Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Aug., 1886.
Complete Left, 3rd May, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 3rd June, 1887
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
The object of my invention is to improve the unsightly and inconvenient method at
present used in securing the Hoops of Butter firkins and other Casks and also to
produce a better and more secure fastening.
The manner at present in use for securing Hoops is to bind them with a Sally or
other timber twig. I propose to use wire instead for this purpose and in the following
manner. I turn the wire first around one end of the Hoop and placing this end on
the other I twist the wire a few times around both. Three times being generally
found sufficient. I then secure the end of the wire by passing it between the two
ends of the Hoop and the fasten is found complete.
A binding of copper or other metal clips may be used but I do not find them as
efficacious-The clips may be of any form but I find a plain strip of metal sharply
pointed at both ends a convenient form. When this form is adopted it may be used
as follows. After first making a notch in both ends of the Hoop these ends are
brought together and overlapping each other so as to bring the notches in line one
end or point of the clip is then pressed or hammered into the Hoop & the clip being
then twisted around both ends it is secured by pressing the remaining end or point
into the Hoop.
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page_text: I, WILLIAM MCDONNELL of India Villa, Corbally, Limerick, Ireland Merchant 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:
The manner at present in use for securing the hoops of butter firkins and other
casks, is to bind them with what is known as "Sally" or timber twig.
Now the object of my invention is to improve this unsightly and inconvenient
method by substituting a neater and more secure fastening for same as well as one that
may be easier of application than heretofore.
According to my invention I use a metal binding preferably wire, although a
binding of copper or other clips may be used for this purpose.
And in order that my invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect I will further describe same with reference to the accompanying drawings,
similar letters of reference referring to like parts in all the figures.
Figure 1 is an elevation of the two ends of the hoop of a firkin or cask united
according to my invention, Figure 2 is a section on line X Y of Fig. 1 shewing
arrangement of ends of binding; Figure 3 is an elevation, and Figure 4 is a section
on the line X' Y₁ of Figure 3 shewing a different method of winding the metal
binding; Figures 5 and 6 are similar views to above but giving an example of the
metal strip binding according to my invention, and Figure 7 shews a similar binding
but applied in two places on the hoop.
Figure 8 shews a firkin or tub having the ends of the hoops secured as aforesaid
and according to my invention.
Referring more especially to Figures 1 and 2, A is the binding wire, B B¹ the two
ends of the hoops. In applying the binding I turn the wire A first around one end of
the hoop B¹ and placing this end on to the other B, I then twist the wire a few times
around both ends B B₁ of the hoop, in practice I find three times is generally sufficient.
I secure the remaining end of the wire by passing it between the two ends B B¹ of
the hoop and the fastening is then secure.
Or as shewn by Figures 3 and 4 I sometimes find it preferable to place one end of
the binding wire A between the two ends B B¹ of the hoop and permit such end of the
binding wire to protrude between the said ends B B¹ of the hoop; I then wind the
wire around the two ends of the hoop to meet this protruding end and when it is
reached I fasten the two ends of the wire by twisting the loose end and the protruding
end together.

page_text: When a binding of copper or other metal clips are used they may be of any con-
venient form but I find a plain strip of metal C as shewn at Figs. 5 6 and 7 sharply
pointed at both ends, a convenient form. When this form is adopted it may be used
as follows: after first making a notch at or near both ends of the hoop these ends are
brought together and overlap each other so as to bring the notches in line as at
Figure 5, one end or point of the clip is then pressed or hammered into the hoop and
the clip being then twisted around both ends it is secured by pressing the remaining
end or point into the hoop again, as shewn by the dotted lines at Figures 5 and 6.
The metal binding either of wire or band form may be applied either at one or two
places as shewn in the drawings, or more places all as found more convenient.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
In fastening the hoops of butter firkins and other casks, the metallic bindings A
and C applied either at one two, or more places on the hoop, and having the ends
either passed in between the two ends of the hoop or driven into same or twisted
substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.
BREWER & SON,
For the Applicant.