US638787A

US638787A - Bucket-strainer.

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Publication number: US638787A
Application number: US69362998A
Authority: US
Inventors: Albert Wolf
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1898-10-15
Filing date: 1898-10-15
Publication date: 1899-12-12
Anticipated expiration: 1916-12-12

Description

No. 638,787. Patented Dec. l2, I899. A. WOLF.

BUCKET STBAINER.

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ALBERT IVOLF, OF LOOKING GLASS PRAIRIE, ILLINOIS.

BUCKET-STRAINER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 638,787, dated December 12, 1899. Application filed October 15, 1898. Serial No. 693,629. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT WOLF, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Looking Glass Prairie, in the county of St. Clair and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Bucket-Strainer, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to buckets, and has for its object to provide certain new attacl1- ments thereto whereby an ordinary bucket may be effectively converted into a funnel or a strainer without affecting the usefulness of the bucket in its ordinary capacity as a containing vessel.

To this end the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of the several parts of the attachments, all of which will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bucket having a portion thereof broken away and all of the attachments being in place. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view thereof. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the strainer.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the draw- 1ngs.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates an ordinary tin bucket having the usual bailhandle 2. An opening is provided centrally through the bottom of the bucket, and a nipple 3 is secured therein. This nipple is flush with the inner side of the bottom of the bucket, but extends below the same on the outside, with its lower end fiush or within the plane of thelower edge of the bottom rim 4 of the bucket. This arrangement is such as to permit of the bucket resting evenly upon its base. The projecting portion of the nipplc is externally threaded, as at 5, and the internal portion thereof is threaded throughout its entire length.

When used as an ordinary bucket, an eX- ternally-threaded closure-plugliis fitted flush within the nipple 3, closing the opening thereof and rendering the bucket capable of its ordinary functions.

To convert the bucket into a funnel, the plug 6, having the usual slot7across its outer face, is removed by means of a suitable tool, and a hollow internally-threaded stem or neck 8 is fitted to the projecting end of the nipple. This neck, being much smaller than the bottom .of the bucket, may be inserted into the mouth of a bottle, jug, or other receptacle, as is usual With the ordinary form of funnel. In some instaucesit may befound convenient to let the plug remain in the nipple until the bucket is filled, when the latter may be carried to any desired spot and the plug then removed through the hollow neck, as will be understood.

If it is desired to strain. the contents of the bucket, a strainer 9 is first placed in the bucket. This strainer comprises an approximately bulb-shaped body of gauze or suitable foraminous material, having its lower end open and provided with an externally-threaded hollow coupling-stem 10. This stem is adapted to be fitted into the nipple 3, so as to mount the strainer within the bucket and provide a continuous passage from the interior of the strainer through the nipple. The shape and size of the strainer may be varied as desired; but the egg shape herein described and illustrated in the drawings is preferred.

By reference to Fig. 2 it will be seen that the lower edge of the coupling-stem 10 forms a stop for the closure-plug 6, so as to prevent the latter from being moved into the interior of the bucket.

It will be noted that the attachments may be all carried at once by the bucket and that they may be used singly or in combination with each other, as desired. The several parts may be quickly placed in position for use and may be as readilydetached and cleaned, thus producing a perfectly sanitary article.

Changes in the form, proportion, and minor details may be made without departing from the spirit and scope or sacrificing any of the advantages of the present invention, and

therefore I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the precise construction and arrangement as herein described.

Having thus described the invention, I claim The combination with a bucket having a foot-flange, and an opening formed through the bottom thereof, of an internally and externally threaded nipple pendent from the walls of the opening in the bottom of the bucket, and terminating short of the plane of the lower edge of the foot-flange, a bulbl the lower edge of the foot-flange, substan= shaped strainer located within the bucket tially. as and for the purpose set forth.

and having an externally-threaded stem re- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as movably fitted Within the inner end of the my own I have hereto affixed my signature in 5 nipple, an externally-threaded closure-plug the presence of two witnesses.

removably fitted through the outer end of I 1 the nipple and against the adjacent end of ALBERT WOLF the stem of the strainer, and an internally- Witnesses: threaded funnel-neck removably fitted to the OSCAR GINZEL, IO exterior of the nipple and projecting below ALFRED GINZEL.