An Improved Milk Bucket.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 2nd May, 1891-accepted, 4th July, 1351
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Milk Bucket.
I, JOHN PITT BAYLY, of 18 Fulham Place, Paddington, in the County of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communi-
cation to me from abroad by Edmund Burrows, of Freemont, Iowa U.S.A.
Inventor,) to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved milk bucket, which is self-closing, and
incapable of falling upon its side.
The construction of this invention consists in forming the lower portion thereof
of a semi-circular shape, having at its extreme lower portion a reinforcing weight,
the outer face of the said weight being curved, and forming practically a con-
tinuation of the curved surface of the rounded bottom. The bucket rests on
this weight when in its normal position. The upper portion of the bucket tapers
upwardly, and is formed with a short neck and a flaring funnel. Fixed within
the neck is a tube which is tapered, and which extends downwardly into the
bucket to a point near the bottom thereof. Another tube also tapering is fitted
in the upper portion of the last named tube, and extends down the interior
thereto about half way its length. and is provided at its lower end with a valve
opening inwards into the bucket.
The milk is poured into the bucket by way of the funnel shaped mouth thereto,
and enters the bucket through the tubes aforesaid; but owing to the peculiarity
of construction it cannot escape when the bucket is tilted to one side. The
bucket when in its normal position remains vertical, by reason of the action
weight at its bottom.
Dated this 1st day of October.
J. F. BAILI,
18, Fulham Place, W., Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Milk Bucket.
I, JOHN PITT BAYLY of 18 Fulham Place, Paddington, in the County of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to improvements in milk buckets and has for its object to
provide a bucket which will if accidentally knocked over, be immediately returned
to its upright position. A further object is to provide means whereby the
contents of the bucket are prevented from spilling out when the bucket is thus
momentarily overturned. With these objects in view the invention consists of
a certain novel construction and arrangement of devices fully set forth hereinafter
in connection with the accompanying drawings wherein―
Figure 1 is a side view of the bucket.
Figure 2 is a vertical central section thereof.
Figure 3 is a detail view of the strainer tube.
Referring to the drawings A represents the body of the bucket which consists of
the rounded or hemispherical bottom a and the tapered or cone shaped upper portion
provided with a vertical collar B.
The lowest part or centre of the bottom is provided with a weight fitted in an

page_text: opening c therein, and it will be evident that if the bucket is placed on its side,
this weight will be raised and therefore press downward, thereby returning the
bucket to its upright position.
By having the weight C at the bottom it will be understood that the bucket
will at all times rest on the weight and the latter will take all the wear
and tear.
In dropping or pitching the bucket to and fro, the bucket will always strike on
the weight and the latter will thus preserve the bucket from injury. The bottom
of the bucket (which is the point of greatest wear) will not so readily wear out
like the ordinary bucket, and when it does commence to wear, the rounded face
of the weight will cause the wear to be evenly distributed.
By making the upper portion of the bucket cone shaped, the weight of the
contained liquid decreases upwardly as the bucket is filled thus placing the
greatest body of the milk at the bottom. If the upper portion of the bucket
were not cone shaped, the bucket would not work in the manner heretofore
described, as the weight of the contained liquid would not be greater at the
bottom.
It is essential that the great body of the milk, and hence the greatest weight,
should be at the bottom to assist the return of the bucket to its normal position
when tilted. Furthermore the conical form of the top of the bucket combined with
the reversed conical form of the safety tube serves to prevent the milk from
running out when the bucket is tilted." D represents the tapered safety tube,
which fits tightly in the collar B at its upper end and extends down into the
bottom a of the bucket nearly to the weight.
The lower end of this tube is provided with a very small opening and the
upper end is provided with a flaring flange or receiver E which fits down on
the upper edge of the collar B. F represents a strainer tube which is conical
in shape and fits tightly at its upper end in the safety tube and is provided
near its upper end with the strainer G. It will be seen that all the milk which
enters the upper end of the safety tube must pass through the strainer. The
strainer tube is provided at its upper end with a vertical loop or handle H by which
it may be removed from and replaced in the safety tube, and the said loop or
handle projects up above the upper end of the said safety tube at all times.
I. 1. represent handles which are attached to the opposite sides of the body A
to enable the same to be raised, and also to enable the bucket to be held
between the knees while milking.
The advantages of this invention will now be apparent. If the bucket should
be tipped over after considerable milk has been placed therein it will not be
wasted. The body of the can is made very large in diameter at the centre to
accommodate the contents when the bucket is tipped, and it will be evident that
owing to the smallness of the opening at the lower end a very small quantity
of milk will pass therethrough. The milk which does pass through the said opening
when the bucket is overturned will not be able to pass out of the safety tube
for the reason that the strainer tube is tapered at its lower end much more sharply
than the safety tube and therefore forms an annular space between the sides of the
said tubes in which the milk will be received and confined. Thus it will be
seen that the milk which is placed in the receiver at the upper end of the
safety tube will readily find its way (owing to the peculiar shape of the tubes)
to the body of the can but it cannot be readily spilled when the can is overturned.
To remove the milk from the bucket the safety tube is removed. In the
drawings I show a small strainer M of cambric, attached to the lower end of
the strainer tube to aid the straining operation, and the lower end of the said
tube is ribbed as shown at N for the purpose of holding the said strainer
in place.
An obvious modification of my invention would be that instead of placing two
tubes referred to respectively as Ď the safety tube and F the strainer tube, I may
use only one tube fitted to the flaring receiver E the junction of the tube and

page_text: the receiver being fitted with a strainer. This receiver and tube E forming
one piece is screwed over the body of the bucket as illustrated in Figures 4 and 5 ;
in order that the tubes should not be taken out as in Figures 1, 2 and 3 or
unscrewed as in Figures 4 and 5 for the purposes of emptying the bucket I
have added a spout approximately near the top of the body of the bucket for
the purpose of emptying it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A milk bucket having a conical or tapered upper portion, a rounded bottom
and a reinforcing weight C, fitted at the lowest point of the bottom, the outer face
of the weight being curved and forming practically a continuation of the curved
surface of the rounded bottom, the bucket resting on the weight when in its normal
position as set forth..
2. A milk bucket having a conical or tapered upper portion, a rounded bottom
and a reinforcing weight C, fitted at the lowest point of the bottom, the outer face
of the weight being curved and forming practically a continuation of the curved
surface of the rounded bottom, the bucket resting on the weight when in its normal
position, and the safety tube D tapered downwardly and having its upper end
secured around the mouth of the bucket so as to close said mouth and its lower and
smaller end arranged very close to the bottom of the bucket as set forth.
3. The bucket having the rounded bottom and the conical upper portion
terminating in a vertical collar B combined with the safety tube D fitting tightly
within the collar so as to close the upper end or mouth of the bucket and extending
down within the bucket nearly to the bottom the lower end of the safety tube being
provided with a very small opening and left uncovered and the flaring receiver E
attached to the upper end of the safety tube as set forth.
Dated this 2nd day of May 1891.
J. P. BAYLY,
Applicant.