Improvements in Fastening or Connecting together the Ends of the Foot Rings or Hoops of Buckets, Cans, and other analogous articles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Sept., 1898-Accepted, 12th Nov., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION..
Improvements in Fastening or Connecting together the Ends of the
Foot Rings or Hoops of Buckets, Cans, and other analogous
articles.
We, CALEB WILLIAM ROBERTS, EBENEZER ELIAS COOPER and DAVID WALTER
COOPER, trading as the Wollescote Galvanizing Company, of Brierley Hill, in 'the
County of Stafford, Manufacturers, do hereby declare, the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly, described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to means for securing or connecting together the ends of
sheet metal lengths or strips for forming the hoops or foot-rings of buckets, milk-
cans, bowls, tubs and other hollow-ware and analogous articles and has for its
object to efficiently provide a joint or fastening without the employment of rivets
and which, when complete shall be flush or without projecting parts on both the
outside and the inside.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents an elevation of a bucket
fitted with a foot ring or hoop, the ends of which are secured together by a joint,
connection or fastening in accordance with our invention.
Figure 2 is an elevation of the hoop or ring separately, showing the joint upon
an enlarged scale.
Figure 3 is a topside plan of the same.
Figure 4 is a cross section of Figure 3 upon the dotted line, looking towards
the joint so as to show an elevation of the inside thereof.
Figure 5 is a horizontal section of Figure 4 upon the dotted line a¹.
Figure 6 is a like section as Figure 5 but showing the ends of the hoop separated
or before being connected up.
Figure 7 is an elevation of the outer sides of the said ends of the hoop before
connection, and
Figure 8 is an elevation of the inner sides thereof.
Figure 9 is a similar section as is represented in Figure 6, but upon a further
enlarged scale and
Figure 10 is a section, upon the same scale as Figure 9, of the completed
connection.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawing.
Thus, according to our invention, the ends a¹, a², of a length or strip of metal
which are to be connected so as to form a hoop or foot ring a, for a bucket or
the like, are respectively provided the one with a tongue b, and the other with
a vertical slit or hole such as c, of a height approximately corresponding to the
width of the tongue and with the metal at that side nearest the end being recessed
or bulged outwardly into a pocket or seating c¹, into which the tongue b, takes
after being passed through the slit c, and there lies perfectly flush. The said
tongue is returned hook-wise or rakes inwards and is preferably formed out of
the metal of the outermost of the overlapping ends of the strip, whilst the slit
and pocket or seating for the tongue comes innermost.

page_text: In making up a hoop, a strip of stout sheet metal of sufficient length and width
to make a hoop of the required diameter and height is taken and passed through
bending rolls to give it the required curvature. The opposite ends are then
operated upon by suitable tools to produce the cut-out tongue in the one and
the slot or hole with pocket proceeding from its one side in the other and then
by threading or engaging the tongue through or with the slot and afterwards
closing or bedding down the same flush into its pocket from the inside of the
hoop, a joint or connection is produced which is quite flash on both the inside and
outside and sufficiently strong to resist considerable pressure upon the inside.
The tongue may either be tapered as shown or parallel sided and the figure
or boundary shape of the pocket or seating preferably conforms to that of the
tongue.
Instead of forming a pocket for the reception of the tongue prior to the engage-
ment of the latter with the slot, the one part may be engaged into the other and
then a pocket or sinking may be formed by the closing down of the tongue and
the bedding of the same into the metal adjacent to the slot.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:
Connecting or uniting together the overlapping ends of a strip or length of
metal to form a foot ring or hoop for buckets or the like, by means of a returned
hook tongue on the one end being passed through a slot or hole in the other end
and lying within a pocket or seating proceeding from the said slot, substantially
as described and set forth.
Берестост 1000.
.
CALEB WILLIAM ROBERTS.
EBENEZER ELIAS COOPER,
DAVID WALTER COOPER,
By Henry Skerrett,
24, Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.