US1801117A

US1801117A - Bait bucket

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Publication number: US1801117A
Application number: US480784A
Authority: US
Inventors: John T Smith
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1930-09-09
Filing date: 1930-09-09
Publication date: 1931-04-14
Anticipated expiration: 1948-04-14

Description

April 14, 1931. J. T. SMITH 1,801,117

BAIT BUCKET Filed Sept. 9, 1930 INVEN'TOR ATTORN EYS Patented Apr. 14, 1931 UNITED vSTATE-S PATEN JOHN T. SMITH, 0F LONGVIEW, TEXAS BAIT BUCKET Application filed September 9, 1930. Serial No. 480,784.

This invention relates to bait buckets and, among other objects, aims to provide a fresh water minnow bucket having improved means to hang it on the side of a boat and an overflow conduit arranged to drain stale water out of the bottom and over the side of the boat as fresh water is added or poured into the bucket.

Other aims and advantages of the invention will appear in the specification, when considered in connection with the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a bait bucket embodying the invention;

ig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

To keep minnows or live fresh water bait alive, it is necessary to add fresh water from time to time and drain the stale water. The most stale or impure water remains at the bottom. In using ordinary minnow buckets it is the customary to pick them up, pour out some of the stale water and pour in fresh water to take its place. This invention aims to provide improved hooks for attaching or supporting a bait bucket on the side of a boat and a drain conduit within the bucket having its end projecting through the side wall so as to drain the stale water from the bottom of the bucket without removing the bucket from the side of the boat.

Referring particularly to the drawing, there is shown a sheet metal bucket 10 of conventional shape having a bail 11 and a cover or top 12. In this instance, a pair of U:-shaped hook members 13, conveniently formed of strap metal or fiat bars, are brazed or otherwise secured to one sidewall of the bucket so as to be hooked over the side of a boat and support the bucket on the inside.

A conduit 14, conveniently made of an ordinary piece of pipe, bent L-shaped and having an outlet branch 15 projecting be yond the hooks 13, is secured in an opening in the side wall of the bucket preferably between the hooks. The vertical branch of the conduit 14 is conveniently arranged adjacent to the-inside of the side wall and may be secured thereto by spot welding. The lower end, which terminates slightly above the bottom wall of the bucket, has a screen 16 secured therein to prevent the conduit from being clogged up with bait or foreign matter and to prevent live minnows from escaping through the conduit.

In using the bucket for fresh water fishing, it is only necessary to hook it on the side of the boat with the overflow branch of the conduit projecting outwardly so that the drained water will fall over the side of the boat. The top or cover may be removed from time to time and new water added by pouring it into the bucket. As the water level in the bucket rises, the stale water will be forced out of the conduit and drained from the bottom.

In some instances, the drain conduits may be siphon-shaped and hooked over the side of the boat, thus dispensing with the necessity to provide separate hooks. Moreover, one such conduit may be utilized to serve as one hook in combination with an ordinary hook like the ones disclosed.

Obviously, the present invention is not restricted to the particular embodiment thereof herein shown and described.

What is claimed is:

1. In a bait bucket of the character described, hook members connected to oneside and adapted to support the bucket on the side of a boat; and a drain conduit having a branch extending into the bucket near the bottom wall and so arranged that stale water will be drained from the bottom of the bucket as fresh water is added.

2. In combination with a bait bucket, hook members secured to one side and adapted to support the bucket on the side of a boat; and an L-shaped drain pipe having one branch projecting vertically into the bucket and terminating near the bottom and another branch projecting through that side wall of the bucket to which the hooks are connected, said last named branch projecting beyond the hooks and arranged to drain water overboard from the bottom of the bucket as fresh water is added.

3. In combination with a minnow bucket of the character described, an L-shaped conduit having a vertical branch Within the bucket terminating short of the bottom; and a horizontal branch projecting through a side wall of the bucket so arranged as to drain the stale Water from the bottom of the bucket as fresh Water is added.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afiixed my signature.

JOHN T. SMITH.