IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CASKS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Austin, of 27, Holywell Street, West-
minster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF CASKS,"
Sealed the 12th May 1854, and dated the 12th November 1853.
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Austin at.
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his. Petition, on
the 12th November 1853.
I, WILLIAM AUSTIN, of 27, Holywell Street, Westminster, do hereby
5 declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-.
FACTURE OF CASKS " to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object the manufacture of wood casks
with a view to their packing or stowing with less loss of space, and con-
'sists of forming them each with six equal sides, so that when on end
O several casks may be placed together without space between them.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Austin in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 12th May 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
WILLIAM AUSTIN, of 27, Holywell Street, Westminster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seven-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Austin, Her special licence
that I, the said William Austin, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said William Austin, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time 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 "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CASKS" upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said William Austin, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, 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 William Austin, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof (that is to say):
This Invention has for its object the manufacture of wood casks
with a view to their packing or stowing with less loss of space, and
consists of forming them each with six equal sides, so that when
on end several casks may be placed together without space between
them.

page_text: Having thus described the nature of my Invention, I will proceed to
explain the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, shows a plan in section of a cask constructed according to
my Invention; Figure 2, and Figure 3, show two sections, showing
means of fixing heads in casks made according to my Invention;
Figure 4, shows an end view, and Figure 5, a side view of a cask with
temporary elastic hoops of vulcanized india-rubber placed thereon, for
the purpose of facilitating the rolling of casks from place to place
without friction or strain on the cask. A, A, are sunk grooves for the
iron hoops, which are put on hot. The staves may be each of one or
more pieces to form a side of a cask, and they are put together by
double dovetail grooves and tongues, as shown, and have the iron hoops
applied at the ends and centre, as is shown; and in order to retain the
heads in their places cross-splayed or bevilled grooves are made in the
staves, as is shewn at Figure 2, or by means of oak or wood moveable
fillets C, as shewn at Figure 3, and by the aid of straps B the heads
are kept strongly together.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim
is, the manufacture of casks herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Austin, have hereunto set
my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Witness,
H. W. CARPMAEL.
WILLIAM AUSTIN. (L.S.)