CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MAKING METALLIC HOOPS
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Andrew Shanks, Engineer, of 6, Robert St.,
Adelphi, Westminster, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN MAKING METALLIC HOOPS,"
Sealed the 14th June 1867, and dated the 22nd December 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Andrew Shanks at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
22nd December 1866.
I, ANDREW SHANKS, Engineer, of 6, Robert St., Adelphi, Westminster, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN MAKING METALLIC HOOPS," to be as follows:-
I join the two ends A, B, of the hoop C, C, without rivets, studs, or such
like fastenings. Holes are punched in the metal at regular distances, one end
A of the piece having the holes h, h, h, puuched clear through, the other
end B having the holes cut or stamped on three sides only, so as to form
tongues or flaps.f.; these tongues or flaps are inserted into the clear holes
of the opposite end A of the piece interlaced, producing a fastening of the
hoop C, C, as shewn at J, the more it is pulled the more it increases its hold,
thereby making a strong & substantially joined hoop, all completed from the
3hoop iron itself.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Andrew Shanks in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
21st June 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ANDREW
SHANKS, Engineer, 6, Robert Street, Adelphi, Westminster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of December, in the year of our
LordOne thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Andrew Shanks, Her special licence that I, the said Andrew Shanks, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Andrew
Shanks, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any timo agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MAKING
METALLIC HOOPS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Andrew
Shanks, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Andrew Shanks, do hereby declare the
nature of iny said Invention, and in what manner the. same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
I join the two ends of the hoop C, C, without rivets, studs, or such like
fastenings. Holes are punched in the metal at regular distances, one end A
of the piece having the holes h, h, h, punched clear through, the other end B
having the holes cut or stamped on three sides only, so as to form tongues or
flaps these tongues or flaps are inserted into the clear holes of the
opposite end A of the piece interlaced, as shown at J, and afterwards flattened
down, as shewn at J, a, and producing a fastening of the hoop C,C, the more it
is pulled the more it retains its hold, thereby making a strong and substantially
joined hoop, all comploted from the hoop iron itself.

page_text: Drawing No. 1 shews the application of these hoops for casks or barrels,
and No. 2 shews the application for bale goods for which they are chiefly
intended.-
In witness whereof. I, the said Andrew Shanks, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
ANDREW SHANKS. (L.s.)