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UNITED
STATES
PATENT: OFFICE.
. EDGAR ABER, OF JACKSONVILLE, TEXAS.
VENEER BASKET.
SPECIFICATION flowing part of Letters Patent No. 701,665, dated June 3, 1902.
Application filed January 25, 1902. Serial No, 91,201. (No model.)'17 all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I; EDGAR ABER, a citizen
of the United States, residing at Jacksonville,
in the county of Cherokee and State of Texas,
5 have invented certain new and useful Im-
provements in Veneer Baskets, of which the
following is a full, clear, and exact descrip-
tion.
My invention relates to improvements in ve-
10 neer baskets of that class which are now exten-
sively employed in the packaging and ship-
ment of fruit, although I would have it un-
derstood that the improved article of my in-
vention may be used for any and all purposes
15 of which it is capable.-
The objects that I have-in view in my pres-
ent invention are to provide an improved ar-
ticle which shall be stronger in construction
and lighter in weight than prior devices of
20 its class, which does not require as much ve-
neer stock in its manufacture as in-prior de-
vices, and hence can be produced more eco-
nomically, and which makes provision for
the secure attachment of the handle without
25 the necessity of nailing or stapling the same
inplace,thus allowing the handles to beplaced
in the bottoms of the baskets, and a stack of
baskets may thus be compactly nested to-
gether for shipment or transportation.
30 With these ends in view my invention con-
sists of a veneer basket embodying novel fea-
tures of construction and arrangement of
parts, as will be hereinafter fully described
and claimed.
.35 Reference is to be had to the accompanying
drawings, forming part of this specification,
in which similar characters of reference indi-
cate corresponding parts in all the figures.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a num-
4o ber of baskets nested together, the lowermost
basket being partially broken away in order
to show the position of the handle therein.
Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the han-
dle on an enlarged scale and detached from
45 the basket. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section
through the complete basket and its handle.
Fig. 4 is a horizontal section through an end
portion of the basket, the plane of the sec-
tion being indicated by the dotted line 4 4 inFig. 3; and Fig. 5 is a detail view showing the 50
preferred means for fastening the cover in
place upon the basket.
The body A of the improved basket con
sists of two or more body-sections, (indicated
at a a',) each body-section being bent from a 55
single piece of veneer, so as to produce the
desired cross-sectional form. The body-sec-
tions produce in part the bottom of the bas-
ket; but this bottom is completed by the pro-
vision of. the bottom veneer B, the same ex- 6o
tending the full length and width of the bas-
ket. This bottom veneer or bottom section
B is in practice equal in length to the bot-
tom of the basket and the width of the basket
at the two ends thereof, and said end por- 65
tions of the bottom veneer or section are
bent upwardly and are slitted, as indicated
at b in Fig. 4. The incisions or slits b at each
end portion of the bottom section or veneer
B provide a central upstanding splint b' and 70
the tongues or members b2 b3. The splint b'
at each end of the bottom section or veneer
lies between the tongues b2 b, as shown by
Fig. 4, and when the parts of the basket are
assembled together the splint b' is bent or 75
deflected to a position somewhat out of line
with a line drawn through the tongues b2 b3,
as also shown by Fig. 4.
The end portions of each basket are formed
by the provision of the end sections 0, each 8o
of which is bent from a single piece of veneer
to the appropriate form. Each end section
is stamped or cut from a layer of veneer to
the proper size, and by means of a suitable
shaping - die or other machine this veneer 85
which forms one end section is bent to pro-
duce the rounded corners c c' and the in-
wardly-extending flanges c2 es, the form of
the end sections being more clearly repre-
sented by Fig. 4. In the - manufacture of 9o
the end section from a single piece of veneer
I prefer to give the rounded corners c c' an
upwardly-flaring form, whereby end sections
of this character will not only properly fit
into the other members forming the basket, 95
so as to. give round corners thereto, but said
end sections will also impart the desired up-
ward flare to the basket---that is to say, ex-
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Aber, Edgar. Veneer Basket., patent, June 3, 1902; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth512901/m1/3/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.