A New or Improved Collapsable Bucket.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Dec., 1899-Accepted, 10th Mar., 1900
A New or Improved Collapsable Bucket.
I, ALBERT MÜLLER, of 50, Klosterstrasse, Breslau, in the Empire of Germany,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
sani is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
This invention relates to buckets and has for its object to provide a bucket
adapted to be collapsed and folded in a compact manner and being particularly
useful for military purposes.
According to my invention I provide a bucket having sides and bottom of
suitable shape and of flexible material, such as canvas, leather or the like, and I
place such bucket in a frame or skeleton-bucket comprising top and bottom rings
made in halves hinged together, said top and bottom rings being joined by two
folding side struts and provided with an ordinary handle.
My invention will be readily understood from the following description with
reference to the accompanying drawings in which latter Fig. 1 is an elevation of
the improved bucket as in use. Fig. 2 is a plan of the folding frame. Figs. 3
and are two elevations of Fig. 2 taken at right angles to each other and Fig. 5
is a plan of the frame in its folded condition.
Bis the flexible receptacle or body of the bucket which for carrying water will
be of waterproof material. I is the collapsable frame for supporting the body B.
The frame F comprises the top ring a, bottom ring b and two side-struts forming
a connection between the said top and bottom rings as may be seen from the
drawing, Figs. 3 and 4.
The top and bottom rings a and b are made of wrought iron or other suitable
material and the bottom ring is as usual somewhat smaller than the top ring,
and each ring is constructed in two parts, each forming a semicircular portion a¹
a3 and 6 respectively. These semi-circular portions are joined by hinges d
so formed by squared portions or stops as to permit only of their being folded
downwardly.
The two hinged side-struts which join the top and bottom rings are divided
into two portions c¹ and joined by a central hinge so as to fold. The hinge-
joints are so constructed as to obviate their collapsing accidentally owing to
any slight pressure upon the toggle levers formed by the parts c¹³.
The upper ring a of the pail is furnished at a convenient position with two
eyes o and hooks k of hemp, wire or the like for receiving a handle h.
The flexible body B may be fixed to the top and bottom rings in any suitable
manner, for instance, by sewing or by rivets, and in the latter case suitable rivet
holes such as shown at b in the bottom ring b will be provided. The hinge
connection of the frame may obviously be modified to suit various purposes with-
out departing from the nature of the invention.
From the above it will be seen that a pail or bucket is provided, adapted for
use as an ordinary rigid bucket whilst for storing or for transport purposes it
is folled in the following manner. First the side struts are folded and thereby
the upper ring a is brought down close to the lower ring band then the rings a
027

page_text: and b are folded in halves when the bucket assumes the compact form shown
in Fig. 5.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. A bucket, the top and bottom of which consist of rings a and formed of
semicircular hinged parts a a² and bi bª respectively which rings are secured
together by collapsable side-struts and adapted to support a flexible body forming
the sides and bottom of the bucket substantially as set forth.
2. The improved collapsable and folding bucket constructed arranged and
adapted for use, substantially as set forth, and illustrated in the drawings.
Dated this Eighteenth day of December 1899.
For the Applicant,
J. C. CHAPMAN & Co.,
Chartered Patent Agents, 70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.