Improvements in or relating to Barrels or Packages for Various Articles of Merchandise.
Year: 1895

page_text: This Print is in accordance with the original Specification as it stands after
Amendment (under Section 11 of the Patents, &c. Act, 1883), as required by
the decision of the Comptroller General of the 9th day of June 1896.
Date of Application, 12th Mar 1895
Complete Specification Left, 11th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 11th Jan., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 11th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 11th Jan., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Barrels or Packages for Various
Articles of Merchandise.
A communication by GEORGE WATERSON, of Rochester, in the County of
Oakland and State of Michigan, CLARA H. WIDEMAN, of Seville, in the
State of Ohio, and CHARLES HOUTS, of Seville, aforesaid, all in the United
States of America.
1, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street Liverpool and Bank Street Manchester,
both in the County of Lancaster, 118 New Street Birmingham in the County
of Warwick and 31 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object a metal barrel or package of novel construction
and of superior efficiency, and it consists of the construction, combination and
arrangement of devices hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings, in which
Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a barrel embodying the invention;
Figure 2 is a vertical section on the line 2-2, Figure 1;
Figure 3 is a cross section on the line 3-3, Figure 1 ;
Figure 4 is a detail view of the central bung;
Figure 5 is an enlarged view showing parts in vertical section ;
Figure 6 is an enlarged view showing parts in cross section ;
Figure 7 is a detail view of the rim or bushing ;
The desirability of a tight metal barrel or package for various articles of
merchandise, as for petroleum oil for example, is well understood; such a barrel
preventing the oozing out of the oil as is common through the pores of a wooden
structure, while at the same time such a barrel may be employed in the place of
customary tanks in retailing the contents. At the same time the barrel or package
must be made strong and durable for shipping purposes.
The invention is designed and adapted to provide such a barrel or package.
In carrying the same into effect:
The body or shell of the barrel or package, indicated in the drawings at A is
formed of a single integral sheet of metal suitably united at its meeting edges when
bent into proper shape. To secure strength and also to provide the desired bilge,
the invention contemplates corrugating the extremities of the plate forming the
body or shell A longitudinally of the barrel or package, the corrugations extending

page_text: from toward the middle outward toward the extremities of said shell or body.
These corrugations may deepen toward said extremities, thereby contracting the
diameter of the shell at the extremities and forming a central bilge, the bilge is
shown at A' and the corrugated extremities at A2. These corrugations are thus
made tapering, running out toward the middle and deepening gradually toward the
extremity of the body, leaving the bilge plain between the adjacent extremities of
the corrugations at each end of the body. It is preferred that the corrugations
should be of substantially equal length. This construction permits a uniform
curvature of the body on the arc of a circle from end to end.
The meeting edges of the shell or body A may be secured together in any
suitable manner. It is preferred to bend a hook flange on each of said edges and
to interlock said flanges, the flanges being riveted together to make the seam
airtight. The hook flanges are shown in Figure 3, and in Figure 6 at a, a¹ indicating
the rivets. My correspondents, however, do not limit themselves solely to uniting
the meeting edges of the shell.
B B denote the heads of the barrel which are preferably constructed with an
up-turned flange at its periphery, as shown at b. The heads may also be corrugated
toward their peripheries, as shown at 6', to give strength and firmness thereto.
The flange blies snug against the inner surface of the shell toward the end thereof,
and a band U-shaped in cross section, shown at C, is engaged over the adjacent
extremities of the body or shell of the package and the flange 6 the band C being
riveted upon the edges of the shell and head, as shown at c.
This will afford
a very firm and tight union of the heads with the shell of the barrel. But the
heads may be engaged in place in any suitable manner within the scope of the
invention.
The invention includes within its scope, the provision of hoops D toward the
extremities of the body of the barrel if desired. These hoops may be made of
metal and shrunk into place. By forming the heads with the upturned flange b, a
chime is obtained at the extremities of the barrel, as shown at Figures 2 and 5.
If desired, to afford greater firmness and strength to the package, it is contemplated
to engage on the interior of the body or shell intermediate the extremities, a hoop E
which may be rivetted in place. The body of the barrel is formed with a bung, as
shown at F. To engage the bung it is preferred to engage in any suitable orifice
in the body of the barrel a metallic rim or bushing F', which may be provided with
arms or wings F2 to be riveted to the adjacent parts of the body to hold the rim or
bushing firmly in place. This rim may be made of a metal casting and is preferably
beveled from each edge toward the centre, forming an intermediate ridgo, as at f
The bung F to be inserted into the rim F is preferably made of wood, its inner
end being compressed to give to the bung a tapering form. When the bung is
driven into place in the rim, the inner compressed end thereof will swell, as is well
understood, in contact with the liquid in the barrel into substantially the form
indicated in dotted lines, Figure 4, making a very tight joint in the rim F'. Other
bungs may be provided as may be desired, for drawing off the liquid.
For certain uses the invention contemplates galvanizing the different parts of the
barrel. In which case, it is preferred to corrugate the shell A, and form the heads,
galvanizing them after being so formed, either before or after putting the parts
together. The various joints might be soldered or otherwise united within the
scope of the invention. The invention is not limited to the use of the interior
hoop E, nor to the employment of the hoop D, nor to the use of the bands C.
Dated this 5th day of March 1805

page_text: Improvements in or relating to Barrels or Packages for Various
Articles of Merchandise.
A communication by GEORGE WATERSON, of Rochester, in the County of
Oakland and State of Michigan, CLARA H. WIDEMAN, of Seville, in the
State of Ohio, and CHARLES HOUTS, of Seville, aforesaid, all in the United
States of America.
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 31 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 has for its object a metal barrel or package of novel construction
and of superior efficiency, and it consists of the construction, combination and
arrangement of devices hereinafter described, reference being had to the drawings
accompanying the Provisional Specification, in which
Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a barrel embodying the invention ;
Figure 2 is a vertical section on the line 2-2, Figure 1;
Figure 3 is a cross section on the line 3-3, Figure 1 ;
Figure 4 is a detail view of the central bung;
Figure 5 is an enlarged view showing parts in vertical section ;
Figure 6 is an enlarged view showing parts in cross section ;
Figure 7 is a detail view of the rim or bushing;
The desirability of a tight metal barrel or package for various articles of
merchandise, as for petroleum oil for example, is well understood; such a barrel
preventing the oozing out of the oil as is common through the pores of a wooden
structure, while at the same time such a barrel may be employed in the place of
customary tanks in retailing the contents. At the same time the barrel or package
must be made strong and durable for shipping purposes.
The invention is designed and adapted to provide such a barrel or package.
In carrying the same into effect :
The body or shell of the barrel or package, indicated in the drawings at A is
formed of a single integral sheet of metal suitably united at its meeting edges
when bent into proper shape. To secure strength and also to provide the desired
bilge, the invention conteinplates corrugating the extremities of the plate forming
the body or shell A longitudinally of the barrel or package, the corrugations
extending from toward the middle outward toward the extremities of said shell or
body. These corrugations may deepen toward said extremities, thereby contracting
the diameter of the shell at the extremities and forming a central bilge, the bilge
is shown at A' and the corrugated extremities at A². These corrugations are thus
made tapering, running out toward the middle and deepening gradually toward the
extremity of the body, leaving the bilge plain between the adjacent extremities of
the corrugations at each end of the body. It is preferred that the corrugations
should be of substantially equal length. This construction permits a uniform
curvature of the body on the arc of a circle from end to end.
The meeting edges of the shell or body A may be secured together in any
suitable manner. It is preferred to bend a hook flange on each of said edges and
to interlock said flanges, the flanges being riveted together to make the seam
airtight. The hook flanges are shown in Figure 3, and in Figure 6 at a, a³ indicating

page_text: the rivets. My correspondents however, do not limit themselves solely to uniting
the meeting edges of the shell.
B B denote the heads of the barrel which are preferably constructed with an
up-turned flange at its periphery, as shown at b. The heads may also be corrugated
toward their peripheries, as shown at b₁, to give strength and firmness thereto.
The flange blies snug against the inner surface of the shell toward the end thereof,
and a band U-shaped in cross section, shown at C, is engaged over the adjacent
extremities of the body or shell of the package and the flange b, the band C being
riveted upon the edges of the shell and head as shown at c. This will afford
a very firm and tight.union of the heads with the shell of the barrel. But the
heads may be engaged in place in any suitable manner within the scope of the
invention.
The invention includes within its scope, the provision of hoops D towards the
extremities of the body of the barrel if desired. These hoops may be made of
metal and shrunk into place. By forming the heads with the upturned flange ba
chime is obtained at the extremities of the barrel, as shown at Figures and 5.
If desired, to afford greater firmness and strength to the package, it is contemplated
to engage on the interior of the body or shell intermediate the extremities, a
hoop E which may be riveted in place. The body of the barrel is formed with a
bung, as shown at F. To engage the bung it is preferred to engage in any suitable
orifice in the body of the barrel a metallic rim or bushing F, which may be
provided with arms or wings F2 to be riveted to the adjacent parts of the body to
hold the rim or bushing firmly in place. This rim may be made of a metal casting
and is preferably beveled from each edge toward the centre, forming an inter-
mediate ridge, as at f. The bung F to be inserted into the rim F¹ is preferably
made of wood, its inner end being compressed to give to the bung a tapering form.
When the bung is driven into place in the rim, the inner compressed end thereof
will swell, as is well understood, in contact with the liquid in the barrel into
substantially the form indicated in dotted lines, Figure 4, making a very tight joint
in the rim F. Other bungs may be provided as may be desired, for drawing off
the liquid.
For certain uses the invention contemplates galvanizing the different parts of
the barrel. In which case, it is preferred to corrugate the shell A, and form the
heads, galvanizing them after being so formed, either before or after putting the
parts together. The various joints might be soldered or otherwise united within
the scope of the invention. The invention is not limited to the use of the interior
hoop E, nor to the employment of the hoop D, nor to the use of the bands C.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondents, I wish it to be understood that I am aware of the
Specification of the Letters Patent No. 13,646, dated 14th July 1894 granted to
Edward Redman and that I claim nothing described or claimed therein but I declare
that what I claim is :-
1. In a barrel or package, the combination of a body formed of sheet metal
having two of its edges united, heads formed with an outwardly turned flange at
the periphery thereof to form a chime, said flange fitting within and against the
adjacent extremity of the body, a U-shaped band embracing the flange of the head
and the extremity of the body and permanently united therewith, said heads
corrugated toward their peripheries, and said body provided with longitudinally
extended tapering corrugations on each side of the middle of the body forming a
plain bilge between the inner extremities of said corrugations, substantially as set
forth.
2. In a barrel or package, a body or shell formed with sheet metal having two
of its edges united, said body provided with a series of longitudinal tapering
corrugations on each side the middle of the body deepening from near the middle
in opposite directions toward the extremities of the body forming a plain bilge at

page_text: the middle of the body, and in combination therewith a rim F secured in said body,
the bung engaged in said rim, substantially as set forth.
3. In a barrel or package, a body or shell formed of sheet metal corrugated
longitudinally toward its extremities, a rim F beveled from its edges towards the
centre and provided with attaching arms or wings, and a plug F formed of wood
and pressed at one end to a tapering form engagable in said rim, substantially as
set forth.
This 10th
JDreamba 1805
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents.