US1487988A - Automobile radiator-filling bucket - Google Patents

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March 25, 1924. 1,487,888

' H. TESCHE AUTOMOBILE RADIATOR FILLING BUCKET Filed Dec. 1 1922 Patented Mar. 25, 1924:.

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HARE-Y TESG HE, OF NEW "WESTMINSTER, BRETISH COLUMBIA, CANADA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T0 LENA COLBEK, OF VAITC OUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.

AUTOMOBILE RADIATOR-FILLING BUCKET.

Application filed December 1,1922. Serial No. 604,401.

T 0 all 107mm it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY Tnsonn, a sub ject of the King of Great Britain, residing at the city of New Westminster, in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvement in Automobile Radiator-Filling Buckets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in buckets for filling automobile radiators or for other analogous purposes, with more particular reference to a device or attachment capable of being incorporated with or attached to an ordinary bucket, and the object of my invention is to provide such a device or attachment by the use of which radiators may be easily and conveniently filled without the use of a funnel and which eliminates the spilling and waste which occurs when filling is done by a bucket when used in the usual manner. A further ob ject is to render such device capable of being used with great advantage for sprinkling purposes, as in gardening or other work.

I attain these objects by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 is an outside elevation of my device.

Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation.

Fig. 3 is an outside view of a collapsible bucket showing the device attached thereto. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation of Fig. 8.

Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the lower end of a metal bucket showing the device applied thereto for sprinkling purposes.

Similar figure of reference indicate similar parts throughout the several views.

The device may be applied advantageously to an ordinary metal bucket but it is preferably used in combination with a canvas collapsible bucket and in the drawings 1 indicates such a bucket having the bottom 2 and handle 3. The device itself consists of a short tubular member 4 having its upper end provided with an annular concentric flange 5 in which bolt hole 6 are formed, these bolt holes registering with corresponding bolt holes 7 formed in a loose ring flange 8 adapted to be passed over the tube 1 so that the two flanges 5 and 8 may be bolted together by bolts 9 passed through the respective bolt holes 6 and 7. Seated on the upper end of the tube {i normally closing it is a valve 10 having a ring 11 secured to its upper side and provided on its under side with a central eye 12 to which eye is secured the upper end of a coil spring 13 the lower end of this spring being connected to an eye 14: formed at midlength of a bar 15 extending transversely of and within the tube 4 towards its lower end, the opposite ends of which are lidably mounted in diametrically opposite slots 16 and 17 cut in the tube wall, as shown in Fig. 2, and these slots extend through the lower edge of the tube so that the bar 15 may be readily withdrawn or replaced at any time, should it become damaged or broken, it being noted that it is held up in position by the tension of the spring 18. 18 indicates a chain connected at its lower end to the ring 11 on the valve and at it upper end to the handle 3.

In attaching the device to the bucket a central hole 19 is cut in the bottom 2 of a size to permit the tube 4 to be passed therethrough and holes 20 are also formed in the bottom corresponding to the bolt holes 6 and 7. Joints 21 and 22, of leather or other suitable material, are also provided having bolt holes 23 and 24 similar to bolt holes 20. The tube 4 is passed through the hole 19 from the inside of the bucket so that the flange 5 rests on the joint 21 which joint is first of all positioned concentrically of the opening 19, after which the joint 22 and loose flange 8 are placed over the tube 4: on the outside of the bucket to lie against the bottom, and then the flanges and joints are firmly screwed together by the bolts 9, which pass through both the joints, the flanges, and the bucket bottom, from which it will be seen that the bucket is thus in effect provided with a valved nozzle projecting from the bottom the opening of which is controlled by the pull on the chain 18, its closing being effected by the spring 13 when the pull on the chain is relaxed. The outside diameter of the tube or nozzle 4 being less than the inside diameter of the radiator filling orifice it will be obvious that, the bucket being filled, the tube i may be inserted into the said orifice and the contents of the bucket run off into the radiator by simply pulling the chain 18 to raise the valve 10, the filling operation being eiiected in this manner simply and conveniently without spilling or waste.

Where the device is to be used for sprinkling the lower end of the tube is exteriorly threaded, as at 25 in Fig. 5, to'rec-ive the correspondingly interiorly threaded end 26 of a rose 27, the bucket 28 in this case being preferably of metal and provided with a lower extension flange 29 of a depth sufficient to keep the rose clear of]? the ground when the bucket is deposited thereon;

What I claim as my invention is In a bucket, a tubular member projecting through the bottom thereof and provided at its lower end with diametrically opposed notches, a bar freely mounted in said notches and extending transversely 'of'the bore of the tubular member, a valve seatedon the upper end of the said tubular member and normally closing said member'and a tension pring between the valve and the bar serving to hold the valve closed and the bar in place in the notches.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature, at Vancouver, B. (3., this 21st day of November, 1922.

' HARRY TESCHE.

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