US100902A - Improvement in the manufacture op stave baskets - Google Patents

Description

N. PETERS, PHOTULJYKOGRAPHE lthtted Q .tatpg atout @tithe Letters Patent No. 100,902, dated March 15, 1870.

IMPRVEMBNT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF STAVE BASKETS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HORACE C. J ONES, of Dowagiac, in the county of Cass, and State of Michigan, have invented a Machine to be used in the Manufacture of Stave Baskets; and I do hereby declare that the following is a` full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings making part of this specification, in which- Figure .1, sheet 1, is a vertical sectional view of the new machine.

Figure 2, sheet 1, is a section, taken horizontally through the machine.

Figures.' 3 and 4, sheet 2, are views showing the kind of basket which the machine is intended to lnakc.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

The object of this invention is to facilitate the manufacture of the stave basket for which Letters Patent were granted to me on the 11th day of August, 1868, by so organizing a machine that the external and internal stavcs, constituting the outer layer and the lining of the baskets, can be readily adjusted and held in proper position for being secured together, as will be hereinafter explained.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand my invention, I will describe its construction and operation. l

The frame of the machine consists of a horizontal bed, A, from which rise perpendicularly two standards, which are connecter; together at two points by horizontal bars C C.-

From the center of the bed A of this frame rises perpendicularly a post, D, upon the upper end of which a circular plate, E', is secured, having a hole through its raised central portion, and an annular rebate, c, near its outer edgeas shown in figs. 1 and 2.

Beneath this plate E', the post D is slotted, and centrally perforated, for receiving the rod b and branch rods b', that support and have secured to them a ring, E', upon the upper edge of which a number of vertical pins, el, are arranged, at regular distances apart, cntirely around this ring.

The central rod bis loosely' attached, at its lower end, to one arm of a lever, L, which is pivoted, at g, in a slot made in the bottom of the frameebed A, the other arm of which lever has a latchingpiece, a, pivoted to it, the notch in which will receive a lip, at Ii, tig. 1, when the ring Il is elevated, which will sustain the ring in an elevated position.

I is a 4vertical rod, whose axis coincides with the axis of plate E', and which is provided, on its lower end, with a circular follower, F, having a convex bottom side.

This rod I passes cent-rally through a tubular shaft,

- by a cap, s, and rivet s'.

H, and is guided by means of nuts, ff', at the cxtremitiesof the shaft.

By means of a lever, K, and pendent handle, K', the rod I can be moved either up or down, as may he required.

The tubular shaft H is connected, at its upper end, to a lever, J, by means of the swivel-nut f, and on the free lend of this lever J is a handle, J', by means of which shaft H can be moved up or down.

This tubular shaft H passes through and is guided by the cross-bars C C' of the frame; and to its lower end a concave follower-ring, G, is secured by means of arms e e and the nut f.

The ring Gis concave on its bottom side, and main* tains a position which is concentric to the axis of fol, lower-rod I.

Operation.

The bottom hoop o, shown in fig. 3, sheet 2, is adjusted upon the plate E in the rabbeted portion c, after which the stavcs, lettered u in' fig. 3, which extend from side to side of the basket, and forni the outer thickness, are arranged diametrically across the ring E and plate E', and properly adjusted between the studs or pins d on ring E, as indicated in tig. 2 in red lines. The operator then draws downthe follower F, so that its convex side presses firmly upon the central portions of the stavcs directly cver the center of .A

the plate E. \Vhile the follower' F is thus held, the pointed ends of thc stavcs p, which constitute the lining or inner thickness of the basket, are adjusted beneath the convex side of the follower F, and their outer ends adjusted between the pins or studs (l. 'Ihe ring-follower G 'is then brought down forcibly upon the two layers of stavcs, and sufficient pressure applied to it to give the bottom of the basket a swelling or rounded shape. The hoop o' is then adjusted in place, and nailed to the hoop o, the nails all being clinched on the outer side of the basket-bottom, after -which the follower F is raised, and the pointed ends of the stavcs p secured to the stavcs n, and covered Ihe ends of the stavcs are then drawn together, and the basket shaped, hoopcd, and finished in the usual manner.

It will be seen, from the above description, that l have contrived a machine wherein the stavcs forming thc two thicknesses or layers in the basket can all hc readily and properly adj usted in their places, and then held in this condition while they are secured between thc internal and external bottoni hoops.

lt will be seen that the base-plate E is made so that when pressure is applied to the stavcs by the rng-lbllower G, thc proper concavo-convex forni will hc given to the basket-bottom. This plate is also made so as to hold the bottom hoop or foot-ring o in proper position beneath the stares untilthis hoop or ring o is riveted to the staves.

Having described my invention,

What I claim as new, und desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. .lhe spurred ring E, in combination-with a central plate, E', and a follower, F, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. The ring follower G, in combination with the spurred ring E und the plate E, substantiallyY as and for the purposes described.

3. The construction of the plate E with a hoop seat, c, and a convex surface, substantially as and for the purposes described.

4.. The folloWerF, construct-ed with a. convex bottom, in combination with the plate E', said parts beingv

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