and ends of a skip to protect
the upper part of the skip from wear, as herein described.
Dated this Eighth day of February 1887.
CHARLES HAIGH.
Per T. K. Mellor,
His Agent.