An Improved Fastening for the Metallic Hoops of Buckets, Baths, Milk and other Cans, Tubs, Casks, and other Vessels, and for Bale Ties.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th May, 1894-Accepted, 30th June, 1894
DE BOLNICATION.
An Improved Fastening for the Metallic Hoops of Buckets, Baths,
Milk and other Cans, Tubs, Casks, and other Vessels, and for
Bale Ties.
I, HENRY SMITH, of Brierley Hill Iron Works, Brierley Hill, in the County
of Stafford, and of Tividale Iron Works, Tividale, in the County of Stafford,:
aforesaid, Fencing and Galvanized Iron Manufacturer, 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 :-
This invention consists of the herein-described improved fastening for the ends
of metallic strips forming hoops of buckets baths, milk and other cans tubs casks
and other vessels and for connecting together the ends of metallic strips forming
bale ties.
I will describe this invention by referring to the accompanying drawings which
illustrate my invention applied to a bucket hoop and in which the same letters of
reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in the several figures.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a metallic bucket with its hoop fastened in accordance
with this invention;
Fig. 2 represents in front elevation and in end elevation and in plan the ends of
the metallic strip forming the said hoop before they are connected together;
Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the hoop shewing the method of connecting the ends
together;
Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the complete hoop and Fig. 5 is a plan of a portion
of the same shewing the fastening;
Figs. 6, 7 and 8 illustrate a slightly modified form of this invention of which
Fig. 6 shews the ends of the hoop disconnected and Fig. 7 represents in front.
elevation and Fig. 8 an edge view of the said ends shewn by Fig. 6 when connected.
together.
According to one arrangement of carrying out this invention as shewn by
Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, I make two side slits marked respectively a and b near the
ends of the metallic strip A forming the bucket hoops, that is to say, one of these
side slits a extends from one edge of the strip to about the middle of the same and.
the other side slit b extends from the other edge of the strip towards about the:
middle of the same as shewn in Fig. 2. It will be seen that these side slits a bare
formed at some little distance from the ends of the strip A thus leaving the end.
portions cd connected to the main portion of the hoop by about half the width of
the same.
To fasten the two ends of the strip A together and form the hoop the
ends of the strip A have to be sprung sideways slightly and the open ends of the
slits a b brought together and then by a sliding sideways movement the slit part a
will connect with the slit 6 as shewn in Fig. 3 and when the two ends of the strip
have been slided together as far as the slits ab will allow the fastening is completed
and has the appearance shewn in Figs. 1, 4 and 5 where it will be seen that the end
portions c d come on the inside of the hoop. In order to make these parts lie flat.
the end portions of the hoop are by preference slightly indented at e¹ eª ƒiƒ³ so
that when the ends of the hoop are fastened together as shewn the portions cd will
lie between these indentations as shewn more clearly by Fig. 5.
It will be evident that instead of making only one slit in each side of the strip A
to engage together as above described with reference to Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 I may
similarly make two three or more slits in each side of the strip so as to engage
together and form a stronger connection than when the strip is made with only one
slit at each side. For instance in the arrangement shewn by Figs. 6, 7 and 8 each

page_text: end of the strip is made with three slits which are marked respectively a¹ a³ a*
61 62 63 so that when these slits are engaged together as shewn in Figs 7 and 8 the
slit 6 engages with a³, the slit 62 with a², and the slit 6ª with a'.
My invention is applied to the ends of metallic strips forming hoops for baths,
milk and other cans, tubs, casks and other vessels and for connecting the ends of
metallic strips forming bale ties, similarly as above described and illustrated by the
accompanying drawings in connection with metallic hoops for buckets.
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::-
Fastening together the ends of metallic strips forming hoops of buckets, baths,
milk and other cans, tubs, casks and other vessels or bale ties, by making one or
more side slits near the two ends and at opposite edges of the strip so as to engage
and fasten the ends of the strip together in the manner substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 10th day of May 1894.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.