Improvements in Barrels or other like Vessels or like Receptacles for Holding Liquids.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Apr., 1898-Accepted, 9th July, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Barrels or other like Vessels or like Receptacles
for Holding Liquids.
A communication by JAMES TOMLINSON, of No. 1139, Michigan Avenue, Detroit, in
the County of Wayne and State of Michigan, United States of America, Inventor.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of The Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both
in the County of Lancaster, 118, New Street, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, and 322, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer,
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 barrels, or similar vessels or receptacles employed tc
hold liquids, and has for its object improvements which are specially adapted to
produce a vessel in which volatile oils or high wines may be stored without liability
to leakage which is found in barrels and similar receptacles as commonly made.
The ordinary wooden barrel, must be coated with some preparation before it is
adapted for use for the storage of liquids of this volatile class, and even with
coatings applied in the best manner possible, they almost always fail to perfectly
preserve their contents, especially if the contents be any one of the petroleum oils.
Receptacles for storing this class of articles have sometimes been made from
metal, and while such vessels are capable of preserving the contents, they are
themselves liable to injury unless made very heavy or covered with a box or casing
to protect them from bruises and similar injuries.
In the improved form of vessel the rigidity of the wooden barrel is preserved,
and the tightness the metal vessel is secured, but the entire package is lighter
to handle than a wooden barrel of equal strength or a metal vessel that is equally
efficient, and is much cheaper to manufacture than an all metal vessel that would
be equally efficient.
As a foundation for the barrel, into a cylinder are rolled two more thicknesses
of veneer or thin wood, in which the grain runs across the cylinder, or one coat
runs around and one runs lengthwise of the cylinder. Around this veneer
cylinder is placed a jacket of metal and this jacket of metal is so arranged in the
construction that one end of it laps for a distance under the overlapping end of the
wood veneer; the other end of the metal jacket extends beyond the overlapping
end of the wood veneer, laps down onto the metal, and is there secured by nails
or rivets so that there is at the joint where the two ends of the metal jacket meet,
an interposed packing of wood, that makes a perfectly tight joint between the
two ends of the metal and prevents the volatile liquid from following around
the wood and escaping at the joint. The ends of the jacket are made of wood,
jacketed with metal, and rest on hoops that lie around the interior of the barrel
in proper position for the head to rest on them. The heads are secured in place
by metal lined hoops and end hoops surrounding the vessel, and are secured by
rivets to the metal lined hoops that hold the head in place. Thus the entire

page_text: external surface of the package except the end edges and except the edges of the
head-holding hoops are jacketed with metal, and those portions of the ends which
are not jacketed with metal are so protected by the outer and inner hoops, that
they are very little liable to injury.
In the drawings,
Figure 1 shows a package in perspective.
Figure 2 is a horizontal cross section showing the winding of the veneer, and
the method of attaching the metal to the veneer.
Figure 3 is a vertical cross section showing the walls of the 'package and the
head, head support, and head-holding hoop.
A indicates the veneer foundation which is wound in the cylindrical form begin-
ning at the point a, and terminating at the point b, and comprising at least one
turn of the veneer in one continuous wind. Under the outer end 6 of the veneer
is inserted the end c, of a metal jacket, this is wound around the cylindrical wooden
walls until the end d passes beyond the end of the wood. The end of the
wood should preferably be scarfed off to a thin edge in order that the external
surfaces of the vessel may be unbroken to as great an extent as possible. That
end of the jacket which extends beyond the scarfed off edge b, is secured by nails
or rivets which are driven through both sheets of metal into, or preferably through,
the wood and clinched.
B indicates a hoop secured to the inside of the veneer walls at the proper
distance from the end.
Cindicates the head which rests on the hoop B and is protected by sheet metal
covering e, which is attached to it or laid over it and both parts are secured in
place by a hoop D, and a metal lining f.
On the outside of the receptacle and at the end is placed a metal hoop and
the outer and inner hoops are held together by rivets h.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the 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:-
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In a barrel or like vessel for liquids, in combination with a wooden foundation
of veneer wound in coils, a metal jacket wound in a coil around said foundation,
having the inner end engaged under the overlapping end of the wooden coil and
the outer end overlapping the wooden overlap, substantially as described.
Dated this 18th day of April 1898.