IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PORTABLE METAL BUCKETS OR PAILS AND TUBS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Henry Adames, of the Firm of Thomas
Whitfield and Company, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF PORTABLE METAL BUCKETS OR PAILS AND TUBS."
Scaled the 26th June 1868, and dated the 31st January 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Henry Adames
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 31st January 1868.
I, CHARLES HENRY ADAMES, of the Firm of Thomas Whitfield and
Company, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFAC-
TURE OF PORTABLE METAL BUCKETS OR PAILS AND TUBS," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture
of portable metal buckets or pails and tubs similar to those in general
use for domestic and other purposes. For convenience in use it is
desirable that metal buckets or pails and tubs should be as light as
possible. Hitherto metal buckets or pails and tubs have been con-
structed either plain or with horizontal corrugations passing around.

page_text: the circumference, which construction in addition to other objections
acts to obstruct the free discharge of the contents, particularly when
semi-fluid and of thick consistence or containing sediment.
According to my improvements I manufacture metal buckets or pails
and tubs having vertical or diagonal corrugations or grooved inden-
tations passing from top to bottom of the vessel, the hoop or foot being
corrugated in a horizontal direction, by which means I manufacture
vessels of this description of much greater strength, both laterally and
perpendicularly, than could be produced by employing the same
thickness of metal without such corrugations. The corrugations or
grooved indentations may be formed in the metal cither by rolling,
swaging, or stamping.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Henry Adames in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 25th July 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
HENRY ADAMES, of the Firm of Thomas Whitfield and Company, of
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Charles Henry Adames, Her special licence
that I, the said Charles Henry Adames, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Henry Adames, 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 PORTABLE METAL BUCKETS OB
PAILS AND TOBS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Charles Henry Adames, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said

page_text: Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that, the said Charles Henry Adames, 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 thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture
of portable metal buckets or pails and tubs similar to those in general
use for domestic and other purposes. For convenience in use it is
desirable that metal buckets or pails and tubs should be as light as
possible. Hitherto metal buckets or pails and tubs have been con-
structed either plain or with horizontal corrugations passing around the
circumference; now corrugations so arranged act to obstruct the free
discharge of the contents, particularly when semi-fluid and of thick
consistence or containing sediment.
According to my improvements I manufacture metal buckets or
pails and tubs having vertical or diagonal corrugations passing from
top to bottom of the vessel, the hoop or foot being corrugated in a
horizontal direction, by which means I manufacture vessels of this
description of much greater strength both laterally and perpendicularly
than could be produced by employing the same thickness of metal
without such corrugations. The corrugations or grooved indenta-
tions may be formed in the metal either by rolling, swaging, or
stamping.
And in order that my Invention may be well understood and readily
carried into practice I will proceed to describe the Drawing hereunto
annexed.
Figure 1 shows a side view, Figure 2 a vertical section, and Figure 3
a horizontal section of a bucket or pail constructed according to one
method of carrying out my Invention.
The sides a of the bucket are formed of metal which is first corrugated
and afterwards bent and jointed at the edges with the corrugations in
a diagonal position as shown, but this may be varied, and the corruga-
tions may be arranged in a vertical position; and in that case the
pitch of the corrugations must be wider or deeper at the top of the

page_text: vessel than at the bottom, in accordance with the degree of coniety of
the vessel. The sides a of the vessel may be turned over a wire at
the top or otherwise formed into a suitable rim; b is a hoop of
corrugated metal which is secured to the corrugated sides, and forms
a foot on which the vessel stands, the corrugations of the hoop or foot 6
passing around the vessel horizontally. The edge of the bottom c of
the vessel is turned up and secured between the corrugated sides a and
the corrugated hoop or foot b; d is an ordinary handle by which the
pail or bucket may be carried. After a pail, bucket, or tub has been
formed as above described it is "galvanized" or coated with metal; or
in the case of tubs or other vessels they may be painted or japanned,
as is well understood. The corrugations in the sides a and hoop or
foot 6 may be formed by means of rollers or by stamping or swaging,
as will be readily understood by persons acquainted with the manu-
facture of sheet metal. It will be also evident to any person acquainted
with the manufacture of articles of this description that the proportions,
forms, and dimensions of pails, buckets, and tubs for domestic or
other purposes admit of great variation; and I do not confine
myself to the particular form or manner of construction shown in the
Drawing.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
in which I carry the same into practice, I will here remark that I am
aware that vessels intended to serve the purpose of foot baths formed
with indentations running from the top to the bottom of such vessels
have been heretofore manufactured, but in those cases the indentation
has been punched, bulged, or moulded by means of dies or otherwisc
from the metal sheet, parts of which have been allowed to remain
without alteration of form, while at those parts which have been
indented an enlarged surface is produced which reduces the substanco
of the metal sheet leaving it of varying substance when manu-
factured.
Now I would have it understood that I do not claim forming longi-
tudinal indentations in the sides of vessels of the character above described,
the corrugations in the sides of vessels being according to my
Invention so formed as to leave no variation in the substance of the
metal sheet, the corrugations being formed by bending or crimping the
metal sheet, and not by bulging, indenting, or sinking portions of its
surface.

page_text: I would also remark that I am aware that the sides of vessels of
various descriptions have been formed with vertical or longitudinal
corrugations, but in such cases the form of the vessel has been
cylindrical, and the vessel has not been more capacious at the upper
than the lower part, as is the case with pails, buckets, or tubs for
domestic and other purposes; but what I claim is,—
Firstly. Forming the sides of pails, buckets, and tubs for domestic
and other purposes (which are more capacious at the top than the
bottom) of metal which has been bent or crimped into corrugations
when such corrugations are so arranged in forming the vessel as to pass
from the top towards the bottom of the vessel vertically or diagonally,
and also forming the hoop or foot of metal which has been bent or
crimped into corrugations, such corrugations passing horizontally
around the foot of the vessel substantially as herein shown and
described.
Secondly. I claim " galvanizing or coating with metal pails,
buckets, or tubs, for domestic or other purposes, the sides and hoops or
fect of which have been formed of corrugated metal, substantially as
herein shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Henry Adames, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of July, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.