IMPROVEMENTS IN BASKETS SPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO COALING SHIPS AND VESSELS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Walter Morgan, of Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BASKETS SPECIALLY
APPLICABLE TO COALING SHIPS AND VESSELS."
Sealed the 23rd August 1872, and dated the 29th February 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Walter Morgan at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
29th February 1872.
I, WALTER MORGAN, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
BASKETS SPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO COALING SHIPS AND VESSELS," to be as
follows:-
Baskets suitable for the above-named purposes require to be of
considerable strength, and the usual materials used for the construction
of baskets have not been found strong enough, hence other materials
have been tried, and a basket or open box of metal has been substituted,
but without proving altogether satisfactory. Now by my Invention I

page_text: construct the main framework of strong canes (preferring not to split
them) and bind and secure these together (according to the practice of
basket work) by means of twigs or other material, so as to form a strong
basket which is well adapted for the above purposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Walter Morgan in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 29th August 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WALTER
MORGAN, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Walter Morgan, Her special licence
that I, the said Walter Morgan, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Walter Morgan, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN BASKETS SPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO COALING SHIPS AND VESSELS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Walter Morgan, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Walter Morgan, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to

page_text: Baskets suitable for the above-named purposes require to be of
considerable strength, and the usual materials used for the construction
of them have not been found strong enough, hence other materials have
been tried, even an open box of metal termed a basket having been resorted
to, which did not however prove altogether satisfactory. Now by my
present Invention I construct the main portions of the basket of strong
canes (which should not be split). These canes I bend and interweave
with the other pieces of which the basket is composed in the manner
adopted in basket work, or as may be suitable for producing the article
required. The best materials for use with the canes are strong pliable
twigs, but any material which is not too heavy and can be interwoven
with the canes might be used if desired. By these means strong baskets
well adapted for the above-named purposes may be constructed, which it
may be observed can be formed with bools or wooden hoops round the
top, or without them, as may be deemed requisite.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and incidentally described in what manner the same is
to be performed or put in practice, I will now in compliance with the
aforesaid condition in the said Letters Patent contained further, and
with the aid of the foregoing descriptive statements, particularly describe
and ascertain in what manner the same is to be performed or carried out
in practice by referring to the Drawings accompanying this Specification,
as follows:
Fig. 1 of these Drawings shows an outline longitudinal section, and
Fig. 2 shows an outline transverse section of my improved basket in
a completed state.
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In these Drawings A denotes the ribs, B the canes, C the rim
booled," but it might (as it will be obvious to practical basket makers)
be bordered" instead of having a bool, if desired.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed or
carried out in practice, I hereby declare that I claim the said Invention
of "Improvements in Baskets specially applicable to Coaling Ships and
Vessels" (wherein the use of canes in the manner and for the purpose

page_text: described is a principal feature), and as the said improvements are herein
described and illustrated by the Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Walter Morgan, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this 26th day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
Witness,
RICHARD SHIELDS,
25, Eldon Street.
WALTER MORGAN. (L.S.)