US1680191A

US1680191A - Collapsible bucket

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Publication number: US1680191A
Application number: US99645A
Authority: US
Inventors: Pearl R Woolf
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1926-04-03
Filing date: 1926-04-03
Publication date: 1928-08-07
Anticipated expiration: 1945-08-07

Description

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P. R. WOOLF COLLAPSIBLE BUCKET Aug. 7, E928.

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CGLIJAPSIBLE BUCKET.

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.il This4 invention relates to collapsible or foldable buckets andthe general .ob-ject of my' invention is to provide a bucket of paraftined or waxed paper or other Alight and readily.foldablefabric, which is designed to be used where liquids are transported for f a short distancel and which is capable of use to another.

for transporting gasoline and oils from a filling station to a stranded caror for carryingzliquidsor other materals from one place A further object is toprovide a bucket which, as before remarked, is made of paraffined paper and which may be folded into very compact form so that a number of these buckets can be readily shipped by parcel post at very small cost 4and so that a number of buckets may be readily carried in a car when touring.

Another object is to provide a bucketof this character which is conical or has the form of a cornucopia. and which, being made of paper,.mayV have its pointed end torn olf so that the bucket may be used as a funnel on occasion.

A still further Vobject is to provide a bail for the bucket of a verf,7 light characterVV which may be utilized with a number of different buckets if d-esired, and so form the bucket that thev bail may` engage at a plurality of points with reenforced portions on theV bucket. i Y

' Other objects will appear in the course of the following description.l e

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein Figure l is a perspective view of a bucketl constructed in accordance with my invention, the lower portion of thebucket being l folded; Y

Fig. .2 is a vertical sectional view of the upper portion of thebucket showing the top folded in;

Fig. 8 is an elevation of the bucket;

Fig. l is a section on the line 1- 4 of Figure 3 5 is a fragmentary section on the line 5-5 of Figure 3';

Fig. 6 is a view of the bucket Vinit-s fully folded condition.

p VReferring to these drawings it will be seen that the body 10 of the bucket is conical in form, or as before remarked, has the form of a Cornucopia, and this `body is formed of relatively heavy paper which has been waxed or paraflined so that it will carry liquids. This body maybe made lin .any suitablevnianner andinia/y be made of any suitable size, a convenient size being about 2. long and 1 in diameter.

The vupper margin of the bucket isforined at a plurality of pointswith reenforcedportions through which the ends of a bail mayV pass. As illustrated, each reenforcedtportion is formed by cutting out a semi-circular ear 11 from the body of thebucket and turning this ear over upon the outside face of the bucket and pasting it or gluing it in place. A. perforation 12 is then formed through the body of the bucket and through the reenforced portion constituted by this ear.

The bail is preferably formed of relatively heavy and stili2 wire and bent to form an approximately U-shaped handle 13, the wire being laterally extended at one end, as at le, and then returned upon itself and again laterally extended beyond the bail, as atl. The ends of the portions lll and 15 are angularly bent as at 16, so as to form hooks adapted to extend through the perforations 12. Both ends of the bail are formed in the same manner. Thus the bail consists of a handle portion and two laterally and downwardly directed arms, the eX- tremities'of the arms being hooked.

This bucket may be folded, as illustrated in Figure 6 so that the lower portion of the conical bucket will be parallel along one side edge of the upper portion of the bucket, the paper of the bucket being, of course, flattened down and the bail being bent so as n to lie in a parallel plane. Thus, a number of these buckets folded as described may be packed together for transportation and will take up very little room.

The opposed walls of the paper cone at the extreme tip of the cone may be pasted together and a. holel? made through these two layers or thicknesses and when the bucket is folded, one of the hooks of the bail may pass through these perforations so that the bail acts to hold the bucket in its folded position.

The use of this bucket will be obvious and it will be seen that inasmuch as the reenforced portions 11 are formed below the upper margin of the paper constituting the bucket, this upper margin may be turned inward or down inside of the bucket to constitute a lid which will at least prevent the splashing out of the contents of the bucket. If it be desired to use the bucket for a funnel the tip end of the bucket is torn away on the dotted line 18 and obviously( this tear may be made nearer to or further from the hole 17 so as to make a relatively small or a relatively large discharge opening for the funnel .so formed.

The top of the bucket is formed With longitudinally extending slots or cuts'19 to permit the folding in of the top of the bucket to form the lid as shown in Figure' 2, and also the slots are cut to give room for the bail and to lap when turned inside. Of

" course, the bucket shown in Figure 1 need not have its tapered end turned up as illusi tra-ted, but this makes the bucket shorter, stronger, and easier to handle.

I claim:- A collapsible bucket of the character described having a conical body formed of Water-proof paper the body beindadapted to be folded upoIi itselfandf{latin-ined` for transportation, the body jat fourpointsbeing cut away in a semi-circle to form ears Whichrare bentv downward upon the body, a Y

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