Articles Provided with Stretched Skins or like Covers.
Year: 1897

page_text: Articles Provided with Stretched Skins or like Covers.
A communication from CARL GUSTAV FISCHER, of Zoblitz, Saxony, in the Empire
of Germany, Manufacturer.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT, of 111, Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the construction of drums, covers or hollow bodies
having strongly and tightly fixed skins (by which beside real skin is also included
parchment and other substitutes) chiefly intended to be used as toys for children.
If the body be divided transversely the parts overlapping or fitting together like
the body and cover of a tin the drum may be also used as a receptacle for sweet
elo.; one of the halves of a receptacle constructed in this manner can also be
used as a cover for ordinary tins or receptacles either to enable the contents to be
seen without removing the cover or in cases where a porous covering is desirable,
as for food or chemicals when it may be desirable to substitute a membrane for
an ordinary tin or non-porous cover.
The characteristic feature of the invention irrespective of its use, being the
simple and cheap manner in which the skin is clamped in position.
In making say for instance a toy drum a cylinder or body is taken to which a
skin is secured at the top and at the bottom. The connection of the skin to the
body is effected by a metal or other ring having a downwardly inclined wall and
inwardly projecting horizontal lower flange the conical or cylindrical flange of
which is adapted to the cross section of the body to which it is to be applied. The
ring measured vertically can be made narrow or wide according to whether the skin
is to lie more or less recessed with respect to the edge of the body. The ring is
secured in well known manner by folding by means of a machine or otherwise,
the skin being secured at the same time. The skin is cut out so that its diameter
is a little greater than the part to which it is to be applied which preferably has
an inclined flange it is then placed on the inner surface of the ring and is folded
simultaneously with the latter over the flange of the body. The edge of the skin
being drawn over the body together with the outer edge of the ring and the skin
is thus stretched and securely fixed in position.
Dated this 5th day of June 1897.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in or relating to Drums, Receptacle Covers, and similar
Articles Provided with Stretched Skins or like Covers.
A communication from CARL GUSTAV FISCHER, of Zoblitz, Saxony, in the Empire
of Germany, Manufacturer.
I, ALFRRD JULIUS BOULT, of 111, Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what mannor the same is to be porformed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to the construction of drums covers or hollow bodies
having strongly and tightly fixed skins (by which beside real skin is also included
parchment and other substitutes) chiefly intended to be used as toys for children.
If the body be divided transversely the parts overlapping or fitting together like
the body and cover or lid of a tin, the drum may be also used as a receptacle for sweets
etc.; one of the halves of a receptacle constructed in this manner can also be
used as a cover for ordinary tins or receptacles, either to enable the contents to be
seen without removing the cover or in cases where a porous covering is desirable,
as for food or chemicals when it may be desirable to substitute a membrane for
an ordinary tin or non-porous cover.
The characteristic feature of the invention irrespective of its use, being the
simple and cheap manner in which the skin is clamped in position.
The drawing shows a toy drum in elevation partly in section. a is a cylinder
or body to which a skin is secured at the top and at the bottom. The con-
nection of the skin 6 to the body is effected by a metal or other ring o having a
downwardly inclined wall and inwardly projecting horizontal lower flange, the
conical or cylindrical flange c¹ of which is adapted to the cross section of the body
to which it is to be applied. The ring measured vertically can be made either deep
or shallow according to whether the skin is to lie more or less recessed with re-
spect to the edge of the body. The ring cc is seoured in well known manner by
folding its edge by means of a machine or otherwise, the skin being secured at the
same time. The skin b is cut out so that its diameter is a little greater than the
part a to which it is to be applied, which preferably has an inclined flange. It
is then placed on the lower surface of the ring and is folded simultaneously with
the latter over the flange of the body. The edge of the skin being drawn over the
body together with the outer edge of the ring and the skin is then stretched and
securely fixed in position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
as communication to me by my foreign correspondent and in what manner the same
is to bo performed I declare that what I claim is:-
1. A drum receptacle or cover provided with a ring such as c and a skin or the
like 6 the edges of the ring and skin being folded over the edge of the receptacle or
its cover substantially as described.
2. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete drum
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
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