Improvements in Bushel and other Measures of Capacity for Dry Goods.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 4th June, 1892—Accepted, 9th July, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bushel and other Measures of Capacity for Dry
Goods.
1 JOHN PAGE BRADLEY of East Dereham, in the County of Norfolk,
Ironmonger, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Bushels and other measures for dry goods as at present made vary in capacity
with variations of temperature and of atmospheric pressure.
The object of this invention is to manufacture bushel and other measures for
dry goods which will be unaffected in capacity by ordinary atmospheric influences,
and which are at the same time as light, and stronger than the bushel and other
measures of capacity for dry goods as at present made.
In accordance with this invention, I make the body and bottom of the measure
of thin hardened steel. The bottom of the measure is rivetted or otherwise
secured to one of the flanges of an angle iron ring, the body of the measure being
similarly secured to the other flange; the angle iron ring thus forming a foot for
the finished measure. Across the bottom of the measure and on the underside
thereof is secured a strip or strips of corrugated iron, to stiffen or strengthen the
measure, or the bottom itself may be corrugated. Around the top of the measure
I fix a strengthening ring or rim. If desired, the body of the measure may also
be stiffened or strengthened by corrugations or by other suitable means.
Dated this 18th day of March 1892.
F. W. GOLBY,
36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bushel and other Measures of Capacity for Dry
Goods.
I, JOHN PAGE BRADLEY, of East Dereham, in the County of Norfolk, Iron-
monger, 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 :-
Bushels and other measures for dry goods as at present made vary in capacity
with variations of temperature and of atmospheric pressure.
The object of this invention is to manufacture bushel and other measures for
dry goods which will be unaffected in capacity by ordinary atmospheric influences,
and which are at the same time as light and stronger than the bushel and other
measures of capacity for dry goods as at present made.
In accordance with this invention, I make the body and bottom of the measure
of thin hardened steel. The bottom of the measure is rivetted or otherwise
secured to one of the flanges of an angle iron ring, the body of the measure being
similarly secured to the other flange; the angle iron ring thus forming a foot for
the finished measure. Across the bottom of the measure and on the underside
thereof is secured a strip or strips of corrugated iron, to stiffen or strengthen the
measure, or the bottom itself may be corrugated. Around the top of the measure
I fix a strengthening ring or rim. If desired, the body of the measure may also
be stiffened or strengthened by corrugations or by other suitable means.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation and Figure 2 a bottom plan of a measure made
according to this invention.

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The body A is made from hardened sheet steel and bent round into the form of
a cylinder and secured at the bottom to the vertical flange of the angle iron
ring B. The horizontal flange of this ring B is scolloped or vandyked, or part of
the material along one of its edges is cut away as shewn in Figure 2, so that the
blank from which the ring is made can easily be bent round into the circular shape
of the bottom' C to which it is secured by rivets or by other suitable -means. D-is
a strengthening rib secured to the outside of the bottom C, more than one such
ribs may be used if desired-and-they may be formed in one with the-bottom, or the
bottom itself may be corrugated for: the same purpose. Ribs, corrugations, bands,
hoops, or other strengthening devices may be secured to or formed on the exterior
of the body A, if so desired. I find however, that it is sufficient for an ordinary
bushel measure to rivet or otherwise secure a band or hoop top and bottom as
shewn by the letters E and F. The foot band or hoop E is by preference rivetted
through to the flange of the foot ring.B. The top band or rim F is made in cross
section of the shape of an isosceles triangle with the base contiguous to the body A
of the measure to which it is secured in any suitable manner. I find that this
shape will readily curve into the desired circular form and that when secured in
position on the body A of the measure the double inclined plane shape of its
exterior offers the least possible resistance to the entry into or withdrawal of the
measure from grain, seed, or other dry goods in bulk. G G are the ordinary-hand
blocks by which the measure may be lifted when it is inverted.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
A bushel or other measure of capacity for dry goods made of three principal
parts viz. the cylindrical sheet steel body A, the sheet steel bottom C, and the
angle. frontfoot ring B to which the body and the bottom are independently secured,
the bottom and body having corrugations, ribs, bands, or other strengthening
devices, the rim or top strengthening band F being made of a double inclined
shape substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth and illustrated in
the accompanying drawings.
Dave is 60 day of June 1992.
F. W. GOLBY,
36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agent for the Applicant.