US1039044A - Collapsible bucket. - Google Patents

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S. J. FUHRMAN.

OOLLAPSIBLE BUCKET. APPLICATION FILED DEC. 21, 1911.

Patented Sept. 17, 1912.

Ennuuor aaiv mmm SAMUEL J. FUHRMAN, OF SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

COLLAPSIBLE BUCKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 21, 1911.

Patented Sept. 17, 1912.

Serial No. 667,184.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL J. FUHRMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Scranton, in the county of Lackawanna and State of Pennsylvania, have invented oer tain new and useful Improvements in C01- lapsible Buckets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to collapsible buckets and has for an object to provide a bucket constructed of water-proof or impervious fabric so built that it will collapse to practically a condition of one sheet of fabric super-imposed upon another.

A further object of the invention is to provide a collapsible bucket having means at one side to serve as a spout for directing the contents of the bucket into a smallreceptacle when being poured out.

A further object of the invention is to provide improved structural featuresof converting a sheet of impervious fabric into a bucket.

With these and other objects in view the invention comprises certain novel constructions, combinations and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved bucket. Fig. 2

is a transverse sectional view through the tip of the bucket taken on line 22 of Fig. 1 and enlarged.

Like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views. The improved bucket which forms the subject matter of this application comprises a single flexible sheet of water-proof or impoervious material, indicated at 10, such sheet eing cut V-shaped and with the sides brought over to substantially register but with one edge as 11 extending far enough to overlap the other edge and form a seam as indicated at 12. To close the lower or apex end of the cone thus formed the extremity is brought upwardly as indicated at 13 and secured under the edge 11 as indicated at 14 in Fig. 2, and the whole secured by a row of stitching 15 which completes the connection of the edges. For convenience in handling, a strap 16 is secured thereon at its opposite ends as by the stitching17. It will be noted that by reason of the form of the seam 12 the side of the bucket adjacent such seam is formed into a V-shaped opening which serves as a spout when pouring the contents from the bugket.

The bucket described as above is particularly useful for automobilists who can carry such a bucket under the cushion of the Seat and have it always convenient for filling radiators, or for use by hunters, campers or the like who can employ such bucket for a game bag or for anypurpose or fold it up to be inserted in the pocket but have when required a bucket convenient for use and reliable in the manner of holding liquids.

I claim In a folding paper bucket rolled in the form of a cone and having an apex at its lower end, a single V-shaped stri having two straight edges; one of the edges being turned over the other and contacting both sides of the latter for the greater part of its length, said apex being turned up and received under 7 part of the turned over line of stitching securing the turned edge, a over edge and the apex to the second mentioned edge, and a handle secured to both sides of the bucket.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL J. FUHRMAN.

Witnesses:

LOUIS P. WEDEMAN, W. W. BAYLOR.

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