New or Improved Device for Fastening the Lids of Hampers or other Receptacles of Wickerwork or other Yielding Material.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Jan, '1895
Complete Specification Left, 14th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 16th Nov., 1.895
New or Improved Device for Fastening the Lids of Hampers or
other Receptacles of Wickerwork or other Yielding Material.
I, JOHN FINCHAM, of Nacton House, Nacton, near Ipswich, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object a device, by the aid of which the lid of a hamper
or other receptacle of wickerwork or other yielding material may be secured
without necessitating the string or cord used for this purpose being passed
therethrough.
This device consists of a flat base formed of a sheet of metal or other material, a
wire or wires or the like, and of a circular or other suitable form. From the front
of this base at or near the centre thereof projects a loop of metal or other material
of suitable size and length and preferably so shaped at its free end that it
may be easily forced through the lid or other portion of the basket or other
receptacle.
In use one or more of these devices is or are attached to the lid and body
respectively of the basket or other receptacle by forcing the loops through them
from the inside, when the lid may be quickly and easily secured by connecting the
projecting loops together by a string, cord, wire or the like.
Dated this 14th day of January 1895
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CASTLE SMITH,
Invention" Office, 54 Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
New or Improved Device for Fastening the Lids of Hampers or
other Receptacles of Wickerwork or other Yielding Material.
I, JOHN FINCHAM, of Nacton House, Nacton, near Ipswich, in the County of
Suffolk, 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 has for its object a device by the aid of which the lid of a hamper
or other receptacle of wickerwork or other yielding material may be secured
without necessitating the string or cord used for this purpose being passed
therethrough.
This device consists of a flat base formed of a sheet of metal or other material,
a wire or wires or the like, and of a circular or other suitable form. From the
front of this base, at or near the centre thereof, projects a loop of metal or other
material of suitable size and length, and preferably so shaped at its free end that it
may be easily forced through the lid or other portion of the basket or other
receptacle.
Three slightly different forms, Figs. 1, 2, and 3, of such a device are shown in
perspective in the accompanying drawings, and from these it will be observed that

page_text: the particular shape and construction is capable of considerable modification and
variation. In each case however the device consists of a base a of suitable shape,
from which projects a loop 6 of such shape and size that it may be easily forced
through the lid or other portion of a basket or the like receptacle.
In use one or more of these devices is or are attached to the lid and body
respectively of the basket or other receptacle by forcing the loops through said
lid and body from the inside, when the lid may be quickly and easily secured
by connecting the projecting loops together by a string, cord, wire, or the like.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and the manner in which same is to be carried into effect, I declare that
what I claim is :-
A device for facilitating the fastening of hampers and other receptacles of
wickerwork or other yielding material consisting of a base a and a loop b
projecting from one side thereof substantially as described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
Dad : 3
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CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, Mitre Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.