Improvements in or in connection with baskets for landing fish and for like purposes
195,243. Fitzpatrick, B. Feb. 25, 1922. Baskets.-Cane or like baskets for landing fish &c. and comprising a bottom a, upset a<1>, middle fitch a<2>, upper fitch a<3>, and wale and border a<4>, have these parts all bound together by means of a strip or strips B, B<1> of pliable sheet metal, wire, rod, &c. embodied in the bottom, passed through and looped around the upset, up through the middle fitch and given a turn around it if necessary, through the upper fitch, wale and border, given a turn or turns around them and finally secured, for example, by being embedded in the top of the basket. Split stakes are preferably carried up the basket to cover the inner faces of the strips B, or the strips may be enclosed, as shown, in plaited casings a<5>.