Improvements in Tubes and Vessels.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Oct., 1890-Accepted, 21st Feb., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tubes and Vessels.
I, NEWNHAM BROWNE, of 73, Cheapside, in the City of London, Fellow of the
Institute of Patent Agents, do hereby declare the nature of this invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TUBES AND VESSELS" which invention has been com-
municated to me from abroad by Teodor Remus, of Dresden, in the Empire of
Germany, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention has for its object the construction of tubes and vessels or
receptacles consisting of rods of wood with a metal band encircling the same.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying sheets of drawings in which the
wooden rods a serving in the construction of such pipes or receptacles are of trapeze
shape in cross-section as shewn in Fig. 1. They may be of any length irrespective
of the hollow body to be produced therefrom.
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For combining the rods into a pipe or receptacle an endless metal band
employed in the edges of which oblique cuts are so produced by a suitable
cutting tool that the slotted portions may be caused to project as shown at 6² to
form spikes or teeth raised from the general surface either when being cut or
afterwards, see also Figs. 4 and 5.
To produce a tube or receptacle a sufficient number of the rods a are placed
round a mandril d of suitable size, see Fig. 6. Upon the exterior of the wooden
cylinder thus formed the metal band is laid (with rollers or otherwise) either in
helical or other lines and so that the spikes 2 enter into the rods a whilst the band
itself covers the rods as seen in Figs. 7 and 8. Thus the band and rods are firmly
united to form a tube or other object.
Such tubes or pipes are cheaply made, and though of small weight are very
strong, and the substantial part of the material being wood, are bad conductors of
heat and they are therefore well adapted for lines of pipes, especially for temporary.
purposes where the line requires to be rapidly laid and the contents require
protection against changes of temperature.
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Vessels or receptacles may also be made in the manner above described each
chime being separately made, or cut from a pipe made as stated and each chime
may hold one bottom, or "head" or two.
Figs. 9 to 19 show divers other modifications of the metal band.
Fig. 9 is a metal band whereon two points or spikes 62 are formed by each slot 61
placed at a right angle. The spikes when turned up take the position shown in
Figs. 10 and 11 and form pairs of spikes.
In the metal band 6 shown in Fig. 12 two rows of quadrangular perforations d
are so made that between each perforation and the edge of the band two spikes
remain which when bent up form alternate spikes as shown in Figs. 13 and 15.
A similar band is shown in Figs. 16 to 19. There triangular perforations are
provided as shown at d Fig. 16 and leave a bridge b² between themselves and the
rim of the band, this by a diagonal cut is made into two points which bent over form
the alternate spikes 62 see Figs. 17 to 19.
Other variations are shown in Figs. 20 and 21 wherein perforations d or cuts b
form several spikes when bent over.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent I declare that what I claim is :
1. Tubes or vessels consisting of wooden rods a and a band b (more fully
described in the second claim) affixed thereto by rolling or pressure.

page_text: 2. The connecting medium consisting of a metal band (b) with cuts placed
obliquely (Fig. 3) or at right angles (Fig. 9) or square (Fig. 12) or triangular
(Fig. 16) perforations d, in the latter case in combination with an oblique cut b¹,
forming spikes or points which spikes or points 62 are bent over so as to project
singly (Figs. 4 and 5) or in pairs (Figs. 10 and 11) or alternately (Figs. 13 and 15
and Figs. 17 to 19).
Dated the 23rd day of October 1890.