Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Use in Coating the Internal Surfaces of Receptacles, such as Casks and Barrels
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 9th Nov., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Use in Coating the
Internal Surfaces of Receptacles, such as Casks and Barrels
1, ERNST TRAUGOTT RLINHOLD, of Kostutz, Thugin, the Empue of
Germany, Master Locksmith, 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 :--
A machine according to my invention for use in coating the internal surfaces of
eceptacles such as casks and barrels is designed to lock and 1oll a receptacle,
such as a beer or other cask or barrel (hereafter referred to as a cask), in such
a manner as to cause pitch poured into the cask to coat its internal surface ma
uniform manner and also to retam the cask in it as long as is necessary for the
pitch in the cask to become quite hard. The machine is constructed in such a
manner that it can be attended to by a single workman. It comprises two portions
- rocking-apparatus aud a rolling-apparatus.
Fig 1 of the accompanying diawings illustrates the machine in plan,
Fig 2 is a front elevation of the 1ocking-apparatus. and
Fig 3 an end elevation thereof, whilst
Figs and 5 illustrate details.
By means of the locking-apparatus the cash is not only rolled-that is to say,
notated about its own axis-but also rocked up and down or from side to sido,
and all this is done in an automatic manner, as will now be explained
A shaft a, which serves to drive the rolling-apparatus, transmits its powo
though mitte wheels and c to a shaft d, which is arranged at night-angles to the
shaft u.
On the shaft is a bevel wheel e luch genus into a bevel wheel that
s on a shaft g on which are fixed two conical wheels or rollers h, h A second
shaft g canies two wheels or rollers, which servo as abutments for the cask
to be locked. When the tollers h nie iotated and the caskiests partly on them
and partly on the rollers h', ', as shown, the cask will be rotated about its own
axis that is to say, will be rolled.
For the purpose of effecting the rocking of the cask, the shaft d is arranged to
otato a crank (or recentite) n' through the medium of bevel wheels 1, A', an
intermediate shaft, bevel wheels m, m' and a shaft n The said crank (o
eccent) engages in a slot o' in a lever o, which is provided at its end with n
weight and is secured on a shaft p. The rotation of the shaft d will, therefore,
cause the oscillation of the shaft p. The shaft, p carries a frame y on which the
shafts g and g' are supported in beatings.
The result of this arrangement is that when the rollers h, are rotated, the
cask resting on them and the rollers h, will be rocked to and fro.
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The bevel wheel m' is capable of being moved along on the shaft and can be
placed out of operation by means of a hand-level as shewn. When this said bevel
wheel is not in gear with the bevol-wheel m, the fiame g will, by the action of
the weight o, be caused to assume a horizontal position, and the cask can roll ou
to the rails r. On the release of the hand-level, a spring m³ presses the whocl m'
back into gear with the wheel m.
For the purpose of enabling the cask to be held automatically whilst being
roched, to be released after having been sufficiently rocked, and to be automatically
olled away on to the table formed by the rails rr, the following allangement is
employed.

page_text: By means of a treadle t on a two-aimed lever pivoted at ', and a connecting
rod, a frame ¹¹ adapted to oscillate at one end about the shaft g, is capable of
being raisod and lowered. Connected to the frame uu is a slotted link „ª
provided with teeth (Fig. 4), which geat to a pinion mounted on a
sant v.
If now the treadle be moved up or down, the shaft v will be rotated in
one direction or the other Connected with the shaft v is a pinion v² which gears
into the teeth of two straight racks w, w aanged opposite to each other.
These acks cary upwardly extending aims to 10 on which are adjustably
mounted the cask-holders 10 10³, which serve to hea at suitable times against the
two heads or ends of the cask and thus to hold the cask firmly in position.
The mode of operation of the machine is as follows *-
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When the frame ' ' is not loaded with a cask, it occupies the inclined position
indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 3. If, now, a cask be placed upon the rollers /
and 4, the weight of the cask will canse the fiamo u to sink down at its raised
end. The slotted link u will therefore also be caused to move down; and the
pinion with the shaft v and toothed wheel will be rotated in such a manner
that the straight racks to to will move in the duections of the allows I of Fig. 5,
whereby the cask-holders w³ will be caused to move towards the heads of the
cask and thus hold the cask firmly between them so that it will be prevented from
tipping over whilst it is being rocked. When the cask has been sufficiently rocked,
and also at the same time rolled or rotated about its own axis, pressure is applied
by means of the foot to the treadle t whereupon the slotted link will rise in the
direction of the arrow II Fig. 4, and the toothed racks we will moved in the directions
of the arrows II Fig. 5, thereby moving the cask-holders w³ ³ in an outward
duection 80 ns to liberate the cask
The slotted link u has below the teeth a vacant space which allows the
link and consequently also the frame u¹¹ to be raised to a further extent
without causing further rotation of the toothed wheel and consequently of the
shaft v.
The result of this is, that by the application of pressure to the trendlet,
the fiame u¹¹ will be raised in such a manuci that the cask will slide over the
rollers on to the rails and roll away along them.
The two
From the said rails the cask moves on to the two rolling-1ollers A. and A', one of
which A is 1otated in a suitable duection by means of tho shaft a
shafts diverge somewhat as shown On rotating the shaft a, the cask z 18 rolled on
downwards to the point C at which it leaves the machine (for which purpose the
rollers may be suitably melined), where it falls off,
The size of the rollers A A¹ is such that the pitch in the cask will become
sufficiently died by the time the cask leaves the machine
As before stated only one man is required for attending to the machine; to set
it operation he has merely to place the cask upon the rollers ' ', and actuate
the treadlet at the proper time. When the cask is placed upon the rollers', it
18 at once guipped between the cask-holders to to³, and rotated about its own axis
and also rocked. By operating the trendle the cask is lifted off the rocking-
apparatus, released by the cask-holders, lifted off, and conveyed away over the
table on to the rolling-apparatus.
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Having now particularly descubed and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declnio that what
1 claun 18-
1. A machine or apparatus for use in coating the internal surfaces of casks and
like receptacles, in which the receptacle is 10cked longitudinally by means of an
oscillating frame and 18 simultaneously caused by means of rollers to rotate about
its own axis, after which, by the operation of a treadle it is lifted off and delivered
to a rolling-apparatus consisting of two revolving rollers substantially as heieu-
before described
2 A machme of the kind referied to in the preceding claim in which there is
provided a pivotted frame ' ' cauying a slotted link and adapted to be

page_text: depressed on a cask or the like being placed upon the rollers h¹, pinions ■' ¿¹ and
toothed racks or bars to to, carrying cask holders w³ w' the arrangement being such
upon the cask of the like being placed in position the cask holders will bo pressed
against its two heads in such a manner as to hold it and prevent it from slipping
whilst bong ocked, and on operating the treadle, the slotted link will be
raised and thereby move the cask-holdera w to away from the heads of the cask,
substantially as herein before described.
3. In a machine of the kind referred to in Claims 1 and 2, constructing the
slotted link with a toothless poition 4ª at its lower end substantially as described
for the purposo specified.
4. My improved apparatus for locking and rolling casks or like receptacles
constructed arranged and operating substantially as described with reference to the
accompanying drawings.
Dated the 6th day of Ontoher 1895
F. WISE HOWORTH,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.