IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COAL VASES, BUCKETS, CASKS, KEGS, BINS, BATHS, SUGAR FUNNELS AND OTHER SIMITAD ADRES OF HOLLOW WARD"
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to David Jones, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF COAL VASES, BUCKETS, CASKS, KEGS, BINS, BATHS, SUGAR
FUNNELS AND OTHER SIMITAD ADRES OF HOLLOW WARD"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said David Jones, at the
Office of the Commissioners. of Patents, with his Petition, on the
19th June 1867.
I, DAVID JONES, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF COAL VASES, BUCKETS, CASES, KEGS, BINS, BATHS, SUGAR
FUNNELS, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES OF HOLLOW WARE," to be as follows,
that is to say-
This Invention consists of certain improvements in the manner of putting
together and finishing the several parts to form articles of the above description
so that they may be produced by unskilled instead of skilled workmen, and
may also be more closely and easily packed for transport.
As an illustration I will describe the manufacture of an ordinary cylindrical
coal vase; the manufacture of any similar article of hollow ware or vessel of
capacity being the same after making allowance for variety of forms. I take
a sheet of metal cut to the desired outline for forming the cylinder of the coal

page_text: vase, which may be embossed or stamped up with any suitable design, and
pierce upon its surface a number of small holes where requisite for receiving
stud pins, screws, or rivets herein-after mentioned; the two edges of this sheet
I cut and form with dovetails or hinge parts, so that when it is bent round
and the two edges meet a connection may be effected by a wire passing
through such hinge parts, or the edges of the cylinder may be united by slots
and studs, clips, rivets, slits, and strips of charcoal iron, or in any suitable way,
by which a connection of the parts may be effected without any soldering or
brazing. In like manner the bottom of a coal vase as described is fitted
within the lower part of the cylinder, and secured by means of stud pins,
screws, rivets, or clips, and the lid or cover, together with the handles and
feet, are similarly attached to the cylinder.
When it is required to form a water-tight joint for vessels intended to hold
or contain fluids I employ with such joints or connections suitable packing, or
paint or coat such articles with metallic paint or cement.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said David Jones in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th
December 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DAVID
JONES, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, send
'greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said David
Jones, Her special license, that I, the said David Jones, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said David Jones, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make; use, exercise, and vend, within
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COAL
VASES, BUCKETS, CASES, KEGS, BINS, BATHS, SUGAR FUNNELS, AND OTHER SIMILAR
ARTICLES OF HOLLOW WARE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said David Jones, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in

page_text: what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in
the Great Patent Seal Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters. Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said David Jones, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement,
reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the letters and
figures marked thereon (that is to say):-
This Invention consists of certain improvements in the manner of putting
together and finishing the several parts to form articles of the above description
so that they may be produced by unskilled instead of skilled workmen; and
may also be more closely and easily packed for transport.
As an illustration I will describe, firstly, the manufacture of an ordinary
cylindrical coal vase, the manufacture of any similar article of hollow ware or
vessel of capacity being the same after making allowance for variety of form..
Referring to the Drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a coal vase of the
ordinary description, made in accordance with my improvements, which consist
mainly in forming all the various parts separate and capable of being fitted
together by means of rivets, pins, wire, catches, or screws without the necessity
of brazing or soldering. Figure 2 shews the flat shape or sheet, which when
turned round forms the cylinder (a) of the coal vase, which may be pierced
with small holes, as at (6), to receive the rivets or screw pins, and cut and
formed on either side (c, c,) so that when the two are brought together a kind
of hinge form is presented, as at (c', Figure 1,) which merely requires a wire (d)
to be run up and through the bent portions to secure the cylinder in position;
the wire being held rigidly at the upper end by means of a tee-piece (e), shewn
separately at Figure 3, and which also receives the wire loop handle (f), the
tee-piece (e) being rivetted or pinned over and upon the wire or upper end of
the hinge (¹). (g) is the lid or cover of the coal vase seen detached with
its hinge at Figure 4, which is pinned or rivetted to the coal vase, and the
handles (h and h¹) are secured in like manner. Figure 5 shews the bottom
or under side (i) of the coal vase secured within the cylinder (a) by means of
small screw pins and nuts (k). Figure 6 is a part section of the cylinder
shewing the bottom (i) secured within the same; Figure 7 representing the
shape of the bottom part (i) detached. Although I have described this coal vase
as being put together by pins (k) and a hinge (c') it is merely one illustration
of the many ways in which the several parts of coal vases or other like articles
of hollow ware may be portably connected, and I will now illustrate a few
other ways in which the same object may be effected.

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Figures 8 and 9 shew in section another mode of securing the bottom (i)
within the cylinder (a) by means of small strips of charcoal iron (1) rivetted
to the lower part of the cylinder (a), which when the bottom (i) is in position
in the same are bent down inwardly and close upon the rim of the bottom (ż) ;
Figure 9 shews the bottom thus secured. A similar method may be employed
for attaching the edges of the cylinder. (a), as shewn in Figure 10, the one
edge being pierced with slits (m), and the other furnished with strips-of
metal (2) secured to the same, the two edges being brought together; the
ends of the strips (n) are passed through the slits (m) and turned down and
hammered flat, or the two edges of the cylinder (a) may be formed as shewn
at Figure 11 with butt joint and slits, and strips of metal (p) passed through
them and bent down to form a connection, as seen at Figure 12.
Figure 13 shews another way of uniting and securing the various parts by
means of a series of holes (2) on either edge, which when required to be
attached are placed upon each other and secured by rivet pins of the form
of () passing through them and flattened down as shewn at (Figure 14).
Again the edges may be fastened together after the manner of stay busks, an.
illustration of this will be seen at (Figures 15 and 16), upon one edge.are
affixed studs (s), and in the other slots t are formed, Figure 16 shewing the
connection effected.
Figure 17 is an illustration of my improvements applied to another form of
coal vase, the several parts of which may be connected and put together in
manner already described by means of stud pins and nuts, or by the hinge pin
arrangement. Figures 18 and 19 shew in edge and under side views the shape
of the bottom part pierced for the screw pins or rivets; Figure 20 shewing
the same after the process of bending. Figure 21 is an edge view of the top
plate (u), to which are hinged the flaps (v), (Figures 22 and 23) being edge
views of one of the side plates (w) ready for fixing. When it is required to
secure the parts of a bucket, cask, or other article or vessel of hollow ware
to be used as á receptacle for fluids it will be necessary that the joints or
connections be made water-tight.
Figure 24 shews a method of securing the bottoms of such articles within
the cylindrical forms, by forming the edge to fit in a hollow (a), and between
the two parts 'a strip of felt or other suitable packing material may be placed,
thus making when the cylinder is securely fastened around it a water-tight
joint, or the articles to contain fluids may after the several parts have been
connected be coated with metallic paint or cement, which will have a similar
effect, and in like manner the vertical joining of the cylinder or body of the
vase or vessel may be formed by turning up the meeting edges into a grooved

page_text: form and then laying one grooved edge within the other, and passing the
hinge pin through both with suitable packing between the meeting edges and
the pin, and closing all these parts firmly together a. sound joint would be
obtained.
I claim without confining myself to these precise details the improvements
in the manufacture of coal vases, buckets, casks, or kegs, bins, baths, sugar
funnels, and other similar articles of hollow ware, by forming the parts of
which they are made in such manner that they may be packed in a flat state
for transport and readily put together by unskilled hands, as herein more
fully set forth and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said David Jones, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
DAVID JONES. (L.S.)