Fish, or other Commodities.
Year: 1886

page_text: Fish, or other Commodities.
I, HENRY FREDERICK COOMBS of the City of St. John in the province of New
Brunswick Dominion of Canada Merchant, temporiarly residing at No. 16 Bute
Street in the city of London county of Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of my
invention for AN IMPROVED TUB OR SHIPPING PACKAGE FOR HOLDING BUTTER FISH
OR OTHER COMMODITIES and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of my invention is to furnish a tub especially adapted for packing butter
or other comodities for home use or shipment which tub cannot lose its hoops by
their droping off at the bottom and from which tub the butter may be removed in
bulk at the top as usual. My invention consists in certain novel features of construc-
tion as hereinafter described and claimed.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this
specification, in which,
Figure 1 is a plan view of a stave of my Tub lying on its outer face and 2, 3 are
elevation and section respectively of my improved Tub. Fig. 4 is a section and
elevation view of Fish Tub, the interior of which is of paralleled widths. A is the Tub
formed of wooden staves and fitted with a bottom B. and cover or head C. and bound
with metal or wood hoops D. The staves are tapered lengthwise in thickness and are
placed together with their thicker ends at the bottom of the tub. The staves stand
vertically that is so that a vertical plane would divide each stave in thickness from its
top completely to its bottom end. The outer or convex face of each stave is narrower
at the top on the thin end, and its interior or concave face is wider at the top or thin
end than at the bottom or thick end. The bottom, B, of the tub is of a less diameter
than the top, C, so that the interior of the tub is of a greater diameter at the top, at
the same time the tub is of a greater diameter at the bottom than at the top on the
outside. The top C is fitted with a plug e which on being removed allows the butter
to be inspected and sampled, without removing the cover the plug is made hollow and
is provided with a screw thread so as to screw in to the head of the tub. A handle of
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page_text: any desired shape is added. With this tub the butter can be packed with brine for
shipment and the tub made water tight so that the brine can not escape. The external
diameter of the top being the smallest the hoops. D. can be losened and the top C
removed without turning the Tub over. In case it is desired to remove the butter
bodley from the tub that is allowed by the interior shape of the Tub which is of the
largest diameter at the top. This constitutes a cheap safe and convinient package for
holding butter or other substances to be shipped long distances.
It is to be understood that the staves taper in thickness only, they being uniform
in width throughout their length, and in order to allow of the head coming out easly
a shaving is taken from the joint of the thin end of each stave so that the joint shall
be slightly rounding.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declair that what I claim is.
1st. Staves for a tub or other vessel thickner at one end than at the other,
narrower at the thin end, than at the thick end on one face, and wider at the thin
end than at the thick end on the other face.
2nd. A stave sided vessel smaller at the top than at the bottom outside and larger
at the top than at the bottom inside.
3rd. For a vessel formed of wedge shaped staves Fig. 4 of paralleled diameter at
top and bottom inside but of a smaller diameter at the top than at the bottom
outside.
4th. For a combination of a screw stopper in place of a plug or cork and a bale or
handle as applied to a butter or fish tub, for the purposes set forth and described.