Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Mar., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 9th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 14th Jan., 1899
I, HERBERT ARTHUR COUCHMAN, of Hillside, Shobnall Road, Burton-on-Trent
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of improvements in cask washing machinery of the dolly
type, my object being to provide such machines of greater efficiency and of a more
coinpact form than those now in use.
In the application of my invention to the construction of a machine for the simul-
taneous dollying or washing of six casks, I fix three main supporting frames upon a
central horizontal shaft running in suitable bearings and which is rotated slowly by
power transmitted through suitable and ordinary gearing. Each main frame supports
a pair of casks, arranged on opposite sides of the central shaft, each cask being
secured within an embracing carrier having trunnions for running in vertical bearings
formed on the main frame. Each cask is secured within its carrier by screw binding
or retaining heads. One of the trunnions of each cask carrier has secured upon its
outer end a chain gearing wheel, but the wheel upon the one carrier of the pair
mounted on the one main frame is at the opposite end to that upon the adjacent
carrier of the frame. In this manner I arrange three chain wheels on the three
carriers on one side of the main shaft and three upon the similar carriers on the
opposite side of the shaft.
The three wheels on the one side are rotated by a chain driven from a wheel fixed
at the upper end of a vertical shaft, or a pair of shafts, such shafts being carried
round with the frames by the rotation of the main shaft, whilst the three wheels on
the opposite side are rotated by a chain driven by a similar wheel keyed to the lower
end of the vertical shafts. The vertical shafts are revolved on their own axes by
bevel gearing driven from a pully running loosely upon the main shaft.
The casks are thus caused to revolve upon their own longitudinal axes and in
addition they have a circular translatory motion imparted to then by the revolution
of the horizontal shaft carrying the main frames. Such combined motions causes the
water and granite chippings or the like placed within each cask to thoroughly scour
and cleanse the whole interior surface of the vessels.
I sometimes revolve the embracing carriers by means of belts or gearing instead of
with chains as herein before described aud the whole of the carriers may be driven
from the same end instead of alternate ends, by a suitable arrangement of the driving
wheels or gearing.
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page_text: I, HERBERT ARTHUR COUCHMAN, of Hillside, Shobnall Road, Burton-on-Trent,
Engineer, 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 consists of improvements in cask washing machinery of the dolly
type, my object being to provide such machines of greater efficiency and of a more
compact form than those now in use.
In the three accompanying sheets of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter
referred to.
Figure 1 is a side elevation, Figure 2 an end elevation and Figure 3 a plan of a
cask washing machine constructed in accordance with my invention.
The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.
In the application of my invention to the construction of a machine for the simul-
taneous dollying or washing of six casks, I fix three main supporting frames as A, B,
and C upon a central horizontal shaft D mounted in suitable bearings as E and F and
which is rotated slowly preferably by means of belting running on the fast and loose
pulleys G and H. Each main frame supports a pair of casks arranged on opposite
sides of the central shaft, each cask being secured within an embracing carrier
as J J¹ J² J³ J¹ J5 having trunnions for running in vertical bearings formed on the
main frame. Each cask is secured within its carrier by screw binding or retaining
heads K. One of the trunnions of each cask carrier has secured upon its outer end
a gearing wheel, but the wheel upon the one carrier of the pair mounted on the one
main frame is at the opposite end to that upon the adjacent carrier of the frame;
thus the wheel carrier J of the main supporting frame A has its gearing wheel L at
the opposite end to the like wheel L' on the carrier J³.
In this manner I arrange
three gear wheels on the three carriers on one side of the main shaft and three upon
the similar carriers on the opposite side of the shaft.
The three wheels on the one side or end are rotated by similar wheels fixed on the
cross shafts M such shafts being also provided with wheels for gearing with the longi-
tudinal shaft N which is itself in gear with the shaft (), the whole of such gearing
and shafts being carried round with the main frames in the direction of the arrow at
Figure 2 on the rotation of the main shaft D in the same direction. Similarly the
three wheels on the opposite side or end are rotated by gearing on shafts MI, N¹,
and O¹, and the whole of the said shafts and gearing on both sides or ends of the
frames and carriers are caused to revolve in the directions shown by the arrows 3
at Figure 3 by gearing arranged with the fast and loose pulleys P P on the main
shaft D.
The casks are thus caused to revolve upon their own longitudinal axes and in
addition they have a circular translatory motion imparted to them by the revolution
of the horizontal shaft carrying the main frames. Such combined motions cause the 4
water and granite chippings or the like placed within each cask to thoroughly scour
and cleanse the whole interior surface of the vessels.
I sometimes revolve the embracing carriers by means of belts or chain gear instead
of with bevel spur gearing such as hereinbefore described and the whole of the
carriers may be driven from the same end instead of alternate ends by a suitable 4
arrangement of the driving wheels or gearing.
I vary the shape of the cask carrier as J to suit the shape of the particular vessels
to be cleansed, and to enable the same carriers to be employed for securing casks of
considerable variation in length I sometimes employ movable or adjustable ends to

page_text: such carriers which can be readily set in any ordinary manner either near to or more
remote from each other, as may be required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed,
claim is
declare that what I
1. In cask washing machinery, the combination comprising the cask embracing
frames or carriers having trunnions mounted in bearings in main supporting frames
secured to a central shaft, the said carriers being caused on the rotation of the central
shaft to rotate on their trunnions whilst partaking of a circular translatory motion,
substantially as described.
2. A cask washing machine constructed and arranged substantially as described
and as illustrated.
Dated
OLL
.
ember 1898.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham.