An Improved Name and Number Plate or Label for Casks and other like Vessels, Applicable also to Packing Cases and other Analogous Receptacles.
Year: 1886

page_text: An Improved Name and Number Plate or Label for Casks and
other like Vessels, Applicable also to Packing Cases and other
Analogous Receptacles.
I, HARRY EDWARD BRITTIN, of Hobart Town, Tasmania, Brewer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists in the use of a specially designed metallic plate or label
for attachment to a cask or other similar vessel. It may also be applied to packing
cases or other analogous receptacles. Upon the upper face of the plate is inscribed
any desired name, number, mark, device, or inscription by which the cask or other
receptacle to which it is attached may be distinguished and identified. The plate
is designed to supersede branding more especially in relation to casks barrels and
such like vessels.
The plate, which is preferably circular, but which may be otherwise shaped, is
furnished with a flange or rim extending around it. and projecting downwards
froin the body thereof. The flange is preferably tapered or inclined inwards from
the outside.
The plate bearing the required marks or inscriptions, in whole or in part, is
received into a recess or groove formed for it in the cask or other vessel or receptacle
to which it is to be secured. The tapered or inclined flange or rim aforesaid
renders it difficult to insert a chisel or other like tool below the plate with a view
to forcing it from its seat in which it is secured by screws, nails, bolts or pins or
in any other suitable manner.
If the plate be attached by screws the recesses made in the heads thereof for
the reception of a turn screw may be filed or cut in such manner that the turn
screw will act to turn the screws in the direction required for screwing them down
only, and will not act to withdraw them.
In this case the plate can only be removed when the cask or other receptacle to
which the plate is secured is broken up. The plate and screws are then again
available for use on another cask or other vessel or receptacle.
Or the screws may be driven home by means of lugs or pins formed on their
beads to afford bearing points for the turn screw to act against, which lugs or
bearing pins may, after the screws have been screwed home, be broken or cut off
so as to render it impossible to turn the screws.
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per F. J. Brougham,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: other like Vessels, Applicable also to Packing Cases and other
Analogous Receptacles.
I, HARRY EDWARD BRITTIN, of Hobart Town, Tasmania, brewer, 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:-
The improved name and number plate or label for casks and other vessels and
receptacles in which this invention consists, is made of cast metal, or of other metal
or material suitable therefor, and may be of circular, oval or other suitable shape.
At the underside it is provided with a flange or rim which projects downwards
from the plate around which it extends. This flange or rin is tapered or inclined
towards its lower edge. Upon its upper side or face the plate bears the word-,
figures or devices of which the label is composed and by which the cask or other
receptacle to which it is applied may be distinguished and identified. A durable
name and number plate is thus provided and the practice of branding, more
especially in relation to casks, barrels and such like vessels, is, by its use, superseded.
It is affixed by means of screws, nails, bolts or pins, or by any other suitable
means. The tapered flange or rim fits into a groove or recess cut for its reception
in the article or vessel to which it is applied, and insertion of the edge of a chisel
or other like tool below it with a view to forcing the plate from its seat is rendered
difficult by the adoption of the tapered flange or rim.
In order to further assist in preventing the detachment of the plate from the
vessel or article to which it is secured, the niches or recesses made in the heads of
the screws for the reception of the edge of a turn screw may be so shaped that
the turn screw will only act to turn the screws in the direction required for
screwing then down or in, and will not act to withdraw them.
In this case the plate can only be removed when the cask or other receptacle to
which the plate is secured is broken up or taken apart. The plate and screws are
then again available for use.
Or the screws may be driven home by means of lugs or pins formed on their
beads to afford bearing points for the turn screw to act against, which bearing
points may, after the screws have been screwed home, be broken or cut off so as to
render it impossible to turn the screws.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of illustrate drawings, Fig. 1 represents
a plan of one form of the improved name and number plate or label of metal, or
other suitable durable substance, for casks and other vessels or receptacles in which
this invention consists. It is shown as attached to a cask, barrel or other recép-
tacle or article. Fig. 2 represents a semi horizontal section and side elevation of

page_text: Fig. 1. Extending downwards from the body of the plate A is a flange or rim a
inclined from its root, as shown, and fitting into a corresponding recess in the
article B to which it is applied. This form of flange or rim renders it difficult to
insert the edge of a chisel or other like tool below it with a view to forcing the
plate from its seat. The plate A is shewn attached to the article B'by screws c.
It may, however, be attached by bolts or pins in lieu of the screws c.
The upper
face of the plate receives the figures, words, devices or other symbols which may
be engraved, cast, stamped or inscribed thereon or otherwise imparted thereto.
At Fig. 3 is shown a similar view to that represented at Fig. 1. The screws c',
shown at Fig. 3, as employed for the purpose of securing the plate to the cask,
barrel or other receptacle or article represented by B, have the recesses in their
heads so cut away or shaped that a turn screw can act thereon only in the
direction required to screw the screws into the article, but cannot act to withdraw
them, inasmuch as the inclined planes offer no resistance to the turn screw which
rises on them and has no effect upon the screw.
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Instead of using screws with the recesses in their heads shaped as described, screws
inay be used having pins or studs projecting upwards from their heads to afford
bearing points for the turn screw to act against for driving in the screws, which
bearing pins or studs may, after the screws have been driven home, be broken or
cut off or otherwise removed so as to render it impossible to turn the screws
thereafter.
With the use of such screws as last described, or as above described with
reference to Fig. 3. of the drawings, the plate A can only be removed when the
cask, barrel, or other receptacle or article to which the plate is secured is broken
up or taken apart, and, in the case of the screws shewn at Fig. 3. the screws are
then again available for use.
Under another form of construction, the plate is made in the form of a ring,
and, in this case, the flange or rim which fits into the groove formed for its
reception in the article to which it is applied is preferably made to spring from the
inner edge of the ring.
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. An improved name and number plate or label such as A of metal, or other
suitable durable substance, for attachment to casks, barrels, packing cases and
other vessels, receptacles or articles, and provided with a tapered flange or rim such
as a extending downwards from the underside of the plate and designed to be
received into a corresponding groove made in the vessel, receptacle or article to
which it is attached, substantially as herein before described with reference to the
accompanying sheet of drawings.
2. In connection with an improved name and number plate or label such as A,
of metal or other suitable durable substance, for attachment to casks, barrels,
packing cases and other vessels, receptacles and articles, the use of screws for
attaching the plate in place, the said screws having the recesses or niches in their
heads so shaped that a turn screw can act only to turn them in the direction
required for screwing the screws into the material of the article to which the
plate is applied, but cannot act to withdraw them, substantially as described
with reference to Fig. 3. of the accompanying sheet of drawings.
3. In connection with an improved name and number plate such as A, the use of
screws having pins or studs projecting upwards from the heads thereof so as to
afford bearing points for the action of a turn screw in attaching the plate to a
vessel, receptacle or article to which it is applied, which pins or studs are intended
to be broken or cut off or otherwise removed after the screws have been screwed
down, to prevent the withdrawal of the screws, substantially as hereinbefore
described.

page_text: 4. The combination of an improved name and number plate such as A, with
flange or rim such as a, of metal, or other suitable durable substance, for attach-
ment to casks, barrels, packing cases and other vessels, receptacles and articles, and
screws, bolts, pins or their equivalents for fixing the same, substantially as herein-
before described.