Improvements in Machinery for the Manufacture of Casks and Barrels.
Year: 1891

page_text: The decision of the Comptroller-General, of the 18th day of March 1893, allowed,
under Section 18 of the Patents, &c. Act, 1883, an Amendment of this
Specification.
Date of Application, 17th Aug., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 17th May, 1892-Accepted, 2nd July, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for the Manufacture of Casks and
Barrels.
THOMAS GEORGE STEVENS, Esther Villa, Swanscombe, in the County of
Kent, Engineer and JOSEPH BAKER, Edlington Villas, Edlington Road,
Swanscombe in the County of Kent, Cooper do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention is designed for trussing casks and barrels by means of steel bands
When the raise is
or steel wire rope being placed around either end of the raise.
placed in the machine both bands are tightened up simultaneously; and when
tightened sufficiently the cooper is able to place on his catchoop at each end.
After this is done the bands are instantly slackened and the cask released and then
removed for the purpose of receiving its permanent hoops. The ends of the bands
are connected to nuts which work upon shafts which have a righthand and lefthand
thread cut upon them. Each shaft is fitted with a cog pinion and is driven by a
cogwheel which is placed between the pinions. The shaft which the centre cog-
wheel is fitted to has attached to it a large handwheel so that by moving this
handwheel the whole machine is put in motion. It is so constructed that the bands
can be heightened or lowered so as to take any size cask.
Dated this 17th day of A voust 1891
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION (AMENDED).
Improvements in Machinery for the Manufacture of Casks and
Barrels.
We, THOMAS GEORGE STEVENS, Esther Villa, Swanscombe in the County
of Kent, Engineer, and JOSEPH BAKER, Edlington Villas, Edlington Road,
Swanscombe in the County of Kent, Cooper, 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 is designed for trussing casks and barrels by means of steel bands
When the raise is
or steel wire rope being placed around either end of the raise.
placed in the machine both bands are tightened up simultaneously and when
tightened sufficiently the cooper is able to place on his catchoop at each end.
After this is done the bands are instantly slackened and the cask released and then
removed for the purpose of receiving its permanent hoops. The ends of the bands
are connected to nuts which work upon shafts which have a righthand and leithand
thread cut upon them. Each shaft is fitted with a cog pinion and is driven by a
cogwheel which is placed between the pinions. The shaft which the centre cog-
wheel is fitted to has attached to it a large handwheel so that by moving this

page_text: handwheel the whole machine is put in motion. It is so constructed that the bands
can be heightened or lowered so as to take any size cask.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a front elevation and Figure 2 a side elevation of the machine.
Figure 3 is a view of one of the bands when unrolled and Figure 4 is a plan of
the apparatus for tightening it.
A is a rectangular frame free to turn about the shaft B but normally prevented
from turning by the bolt C. The frame A carries two right and left hand
screws D D (one of which is shown separately in Figure 4) having nuts E E¹
working upon each of them: The nuts E E and E' E are connected together
respectively by angle iron bars F F as shown in Figure 1. The screws D D
have at one end pinions G G gearing with a pinion H upon the shaft B to which
motion is given from the shaft K and pulley K' or by the handwheel L.
When the frame A is prevented from turning by the bolt C the effect of turning
the shaft B is to cause the nuts E E¹ to recede from each other thus tightening the
loop in the band M (whose ends are fixed to the nuts as shown in Figure 4) around
the staves and thereby the cask is trussed. If however the bolt Cis unfastened
the effect of turning the shaft B is to cause the frame A to turn with it, which
admits of the cask or barrel when trussed being inverted so that the cooper may place on
his hoops at each end.
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. A machine for trussing casks and barrels in which the staves are drawn
together by a band passing around them whose ends are fixed to nuts upon right
and left hand screws.
2. 1. A machine for trussing casks and barrels in which both ends of the staves
are simultaneously drawn together by a pair of bands passing around them whose
ends are fixed to nuts upon a pair of right and left hand screws caused to rotate
simultaneously;
3. Mounting such apparatus such as is referred to in Claim 2 being mounted upon
the axis which gives motion to the right and left hand screws.
4. 2. Apparatus substantially as described and shown in the drawings.
Deted this 17th day of May
T. G. STEVENS,
J. BAKER,
By Carpmael & Co.,
Agents.
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