Improvements in the Manufacture of Metallic Buckets, Tubs, Slop- pails, Coal Hods and other like Metallic Vessels and Articles.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Feb, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 4th Apr., 1899-Accepted, 6th May, 1899
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Improvements in the Manufacture of Metallic Buckets, Tubs, Slop-
pails, Coal Hods and other like Metallic Vessels and Articles.
We, GEORGE HILL, of the Hayes Galvanized Iron Works, near Stourbridge, in
the County of Worcester, Hollow-ware Manufacturer, and JOSEPH RICHARD HILL,
of Norton Grange, Stourbridge aforesaid, Manager of Works, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The said invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in the
manufacture of metallic buckets, tubs, slop-pails, coal-hods and other like metallic
vessels and articles, such for example as, milk and other cans, whereby the said
manufacture is simplified and economized.
In order that the said invention may be the better understood we remark that in
the ordinary manufacture of metallic buckets and like vessels the body and bottom
are made of two or three pieces of sheet metal and the metallic hoop or rim con-
stituting the foot of the bucket is attached to the bottom of the body by rivetting
or otherwise.
We will describe the said invention in connection with the manufacture of an
ordinary metallic bucket.
In manufacturing a bucket according to the said invention we form the bottom
and hoop or rim in one piece in the manner hereinafter described and attach the
body thereto, which in this case is open at bottom, also in the manner hereinafter
described.
In making the bottom and hoop or rim we take a circular blank of sheet iron
and by a stamping or pressing operation convert it into a shallow cup or dish.
By a further stamping or pressing operation, or by a spinning operation, we make
in the cylindrical rim of the said cup or dish and at a short distance from the
closed bottom a convex annular moulding. By further treatment in a stamp or
press the convex moulding is converted into a flange at a short distance from the
closed bottom, the said flange being turned slightly towards the bottom of the cup
or dish. The said bottom of the cup or dish is at the same time domed inwards
and finally the open mouth or edge of the cylindrical rim is headed.
The open bottom of the body to which the bottom and rim or hoop made as
described, is to be fixed has a diameter slightly greater than that of the closed end
of the cup or dish shaped bottom and is prepared for the said cup or dish shaped
bottom by turning outwards the edge of the open bottom. The closed end of the
cup or dish shaped bottom is inserted in the open bottom of the body, the turned
out edge of the body seating itself on the flange of the cup or dish shaped bottom
and the parts are firmly secured together by beading the flange of the cup or dish
shaped bottom and turned out edge of the body together.
The bucket thus made is preferably galvanized painted or enamelled in the
ordinary way the galvanizing metal paint or enamel filling the interstices between

page_text: the parts forming the connecting bead so that the body and rim or hoop have an
appearance as if they were integral or made in one piece.
The application of the said invention to the manufacture of tubs, slop-pails, coal
hods and other like vessels and articles differs in no essential respect from its appli-
cation to the manufacture of a bucket as herein before described.
Dated this Twenty-fourth day of February 1899.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Metallic Buckets, Tubs, Slop-
pails, Coal Hods and other like Metallic Vessels and Articles.
We, GEORGE HILL, of the Hayes Galvanized Iron Works, near Stourbridge, in
the County of Worcester, Hollow-ware Manufacturer, and JOSEPH RICHARD HILL,
of Norton Grange, Stourbridge aforesaid, Manager of Works, do hereby declare
the nature of the said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement;-
Tho said invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in the
manufacture of metallic buckets, tubs, slop-pails, coal-hods-and-other-like-metallic
vessels and articles, such for example as milk and other cans, whereby the said
manufacture is simplified and economized.
In order that the said invention may be the better understood we remark that in
the ordinary manufacture of metallic buckets and like vessels the body and bottom
are made of two or three pieces of sheet metal and the metallic hoop or rim con-
stituting the foot of the bucket is attached to the bottom of the body by rivetting
or otherwise.
We will describe the said invention in connection with the manufacture of an
ordinary metallic bucket.
In manufacturing a bucket according to the said invention we form the bottom
and hoop or rim in one piece in the manner hereinafter described and attach the
body thereto, which in this case is open at bottom, also in the manner hereinafter
described.
In making the bottom and hoop or rim we take a circular blank of sheet iron
and by a stamping or pressing operation convert it into a shallow cup or dish.
By a further stamping or pressing operation, or by a spinning operation, we make
in the cylindrical rim of the said cup or dish and at a short distance from the
closed bottom a convex annular moulding. By further treatment in a stamp or
press the convex moulding is converted into a flange at a short distance from the
closed bottom, the said flange being turned slightly towards the bottom of the cup
or dish. The said bottom of the cup or dish is at the same time domed inwards
and finally the open mouth or edge of the cylindrical rim is beaded.
The open bottom of the body to which the bottom and rim or hoop made as
described, is to be fixed has a diameter slightly greater than that of the closed end
of the cup or dish shaped bottom and is prepared for the said cup or dish shaped
bottom by turning outwards the edge of the open bottom. The closed end of the
cup or dish shaped bottom is inserted in the open bottom of the body, the turned
out edge of the body seating itself on the flange of the cup or dish shaped bottom
and the parts are firmly secured together by beading the flange of the cup or dish
shaped bottom and turned out edge of the body together.
The bucket thus made is preferably galvanized, painted or enamelled in the
ordinary way, the galvanizing metal, paint or enamel filling the interstices between

page_text: the parts forming the connecting bead so that the body and rim or hoop have an
appearance as if they were integral or made in one piece.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in section and plan the shallow
cup or dish made from a circular blank of sheet iron (or other sheet metal)
in the first stage of the manufacture of the bottom and rim or foot of the bucket
to be made.
Figure 2 reprosents in section the second stage in the manufacture of the said
bottom and rim or foot, and Figures 3 and 4 represent in section the third and
final stages respectively of the said manufacture of the bottom and rim or foot.
Figure 5 represents the body of the bucket prepared, by flanging its bottom
edge, for the reception of the finished bottom and rim or foot Figure 4, which
finished bottom and rim or foot is shown in the said Figure 5 in the position with
respect to the bottom end of the body of the bucket which it occupies when it is
about to be applied to the said body of the bucket.
Figure 6 represents in section the finished bucket and Figure 7 represents in
section a portion of the foot of the same.
Figures 5 and 6 are drawn to a smaller scale than Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 and
Figure is drawn full size.
The shallow cup or dish Figure 1, which is produced by a pressing operation on
a circular metallic blank, is operated upon preferably in a lathe or machine by a
pressure roll or tool while held in a hollow rotating chuck so as to produce on the
cylindrical portion of the said shallow cup or dish the convex or outwardly pro-
jecting moulding. By pressure on the closed bottom and edge of the cup while
the partly made bottom and foot are in the lathe or in a press, the moulding a
is made to collapse and thereby nearly flattened into the flange Figure 3 and
the bottom a is at the same time domed or made concave. In the next operation, the
edge of the cup is by the ordinary process of beading turned over and inwards
and thereby made smooth and non-cutting.
The bottom and foot thus made from one piece of sheet metal is applied to a
bucket body of the kind represented in Figure 5; that is to say, to a body with an
open bottom the edge of the bottom being flanged outwards as represented, the
flange being marked b. The said bucket body is supported in a lathe and the com-
bined bottom and foot is applied thereto the two parts being put together in the
relative positions represented in Figure 5. The combined bucket body and bottom
and foot are rotated in the lathe and the flange a² is by spinning turned over the
flange as is represented in Figure 6 and better seen in the enlarged portion of
the foot Figure 7.
The bucket is thereby finished except for the attachment of the handle which
constitutes no part of this invention and is not represented.
A bucket made according to the said invention may be galvanized or otherwise
metal coated or painted or enamelled, in which case the coating metal, paint or
enamel so fills the spaces at the junction of the bottom with the body as to com-
pletely conceal the mode of attachment and ensure a watertight junction.
The application of the said invention to the manufacture of tubs, slop-pails, coal
hods and other like vessels and articles differs in no essential respect from its
application to the manufacture of a bucket as herein before described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that we
claim as the said invention:-
The improvements in the manufacture of metallic buckets, tubs, slop-pails, coal
hods and other like metallic vessels and articles hereinbefore described and illus-
trated in the accompanying drawing, the said improvements consisting essentially
in forming the bottom and hoop, rim or foot of the said and like vessels and
articles in one piece and attaching the said botton and hoop, rim or foot to the
body of the vessel or article by turning a flange, formed on the cylindrical part

page_text: of the hoop, rim or foot, on or over a flange at or near the lower open end of the
body of the vessel or article substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated.
Dated the First day of April 1899.
GEORGE HILL.
JOSEPH RICHARD HILL.