Improvements in or relating to Pails, Baths, Coal Scoops and Hods, Oans, and other such like Vessels.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 12th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 2nd Feb., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Pails, Baths, Coal Scoops and Hods,
Oans, and other such like Vessels.
THOMAS BELLIS 141 Queen's Road Bayswater London W. Ironmonger, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An inverted hoop, A. for pails, baths, scoops and hods, cans, and other such like
vessels.
The purpose of the inverted hoop A is to avoid the tearing of carpets, marking
oilcloths, and damaging floors generally.
An ordinary soap tray B, is applied in combination, and is intended to be
permanently attached to the pails and baths only.
The term "inverted hoop" means, that the hoop round the bottom of the
utensils mentioned is inverted or bent inwards to an shape, so as not to have the
sharp edge of ordinary hoops.
The scoops and hods are for containing coals.
Improvements in or relating to Pails, Baths, Coal Scoops and Hods,
Cans, and other such like Vessels.
1 THOMAS BELLIS, of No. 141 Queen's Road, Bayswater, London, Ironmonger,
do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
My invention consists first in constructing the feet of metallic and other pails
baths, coal scoops, and other like vessels such as cans and buckets in the manner
hereinafter described for the purpose of preventing the pail, bucket or other like
article or vessel from tearing or injuring or marking the carpets, oil cloths and
floors on which they are placed. For this purpose instead of making the foot of
the pail, bucket or vessel of the usual hoop, I make it of a hoop the lower portion
of which is bent inwards so as to give a L shape in cross section to the hoop. By
this construction, the sharp edge of the ordinary hoops is avoided, the bending
inwards of the lower part of the hoop besides providing a rounded or non-cutting
edge to the hoop also provides a broad inner flange at the bottom on which the
bucket or other article rests.
My invention consists secondly in the combination with metallic and other pails
or buckets and metallic baths of a permanently attached soap tray for receiving
and supporting soap. The said soap tray is capable of being turned outside the
vessel when the latter is to be cleaned or when the soap tray is not required to
be used.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in perspective a metallic pail
or bucket provided with a foot or hoop and a soap tray or holder according to my
invention.

page_text: Figure represents a vertical section and Figure 3 a plan of the same and
Figure 4 represents a horizontal section of the same taken through the foot or
hoop on the dotted line x, x Figure 2.
The saine letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the
drawing.
a is the body of the metallic pail or bucket made in the usual way and b, c is my
improved foot or hoop riveted at d, d to the closed bottom of the bucket. The
said foot consists of the hoop proper b and the inner horizontal flange c made by
bending inwards the lower part of the hoop so as to give to the hoop a L shape in
cross section as best seen in Figure 2. By the bending inwards of the lower part
of the hoop a rounded or non-cutting edge is given to the hoop and the bucket is
supported on the broad inner horizontal flange c. The inner flange of the hoop is
strengthened or increased rigidity given to it by the circular corrugation at e (see
Figure 2); and in galvanized metallic buckets the hoop b is perforated at f for the
purpose of permitting of the ready escape of the melted zinc from the hollow part
of the improved foot after the galvanizing operation. By this construction of foot
or hoop the advantages hereinbefore pointed out are obtained.
The improved foot or hoop described and represented may be applied to metallic
baths and metallic and wooden coal scoops and hods, cans and other like metallic
and wooden vessels usually furnished with supporting hoops.
The soap tray or holder applied to the upper part of the body of the bucket is
marked g, h, h. It consists of a flat wire support g on which the soap rests the said
support being provided with side arms h, h the eye ends of which are jointed to the
wired rim i of the bucket so that the said soap tray or holder can either be arranged
for use inside the bucket and near the mouth thereof as represented in the drawing,
or turned outside of the bucket when not required to be used for supporting the
soap as indicated in dotted lines in Figure 2. Although I prefer to make the soap
tray or holder of wire yet it may be made of sheet metal. Soap trays or holders
of the kind represented as applied to a metallic pail or bucket, may also be applied
to wooden pails or buckets and to metallic baths for the same purpose.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1'declare that I claim as
my invention of "Improvements in or relating to pails, baths, coal scoops and hods,
cans and other such like vessels " :-
First. Constructing the feet or hoops of metallic and other pails or buckets, coal
scoops and hods, cans and other like vessels substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawing; that is to say, providing the foot or
hoop of the pail or bucket or other article or vessel with a bent-in part or broad
iuner horizontal flange on which the pail, bucket or other article is supported for
the purposes and substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated.
Secondly. The combination with metallic and other pails or buckets and with
metallic baths of a soap tray or holder of the kind hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 6th day of December 1904
THOMAS BELLIS.