Improvements in Pails or Buckets.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 26th June, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 18th Mar., 1891-Accepted, 9th May, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pails or Buckets.
We WILLIAM SHOPLAND of Enfield Thurlow Road Torquay. Devon Naturalist
and FREDERICK WILLIAM MILLER of Belgrave Road Torquay Devon Saddler,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-.
Our invention consists of a pail or bucket for domestic or other purposes, and we
make the same for preference in zinc, iron, or tin. Instead of making the pail
circular on plan as at present we form one side of a straight or flatened shape, so
that it may be more easily carried without bumping, against the legs of the person
carrying the same. Our improved pail is fitted with a handle, after the ordinary
manner, but in connection with the top of the pail we form a detachable tray or
trough with small loops or catches to hang it on to the top of the pail.
This tray. only covers a small segment of the area of the top of the pail and is
intended for carrying brushes and soap. The bottom and sides of the tray are
perforated to. allow the water to drip. back into the pail....
Dated this 26th day of June 1890.
RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pails or Buckets.
We, WILLIAM SHOPLAND, of Enfield, Thurlow Road, Naturalist, and
FREDERICK WILLIAM MILLER, of Belgrave Road, Saddler, both of Torquay,
in the County of Devonshire, 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 :-
Our invention consists of a pail or bucket for domestic or other purposes, and we
make the same for preference in zinc, iron or tin. Instead of making the pail
circular on plan as at present we form one side of a straight or flatened shape, so
that it may be more easily carried without bumping against the legs of the person
carrying the same. Our improved pail is fitted with a handle after the ordinary
manner, but in connection with the top of the pail we form a detachable tray or
trough with small loops or catches to hang it on to the top of the pail. This tray
only covers a small segment of the area of the top of the pail and is intended for
carrying brushes and soap. The bottom and sides of the tray are perforated to
allow the water to drip back into the pail.
We attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying
drawing, in which―.
Fig. 1 is an elevation of the front of pail ;
Fig. 2, is a side elevation of the pail;
Fig. 3, is a plan at the top of the pail without a handle.
We construct the pail a of any metallic substance rivetted together with the
usual rim attached to the bottom, the said pail being formed with a straight side d.
To the pail we attach the handle in the usual manner. At the top of the straight
side d and inside the pail we place a detachable tray or trough c with small loops or
catches to hang it on the top of the pail. The bottom of the tray or trough c is
perforated at e to allow the water to drip back into the pail.
If preferable we may fix the tray or trough c at the top of a pail a and the said
tray or trough may be perforated at the sides or the same may be composed of wire
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page_text: netting (loose or otherwise). The said perforated tray or trough e may be fitted to
a vessel with a straight side d for any other domestic purpose.
It will be understood that the shapes, materials and proportions of the various
parts may be varied in many ways within the scope of our invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:-
1. The combination of the pail or bucket with a straight side and a detachable
tray or trough with loops or catches to hang it on to the top of the pail and the
perforations and the handle, substantially as herein described and according to the
accompanying drawing.
2. The combination of the perforated tray or trough fixed to a vessel at the top
with a straight side for any domestic purposes, with or without a handle, substan-
tially as herein described and for the purpose set forth.
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J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicants.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicants.