An Improved Inside Cover for Barrels, Tierces, or the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Feb., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 6th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 7th Dec., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Inside Cover for Barrels, Tierces, or the like.
I EDWARD THOMAS HUGHES, of 38, Chancery Lane, in the County of London,
Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication
to me by Charles L. Friederichs, and Henry C. Fliege, both of Lake Linden,
Houghton Co. State of Michigan, U.S. America, Inventors) to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to an improved cover for barrels, tierces, or the like, and
consists in providing means for holding meat or other articles under a brine or
pickle, whereby the employment of stones or other sinkers is rendered superfluous.
According to my invention, I provide a wooden or other cover of suitable size
and shape to go within a barrel or the like, upon one side of which cover I provide
a slotted claw tail-piece, the position of which is adjustable, so that it will extend
more or less beyond the edge of the cover, and be held in place by a thumb-screw
or its equivalent.
Near the opposite edge of the cover is arranged a bifurcated standard, between
the upper part of which is pivoted a lever having a curved and sharpened outer
end, and an inner handle end, which latter is raised when the cover is placed within
the barrel, the bringing down of such handle end causing the claw of the tail-piece
and the pointed end of the lever, to engage the inner surfaces of the barrel or
the like.
Dated this fith dow of February 1895
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.
I EDWARD THOMAS HUGHES, of 38, Chancery Lane, in the County of London,
Patent Agent (a communication to me by Charles L. Friederichs and Henry
C. Fliege, both of Lake Linden, Houghton County, State of Michigan, U.S.
America, Inventors) do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what inanner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to inside covers for barrels, tierces and the like, used to
hold brine or pickle and meats or other substances to be cured, pickled or preserved
by the brine or pickle.
Its object is to do away with the present clumsy and inefficient expedients for
holding the meat or substances being treated, under the brine or pickle, of rocks or
weights applied to the inside cover, which often result in the spoiling of the meat,
by their failing with certainty to accomplish the desired purpose.
Our invention consists in a novel combination with the inside cover, of
mechanical expedients for adjusting and holding said cover, whereby said cover
may be anchored at different depths in the barrel to insure the submersion of the
meats under varying quantities of the pickle or brine and meats therein, and which
will admit of the cover being readily applied and removed when required, without

page_text: having to resort to lifting heavy sinkers or weights, all substantially as hereinafter
described and pointed out in the claims.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this
Specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in
both the figures.
Fig. 1 represents a top view of an inside barrel cover with its attached anchoring
mechanical expedients applied; and
Fig. 2. a sectional view in elevation, upon the line 2-2 in Fig. 1, showing the
cover with its mechanical appliances applied to a barrel represented only in part
and containing meats held submerged in the brine or pickle.
A indicates the barrel or vessel, in part, the brine or pickle therein, and C the
inside cover applied in Fig. 2 to hold meats D submerged in the brine or pickle.
Upon the one side of the top of the cover C is a claw tail piece E secured by
set screw F passing through a longitudinal slot d therein into the cover. This
admits of said tail piece being set in or out along the cover, back or forth, to
engage with the barrel or to be removed from engagement therewith when
required, and so that it can be engaged with the barrel from the top to the bottom
thereof or as far down as required, and when engaged so that it can be fastened in
position by the set screw F. Upon the other or opposite side of the top of the
cover C is secured, to a standard thereon, a lever G, having its one or outer
turn d up end sharpened or suitably constructed, and its opposite end of loop shape
or handle form, and so that on pressing down on the handle, said lever having its
outer end out of the centre will hold itself against the barrel without other means.
All that is necessary to apply the cover C to the submersion of the meats in the
pickle, is to take hold of the lever, put the side of the cover having the tail-piece E
under the brine, then press down on the handle end of the lever and the cover will
be adjusted in position, to stay until it is necessary to re-adjust or remove it.
Upon raising the lever, the cover will be free to hang by the lever on the inside of
the barrel, by hanging the looped end on the top edge of the barrel so that there
will be no brine running over the barrel onto the floor to waste, or to wet the
attendant's feet. The dotted lines in Fig. 2 represent the lever as out of engage-
ment with the barrel. The cover itself may be made of wood but the anchoring
appliances on the cover should be made of galvanized or other metal not liable to
corrosion.
The device is simple and requires no skill to apply the cover, and either butcher
or grocer or any person accustomed to handle salt meats, will find it both a good
and labor and time saving cover or device.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1. The combination with the cover, of a claw at one side, and a vertically
rocking lever at its opposite side, the lever being pivoted intermediate its length,
the inner end forming a handle and the opposite end projecting beyond the cover
and having a spur or point, substantially as described.
2. The combination with the cover, of an adjustable plate projecting beyond the
cover at one side and formed with claws, a standard, near the opposite side, and a
vertically rocking lever pivoted intermediate its length on said standard, the inner
end of the lever being formed into a vertically disposed loop forming a handle, and
the opposite end projecting beyond the cover and formed with an upwardly disposed
spur, substantially as described.
Dated this 6th day of November 1895.
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.