AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR MAKING CASKS AND BARRELS
Year: 1885

page_text: I, GEORGE DAVIS TERRY of 18 Marylands Road, Harrow Road in the County of
Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for
"AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR MAKING CASKS AND BARRELS to be as follows
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This invention relates to a machine for the manufacture of cylindrical wooden
boxes or barrels, such as are commonly used for packing dry goods and which
consist of one or more layers of broad thin sheets or staves of wood, bent to the
required form and bound by circumferential wooden bands or hoops
The object of my invention is to furnish a hand-power machine whereby such
boxes or barrels may be turned out expeditiously without the necessity of skilled
labour and in which the parts constituting the machine are so arranged that there
is little liability of the machine getting out of order
The machine consists essentially of a horizontal drum or "former" around which
the sheets are bent and which is revolved by a hand wheel through suitable
gearing, a pressure roller mounted upon a swinging frame and adapted to be
brought into position above the "former" and swung away therefrom, and a series
of adjustable guides secured to the swinging frame by means of which the hoops or
bands are guided in such manner as to be passed around the sheets as the latter
are fed to the drum.
The drum is fixed on a horizontal shaft which at one end is mounted in
bearings carried by a pair of standards rising from a base and at the other end is
supported by a pivoted bar which is loosely secured to the swinging frame of tho
pressure roller and adapted to support the shaft during the operation of building
up the barrel and be swung away so as to permit of the finished barrel being
withdrawn from the drum. The drum is made with a movable segment or portion,
which is capable of being moved inwards so as to contract the size of the drum to
enable the barrel to be readily withdrawn when finished.
The swinging frame and pressure roller is held in position by means of a treadle
which is pivoted to the base of the machine and furnished with bands or chains
which are fastened to the treadle and extend around pulleys, and at their other
ends are attached to the swinging frame
The drum or "former" 18 revolved by means of a hand wheel mounted on a
countershaft carried by the standards and provided with a pinion which gears
with a spur wheel keyed on the drum shaft.

page_text: OORDELE DEVIFICATION
I GEORGE DAVIS TERRY of 13 Marylands Road, Harrow Road in the County of
Middlesex, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN
IMPROVED MACHINE FOR MAKING CASKS AND BARRELS, 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 a machine for the manufacture of cylindrical wooden
boxes or barrels, such as are commonly used for packing dry goods and which
consist of one or more layers of broad thin sheets of wood, bent to the required
form and bound by circumferential wooden bands or hoops
The object of my invention is to furnish a hand power machine whereby such
boxes or barrels may be turned out expeditiously without the necessity of skilled
labour and in which the parts constituting the machine are so arranged that there
is little liability of the machine getting out of order
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this
Specification wherein figure 1 18 an end elevation figure 2 a front elevation and
figure 3 a plan of the machine Figure 4 shows details of the drum or former,
with the sheet of wood wrapped around it.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures
The machine consists essentially of a horizontal drum or "former” A around
which the sheets are bent and which is revolved by a hand wheel B through
suitable gearing CD, a pressure roller E mounted upon a swinging frame F
pivoted at f to the base of the machine whereby the roller may be moved into or
out of position above the "former", and a series of adjustable guides G secured to
the swinging frame F by means of which the hoops or bands are guided in such
manner as to be passed around the sheets as the latter are fed to and wrapped
around the drum or former.
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The drum A is fixed on a horizontal shaft H which is mounted in bearings in a
pair of standards I, I, both situated beyond the one end of the drum A the other
end of the shaft H being supported whilst the machine is in operation by a bar K
figure 1 pivoted at k to the base of the machine and loosely connected to the
swinging frame F This pivoted support K steadies the drum shaft during the
operation of building up the bariel and is swung out of the way by the act of
swinging the frame F forward (as shown in dotted lines in figure 1) so as to permit
of the finished barrel body being slipped endwise off from the drum The drum A
18 made with a movable segment or portion a (figure 4) which is pivoted at al so
as to be capable of being moved inwards in order to contract the size of the drum
to enable the barrel to be readily withdrawn when finished
The swinging frame F is held so as to maintain the pressure roller in position
directly over the 'drum or former by means of a treadle L fixed on a weigh
shaft M to which bands or chains N are fastened and pass around pulleys O and
are attached to a cross bar of the swinging frame F.
The treadle is held down in any desired position by a pivoted rack P pressed
against the treadle lever by a spring

page_text: The hand wheel B by which the drum or former 18 revolved 18 mounted on a
countershaft at the front of the machine carried by the standards I provided with
a pinion C which gears with a spur wheel D keyed on the drum shaft H
The pressure roller E is constructed of a shaft with a series of collars e fixed
adjustably upon it by set screws so as to press only on and give passage to the
hoops or bands. The guides G are fixed adjustably on a slotted cross bar to enable
the hoops or bands to be placed in any desired positions on the barrel, the cross bar
being fixed adjustably as to height to the uprights of the swinging frame F.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim 18
The combination and arrangement of the drum or former and the hand driving
gear, the swinging frame carrying both the pressure roller and the adjustable
guides and its operating gear, the whole constituting the machine for making casks
and barrels substantially as shown and described
Dated this 26th day of June 1885
G D TERRY
By A M & Wm Clark,
Patent Agents,
53, Chancery Lane, London