IMPROVEMENTS IN BRANDING CASKS, CASES, AND OTHER ARTICLES, AND IN THE APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN
Year: 1878

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Coleman Gooddy at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th August 1878.
EDWARD COLEMAN GOODDY, of Meltham, near Huddersfield, in the County of
York. "IMPROVEMENTS IN BRANDING CASKS, CASES, AND OTHER ARTICLES, AND
IN THE APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN."
My Invention relates chiefly to the branding of casks, cases, and other articles by
machinery; but it is also partly applicable to branding by hand.
In carrying out my Invention I construct the brands so that the operation of
branding shall be carried out either by the advance or motion of the brand itself, or
of the cask or other article to be branded.
According to the first modification the brand for any letter, figure, or other device
may be carried in any convenient manner at one extremity of a gas pipe and
immediately above a burner so as to admit of the said brand being heated by the
flame from such burner The pipe is provided with a tap or cock, which is by
preference closed by a trigger movement by the act of the operator pressing thereon,
and opened automatically under the action of a spring upon the pressure being
removed. The tap or cock is thus kept continually open except when pressure is
applied by the hand when the brand is brought into contact with the article to bo
branded, a small quantity of gas being still allowed to pass when the tap or cock is
closed to its fullest extent.
According to the second modification the brand is secured to a stationary frame,
and the gas pipe is fitted with a telescopic joint, and provided with a projection, so
that as the article to be branded is advanced towards it the pipe is moved along ita
telescopic tube and the supply of gas is nearly cut off, the apparatus being returned
to its normal position under the action of a spring as before.
The brand constructed according to the first modification may be used as a
portable apparatus and provided with a handle, any suitable number of separate
brands, arranged horizontally, being employed. In like manner any required
number of brands may be used side by side when arranged stationary, according to
the second modification.

page_text: Brands constructed according to either of the modifications herein-before described
may be placed in tiers, the one above the other, so as to form a machine, which may
be operated either by hand or power. The brands are so arranged that cach lower
series projects to any required distance beyond the series above it, in order to
prevent any liability of injury to the said upper series.
Motion is imparted to the whole of the tiers simultaneously by means of toothed
gearing so as to cause them to advance towards the article to be branded, the brand
holders being screw threaded on their exterior or interior, and working into nuts or
external screws operated by the gearing, so that the holders carrying the brands
are advanced in a rectilinear direction. The threads of the screws of the different
tiers are made of varying pitch in order that the brands of the whole of tho tiers
may be applied to the article simultaneously. Or in lieu of advancing the brands
towards the article to be branded the latter may be moved towards the former by
any suitable mechanical arrangement whilst they remain stationary.
The uppermost series of brand holders (or any other series if required) may be
made hollow for the reception of different brands; or a rotatory brand holder may
be employed having a series of brands arranged around its circumference which are
successively brought into action by turning the holder by suitable gearing.
The advance and withdrawal of the brands or the articles to be branded may be
effected either by toothed gearing, as before mentioned, or by cams, levers, or their
equivalents.
Provision is made for throwing any of the sliding holders out of gear when
required.
An important feature of my machino consists in the employment of arrangements
whereby the gas is nearly extinguished automatically by the advance of the brands
to the article to be branded, or of the article to the brands, as herein-before
described.