US232068A - robinson - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

W. J. ROBINSON.

Berry Basket Holder.

No. 232,068. Patented Sept. 7,1880.

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WILLIAM J. ROBINSON, OF HOWLETT HILL, NEW YORK.

BERRY-BASKET HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 232,068, dated September 7, 1880.

Application filed May 6, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1', WILLIAM J. ROBINSON, of Hewlett Hill, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Berry-Basket Holder, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple device for holding a basket while picking berries so that the berries shall not be spilled.

Figure l is a side elevation of the device. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same without the strap or belt and with parts broken away to exhibit other parts.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

ln the drawings, A represents the frame, composed of stout wire or rod bent to conform with the outline of the basket, (in this instance formed into a four-sided rectangular frame,) and provided on opposite sides with projecting studs B B. G is another stout wire or rod bent so as to extend around and beyond the front of the frame A, as shown at a, and along the sides thereof, and said wire 0 has a turn made in it on each side of the frame A, thereby forming loops 1) b, in which the studs B B are inserted, so that said frame A and its contents may swing therein, the washers ff serving to prevent friction between the frame A and wire 0. The ends of this wire 0 are continued rearward and entered into a rigid curved support, D, which support is preferably made of wood and is provided with loops or staples c c on its convex face.

E is a strap or belt provided with a buckle, E, that is passed across the face of the support D and through the loops 0 c, and is designed to be buckled around the body of the berry-picker, so that the device shall be held in front of the body in a horizontal position.

F represents a berry-basket suspended by its rim within the frame A, and Gr is a chain or cord connecting the frame A with the support D, said chain G being of sufficient length to permit the basket F to swing enough to preserve a level position, but not long enough to permit the basket to tip so as to spill its contents.

Using this device a. berry-picker can use both hands in picking, and thereby can pick from one-third to one-half more berries in a given time than he can when holding a basket in one hand, as is commonly done.

I am aware that wire-frame fruit-box holders have been heretofore suspended from the body; but

What I claim as new and of my invention (No model.)

The combination,- in a fruit-box holder, of

the frame A, having opposite studs B, the frame 0, having side loops, b, the rigid support D,with strap E, and the chain G, all constructed and adapted to operate substantially as shown and described.

WILLIAM JOHN ROBIN SON.

Witnesses E. H. MANN, ALFRED LANG.

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