IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CLEANSING AND WASHING CASKS OR BARRELS
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Osborne Cadwallader Edwards, of Cork, in the
County of Cork, Civil Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY FOR CLEANSING AND WASHING CASKS OR BARRELS."
Sealed the 30th April 1867, and dated the 3rd November 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Osborne Cadwallader
Edwards at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 3rd November 1866.
I, OSBORNE CADWALLADER EDWARDS, of Cork, in the County of Cork, Civil
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY FOR CLEANSING AND WASHING CASKS OR BARRELS," to be as
follows:-
My improvements have for their special object the facilitating and simpli-
fying of the process of cleansing and washing casks or barrels.
In order to this I make a rectangular frame of iron or other suitable material
with journals or bearings formed on the opposite corners or angles; I suspend
his frame in suitable standards, so that it is free to revolve on its own axis.

page_text: Inside of this rectangular frame I fix another frame suspended in suitable
bearings at the ends of the first-named frame, the inner frame being free to
revolve within the outer one. On one end of the axis of the inner frame
I fix a bevel wheel, and connected therewith is a bevel pinion fixed on a spindle
which passes through one of the journals of the outer frame; on the outer
end of this spindle I fix a lever with spring catch for securing it to one of the
fixed standards of the outer frame to prevent the said pinion moving when the
outer frame is turned. On the journal opposite the pinion I fix a handle or
belt pulley for driving the outer frame. The cask to be cleaned I fix in the
inner frame, to which are attached suitable straps or chains for holding
the cask; one half of these straps or chains are hinged to the frame and
secured by screw pin or catches, so that the cask may be readily put in or
taken out:
The mode of cleansing is this:-The cask is secured to the inner frame
and partially filled with chains, gravel, or other suitable material used for
cleansing; the outer frame is then put-in motion, by which a peculiar motion
is given to the cask owing to the axis of the inner frame and the axis of the
outer frame not being on the same plane nor yet at right angles, but between
the two, whilst at the same time the cask or inner frame performs a motion
round its own axis derived from the bevel gear.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Osborne Cadwallader Edwards in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 2nd May, 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, OSBORNE
CADWALLADER EDWARDS, of Cork, in the County of Cork, Civil Engineer,
send greeting.
'
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Osborne-Cadwallader Edwards, Her special licence. that I, the said
Osborne Cadwallader Edwards, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Osborne Cadwallader Edwards, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should, at any time agree with, and no. others,

page_text: from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and, vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man,
ân Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY: FOR. CLEANSING AND WASHING
CASES OR BARRELS," upon the condition. (amongst others) that. I, the said
Osborne Cadwallader Edwards,.my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in
the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately:
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Osborne Cadwallader Edwards, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to. be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement; viz. :**
.. My improvements have for their special object the facilitating and simpli-
fying of the process of cleansing and washing casks or barrels.
.
In order to this I make a rectangular frame of iron or other suitable material
with journals or bearings formed on the opposite corners or angles; I suspend
this frame in suitable standards, so that it is free to revolve on its own axis.
Inside of this rectangular frame I fix another frame suspended in suitable
bearings at the ends of the first-named frame, the inner frame being free to
revolve within the outer one. On one end of the axis of the inner frame I
fix a bevel wheel, and connected therewith is a bevel pinion fixed on a spindle
which passes through one of the journals. of the outer frame; on the outer
end of this spindle I fix a lever with spring catch for securing it to one of the
fixed standards: of the outer frame to prevent the said pinion moving when
the outer frame. is turned. On the journal opposite the pinion I fix á handle
or belt 'pulley for driving the outer frame. The cask to be cleaned I fix in
the inner frame, to which are attached suitable straps or chains for holding
the cask; one half of these straps or chains being hinged to the frame and
secured by screw pin or catches, so that: the cask. may be readily put in
or taken out.
The mode of cleansing is this:-The cask is secured to. the inner frame
and partially filled with chains, gravel, or other suitable material used for
cleansing; the outer frame is then put in motion, by which a peculiar motion
is given to the cask owing to the axis of the inner frame and the axis of the
outer frame not being on the same plane, nor yet at right angles, but between

page_text: the two, whilst at the same time the cask or inner frame performs a motion
round its own axis derived from the bevel gear.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood and readily
carried into effect, I will now proceed to describe the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings, reference being had to the figures and letters marked thereon..
Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Figure, 2 an end elevation of one
modification and arrangement of my improvements in cask washing
machinery.
A is an outer rectangular frame suspended by the journals 6, 61, in the
standards or supports c, c; D is an inner frame attached or suspended to the
outer frame by the journals e, e; F is the cask fixed in the inner frame D,
and secured therein by the straps g, g, and the chains h, h; the straps 9, 9,
being fixed or rivetted to the inner frame whilst the chains h, h, are hinged at
one end and secured at the other end by means of the spring catch, pin, or
lever i; jis the pulley by which motion is given to the outer frame; k is a
bevel wheel keyed on the journal of the inner frame D; l, pinion geared to k
and keyed to the journal of the outer frame A; m, lever for preventing pinion
shaft moving when the outer frame is in motion; the outer frame A being
keyed to the journal 6 whilst it rotates freely on the opposite journal 6¹ as ón
a centre.
.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
in which the same is or may be used or carried into effect, I may observé
in conclusion that I do not restrict or confine myself to the precise details
herein described and set forth, as many variations may be made therefrom
without deviating from the principles or main features of my Invention;
but what I consider to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the
Invention secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent is,―
Firstly, the general arrangement and construction of apparatus for cleansing
and washing casks, as herein described and set forth in Figures 1 and 2 of the
accompanying Drawings.
Secondly, the novel mode of construction and arrangement of mechanism
by which the inner frame is attached or suspended to the outer frame, and
through the medium of which a peculiar motion is given to the cask during
the rotation of the outer frame, as herein described and set forth in Figures 1
and 2 of the accompanying Drawings.
Thirdly, the novel arrangement of mechanism by which the cask is
caused to rotate round its own axis during the rotation of the machine,

page_text: as herein described & illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 of the Drawings
attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said Osborne Cadwallader Edwards, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
OSBORNE CADWALLADER EDWARDS. (L.S.)
Witness,
GEORGE PALMER.