US734330A - Well-bucket. - Google Patents

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PATENTED JULY ,21, 1903.

WELL BUCKET.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 25. 1902.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

H0 MODEL.

WITNESSES:

No. 734,330. PATENTED JULY 21, 1903.

- G. P. HOBBS.

WELL BUCKET.

APPLICATION FILBD SHPT. 25. 1902.

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WITNESSES: INVENTOR ATTORNEYS THE Norms PUERS m. FHOTOLLTHQ. vusumown. u c

UNITED STATES 1 Patented July .21, 1903..

PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE P. HOBBS, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA,'ASSIGNOR TO NATIONAL ENAMELING &.STAMPING COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, Y., A CORPO- RATION OF NEW JERSEY.

WELL-BUCKET.

SPECIFICATIONfOItHihg part of Letters Patent No; 734,330, dated July 21, 1903. Application filedSeptember 25, 1902. Serial No. 124,"767 (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that L GEORGE P. HOBBS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New Orleans, parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Well-Buckets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to buckets such as are employed chiefly in drawing water from to wells, without, however, being restricted to buckets for this specific purpose.

Two kinds of valved buckets are in use, the buckets of one kind being self-drainingthat is,it is sufficient to set them down upon I5 the ground or upon any suitable surface 'to cause them to discharge their contentswhile the other kind of buckets must'be'dumped to empty the contents.

My present invention has for its object to use of the same parts the bucket may be rendered self draining or made a dumpingbucket, the only difference-being in the assembling of the parts. I I

' Another feature of my i'nyention relates to the construction of the valve employed in such buckets, and has for its object to so construct a valve that it will be strong and efiicient. ,7

The invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings andthe features of novelty pointed out in the appended claims.

Figure 1 is an elevation of a bucket con- 1 is'a dumping-bucket, while that shownin' Fig.2 is a self-draining bucket. Fig. 3 is a shows a valve embodying my invention in connection with an ordinary self-draining bucket. Figs. 5 and 6 are two views corresponding to Figs. 1 and 2, showing another .form of my invention; and Fig.7 is a crosssection taken on line 7 7 of Fig. 3.

The bucket comprises a shell or bucket? proper, A, provided with a bail A, adapted for attachment to a chain or the like, a valve,

provide a bucket so constructed that by thestructed according to myinventionwithparts in section, and Fig. 2 is a similar View, the

bottom view of the valve I employ. Fig.4

and a valve-holder,whicl1, in accordance with the first feature ;of myinvention, is reversible, so that in one position of suchholder the bucket will; be a self-draining bucket, while in the other position of the valve-holder the bucket will be a dumping-bucket. Thus in Figs. 1 and 2 thevalve-holder B consists of a metal disk having a central aperture B and provided'with a flange extending at one side ofsaid disk, the height of said flange being slightly .greater than the length of the arms OQWh-ich are connected with the valve, as will be described presently. Thus when the valve-holder B is inserted into the lower end of the bucket, so that the flange 13 will be below the disk, the arms 0 will not project beyond the bottom of the bucket, and the valve will not open when the bucket is set upon the ground. The bucket will therefore then bea d umping-bucket. When, how-- ever, the valve-holder is usedinthe inverted position, as shown in'Fig. 2, the disk containing the valve-.seat will beat the bottom of the bucket and the arms-O will project considerably from the bucket, so: that when the bucket is set down upon a supporting-surface the valve .will 'open automatically. The bucket in this case, therefore, is a self-draining bucket. The valve-holder B is secured in position by bending the lower end of the shell A inward, as shown at A and the upper end of the holder is preferably in engagement with a rib or bead A which projects into the bucket. However, other ways of securing the reversible valve-holder may be employed.

-In Figs. 5 and 6 I have illustrated a constructionin which the shell ancl=the valve are the same, as in Figs. 1 and 2, but the valveholder B is made of wood instead ofmetal and-has a cup-shaped depression, so that'an annular flange is formed, having the-same function as the flange B and,furthermore, two seats are formed at the ends of the aperture B and according to the position of the said valve-holder the same result is obtained as explained with-reference to Figs. 1 and 2- that is, the bucket may be made either selfdraining or dumping.

The valve which I prefer to employ comprises a disk D, made of leather or other ma terial suitable for producing a tight joint. On one side of this disk are secured the arms C, previously mentioned, which arms preferably have their free ends bent outwardly, as shown at C, so as to prevent the arms from passing through the aperture of the valveholder. On the other side of the disk B, I locate a suitable covering-such as,for instance, a metal disk E--from which prongs E may be struck up, said prongs being passed through the leather disk D and through openings in the connecting member C3 of the arms 0, and the ends of the prongs are clenched against said member 0 In Fig. 4 the arms G and packing or leather disk D are the same as hereinbefore described, but instead of the metal disk E there is employed a wood block F. The bucket, a portion of which appears in Fig. 4, is an ordinary bucket with a shell (1 and a non-reversible holder 1). By non-reversible I mean that this holder 1) cannot be reversed for obtaining different functions, as is the case with the holders shown in Figs. 1, 2, 5, and 6.

The reversible valve-holders which form part of my invention are, as will be seen upon reference to the drawings, provided with two valve-seats, one at each end of the valveopening, and these two valve-seats are located at different distances from that end surface of the holder which is at the opposite side, or, to explain matters more clearly, the upper valve-seat is located at another distance from the lower surface or end of the holder than the lower valve-seat is located from the upper end or surface of the holder. When these conditions are observed in the manufacture of the valve-holder, it becomes reversible in the sense hereinbefore describedthat is, the position of the active valve-seat relatively to the end or to the bottom of the bucket is changed by reversing the holder within the bucket. The specific construction of the valve is very simple and strong and enables the valve to be thoroughly guided relatively to the valve-holder.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A bucket comprising a shell, a valve, and a reversible valve-holder having two seats, each active for only one position of the holder, the distance of the active seat from the bottom of the bucket being diiferent according as the holder is used in an upright or in an inverted position, the said valve being provided with projections arranged to be entirely within the bucket in one position of the valve-holder, and to extend beyond the bucket-bottom in the other position of the valve-holder.

2. A bucket comprising a shell, a reversible valve-holder having two seats, each active for only one position of the holder, the distance of the active seat from the bottom of the bucket being diflerent according as the holder is used in an upright or in an in verted position, and a valve comprising a plate adapted to engage said seats, and arms extending through the holderand of a height smaller than the distance from the active seat to the bucket-bottom when the valveholder is used in an upright position.

3. A bucketcomprising ashell, a valve having projections adapted to engage the ground when the bucket is set down, to render the bucket self-draining, and a valve-holderhaving two seats for the valve at different distances from the bucket-bottom, the projections of the valve being entirely within the bucket when the valve is in its inner position, so as to render the bucket a dumpingbucket in said position.

4. A valve for buckets comprising a packing-disk, arms located on one side of said disk and provided with a connecting member, and a covering-plate located on the other side of the disk, and provided at a distance from its outer edge with struck-up prongs which extend through the said disk and through the said connecting member.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE P. HOBBS.

Witnesses: JOHN F. A. HEB-EL, S. D. MARKS.

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