Improved Application of Aluminium and its Alloys.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left. 1st Aug. 1893-Accepted. 14th Oct., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Application of Aluminium and its Alloys.
I, WILLIAM ROWLAND TAYLOR, of No. 2, Star Hill Villas, Rochester, in the
County of Kent, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to the application of aluminium and its alloys for the
making of casks, bottles, jars, vessels, utensils and receptacles of all kinds for
containing consumable articles and liquids, such as beer, spirits, wines, cordials,
aerated water and preserved food of all kinds, also for any other purpose for which
the above named articles are used. When the vessels are of a large size such as
hogsheads and barrels, I protect the outsides of these casks with wooden staves or
hoops as the case may require.
Dated this 12th day of December 1892.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Application of Aluminium and its Alloys.
I, WILLIAM ROWLAND TAYLOR, of No. 2, Star Hill Villas, Rochester, in the
County of Kent, 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 :-
My invention relates to the application of aluminium, as well as of its alloys,
either or both, and in combination or separately, as a material for the manufacture
of vessels for containing food or drink in any form, such as barrels, casks, jars,
tanks, drums and the like; or of fittings or conduits for passing or conveying
alimentary and other fluids for consumption such as pipes, taps, barrel bushes,
pumps and the like.
In the manufacture of vessels for containing food or drink in any form, I protect
and strengthen the aluminium by a sheet or layer of wood pulp or any other
suitable and similar substance, which is applied to the outside of the vessel at
at any convenient stage of the process of manufacture and incorporated with it
by any suitable means.
The strengthening material is applied as follows. In the case of a cask, I
surround the latter with staves and then hold them to the cask with hoops, so that
the aluminium cask is practically inserted in a headless one.
If the strengthening material is pulp, the cask is placed in a mould made in
sections and capacious enough to leave a space between it and the cask. This
space is filled with pulp previously saturated with a liquid cement and the pulp
rammed and pressed. Or the cask may be swathed in sheets of saturated paper
and pressed. The material is to be varnished or waterproofed and hooped after
it is dry.
As examples of the vessel mentioned in the preceding paragraph, I instance
Brewers' casks, barrels and hogsheads.
Spirit and wine casks and puncheons.
Spirit and wine jugs.
Jugs, jars, carboys and bottles.
Water tanks, barrels and troughs.
Mineral and aërated water bottles and syphons.

page_text: Preserved meat jars and bottles.
Jam and meat essence jars and bottles.
Lard and butter firkins, pans and tubs.
Kettles, pots, pans and culinary utensils generally.
Milk cans and perambulators.
Cream pans and extractors.
Milk and cream separators.
Fermenting pans, squares and casks.
Evaporating pans.
Hopbacks.
Brewers' and distillers' vats.
Refrigerators.
In the case of the second class of articles-those for passing or conveying
alimentary and other fluids for consumption- the strengthening sheet or layer
before described may be dispensed with if the articles in question are sufficiently
strong without it.
As examples of the articles referred to in the preceding paragraph, I instance
Barfel bushes.
Bottle stoppers.
Cocks and taps.
Pumps and pump barrels.
Cylinders.
Cylinder linings.
Brewers' and distillers' fittings.
Bar fittings.
Syphons.
Tubes and pipes.
Dairy utensils.
Kitchen and scullery utensils and fittings.
Freezing machines.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The hereinbefore described application of aluminium or of its alloys.
2. The herein before described application of aluminium or of its alloys with a
strengthening layer.
Dated this 31st
± day of Inly 1002
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.