Improved Apparatus for Rolling Casks.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Nov., 1897
Complete Cranifination Loft 7th Mar 1000 Accented 18th June 1808
Improved Apparatus for Rolling Casks.
I, JOHN JOHNSON, of No. 7, Linnegatan, Göteborg, in the Kingdom of Sweden,
Wholesale Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
The subject of this invention is a special arrangement designed to facilitate the
backward and forward rolling of casks of every description; its advantages will
be particularly appreciated in those cases where large quantities of casks have to
be dealt with, as in petroleum warehouses, breweries, distilleries, cement works
and the like.
The accompanying drawings represent (by way of example) one form of
apparatus constructed in accordance with this invention,
Fig. 1 being a plan or top view, and
Fig. 2 a side elevation of the same; while
Fig. 3 illustrates a double arrangement, in which the two main parts or devices
are firmly coupled together by means of a hook attached to the handle of the one
part, and a corresponding eye fixed to the other part.
To a bar or beam of suitable length and fitted with a cross handle a, two
bent arms d and e are rivetted. These arms may be constructed of metal or
other material, and their dimensions should preferably be such as to admit of a
slight resilience. They are intended to grasp or embrace the cask to be rolled
from bottom to bottom; and in order that they may be fitted for any size of
cask they are made adjustable in the direction of their own length and trans-
versely to the main apparatus; each of the said arms consisting of two sliding
parts which enable their relative position to be varied as required. The knee-
shaped piece m engages with the part n, secured to the part b, so that it may
slide on the said part n by means of an open ring or staple, and be fixed in the
desired position by means of a screw bolt ? (Fig. 3). To the end of each of the
bent arms d, e, engaging with the cask bottoms, there is pivotted a device
consisting of arms x, y, z, extending from a common centre, each of which arms
is made adjustable radially by similar means to those employed in adjusting the
bent arms d, e.
When the cask rolling arrangement is to be used, the width of the space
between the bent arms d, e, is so adjusted that, owing to their resilience, the
three-armed devices shall adhere with adequate firmness to the bottoms of the
cask to be rolled. The arms x, y, z, are so adjusted as to length that their outer
ends may tightly engage in the chimb of the cask; after which the cask may,
by means of the bar b, or the handle a, be conveniently rolled in either direction,
i.e. either pushed or drawn.
The chief merit of the apparatus herein described resides in the great saving of
time which its employment permits to be effected; for it may be fitted to any
cask with the greatest ease, slight differences in the size of the casks being of
no moment, by reason of the elasticity of the bent arms d, e. Also, the rolling

page_text: of casks by means of this arrangement involves but a greatly reduced expenditure
of muscular strength, one individual operative being, indeed, capable of readily
moving a somewhat large sized cask by the aid of this apparatus. The rolling
motion itself, again,-imparted to casks by my improved device,--is far more
steady and uniform than it could be without its assistance, the shaking and
rebounding to which those receptacles are liable when rolled by hand in the
usual way being obviated, and the material of which they are constructed being
thereby saved from damage. By the arrangement shown in Fig. 3, one man is
enabled to roll a number of empty casks at the same time.
Dated this 19th day of November 1897
I, JOHN JOHNSON, of No. 7, Linnegatan, Goteborg, in the Kingdom of Sweden,
Wholesale 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 subject of this invention is a special arrangement designed to facilitate the
backward and forward rolling of casks of every description; its advantages will
be particularly appreciated in those cases where large quantities of casks have to
be dealt with, as in petroleum warehouses, breweries, distilleries, cement works
and the like.
The drawings filed with the Provisional Specification represent (by way of
example) one form of apparatus constructed in accordance with this invention,
Fig. 1 being a plan or top view, and
Fig. 2 a side elevation of the same; while
Fig. 3 illustrates a double arrangement, in which the two main parts or devices
are firmly coupled together by means of a hook attached to the handle of the one
part, and a corresponding eye fixed to the other part.
To a bar or beam b of suitable length and fitted with a cross handle a, two
bent arms and e are rivetted. These arms may be constructed of metal or
other material, and their dimensions should preferably be such as to admit of a
slight resilience. They are intended to grasp or embrace the cask to be rolled
from bottom to bottom; and in order that they may be fitted for any size of
cask they are made adjustable in the direction of their own length and trans-
versely to the main apparatus; each of the said arms consisting of two sliding
parts which enable their relative position to be varied as required. The knee-
shaped piece m engages with the part n, secured to the part b, so that it may
slide on the said part n by means of an open ring or staple, and be fixed in the
desired position by means of a screw bolt 2 (Fig. 3). To the end of each of the
bent arms d, e, engaging with the cask bottoms, there is pivotted a device
consisting of arms r, y, z, extending from a common centre, each of which arms
is made adjustable radially by similar means to those employed in adjusting the
bent arms d, e.
When the cask rolling arrangement is to be used, the width of the space
between the bent arms d, e, is so adjusted that, owing to their resilience, the
three-armed devices shall adhere with adequate firmness to the bottoms of the
cask to be rolled. The arms x, y, z, are so adjusted as to length that their outer

page_text: ends may tightly engage in the chimb of the cask; after which the cask may,
by means of the bar b or the handle a be conveniently rolled in either direction,
i.e. either pushed or drawn.
The chief merit of the apparatus herein described resides in the great saving of
time which its employment permits to be effected; for it may be fitted to any
cask with the greatest case, slight differences in the size of the casks being of
no moment, by reason of the elasticity of the bent arms d, e. Also, the rolling
of casks by means of this arrangement involves but a greatly reduced expenditure
of muscular strength, one individual operative being, indeed, capable of readily
moving a somewhat large sized cask by the aid of this apparatus. The rolling
motion itself, again,-imparted to the casks by my improved device,--is far more
steady and uniform than it could be without its assistance, the shaking and
rebounding to which those receptacles are liable when rolled by hand in the
usual way being obviated, and the material of which they are constructed being
thereby saved from damage. By the arrangement shown in Fig. 3, one man is
enabled to roll a number of empty casks at the same time.
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:-
The apparatus for rolling casks, mainly consisting of two bent arms, such
us d C, which are secured to a bar or beam, such as b, provided with a handle,
such as a, and which are adjustable as to their distance apart by means of screw-
bolts such as ?; while the knee-shaped parts, m, are adjustable in length by
sliding through an open staple upon the parts, n, secured to the said beam or
bar b, and adapted-through the medium of a device pivotted to each and
consisting of three radial arms such as yz, also adjustable as to length, and
arranged firmly to engage the chimb of the cask, and owing furthermore to the
resilience of the bent arms de--to press with sufficient firmness on the two
bottoms of the cask to be rolled, to enable the same to be set in motion by
pulling or pushing the beam b, or its handle a, for the purpose of transferring
casks from place to place; a number of casks being thus transportable at the
same time when two arrangements such as are above described are connected or
coupled together by means of a hook and eye.
Dated this 7th day of March 1898.