Improvements in and connected with Collapsible Tubes and Stands for the same.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Aug., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Collapsible Tubes and Stands
for the same.
ALBERT ABRAM WADE, 169, Woodhouse Street, Leeds, Designer, and ALBANY
Downs, Shaw Side, Guiseley, near Leeds, Traveller, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows;-
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This invention has for its object the more convenient use of the contents of
collapsible tubes.
For this purpose a stand is provided of suitable material, such as tin, con-
sisting of a base, a perpendicular and an upper part. The latter may be pierced
or slotted so that the tube's nozzle or upper part may be held therein.
This nozzle or upper part may be shouldered or have a neck to engage within
the hole or slot; and the said shoulder or nozzle may be extended to form a cup
shaped receiver.
The base of the stand supports the whole.
The stand may be single or multiple and may be combined with any other
article, such as a box or easel.
The tubes may be suspended in or upon any such article by the upper part in
the manner above described.
The stand or suspender may be used as a surface for printed matter, or it
may be combined with an adjustable calendar, or other convenient article.
The tube may be secured as usual with a screw cap, or the orifice may be
closed by a plug or stopper screwed or unscrewed, and either with or without
a brush or spreader.
For some substances a brush ended stopper is best, and for others such as
glue or gum a spreader made as follows is preferable.
Rubber or other suitable material is cut or moulded to a wedge or spade shape
and attached to the end of the stopper which also is the stem of the spreader.
The stopper may be screwed to enter the tube nozzle and the stem produced
into a hook or loop which may penetrate and be secured in or to the spreader
or brush.
Or the stopper may be a spur from, or widen out into the stem which clips or
joins the spreader or brush."
The spreader may be affixed to the tube about the nozzle so that the tube itself
serves as the handle for the spreader.
One method of construction is as follows:-A rubber spreader of any suitable
form preferably double wedge shape, with a hole through which the nozzle
projects is secured by cement and the constriction of the rubber.
stopper is used, preferably a hooked or looped screw.
This form may be used with or without the stand.
A separate
To express the contents of the tube and wind up the emptied part conveniently,
a metal winder may clip the bottom of the tube, closing it and winding as
required.
A winder may be made by doubling flat wire rather longer than the width

page_text: of the flattened tube, and bending back the ends at right angles, or into rings
to wind with.
Dated this 24th day of August 1899.
Improvements in and connected with Collapsible Tubes and Stands
for the same.
We, ALBERT ABRAM WADE, of 169, Woodhouse Street, Leeds, Designer, and
ALBANY DOWNs, of Shaw Side, Guiseley, Traveller, both in the County of York, 1
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:-
This invention consists of the addition to collapsible tubes, with suitably
formed necks, of rubber spreaders; of hooked or looped screw stoppers; of an
improved form of winders; and of stands for suspending the tubes; the whole
enabling the contents to be conveniently used: Also a combined cap and spreader.
In the drawings-
Fig. 1 is a view of tube suspended in stand, complete.
Fig. 2, shews a tube out of stand.
Fig. 3, is a view of stand and tube with detachable spreader.
Fig. 4, shews sectionally a tube with hooked screw stopper only.
Fig. 5, is a section of collapsible tube neck.
Fig. 6, is a view of winder.
Fig. 7, is view of spreader secured to screw cap stopper.
In the following description similar letters indicate similar parts.
A is a collapsible tube. B rubber spreader. B₁ detachable spreader. C hooked
or looped screw stopper. D) winder. E neck of tube. F', stand. G screw cap
stopper.
In Fig. 1 the collapsible tube has a suitably formed neck E, without cap or
thread, having a smooth bore orifice sufficiently large for a small hooked wood
screw to be turned into it thus forming its own thread: or the size of the orifice
may permit the stem of the hook passing in freely and the neck be squeezed on to
the thread. The iron of the screwstopper is much stronger than the metal of
ihe tube, therefore by using the form of screw known as a wood screw, with wide
space between the threads, its complement in the orifice becomes wide and so
the softer metal of the tube is much less likely to break out by use.
A rubber spreader B, preferably double wedge shaped and pierced, is placed
on the neck E and secured by cement and the constriction of the rubber.
An improved winder of flat or half round wire bent in the middle, its two
flat sides gripping the base of the tube, serves for closing it, and its two ends
bent at right angles or other suitable shape, form handles for conveniently
winding up the tube as contents are expressed (see Fig. 6).
The stand F of a suitable material, such as tin, consists of a base, a perpen-
dicular and an upper part; the latter shall be pierced or slotted that the tube's
neck may be held therein.
In Fig. 2, is shewn a looped screw stopper instead of hooked.
In Fig. 3, the parts A, D, and F, are the same as in Fig. 1, but the rim of
the neck E may be widened into a cup shaped receiver e, with a detachable
spreader B one end a flexible edge 6 the other end a handle part from which
a spur projects serving as a stopper for the tube.
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page_text: Fig. 4 shews a section of a capless tube A with which a hooked wood screw
stopper C only is used.
This form of stopper is convenient for hanging up and is particularly adapted
for preventing the choking of the orifice when filled with such substances as
liquid glue.
Tube winders have been proposed before but not of the effective clasping form
here introduced.
Any combination of the several parts in Figs. 1 and 3 may be used.
A spreader may be secured to an ordinary screw cap stopper (see Fig. 7).
The stand F may be used as a surface for printed matter, or it may be com-
bined with an adjustable calendar, or other convenient article.
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:-
1. In combination, a capless collapsible metal tube with unthreaded neck and
a smooth bore orifice to receive a hooked or looped screw stopper whose threads
are thin and their intervening spaces wide, which, screwed into this orifice,
forms its own thread in the soft metal.
2. In combination, a collapsible tube, a looped thin threaded screw stopper,
and a clasping winder, substantially as described.
3. A flexible wedge edge spreader secured about the neck of a collapsible
tube, and a removeable stopper, substantially as described.
4. A flexible wedge edged spreader mounted upon a collapsible tube, a remove-
able stopper, and a clasping winder, substantially as described.
5. A stand supported collapsible tube, furnished with a flexible wedge edged
spreader, a removeable stopper, and a clasping winder, substantially as described.
6. A detachable flexible wedge edged spreader having a spur which forms the
stopper of a suitably shaped stand supported collapsible tube, substantially as
described.
7. A spreader secured to a cap stopper.