Watch parts handling apparatus

Claim 1

FOR USE WITH A MACHINE FOR CLEANING TIME-PIECE PARTS, SAID MACHINE INCLUDING AN OPEN-TOPPED BASKET OF FORAMINOUS MATERIAL ADAPTED FOR IMMERSION AND AGITATION WITHIN A BATH OF CLEANING FLUID, APPARATUS FOR CONTAINING PARTS OF A PLURALITY OF TIME-PIECES IN RESPECTIVELY SEGREGATED RELATION, COMPRISING AN ADAPTER PLATE HAVING A PLURALITY OF APERTURES THEREIN AND REMOVABLY RECEIVABLE UPON THE OPEN TOP OF SAID BASKET IN COVERING RELATION THERETO AND A PARTS-RECEIVING RECEPTACLE REMOVABLY RECEIVABLE IN EACH OF SAID APERTURES OF SAID ADAPTER PLATE, EACH OF SAID RECEPTACLES INCLUDING A WIRE MESH BODY PORTION ADAPTED TO PROJECT THROUGH THE ASSOCIATED APERTURE AND DOWNWARD FROM THE ADAPTER PLATE INTO THE BASKET, AND A SHEET METAL RIM OF ANNULAR FORM AND INCLUDING A BIGHT PORTION AND INNER AND OUTER SUBSTANTIALLY CYLINDRICAL FLANGES INTERCONNECTED BY THE BIGHT PORTION, THE UPPER EDGE OF EACH BODY PORTION BEING CLAMPED BETWEEN SAID FLANGES OF THE ASSOCIATED RIM TO SECURE THE RIM TO THE BASKET, THE OUTSIDE DIAMETER OF SAID RIM OF EACH OF SAID RECEPTACLES BEING GREATER THAN THE DIAMETER OF THE ASSOCIATED ADAPTER PLATE APERTURE AND ENGAGEABLE WITH THE UPPER SURFACE OF THE ADAPTER PLATE TO SUPPORT THE ASSOCIATED RECEPTACLE FROM THE ADAPTER PLATE.