An Improved Combined Barrel Truck and Stand.
Year: 1890

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
C An Improved Combined Barrel Truck and Stand.
We, JAMES HENRY STANSBURY, Carpenter, of 40, Douglass Street, Jamaica, and
ISAAC UNDERHILL HYATT, Grocer, of 84, Fulton Street, Jamaica, both in the
County of Queens and State of New York United States of America, 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:-
Our Invention relates to a hand truck for barrels containing molasses, oils, or
other merchandise to be drawn off or retailed from the original packages; and the
invention has for its object to provide a simple, efficient, and durable truck of this
character, by the employment of which the labor of handling and placing the barrel
or hogshead in convenient position may be materially lessened, allowing one man to
do quickly and with case what it has heretofore required two or more men to do with
considerable effort.
The Invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations
of parts of the barrel truck and jack, all as hereinafter described and claimed.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this
specification in which figure 1 is a perspective view of our improved barrel truck
and jack. Figure 2 is a side view thereof, illustrating its use as a jack to support a
barrel or hogshead from which a liquid is to be drawn; and figure 3 is a detail
perspective view of a modified arrangement of the fulcrum and nose plates of the
truck. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.
We make the truck and jack frame A with two opposite side bars a connected near
their handle ends by a cross-bar a¹ and near their forward ends by a stay bar B which
is threaded at its extremities outside the side bars and receives thereat nuts b. We
utilize this stay bar B to secure to the side bars two metal chocks C which are fitted
to the tops and inner faces of said bars and are curved at their inner upper faces to
adapt them to receive the rounded surface of a barrel. Said stay bar next the inner
lower face of the chocks C is perforated to receive a pin b¹ between which and the
chock is located a washer of any suitable material. In connection with said stay bar
we also use bolts c to fasten the chocks which bolts pass through the upper horizontal
flange of the chocks into and through the side bars a.
The frame A is supported by a pair of wheels D on an axle E held in any suitable
manner to fulcrum plates F. Said plates, which are T-shaped in cross-section, are
bent upward at their rear ends and bolted to the side bars a of the frame at about
the centre of said bars, and forward of the wheels D the plates F are gradually
curved upward to the forward ends of the side bars where they are rigidly fastened,
their upper ends being flush with the upper face of the side bars and at said point of
junction angle plates & are secured by bolts g. Said plates G thus form nose plates f
adapted to be entered at two places beneath the chime of a barrel.
If desired, however, said nose plates may be formed by angle plates H secured to
the tops.and forward ends of the side bars a by a bolt h which in this instance
would also be passed through an inbent flange f¹ on the upper forward end of the
fulcrum plate F and upon which the side bar rests, as shown in figure 3 of the
drawing.
However the forward ends of the fulcrum plates are fastened to the side bars, we
form, in one with said plates, braces I and I' which are secured at their upper flanged
ends to the side bars by the bolts c which hold the barrel-supporting chocks C to said
bars. Said braces are so located as to sustain the fulcrum plates from the frame while
the truck with the barrel thereon is being rocked over on them into horizontal position
and prior to the contact of the wheels. with the floor, as hereinafter more fully
explained.

page_text: On the handle part of the truck frame A is supported a vertically-adjustable
concaved saddle J on to which and the chocks C C the barrel or hogshead K rests, as
shewn in figure 2 of the drawing. This saddle, which may be made of cast or
wrought iron is provided with a pendent stem or spindle L which fits a hole bored in
a cast metal bearing block M which is provided with a set screw N which may be
turned in against the spindle, by a wrench or otherwise, to fasten the saddle at any
required vertical adjustment. At each end of the saddle J there is preferably formed
a hook allowing connection of opposite ends of a stay chain O passed over the
barrel to hold it snugly to the saddle while the truck is being tilted downward after
inserting its nose plates under the chime of the barrel. A rope, bail, or cord, may be
used instead of the chain and the chain, rope, or cord, may be connected in any
suitable manner with the vertically-adjustable saddle.
The operation of our barrel truck and jack is very simple and effective and is as
follows; After the barrel or hogshead K of molasses oil, or other fluid, is rolled on
its bilge to the place where it is to be jacked up for conveniently drawing off its
contents, the barrel will be set on end, and, after the truck nose plates for H are
slipped under the barrel and the chain O is passed around it and caught into the
opposite hooks jj of the saddle J, to hold it to the truck chocks C and to the
saddle, the bandle ends of the truck will be lowered to rock the truck frame and
barrel over forward on the fulcrum plates F F until the truck wheels D D touch the
floor and the truck and jack may then be easily trundled on the wheels either forward
or backward as may be required to back or run the barrel into the desired place,
whereupon the truck handles will be lowered to the floor to sustain the barrel in the
position shown in figure 2 of the-drawing, to allow the fluid to be drawn off through
the barrel spigot k into any suitable vessel or measure P placed below the spigot and
between the handles of the truck and jack frame. As the contents of the barrel aro
nearly drawn off, the saddle J may easily be lowered in its bearing and again tightened
by the set screw N to tilt the barrel forward to allow all it contains to flow auto-
matically from the spigot.
We make special mention of the nose plates on the truck frame for taking firm
hold of the chime of the barrel at two places and of the fulcrum plates which afford
a substantial rocker fulcrum on which a very heavy barrel or hogshead may be tilted
over forward with comparative ease by one man until sustained by the truck wheels,
and we also specially mention the relative arrangement of the truck and jack
wheels with the rocker fulcrums and with the nose plates and barrel supporting
chocks and saddle as the wheels are located behind the rocker fulcrum portions
of the plates F F and the nose plates to cause the barrel or hogshead to almost
balance on the truck wheels and axle or to overbalance forward but little, so that,
while the barrel may be very easily tilted forward by one man on the rocker fulcrum
plates, it may also be lowered easily by him until the handle, ends of the truck frame
rest on the floor to form front supports and with the wheels to constitute a
substantial jack for the barrel. It will also be noticed that the truck frame
bars a a are straight, which facilitates the cheap manufacture of the truck and
jack.
We do not limit ourselves to the use of curved metal plates F F to form a rocker
fulcrum below the frame and forward of the truck wheels, as wooden blocks may be
used to form said rocker fulcrum as will readily be understood.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is. ;-
1. A barrel truck and jack provided forward of its wheels with two curved side
plates forming a rocker fulcrum, substantially as shewn and described.
2. A barrel truck and jack provided forward of its wheels with two curved side
plates forming a rocker fulcrum and separate nose plates secured at the forward ends
of said side plates, substantially as shewn and described.
3. A barrel truck and jack constructed with a wheeled frame, barrel supports

page_text: thereon, and a rocker fulcrum, below the frame and forward of its wheels, consisting
of two curved side plates secured to the side bars of the frame and separate nose plates
secured at the junction of the forward ends of the side plates and side bars, sub-
stantially as shewn and described.
4. In a barrel truck and jack, the combination, with the truck frame and a vertically
adjustable barrel support or saddle provided with hooks at opposite onds, of a stay
chain connected to the saddle hooks and passing over the barrel, substantially as shown
and described.
5. In a barrel truck and jack, the combination, with the frame having side bars a,
of chocks C, a screw-threaded and perforated stay bar B passed through the side bars
and chocks provided with nuts at its extremities, and pins passed through said stay
bar next the chocks, substantially as shewn and described.
6. In a barrel truck and jack, the combination, with the frame, of a bearing M
theroon provided with a set screw and a vertically-adjustable saddle having a stom
fitted in the bearing and adapted to be clamped by the screw, substantially as shown
and described.
7. In a barrel truck and jack, the combination, with the frame side bars a and
rocker fulcrum plates F secured to the side bars of angle irons G secured at the point
of junction of the forward ends of the fulcrum plates and side bars, substantially as
shown and described.
Dated: 111 1
1000
J. H. STANSBURY.
I. U. HYATT.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Patent Agents.