Improvements in or relating to Metal Vessels or Packages.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Nov., 1894-Accepted, 8th Dec., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Metal Vessels or Packages.
A communication by CHARLES LEWIS COFFIN, of 980, Jefferson Avenue,
Detroit, in the County of Wayne and State of Michigan, United States of
America, Chemist.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool and 6, Bank Street, Man-
chester, both in the County of Lancaster and High Holborn in the County of
Middlesex, Civil 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 :-
This invention consists in an improvement in metal vessels or packages. It
will be understood from the following description, reference being had to the
accompanying drawing, in which,
Figure 1 is a central longitudinal section through one portion of the vessel;
Figure 2 is a similar section through a complete barrel;
Figure 3 is a similar section through a barrel made in three parts, and
Figure 4 is a perspective of the barrel of Figure 3.
A and A¹ represent sections which are stamped or drawn out of a sheet of metal,
each section being provided with a flange F, around its open end. The vessel is
made by putting two of these sections A and A' together, as shown in Figure 2,
and welding the flanges F together. This permits the flanges F to be much
narrower than would be required for a vessel made by riveting flanges F together,
and therefore the vessel can be reinforced by a hollow hoop H, preferably made of
curved sheet metal, which can be expanded by heat sufficiently to pass over
flange F and shrunk in place as shown in Figure 2.
Instead of using only the sections A A¹ the vessel may be made by inserting
between these sections an additional cylindrical section B, also provided with
a flange F, and welding each end of said cylindrical section to the end sections
A A¹, in which case two hoops H H' may be used.
The package may be provided with a bung, either on the bilge or in the ends,
one placed in the bilge being indicated in Figure 4. The bung is preferably
placed in position before the vessel is welded together.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated
to me by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
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1. A. metallic vessel made of two drawn sections having flanged faces, welded
together to form a continuous surface.
2. In a metallic vessel the combination of drawn sections having flanged faces
welded together with a hollow guard hoop.
3. In a metallic vessel the combination of drawn flanged end sections and a
central flanged section, the flanges of the end sections welded to the flanges of the
central section, substantially as shown and described.

page_text: 4. In a metal vessel the combination of drawn flanged end sections, a central
flanged section, the flanges of the end section welded to the flanges of the central
section, with hollow guard hoops shrunk over said flanges.
Dated this 2nd day of November 1894.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents.