Improvement in the Manufacture of Buckets and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Mar., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Mar., 1898-Accepted, 28th May, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in the Manufacture of Buckets and the like.
ROBERT MELIUISH, of Fish Docks, Great Grimsby, in the County of Lincoln,
Fish Merchant, and SARAI ELIZABETH BROOKES, of Fish Dock Road, Great
Grimsby aforesaid, Married Woman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
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Our new and improved bucket bottoms instead of being sprung in and being
liable to fall out when subjected to the pressure of heavy weights have their edges
turned upwards and made to fit closely all round the lower peripheral edge of the
bucket body. The turned up bottom is then secured with a half round iron hoop
and the three thicknesses of the bucket bottom hoop and sides of bucket will
all three be fastened together with rivets. It is intended to make the buckets and
bottoms of steel or iron but being made with steel they will be more durable and
of lighter weight than those made of iron.
ROBERT MELHUISH.
S. E. BROOKES.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATILON.
Improvement in the Manufacture of Buckets and the like.
We, ROBERT MELHUISII, Fish Merchant, Fish Docks, Grimsby, and SARAH
ELIZABETH BROOKES, Wife, of Fish Dock Road, Grimsby, 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:-
Our invention relates to the manufacture of buckets, baths and similar recep-
tacles, and has for its object to so provide or construct such buckets or receptacles
that the bottom shall be secured thereto in a simple effective and durable manner.
Our invention consists in so constructing a bucket or similar receptacle that its
bottom shall be provided with a peripheral upwardly projecting ridge or flange
that shall embrace the lower peripheral edge of the body of the bucket or receptacle
so as to be bound thereupon and clamped in position by means of a hoop upon
which the bucket may rest.
Our invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which.-
Figure 1 represents a sectional elevation of a bucket made in accordance with
the present invention, while
Figure 2 is a modification in design.
In carrying our invention into effect as illustrated in the accompanying drawings

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as applied in the manufacture of bucket I provide the body A of the bucket
from sheet iron or steel and without seam, or having preferably a longi-
tudinal seam brazed or rivetted in the usual way. The bottom of the bucket Dis
provided as a plate or disc preferably from sheet iron or steel having an upwardly
projecting ridge or flange 11 which embraces the lower peripheral edge of the
bucket upon its exterior, while a hoop E is sprung or applied in position to securely
clamp the flange or ridge, the whole three thicknesses being preferably rivetted
as illustrated. I prefer to provide the hoop E of semi-circular section, but I may
provide the hoop in the usual way of flat section as illustrated in Figure 2. Lugs
or ears B may be provided in opposite positions upon the upper peripheral edge
of the bucket with which may engage the hooked extremities of the handle C.
It will be understood by thus securing the bottom to the side of the bucket or
other receptacle a simple, effective and durable joint is procured, while the
bucket or other receptacle is capable of being simply and readily constructed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:-
Improvement in the manufacture of buckets and like receptacles in which the
bottom thereof is provided with an upwardly projecting flange or ridge that
embraces the exterior of the bucket and which is clamped or secured thereto by
means of a hoop, the three thicknesses being preferably rivetted, substantially as
described.