US302086A - Fisherman s minnow-bucket - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

G. BARTON.

PISHERMANS MINNOW BUCKET.

110,302,086. 4 Patented '15, 1884.

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UNITED STATES.

PATENT .OFFICE.

GEORGE w. BARTON, or BETHLEHEM, KENTUCKY.

FISHERMANS MlNNOW-BUCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 302,086, datedJuly 15, 1884.

' Application filed February 24, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, GEORGE XV. BARTON, of Bethlehem, in the county of Henry and State of Kentucky, have invented a newand Improved Fishermans Minnow-Bucket, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact 'My invention relates to improvements in fishermens minnow-buckets; and it consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in

which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a sectional elevation of my new and improved minnow-bucket, the false bottom being adapted to be raised by hand. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the .bucket, the

.false bottom being adapted to be raised by a spring; and Fig. 3 is a sectional plan view taken on the line ac a: of Fig. 2.

The body A of the bucket is of the ordinary form. In the center of the bottom of the bucket A is secured the vertical rod B, upon which the false bottom 0 is placed. The false bottom is" perforated with numerous small. holes, and is, by preference, slightly dished or concaved, and in the form of bucket shownin Fig. 1 is provided with the vertical spring rods D D, which pass up through the loops 1) b, secured to the rod B near its upper end, and these rods are provided with the series of corresponding proje0ti0ns, a a, that are adapted I to rest upon the loopsb b, for supporting the false bottom at any desired depth in the bucket. I

In the form of bucket shown in Figs. 2 and 3, instead. of the spring-rods 'D D, the false bottom 0 is provided with the central tube, E, which fits over the rod B, and upon the rod B, under the false bottom, is placedthe coiled spring-F, for forcing the false bottom upward. For holding the false bottom in this construction at any desired depth in the bucket I form in the rod B the stop-notch '6, and provide the tube E with the series of springcatches ff, the ends of which reach through small slots in the tube, so as to be adapted to engage with thenotch t, as will be understood. from Fig. 2; and for disengaging the catches from the notch, so that the false bottom may be raised and lowered in the bucket, I adapt the tube E and false bottom to be turned aX- by the hand, or to be suddenly forced upward by the spring F.

In the form of bucket shownin Fig. 1 the projections a a are to be disengaged from the loops Z) Z) for raising and lowering the false bottom bysimply drawing the rods toward each other, thus leaving the false bottom free to be either raised or lowered by the rods D D by hand. A minnow-bucket made in this manner is very convenient, since the minnows in the bucket may all be raised to the surface of the water in the bucket and caught in the hand without rolling up the sleeves and delv-' ing the hand intothe water, as must be done with the ordinary form of minnow-bucket.

Besides, the'bucket is cheap and durable.

Instead of using the several catches ff, a

singlepivoted spring-operated catch may be downward against the tension of the spring combination, with a central guide-rod secured -saidtube, and spring F, surrounding the guiderod and arranged between the false bottom and the bottom of the bucket,.substantia lly as shown and described.

' GEORGE W. BARTON.

Witnesses:

J. W. Boori-r, 1

L. B. HALL.

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