US965662A - Minnow-bucket. - Google Patents

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C. SONKE.

MINNOW BUCKET.-

APPLICATION I'ILED JAN. 22, 1910.

965,662. Patented July 26, 1910.

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MINNOW-BUGKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 22, 1910.

Patented July 26, 1910.

Serial No. 539,600.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN SoNKn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Minnow- Buckets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in minnow buckets, and its objects are; first, to provide a minnow bucket with which minnows may be taken out without placing the hand in the water and still the minnows may be kept in the bucket without danger of their swimming forcibly against the screened sides of the bucket, and thus greatly extend the length of time they may be kept alive in the bucket; second, to provide a means whereby the minnows may be taken out of the bucket without placing the hands in the water though the water is retained in the bucket, and, third, to provide a closed sheet metal pail that will float and yet, with which, the fish or minnows may be taken out without placing the hands in the water. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure l is a sectional elevation of an ordinary closed minnow bucket with my attachment in place, and Fig. 2 is a perspective of my attachment removed from the bucket.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In speaking of a closed minnow pail or bucket I have reference to a bucket made of bottom and sides, or a bucket with which water may be carried from place to place to keep the minnows alive as long as poss1- ble, while an open pail is one in which the sides and bottom are made of wire screening, designed to be left in the water while the minnows are being held for bait, but with which all water will pass out of the bucket as fast as it is withdrawn from being surrounded and filled with water.

My device is designed for use with a closed bucket only, and for its successful operation the bucket A must be made with absolutely parallel walls so that the device will fit alike when being moved up or down in the bucket.

My means of providing for removing minnows from a closed pail, when properly filled with water to keep the minnows alive, consists of a false bottom, as shown at D which is made of wire screening or of punctured sheet metal, or any other material that will allow the water to remain normal in the bucket as the screen bottom is being raised up out of the water. This false bottom has an upwardly projecting rod attached to opposite edges and designed to be passed up through or by the cover B of the bucket, as shown at D, and a bail E is, or may be, properly attached to the upper ends of these rods so that the rods and the false bottom may be readily drawn upward out of the water, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1. The false bottom D is placed in the bucket before the minnows are placed in it, so that the minnows must remain above the said bottom, so that when the bottom is raised above the water the minnows will be raised out of the water with it, as indicated by the dotted outlines f in Fig. 1, where they may be readily reached through the opening I) in the cover B, without having the hand come in contact with the water at all, after which the fish may be again immersed without difficulty.

To avert the danger of raising the false bottom D far enough up to endanger pressing the minnows between it and the cover B I place two or more ears, as d, on the bottom D in position to strike against the lower edge of the rim a of the cover B.

C represents a screen cover for the opening f in the cover B, in common use upon minnow buckets for averting the danger of minnows flopping out of the bucket, but, at the same time, furnishing sufiicient air to prevent the minnows from being smothered in the bucket, and 72 represents an air chamber in the cover B, also in common use on minnow pails to make them float, though filled with water, though the cover may be made without this feature without departing, in any sense, from the spirit and intent of my invention.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is:

In minnow bucket construction, a water retaining receptacle and its cover, in combination with a flat false bottom made of fine meshed screening, an ear projecting upward from each opposite edge of this false bottom, standards secured to the bottom adjacent to said ears and projecting upward more than the depth of the receptacle, the

cover of the receptacle having a downthe cover that may be readily opened and 10 closed.

Signed at Grand Rapids, Michigan, J anuary 18, 1910.

CHRI STIAN SONKE.

In presence of- ALLGIER, I. J. CILLEY.

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