Improvements in and connected with Receptacles for Oil Colors, Water Colors, and the like Artists' Materials.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in and connected with Receptacles for Oil Colors,
Water Colors, and the like Artists' Materials.
I, ALWYN HENRY HOLLAND, of 11, Broomgrove Crescent, Sheffield, in the County
of York, Architect, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in collapsible tubes adapted for use with
the trays, boxes, pallettes, and appliances described in my previous invention
No. 6722, A.D. 1896.
In that Specification it is set forth that, the improved tube is constructed with
the opening at the top of the same diameter or nearly so as the interior of the tube,
the opening being provided with a cap which is screwed on to the outside of the
tube, a bead or fillet being formed to stiffen and strengthen the neck of the tube
and ou such bead a lug or lugs are provided, the use of which is fully explained in
the said Specification.
The tube therein described is likewise made open at both ends, the bottom end
of which is afterwards closed by nipping together the sides, the flattened edges of
which are further secured by being turned or folded over several times.
My first improvement, or modification is to make the collapsible tube open at
one end only, the bottom end I close entirely, so that the tube can only be filled
from its top end or mouth which, as already described is made of the same diameter,
or nearly so as the interior of the tube. The bottom or closed end may thus be
made hemispherical or of other convenient form, or it may be flattened or dished 80
as to enable it to stand upright.
My second improvement or modification is to make the tubes therein
described without the lug or lugs and without an external fillet or collar
for the purpose of strengthening the tube and for the purpose of hanging
or supporting it in a vertical position in the tray, as I find that in the
process of manufacturing such tubes that it is not convenient to so form the external
fillot or collar I therefore substitute for such fillet or collar a thickening of the neck
or mouth on its inside, or in that portion of the neck or mouth of the tube on which
the thread is formed. In this modified form of tube instead of supporting or
hanging it in a vertical position in the tray by inserting it loosely from the top,
I suspend it from the tray in a vertical position by means of the thread formed on
the neck, as is provided for in one of the modifications of my former invention.
The top or open end of my improved tube I provide with a threaded or screwed
neck and a screwed cap as described in my former invention. I also sometimes
make the outside of the tube and neck perfectly parallel and plain except where
screwed for the cap.
The metal of the neck of the tube, where screwed, I sometimes thicken outwardly
and sometimes inwardly, and in some cases I provide an outside collar or fillet
for stiffening the neck to prevent its being collapsed when using or during pressure,
as in screwing or unscrewing the cap or cover, the fillet or collar when so provided
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page_text: I form with milled edges similar to the milling on the caps or covers of ordinary
collapsible tubes.
As a further modification I sometimes provide my improved collapsible tube
with a plain cork, plug, or stopper made of any suitable material and with or
without a wooden top instead of the screwed cap herein previously described.
As a further modification, instead of a screwed cap to fit outside the neck of the
tube I employ a screwed stopper to fit threads formed inside the neck.
Dated this 29th day of March 1897
R. HEBER
RADFORD, -.
Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in and connected with Receptacles for Oil Oolors,
Water Colors, and the like Artists' Materials.
I, ALWYN HENRY HOLLAND, of 11, Broomgrove Crescent, Sheffield, in the County
of York, Architect, 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:-
My invention relates to improvements in collapsible tubes adapted for use with
the trays, boxes, pallettes, and appliances described in my previous invention
No. 6722, A.D. 1896.
In that Specification it is set forth that the improved tube is constructed with
the opening at the top of the same diameter or nearly so as the interior of the tube,
the opening being provided with a cap which is screwed on to the outside of the
tube, a bead or fillet being formed to stiffen and strengthen the neck of the tube
and on such bead a lug or lugs are provided, the use of which is fully explained in
the said Specification.
The tube therein described is likewise made open at both ends, the bottom end
of which is afterwards closed by nipping together the sides, the flattened edges of
which are further secured by being turned or folded over several times.
My first improvement or modification is to make the collapsible tube open at
one end only, the bottom end I-close entirely, so that the tube can only be filled
from its top end or mouth which, as already described is made of the same diameter,
or nearly so as the interior of the tube. The bottom or closed end may thus be
made hemispherical or of other convenient form, or it may be flattened or dished so
as to enable it to stand upright.
My second improvement or modification is to make the tubes without the lug
or lugs and without an external fillet or collar for the purpose of strengthening the
tube and for the purpose of hanging or supporting it in a vertical position in the
tray, as I find that in the process of manufacturing anch tubes that it is not con-
venient to so form the external fillet or collar. I therefore substitute for such
fillet or collar a thickening of the neck or mouth on its inside, or in that portion
of the neck or mouth of the tubo on which the thread is formed. In this
modified form of tube instead of supporting or hanging it in a vertical position
in the tray by inserting it loosely from the top, I suspend it from the tray in a
vertical position by means of the thread formed on the neck as is provided for in
one of the modifications of my former Patent.
The top or open end of my improved tube I provide with a threaded or screwed
neck and a screwed cap as described in my former invention. I also sometimes

page_text: make the outside of the tube and neck perfectly parallel and plain except where
screwed for the cap.
The metal of the neck of the tube, where screwed, I sometimes thicken outwardly
and sometimes inwardly, and in some cases I provide an outside collar or fillet
for stiffening the neck to prevent its being collapsed when using or during pressure,
as in screwing or unscrewing the cap or cover, the fillet or collar when so provided
I form with milled edges similar to the milling on the caps or covers of ordinary
collapsible tubes.
As a further modification I sometimes provide my improved collapsible tubo
with a plain cork, plug, or stopper made of any suitable material and with or
without a wooden top instead of the screwed cap herein previously described.
As a further modification, instead of a screwed cap to fit outside the neck of the
tube I employ a screwed stopper to fit threads formed inside the neck.
The nature of my invention will be better understood on reference to the
accompanying sheet of drawings, in which the same letters refer to similar parts
throughout the several views and likewise to similar parts illustrated by the figures
in my previous Specification herein referred to.
Figs. 1, 2, & 3, represent the collapsible tubes made in accordance with my first
improvement or modification hereinafter described.
Fig. 2 shews the primary cap, A, (as described in my previous invention), screwed
on to the neck of the tube and Fig. 1 shews the tube with cap removed. It will
be seen from these Figs. (1 & 2) and also from the section Fig. 3. that this form of
tube is made with one end, E, Figs. 1 to 6, closed entirely in the process of
manufacture. The wide mouth, D, allows the tube to be filled from the top and
dispenses with the necessity of having the bottom end, E, open for the purpose of
filling as is the case in such tubes as ordinarily made.
In this improved tube the inside diameter is the full width of the body of the tube
and the thread, C, and collar or stiffening fillet, B, is formed on the outside. The
closed ends, E, may be made flat, or hemispherical, Fig. 4, tapered, Fig. 5, dished,
Fig. 6, or with rounded ends as in Figa. 1, 2, & 3, or they may be made flattened
to a shape suitable for rolling as shewn by dotted line Fig. 3, E', similar to the
flattened ends of the tubes now in general use. An advantage of this tube is
that there would be no leakage from the bottom end and it might thus be used for
oil, water, or mediums.
Fig. 4, shews a thickened hemispherical end, with milling on the outside; this
thickening and milling might be applied to any of the other forms of tube.
Figs. 7, 8, 9, 11 & 12 shew my second improvement or modification. This tube
can be made by the machinery now in use. The mouth and the body of the tube
are of the same diameter on the outside. The external stiffening, fillet or collar
being dispensed with and the tube strengthened by a thickening on the inside at
the mouth. On this thickening is afterwards formed the thread, C,
Figs. 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, & 14, and the milled or plain shoulder, B¹, Figs. 11, 12 and 14.
Fig 8. shews the tube with primary cap, A, screwed on and Fig. 7. the same with
cap removed.
Figs. 11 & 12, shew this form of tube with a small additional thickening at the
mouth, D¹, and adapted for use with a cork, cork and wood, or other stoppers,
Fig. 10. This would lessen the woight and also the cost if used with the tubes
instead of the primary cap, A, Figs. 2 & 8, and would be found more convenient for
use with some forms of tray mentioned in my previous Patent.
Fig. 14. shews a further modification with the neck of the tube slightly narrower
and which has an external thread, C, and an internal thread, C, into which a
stopper similar to the one shewn at Fig. 13, may be screwed. This tube has also
a. plain or milled shoulder, B¹.
The stoppers, corks or caps shewn at Figs. 10, 12, & 13, would be convenient for
use when the tubes are suspended by the external thread in a tray without the lid.
It is obvious that combinations and variations of the several parts of the tubes

page_text: mentioned in this and my previous Patent may be arranged, that is, the cap, stopper,
mouth, neck, thread, shoulder, collar or fillet or bottom end of one tube may be used
one with another or a lug or lugs may be provided with the tubes to which they
are not already shewn.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. In collapsible tubes such as are used for oil and moist colours and the like
when the opening at the top is of the same diameter or nearly so as the interior of
the tube, constructing the said tube open at one end only, the bottom being made
Bolid or entirely closed in the manner and for the purposes substantially as herein
described and illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6 of the accompanying sheet of
drawings.
2. In collapsible tubes as described in Claim 1 constructing the said tube
without the lug or lugs and without the external strengthening fillet or collar
and substituting for the said fillet or collar a thickening of the neck or mouth ou
its inside in the manner and for the purposes substantially as herein described and
illustrated in Figs. 7, 8, 9, 12 & 14.
3. In a tube as described in Claims 1 and 2, forming a thread on the thickened
portion of the said tube either internally or externally or both in the manner and
for the purposes substantially as herein described and illustrated.
4. In a tube as described in Claims 1, 2 & 3, extending the thickening of the
mouth of the tube a sufficient distance beyond the part required for the thread so
as to allow of the same being milled in the manner and for the purposes substantially
as herein described and illustrated.
Dated this 28th day of January 1898.
R. HEBER RADFORD,
Agent for the Applicant.