Year: 1886

page_text: I, WALTER ALFRED BARLOW, of 6 St Pauls Churchyard, in the city of London,
Patent Agent and Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
(a communication to me from abroad by Heinrich Wessel, Merchant in the city of
Hamburg, Germany,) and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to an improved construction of barrels for mineral or
pulverised goods as cement flour or such like articles.
The barrel is composed of a cylinder of sheet iron in combination with bottom
and cover of wood the fastening of which latter parts to the cylinder is effected by
means of sheet iron rings and sockets of angle iron in a manner as will be more
fully described with reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Fig. 1 of the annexed drawings is an outer view or elevation of the barrel.
Fig. 2 a longitudinal section, and Fig. 3 a cross section through the barrel; m is
the cylindrical body of barrel constructed of sheet iron, the upright ends of the
plate or plates forming said body are attached to each other by rivets or other.
suitable means.
The bottom a as well as the cover D are made of wood of a diameter to fit the
inner circular opening of the cylinder m. Both the bottom a as well as cover D
are furnished with a tapering rim to allow the same to be tightly driven into the
cylinder opening.
The mounting of the barrel is effected in the following way:-
Into the cylinder m the bottom a is first driven so far that a rim r, of the
cylindrical casing of about one inch in width (or more or less, according to the
size of the barrel) projects from the under side of bottom a. This rim r. is
strengthened by a metal hoop p. placed inside the projecting part of the cylinder
to which it fits tightly all round; the inner edge of this hoop p supports bottom a
as will be understood from Fig. 2 of the drawings. The fastening of bottom a to
the cylinder m. is then effected by means of sockets o. formed of angle iron (five
such angle iron sockets being shown in the drawing, but more or less may be

page_text: applied) which sockets are by means of rivets e passing through socket hoop and
cylinder, attached to the rim r, while the bottom a is attached to the sockets by
means of nails a.
After the barrel has been filled with cement or other material for which it has
to be applied the cover D is inserted into the top of the cylinder, and tightly
driven down upon the upper surface of the material enclosed in the barrel. The
rim of cylinder m. projecting above the outer side of the cover D. is then in the
same way as bottom rim r, strengthened by another hoop p¹, fastened to the barrel
cylinder by sockets o¹, and rivets e in the same manner as described with reference
to the bottom part of the barrel. The sockets o¹ being secured to the cover D by
means of wood-screws 8¹ or by nails..
The before described barrel is of considerable strength, and can be made at a
very low price. The cylinder m. may be formed of very thin sheet iron relatively
80 long, as care be taken that the hoops p and p¹ be of sufficient strength to allow
of loading, and unloading, without breaking the barrel.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
Firstly. A barrel, composed of a sheet iron cylindrical body m, with wooden
bottom, and cover plates, connected to the cylindrical body by means of
strengthening hoops p and p¹, inserted inside the projecting rims and 1 and by
sockets o. and o' formed of pieces of angle-iron, which sockets are by means of
rivets e attached to cylindrical body of the barrel, and corresponding hoop p, and
by means of wood screws or nails to the bottom a and cover D, as and for the
purpose herein set forth.
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