US936736A - Wire basket. - Google Patents

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J. B. PORTER & E. B. JENKINS.

WIRE BASKET.

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JAMES BAIRD PORTER AND EDWIN BURDETTE JENKINS, 0F PITTSBURG, PENN- SYLVANIA.

WIRE BASKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 12, 1909.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that we, J AMES BAIRD PORTER and EDWIN BURDETTE JENKINS, both citizens of the United States, residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Wire Basket, of which the following is a specication, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to wire baskets especially designed for the transportation and haldling of farm products and goods in genera In the manufacture of baskets of wire it has been found dificult to produce a basket having sufficient strength and rigidity .to withstand hard and repeated usage in transportation, while at the same time light enough to meet requirements and to minimize the cost of manufacture and keep down the cost of expressage and freight in order to make such articles available. By means of the construction herein described and illustrated in the drawings, a practical, light and exceedingly strong, rigid and durable basket is obtained which is admirably adapted for the purpose above described.

The invention consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement hereinafter fully described, illustrated and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings Figure l is a perspective view of the completed basket of this invention. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view, on an enlarged scale, of one of the upper corner joints. Fig. 3 is a similar view of one of the lower joints. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the blank from which the basket is formed.

The basket, as a whole, is made in one piece of fabric which is composed of two series of wires, the wires of each series being parallel to each other, while the wires of one series are laid upon the wires of the other series and across the same at right angles thereto, all of the wires of both series being electrically welded together at their crossing points, thereby producing the same effect as if the wires were all integral or in one piece, making the joints or crossing points perfectly rigid so that there is no relative play or movement whatever. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the meshes between the wires are elongated in one direction, caused by arranging the wires of one series nearer to each other than the wires of the series extending at right angles thereto.

l designates what are termed the longitudinal or main fabric wires, while 2 designates the transverse or stay wires. The corner portions of the iat blank, as shown in Fig. 4 are cut away as at 3 to form the sides and ends of the basket, leaving a rectangular body portion of the blank which constitutes the bottom of the completed basket. Certain wires of the sides and ends thus formed are left projecting as shown, 4 designating the projecting wires of the sides and 5 the projecting ends of wires of the ends of the basket. The sides and ends are folded into the relation shown in Fig. l, the opposite sides and ends being slightly out of parallel so as to give an upward flare to the completed basket, as shown in Fig. 1, in order to permit a number of baskets to be nested together for -the sake of compactness, a feature especially valuable in the return of the baskets to the dealer ormanufacturer after the shipped goods have been delivered.

In folding the basket in the manner above described the outer marginal wires 6 become the top wires of the basket sides, while the outer marginal wires 7 of the ends become the top wires of the basket ends, as seen by a comparison of Figs. 1 and 4. The longitudinal or main fabric wires of the blank become the stay wires of the basket ends, while the cross or stay wires of the blank become the stay wires of the basket sides. rlhe wires 8 and 9 of the blank form the bottom corner wires of the completed basket, while the opposite end portions Sand 9 of said wires form the upright corner wires of the completed basket. The projecting wires 4 and 5 are then brought tof gether and twisted or coiled tightly around each other to form the corner joints l0 and 11, 10 designating the upper corner joints one of which is shown enlarged in Fig. 2, and ll designating the lower corner joints, one of which is shown enlarged in Fig. 3. In other words, the end portion 4 of the wire 6 is wrapped or coiled around the wire 7 and the end portion 5 of the wire 7 is wrapped aroundA the wire 6. It will be noted that greater space is left between the corner wires 8 and 9 at the top than at the bottom and that while the wires are twisted around each other close up to the corner wires 8 and 9 in the lower corner joints,

intervening spaces l2 remain between the coils or twists and the adjacent corner wires at the top corner joints. The arrangement described is productive of the desirable up'- ward flare which is imparted to the basket as a whole for the purpose stated, besides giving a strong connection at the corners of the basket. A sutlicient number of coils or twists are given to the joints to make them perfectly rigid, thus carrying out the rigid bracing effect above referred to throughout the whole structure. By reason of the construction and arrangement described Awire of very light gage may be employed in the manufacture of the basket without impairing the strength, rigidity and durability of the basket.

Having now described the invention, what is claimed as new, is

l. A wire basket embodying a bottom, ends and sides, and composed of wire fabric embodying two series of parallel wires, the wires of one series being spaced farther apart than the wires of the other series, and

25 the wires of one series being laid across the wires of--the other series and electrically welded thereto at the crossing point, certain wires of the ends and sides of the basket being projected beyond the ends and sides and brought together and crossed at right angles atthe corners of the basket and coiled tightly one around and upon another between upright wires adjacent to the corners of the basket.

2. A wire basket embodying a bottom, ends and sides, and composed of wire fabric embodying two series of parallel wires, the wires of one series being laid across the wires of the other series and electrically welded thereto at the crossing points, certain wires of the ends and sides of the basket being projected beyond the ends and sides and brought together and crossed at right angles at the corners of the basket and coiled tightly one around and upon another bel tween upright wires adjacent to the corners of the basket to form upper and lower angle joints7 the upper angle joints heilig located farther from the upright corner wires than the lower joints.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES BAIRD PORTER. EDVIN BURDETTE JENKINS.

fitnesses ROBERT GEORGE MCKEE, GEO. C. JAEGER.

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