IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURING OF GLASS CASKS AND BARRELS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Hubart and Victor Cantillon, of Liege, in the
Kingdom of Belgium, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURING OF GLASS CASKS AND BARRELS."
Sealed the 9th November 1860, and dated the 25th May 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Hubart and
Victor Cantillon at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 25th May 1860.
We, ALFRED HUBART and VICTOR CANTILLON, of Liege, in the Kingdom
of Belgium, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention of "I-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURING OF GLASS CASKS AND BARRELS," to be as
follows, that is to say:-
In the Specification of our Patent, dated 24th November 1859, No. 2663,
we have described that our Invention had for its object the manufacturing of
glass casks and barrels of all sizes and shapes, the said casks and barrels
being moulded in two parts and afterwards rejoined with a band of
glass, by means of a blowpipe with several burners. Experience has
shown that it is preferable for casks of a capacity less than 5 gallons to be
blown, which we have done, and for which we solicit a Patent. Our Invention
consists then in the manufacturing of casks of glass of a capacity less than 5
gallons by means already employed for the manufacture of other objects of
glass, that is to say, by blowing. The casks are blown at the bung hole in
iron or wood moulds made in two parts, and the tap hole is perforated in the
hot state.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alfred Hubart and Victor Cantillon in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 23rd November 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ALFRED
HUBART and VICTOR CANTILLON, of Liege, in the Kingdom of Belgium, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
Alfred Hubart and Victor Cantillon, Her special licence that we, the
said Alfred Hubart and Victor Cantillon, our executors, administra-
tors, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Alfred Hubart and Victor
Cantillon, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURING OF GLASS CASKS AND BARRELS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Alfred Hubart and Victor Cantillon,
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our
or their of one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Alfred Hubart and Victor Cantillon,
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawing
hereto annexed, that is to say:-
In the Specification of our Patent, dated 24th November 1859, No. 2663.
we described that our Invention consisted in making glass casks of all required
sizes by moulding them in separate parts, or halves, and afterwards joining such
parts or halves with a band of glass by means of blow pipes with several jets
or burners, and that this process was applicable to the making of casks of a
capacity exceeding 5 gallons. Experience has shewn us that it is preferable
for the manufacture of casks of a less capacity than 5 gallons to make them by

page_text: the means known and already employed for the manufacture of other articles
of glass, viz., to blow them by pressure of the air. And our Invention consists
in making casks of a less capacity than 5 gallons, by blowing them in a mould
of wood or iron formed of two parts or halves as herein-after described.
The molten glass to be blown is placed in the mould, which is in two parts,
an of the shape or configuration of the cask required, such glass being blown
till it attains the shape of the mould, thus forming the cask; then the tap hole
is pierced by the workman in the cask whilst in a hot state by means of a
red hot iron. This process is applicable for making glass casks of any required
shape.
The Invention will be better understood by reference to the annexed
Drawing, in which Figure 1 represents a wood or iron mould of two parts
suitably joined together during the blowing operation, and which are dis-
connected when the cask is blown; Fig. 2 represents a side view of a cask,
in which 6 shews the bung hole at its upper part; Figures 3 and 4 represent
a plan and front view of the same; Figure 5, part plan of the same; Figure 6,
front view of another cask; Figure 7, side view of the same; Figure 8, front
view of a barrel of a different form for containing alcohol; Figure 9, side view
of the same; Figure 10, front view of a keg, shewn provided with a stand;
Figure 11, side view of same, having two taps. a, cask; b, bung; c, tap;
d, stand.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention and the manner
of performing the same, we wish it to be understood that what we claim as our
Invention is the manufacture of casks of glass of a less capacity than 5
gallons, as herein-before described and represented in the accompanying
Drawing.
In witness whereof, we, the said Alfred Hubart and Victor Can-
tillon, have hereto set our hands and seals, this Twentieth day of
November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and sixty.
A. HUBART.
(L.S.)
V. CANTILLON. (L.S.)