Improvements in Buckets, Cans, or Vessels for Holding Water or other Liquid.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd May, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 19th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 23rd Mar., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buckets, Cans, or Vessels for Holding Water or
other Liquid.
1, WILLIAM MILLER, of 212 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, in the County of
Lanark, North Britain, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention
to be as follows, that is to say :-
My said Invention has for its object to construct improved buckets, cans, or
vessels, fitted with covers which are ordinarily closed but which open semi-auto-
matically when the vessels are handled in a manner to discharge their contents.
In carrying out my Invention the vessel is fitted with a handle which may be of the
ordinary half-hoop form or of any other convenient form, and which is hinged at
opposite points to the upper edge of the vessel or lugs formed on or fixed thereto.
A cover is provided, which consists by preference of a part fixed to the vessel and of
a part hinged to the fixed part, and the hinged part is connected to the handle by one
or more wires or chains. When the vessel is held up by one hand by means of the
handle and is then tilted by means of the other hand applied to the bottom below the
fixed part of the cover, the hinged part of the cover is opened by the connection
between it and the bandle. The hinged part of the cover may form half of the entiro
cover or a greater or less portion as may be considered desirable in different cases;
and a knob or other convenient handle may be fixed in a suitable position to be taken
hold of for tilting the vessel.
Dated this Twenty-second day of May 1888:
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buckets, Cans, or Vessels for Holding Water or
other Liquid.
I, WILLIAM MILLER, of 212 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
North Britain, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement, that is to say :-
My said Invention has for its object to construct improved buckets, cans, or vessels,
fitted with covers which are ordinarily closed but which open semi-automatically when
the-vessels are handled in a manner to discharge their contents.
In carrying out my Invention the vessel is fitted with a handle which may be of the
ordinary half-hoop form or of any other convenient form and which is hinged at
opposite points to the upper edge of the vessel or to lugs formed on or fixed thereto.
A cover is provided which consists by preference of a part fixed to the vessel, and of a
-part hinged to the fixed part, and the hinged part is connected to the handle by one or
more wires or chains. When the vessel is held up by one hand-by means of the
handle and is then tilted by means of the other hand applied to the bottom below the
fixed part of the cover, the hinged part of the cover is opened by the connection between
it and the handle. The hinged part of the cover may form half of the entire cover or
a greater or less portion as may be considered desirable in different cases; and a knob
or other convenient handle may be fixed in a suitable position to be taken hold of for
tilting the vessel.
My improvements may be fitted to various shapes of buckets, cans, or vessels and
may be carried out in a large variety of ways but by way of example I hereunto
append a sheet of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter referred to and showing four
modifications.
Figures, 1, and 2, are perspective view showing one modification as with the cover
in its closed and open positions. Figure, 3, is a perspective view of a modification
suitable for use as a chamber pail. Figures, 4, and 5, are vertical sections at right
angles to each other, the vessel in figure, 5, being tilted, showing a third modification
and figure, 6, is a perspective view of a fourth modification suitable for use as a milk
can. In these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or like
parts wherever they are repeated.
In the modification shown in figures, 1, and 2, a handle, A, which is of the ordinary
half-hoop form is hinged at opposite points to lugs, B, fixed to the upper edge of the
bucket or vessel, C. A cover is provided which consists of a part, D, fixed to the
vessel, C, and of a part, E, hinged to the fixed part, D, which part, D, is held firmly
in its place by passing the end of the wire, F, forming the hinge between the lugs, B,
and under the rim of the vessel, C. The whole cover can be easily removed by bending
up the wire, F, in order to allow of number of the buckets being packed together in
nest fashion for transport. A wire, u, or a half-hoop form has its ends fastened in

page_text: holes formed in the handle, A, and its curved part fastened to the binged part, E, of
the cover so that when the vessel, C, is held and tilted as herein before described and
as shown in figure, 2, the hinged part, E, of the cover is opened by the wire, G, con-
necting it with the handle, A, and allows free egress to any liquid in the vessel.
In the modification shown in figure, 3, the handle, A, is hinged to the upper edge of
the vessel, C, itself, instead of to lugs, (B) and the hinged part, E, forms a greater
portion of the entire cover than in the modification hereinbefore described, a
chain, H, being also substituted for the wire, (G) to connect the handle, A, and the
hinged cover, E.
In the modification shown in figures, 4, and 5, the ends of the handle, A, are
flattened and bent inwards so as to join the top of the cover to which they may be
riveted or otherwise fastened. The cover is in this modification made entirely in one
piece, I, and is free to be turned by the handle, A, when the vessel, C, is hold and
tilted as shown in figure, 5, but is prevented from turning in the opposite direction by
part of its edge being made to rest on the upper surface of a flange, J, extending out-
wards from the upper edge of the vessel, C, and the remaining part bearing up against
the underside of a flange, K, also formed on the upper edge of the vessel, C, and
extending inwards.
In the modification shown in figure, 6, the vessel, C, is fitted with an ordinary
cover, L, capable of being removed by hand when the vessel is to be filled and
the discharge spout, M, is fitted with the cover, E, the connection between the
hinged part, E, and the handle, A, being effected, in this caso, by a rod, N,
jointed to a small looped wire, O, which is jointed to the handle, A.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
Fitting buckets, cans, or vessels for holding water or other liquid with hinged
or jointed covers or parts of covers which are connected to the handle also hinged
or jointed to the vessel and which open by the action of the handle substantially
as hereinbefore described and shown in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Eighteenth day of February 1889.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.