US863627A - Pail. - Google Patents

Description

PATEINTED AUG. 20, 1907" J. W. NICHOLS.

PAIL.

.Arrmgumn 2mm an. 26, mos.

leakage or injury.

JESSE W. Mon-oi PATEXT outs-acnor on oaeo, ILLINOIS.

PAIL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 20, 1907.

Application filed January 26,1903. Serial No. 140,591.

To all whom it may concemf Be it known that 1, Jesse W. Nlcnois, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago,'in' the county of Cookand-State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pails, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to sheet-metal pails or buckets, having reference more particularly to the tin pails extensively used in packing lard, cottolene, and like products for retail distribution, although my invention is capable of useful application to pails and buckets of other kinds and for other purposes.

Most tin lard pails at present in use have soldered on their outer surface at diametrically-opposite points near the ,upper end of the pailbody a pair of hollow ears centrally apertured for the reception of the inwardly-turnedor hooked ends of the hail, the purpose thereof being to preserve imperforate and intact the containing walls of the pail against leakage of the contents at the pointswhererthe bail is pivoted to the body, or the introduction of dirt and other objectionable foreign matter at such points.

My invention has for its principal object to simplify and cheapen the construction of such pails through the provision of a novel construction of pail-ear which dispenses entirely with the use of solder, at the same time presenting a stronger construction and one equally efiicient in preserving the contents of the pail from To this end my invention consists in a pail-body provided with a non-soldered bail-receiving ear having the peculiarities of construction and form and conjunction of parts substantially as hereinafter described and 'pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings-I have illustrated a preferred embodiment of my invention, and referring theretoFigure 1.is a sideelevation of a tin pail and adjacent to the ear; Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 3- 3 of Fig. 2; and Figs. 4 and 5 are-detail perspective views of the cooperating elements of my twothe disks of metal actually removed to form such openings being of smaller diameter than thediameter of the completed openings, wherebya certain annular portion of the metal immediately surrounding the cut-out hole is punched and stamped inwardly, thereby forming a countersunk annular seat, indicated at a, and an inwardly-projecting flange shown at a; The earproper designed to be seated in'and completely and tightly fill said opening is' a two-part ear, composed of a pair of stamped sheet-metalmember's shown separately in detail at D and E in Figs. 4 and 5 respectively. The

member D is formed up'in the inverted hat-shape shown iroma fiat sheet-metal disk by-a suitable punch or die, and has a short cylindrical body 11, closed by-a head d, and surrounded by a marginal flange d allof said parts of course being integral. The cylindrical body d is made of a size to tightly fit within the flange a, and the flange d is of a size to snugly fit the countersunk seat a, with the outer face of the flange just flush .with the surrounding outer surface of the pail-body.

The member E is similarly shaped up from a circular disk of sheet-metal into the form shown in Fig. 5,. whereby it has a short cylindrical body e and an integral head 2, which latter has a central perforations of a size to admit the hooked end of the bail-C. The cylindrical body e of this member is of a diameter to .tightly telescope within the cylindrical body dof the member D.

In assembling the parts of the ear and seating the latter in the body of the pail, themembers D and E are .each other, thereby forming a hollow body having a completely closed inner end, and the only opening to the interior of which iirthe bail-hole e in the outer face thereof. This-hollow body thus formed is then driven into the countersunk and flanged circular opening in veniently formed by punch-pricking the inner margin of I dispensing with the use of solder, which is expensive and not always reliable as a uniting agent; the fact that the parts of my pail-ear can be quickly and cheaply stamped and assembled, requiring no special tools'or' processes in their formation; the fact that the ear thus applied lies almost wholly within the wall of the pail,

thus avoiding the unsightly appearance produced by.

ears which are merely attached to and'project outwardly from the outer surface of the pail; and the fact that the ear thus formed possesses great strength being inseparable from the pail-body by any ordinary or even unusual strain on the bail. It will also be obvious that the ear may be seated so snugly in the flanged receiving aperture of the body as to be no less effective to prevent points formed through its side walls and inwardly extending flanges surrounding said openings, in combination with two-part hail ears. each comprising a pair of interfitting inversely disposed stamped metal concave members, the outer of which has a flange fitting the countersink of the opening and punch-pricked locking lugs overlying the edge of the flange of the opening. and the inner of which has a central hole to receive the llflilllOOk, substantially as described. JESSE V. NICHOLS.

Witnesses SAMUEL N. Ioxo, FREDERXCK C. Goonu'tx.

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