The Revolving Table-Basket: Turn the Dish on Its Stem, With a Handle to Lift It Level

A basket of bread, cake, fruit or nuts has to be lifted and turned to reach what is on its far side, and one carried by a swinging bail tips when unevenly loaded. John Gibson, Jr., of Albany, New York, received US 119,086, dated 19 September 1871, for mounting "a table-basket or dish for bread, cake, fruit, nuts, preserves, &c., on caster-wheels or other wheels, to facilitate the movement of the basket or dish on a table or other surface", pivoting it to its base to revolve round a central handle-stem, and providing receptacles for nut-picks, knives, spoons and plates. The upright central handle lifts the basket level from any side. This rung works out how little push turns the loaded basket, then makes it from a bowl on a turntable bearing with a central handle and pick holders, on small casters, and serves fruit and nuts from it.