Improvements in or relating to Hooping-iron for Tea-chests and the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Jan., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 30th Sept., 1890-Accepted, 1st Nov., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Hooping-iron for Tea-chests and
the like.
A communication from THOMAS CLARK ANDERSON, of Gartmore Estate, Ceylon,
Tea Planter.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
M.I.M.E., do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the iron hooping usually employed in binding boxes, chests
and other packages. The hooping iron is attached to the chest by means of nails for
the passage of which holes have to be punched in the iron and these are ordinarily
done by hand after the iron has been placed upon the chest, in consequence of which
both the contents of the chest and the chest are subject to very rough usage besides
which much time is consumed in the punching which may be savel by this invention.
Also the labour employed in this punching is skilled labour and the boxes are
frequently split by the punching as well as generally knocked about and more or
less damaged.
In carrying out this invention then I take the hoop iron and punch it by means of
machinery with holes sufficiently small not to seriously impair the strength of the
strip and so near together that there will always be a sufficient number of holes at
that particular part where it is necessary to nail the iron on to the chest. The holes
may be of any required shape and at regular or irregular distances apart; the size
also of the holes may vary according to the gauge of the hoop iron employed and the
size of the nails used for fixing it.
Dated this 20th day of January 1890.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Hooping-iron for Tea-chests and
the like.
A communication from THOMAS CLARK ANDERSON, of Gartmore Estate, Ceylon,
Tea Planter.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex, M.I.M. E.,
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 iron hooping usually employed in binding boxes, chests
and other packages. The hooping iron is attached to the chest by means of nails for
the passage of which holes have to be punched in the iron and these are ordinarily
done by hand after the iron has been placed upon the chest, in consequence of which
both the contents of the chest, and the chest itself are subject to very rough usage
besides which much time is consumed in the punching which may be saved by this
invention. Also the labour employed in this punching is skilled labour and the boxes
are frequently split by the punching as well as generally knocked about and more or
less damaged.
In carrying out this invention then I take the hoop iron and punch it by means of
machinery with holes sufficiently small not to seriously impair the strength of the
strip and so near together that there will always be a sufficient number of holes at
that particular part where it is necessary to nail the iron on to the chest. The holes
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page_text: may be of any required shape and at regular or irregular distances apart; the size
also of the holes may vary according to the gauge of the hoop iron employed and the
size of the nails used for fixing it.
The hooping band is punctured before being applied to the package and with a
larger number of holes than will be actually used so that the holes being com-
paratively near together a sufficient number of them will come at the points
where it is required to nail the band to the package. The rest of the holes are
not used at all, but the size of the holes and the breadth or thickness of the band
are so proportioned as not to endanger the total supporting power of the band.
The bands are generally made of hoop iron but other suitable material may be
employed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The application to a box chest or other package of a hooping band punctured
before being applied to the package substantially in the manner and for the purpose
specified.
2. The hooping band for packages substantially as specified.