Improvements in Metallic Casks or Receptacles with Detachable Heads and Bottoms.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 23rd Jan., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metallic Casks or Receptacles with Detachable
Heads and Bottoms.
I, WILHELM STERN, of 162 Rue de la Province Sud, Antwerp in the Kingdom
of Belgium, Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention 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 the fastening of the heads and bottoms for metallic
casks and other like vessels, by means of which it is possible to readily place take
off and replace said parts.
In the annexed drawings
Figs. 1 and 2 show elevation and plan of a form of construction, in which the
circumference of the cask or receptacle is split longitudinally or consists of several
parts, which are connected by means of rabbets and are placed round the heads and
bottoms and then pressed together.
Figs. 3-6 show a form of manufacture in which the cask circumference split or
consisting of several parts can be put together, whereupon the parts are pressed
together and the bottoms or heads are put in.
Figs. 7 7 and 8 show details.
Figs. 9 and 11 show another kind of fastening whilst Figs. 12 and 13 show a
device for pulling the cask covering and the hoops together.
Fig. 14 shows part of the cask folded together.
In the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the cylinder A of the cask is provided
with horizontal strengthening ribs a and securing ribs a' for the protecting hoops E.
The upper and the under side of the cylinder A is provided with grcoves a², upon
which reposes the bottom B, the strengthening ribs b and the groove for
receiving a tightening or closing ring b. The bottom B is placed upon the
groove a and then the channeled iron band C is placed round and one of its projections
placed in the groove formed on the outside by a and the other projection covers
the cask edge and the head or bottom. The ring C is split, in order to place it in
the groove a² and is pulled together by means of the device shown in Figs. 12
and 13, which is put into the holes c¹ the ring is then fixed on the cask by means
of the screw d.
The cylindrical receptacle A shown in Figs. 1 and 2 consists of one or more
pieces the ends of which are connected by rabbets D, which are tightened by means
of rubber pieces d¹ and pulled together by the arrangement shown in Fig. 13,
whereupon the heads D' are slid over the rabbet which is thus kept together. In
order that the cask be not injured by rolling, hoops E are put around, which are
fixed in their position by means of securing ribs a¹.
The cask sides of all the other forms are protected and pulled together in the
same manner.
In one of the two cask heads is an opening, Figs. 7 and 8 which can be closed by
Da plate H and a cross bar h by means of a screw h¹ suitable when dry material is
placed in the cask.
In Fig. 7 the cover is secured by a bow Z through which passes the screw by
the screwing on of which the cover is tightened.
In the construction in Figs. 3-6 and 9-11 the taking out of the head or, bottom
5 does not require the cask to be emptied. In Figs. 3-6 in the cylinder A is placed
a ring F.
In the two first figures this ring reposes in the exterior stiffening groove a, in

page_text: Fig. 5 on an impressed groove a³. In the ring F are passed screws f. The edges
of the cask are bent over, so that the tightening ring 6 lying between A and B is
not cut.
The hoops G are put round the cask X heads and bottoms are pulled together
by means of the screws f. This hoop G rests upon the exterior of a strengthening
groove as shown.
Figs. 9 and 11 show the fastening of the heads and bottoms by means of angle
irons J; Fig. 10 shows the positions of J necessary in order to put in the head or
bottom. When this is effected, J are turned 90° by means of the screws f¹ Fig. 11
so that their bent part i lies in the exterior strengthening ring rib b of B, whilst
the other end reaches either in the exterior rib a of the cask as in upper part of
Fig. 9, or behind an impressed groove a³ as in the lower part of Fig. 9. Then the
screws are screwed on. The bottom or head is thus pressed strongly inwards.
All the other arrangements being as in Figs. 3-6.
The described fastenings are appropriate also for vessels generally for instance
square receptacles etc.
There may be employed a tension device for pulling together the cask
connection D and the ring C, G consisting of two gripping pieces L L' Fig. 13
the one sliding upon the guiding rods fixed upon the other and operated by
means of a screw spindle L².
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
(1.) The metallic casks or receptacles with detachable heads or bottoms, in
which the cask edge is provided with a projecting ring or swelling, whilst the head
and bottom have cylindrically bent edges provided with a groove for tightening and
closing whereby the heads and bottoms and the cask edges are kept together by a
U shaped metal ring placed round the exterior, and which reaches with one of its
projections into the groove of the cask border.
(2.) In metallic casks or receptacles as under Claim 1, a groove provided with
a ring connected by means of screws with the head or bottom placed over it so
that the head or bottom is pressed by a band reaching over the cask edge and
upon said edge, whereby a strengthening ring G can be put on the outside of the
cask edge.
(3.) A metallic cask with detachable heads and bottoms as under Claims 1 and 2,
in which plates with suitable fixing screws engage with the ring groove or swelling
of the cask circumference.
(4.) A tension device for pulling together the cask connection D and the
ring C, G consisting of two gripping pieces L L Fig. 13 the one sliding upon
the guiding rods ll fixed upon the other and operated by means of a screw
spindle L2.
(5.) The strengthening of the casks by rings E secured on both sides by means
of a swelling on the circumference of the cask.
(6.) The cover closing device for cask heads and bottoms, in which a screw
passes through the cover carrying on its screw threads a cross piece capable of
being pressed against the head or bottom.
(7.) A cover closing device for cask bottoms in which the cover is provided with
a hollow recess for carrying the head of a screw, the end of which is screwed into a
bow capable of being pressed inside upon the head or bottom.
Dated this 19th dan N
2000
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18 Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.