US580651A

US580651A - Wooden pail

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Publication number: US580651A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1897-04-13
Anticipated expiration: 1914-04-13

Description

Patentedlpr. 13, 1897.

J. P. RUST. WOODEN PAIL.

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN P. RUST, OF KEENE, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

WOODEN PAIL.

SPECIFIGATIOlV forming part of Letters Patent No. 580,651, dated April 13, 1897.

Application filed February 8, 1896. Serial No. 578,608. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN P. RUST, of Keene, in the county of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wooden Pails, &c.; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a central vertical sectional view of a wooden pail made according to my invention; Fig. 2, a plan view of the same. Figs. 3 and 4 are detail sectional views, on a larger scale, still further illustrating my said invention.

The object of the invention is to produce a wooden pail or similar frusto-conical or tapered vessel having its open mouth or upper end wider than its base or bottom, having a croze or seat for the head of substantially cylindrical form cut in the staves near the bottom, and having a bottom of substantially cylindrical form with its edge resting against said seat or croze and supported by the shoulder below but not above the croze.

A is the body of the pail, of the usual tapering or flaring form, larger at top and smaller at bottom, and composed of staves a a a, &c., held together by hoops b b in the usual or in any suitable manner. The staves at their inner sides toward their lower ends, at the place where the bottom B of the pail is located, are each somewhat recessed or cut across in a chamfer-like manner, as shown at c, the recess c of each being coincident with those adjoining, so that what may be termed a cylindrical seat or crozelor bearing is provided to the inner circumference of the body at its lower part, as from a, above to b below in Figs. 1, 3, and 4. In other words, while the sidesof the pail constituted by the staves a a Ct, &c., are at an angle to the vertical axis of the pail the surface presented by the bearing just mentioned is vertically substantially parallel with said axis. It is not to be understood that this parallelism must be exact. It is suflicient for the purposes of my invention that it be so to such an extent as in practice secures the mode of operation and its accompanying results in substantially the way and manner herein set forth.

It will be seen that the shoulder on the stave at the lower end of the croze is ata right angle to the axis of the pail and not at a right angle to the face of the stave.

The bottom B comprises a disk which, peripherally considered, is cylindric or substantially soin other words, the circumferential surface of which is vertical to the flat or practically fiat upper and lower sides of said bottom, as illustrated in Figs. 1, 3, and 4.

The flaring or tapered body A being constructed as hereinbefore described, the bottom B is placed within the same from the larger end thereof, and the parts being properly proportioned the bottom is forcibly driven inward until its circumference is brought within and is embraced by the bearing a b, so that the vertical circumferential surface a of said bottom is forced snugly against the bearing a b and is compressed at all parts thereby, so that the bottom is not only held in place by such constriction upon it, but a snug tight jointis provided between the periphery of the bottom and the lower part of the body A, and inasmuch as the bearing a b is, vertically considered, practically parallel with the axis of the pail there is ordinarily no appreciable tendency on the part of the bottom 13 to slip either up or down, so that there is substantially nothing to impair the constriction exerted by the lower part of the body about and upon the circumference of the bottom to retain the latter in position. It will be observed that by the means described not only is the bottom held snugly and securely in place, but also that it may be put in position and secured with very slight labor and'by comparatively unskilled operatives. Then desired-as, for example, when the pail is intended for holding or carrying unusually heavy contentsan extra precaution against the displacement of the bottom in a downward direction is provided by forming at the lower edge of the bearing a b a shoulder (1, against which rests the peripheral portion of the under side of the bottom, as represented in Fig.4. This shoulder, it will be noticed, is intended simply to receive the hoop or hoops outside of such head must be moved. By my construction the bottom of the pail is inserted from the flared open end Without moving the hoops and rests firmly on the right-angled shoulder formed at the lower end or edge of the croze. The upper end of the croze merges with the surface of the inner face of the staves, leaving no shoulder above the pail-bottom.

The Weight on the pail-bottom is supported on the squared shoulder of the croze, with little or no tendency to spread the staves or strain the hoop.

Vhat I claim as my invention is A Wooden pail or vessel composed essentially of hoops and staves, the body being of frusto-conical form, the croze near the bottom end of the Vessel being cut in form of a cylinder from the face of the staves and having a square shoulder below, and the pail-bottom of cylindrical form resting in said croze, whereby in assembling the bottom may be entered from above Without moving the hoops, and rests on said square shoulder, substan tially as described.

JOHN P. RUST.

\Vitnesses:

HENRY S. READ, BURNHAM KALISOH.