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US 3,979,856 AGranted
Wire basket
OwnerJames H. Belcherinventor
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Abstract
A wire basket for retaining excavated earthen balls, the basket having a plurality of spaced upright wires or "stakes" divergently arranged and connected to a plurality of spaced wire hoops or "wales" of successively increasing larger size and formed of a plurality of intersecting generally chordal segments that form angles which are increasingly larger with successively larger hoops.
Claims16
A wire transplanting basket for retaining excavated earthen balls comprising:
- a plurality of generally divergent stakes;
- and
- a plurality of spaced wales connected to the stakes, each wale formed of a plurality of interconnected segments that have substantially the same curvature, the segments of successively spaced wales substantially aligned with each other and each having curvature focal points that converge more toward a common center than the curvature focal point segments of smaller antecedent wales.
A transplanting basket for retaining excavated earthen balls comprising:
- a plurality of angularly interconnected divergent wall portions of substantially the same size with substantially a cylindrical wall contour, comprising a plurality of spaced generally upright divergent wires connected to a plurality of spaced cross wires, and wherein the angular interconnection between wall portions becomes increasingly larger with the divergence of the upright wires.
A wire basket comprising:
- a plurality of wire hoops of successively increasing size spaced from each other in generally parallel planes, each hoop comprised of a plurality of intersecting curved segments, the intersections substantially lineally aligned and defining substantially corner portions with included angles that are successively larger from the smaller to the larger hoops;
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- a plurality of spaced generally divergent wires arranged generally transverse of and attached to the wire hoops.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.