IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CLEANSING CASKS." SP
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Oxley, of Frome, in the County of Somerset,
Brewer's Engineer, and George Wilson, of the sa:ne Place, Foreman to
the said James Oxley, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS FOR CLEANSING CASKS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Oxley and George
Wilson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 17th October 1867.
We, JAMES OXLEY, of Frome, in the County of Somerset, Brewer's
Engineer, and GEORGE WILSON, of the same Place, Foreman to the said James.
Oxley, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CLEANSING CASKS," to be as follows:-
Our Invention relates to machinery or apparatus for cleansing both the
insides and the outsides of casks.
With reference to cleansing the insides of casks our Invention has for its
object an arrangement of apparatus by means of which a number of casks,
containing water and stone or chains, may have imparted to them a motion
longitudinally or round a common centre, and at the same time each cask
may be caused to turn on its own axis. For this purpose an open frame is
suspended on centres capable of turning in bearings; in this frame is mounted
a separate cage or carrier for each cask, to which cage or carrier is imparted
a rotary motion by suitable bevil gear.
In one arrangement of machinery or apparatus the main frame is made
to carry several casks in a line, and the bevil gear for each separate cage or

page_text: carrier is driven as required by bevil pinions on a shaft, on the end of which
is fixed a spur pinion taking into an internally toothed ring fixed in standards.
By this means on rotary motion being communicated to the pivots or centres
of the main frame the shaft with the bevil pinions will also be set in motion,
and the several cages or carriers separately turned.
In another arrangement the cage or carrier of each cask is mounted in a
'bracket fixed to a central shaft, by the rotation of which shaft a bevil pinion
on one of the trunnions of the cage or carriage is carried round in gear with a
bevil toothed stationary ring, and in this manner the cage or carrier is caused
to turn on its own axis, while it is carried round in a direction at right angles
to such motion by the revolution of the bracket.
And a third arrangement consists in mounting the several cages or carriers
with the casks radially in a wheel, to which is imparted rotary motion, the
several cages or casks being separately turned on their axes by means of
bevil pinions taking into a fixed central bevil wheel; and this motion of the
separate cages or carriers may be reversed by using two central stationary
bevil wheels, with an arrangement for throwing the several bevil pinions into
gear with one or the other as may be required. The above-described motions
may be produced by means of frictional gearing or bands and pulleys instead
of
spur and bevil gear.
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For washing the outsides of casks a water-tight trough containing water is
used, in which trough are mounted two supporting rollers with india-rubber
bands on their circumference, and between them a roller with suitable brushes
on it. By this arrangement as the brush roller is turned the two rollers sup-
porting the casks are turned. in opposite directions by means of 'suitable spur
gear, and the cask is turned round slowly while the brushes are turned rapidly,
and caused to act on each part of the outer surface of the cask in succession.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Oxley and George Wilson in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 16th April 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JAMES
OXLEY, of Frome, in the County of Somerset, Brewer's Engineer, and GEORGE
WILSON, of the same Place, Foreman to the said James Oxley, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her

page_text: reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said James Oxley and George Wilson,. Her special licence, that we, the
said James Oxley, and George Wilson,. our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said James Oxley and George Wilson,
our 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 MACHINERY OR APPARATUS
POR CLEANSING CASES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
James Oxley and George Wilson, our executors or administrators, by an
instrument. in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
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 we, the said James Oxley and George Wilson,
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, reference being bad to the Drawings hereunto
annexed and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-
Our Invention of "Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Cleansing
Casks," relates to machinery or apparatus for cleansing both the insides and the.
outsides of casks.
With reference to cleansing the insides of casks our Invention has for its
object an arrangement of apparatus by means of which a number of casks,
containing water and stones or chains may have imparted to them a motion.
longitudinally or around a common centre, and at the same time each cask
may be caused to turn on its own axis. For this purpose an open frame is
suspended on centres capable of turning in bearings; in this frame is mounted
a separate cage or carrier for each cask, to which cage or carrier is imparted,
a rotary motion by suitable bevil gear.
In one arrangement of machinery or apparatus, the main frame is made to,
carry several casks in a line, and the bevil gear for each separate cage or.
carrier is driven as required by bevil pinions on a shaft, on the end of which is
ixed a spur pinion taking into an internally toothed ring fixed in standards.
By this means, on rotary motion being communicated to the pivots or centres*
of the main frame, the shaft with the bevil pinions will also be set in motion,
and the several cages or carriers separately turned.

page_text: In another arrangement the cage or carrier of each cask is mounted in a
bracket fixed to a central shaft, by the rotation of which shaft a bevil
pinion on one of the trunnions of the cage or carrier is carried round in gear
with a bevil toothed stationary ring, and in this manner the cage or carrier
is caused to turn on its own axis, while it is carried round in a direction at
right angles to such motion by the revolution of the bracket.
And a third arrangement consists in mounting the several cages or carriers
with the casks radially in a wheel, to which is imparted rotary motion, the
several cages and casks being separately turned on their axes by means of
bevil pinions taking into a fixed central bevil wheel; and this motion of the
separate cages or carriers may be reversed by using two central stationary
bevil wheels, with an arrangement for throwing the several bevil'pinions into
gear with one or the other as may be required. The above-described motions
may be produced by means of frictional gearing or bands and pulleys instead
of spur and bevil gear.
For washing the outsides of casks a water-tight trough containing water
is used, in which trough are mounted two pairs of supporting rollers with
india-rubber bands on their circumference, and between them a roller with
suitable brushes on it. By this arrangement as the brush roller is turned the
two pairs of rollers supporting the casks are turned in opposite directions by
means of suitable spur gear, and the cask is turned round slowly, while the
brushes are turned rapidly, and caused to act on each part of the outer surface
of the cask in succession.
Having thus stated the nature of the said Invention we will proceed to
describe more particularly in what manner the same is to be performed by
reference to the accompanying Drawings, in which are represented different
modes of carrying our Invention into effect.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is an end elevation, and Fig. 2 a side elevation, of machinery for
cleansing the insides of three casks mounted in one longitudinal frame turning
on pivots or centres; Figures 3 and 4 are similar views of machinery for
cleansing the insides of two casks, each mounted on a separate bracket fixed
on a central shaft; Fig. 5 represents four casks in radial cages mounted in a
revolving wheel; Figures 6 and 7 represent in plan and transverse section an
apparatus for cleansing the outsides of casks. In all these Figures the same
letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
A, A, are the fixed standards; B, B, the frames revolving on pivots o
centres; C, C, the cages or carriers for the several casks, which cages or

page_text: carriers are severally mounted so as to be capable of turning on their respective
xes; D is the fixed and E the revolving toothed gear for turning the main
rames on their pivots or centres, and at the same time turning each cage or
carrier (with its cask) on its own axis.
On reference to Figures 1 and 2 it will be seen that by communicating
rotary motion to the shaft or pivot F of the frame B that frame with its three
casks will be caused to revolve; also by the pinion E on the shaft G gearing
with the fixed internal toothed ring D that pinion will be turned, and with
it the shaft G, thereby turning. the three cages or carriers C, C, on their
respective axes through their connection by bevil gear with the said shaft.
On reference to Figures 3 and 4 it will also be seen that by communicating
rotary motion to the central shaft F the two brackets B, B, will be carried
the latter gearing
round, and with them the two bevil pinions E, E; also
with the fixed bevil toothed ring D they will be caused to turn on their own
axes, and with them the cages or carriers.C, C, with their casks.
On reference to Fig. 5 it will also be seen that by communicating rotary
motion to the wheel B the four bevil pinions E, E, gearing with the fixed
bevil toothed ring D will be turned on their axes, as they are carried round
by the revolution of the wheel B, and caused to turn the four cages or carriers
C, C, with their casks.
In Figures 6 and 7 H is a water-tight trough containing water; I, I, are
two pairs of rollers (with india-rubber bands on their circumferences) for
supporting the casks intended to be cleansed on the outside; K is a roller
with a brush or brushes on it which is mounted on an axis between those of
the supporting rollers. By giving rotary motion to the axis of the brush
roller K the two pairs of rollers I, I, are caused by means of the gearing L
to turn in opposite directions and carry the cask round with a slow motion,
while the brush roller K is turned rapidly and caused to act on each part of
the outside of the cask in succession.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, we would remark that the mode of mounting and
driving the revolving frames and the cages or carriers for the casks may be
varied in detail without altering the character of our Invention; but what we
claim as of our Invention is,
First. The combination of parts, consisting of revolving frames and driving
gear adapted for turning them, with cages or carriers for the several casks and
driving gear adapted for turning each cage or carrier with its cask on its own
axis as herein-before described.

page_text: And, secondly. The combination of supporting rollers and a brush roller
working in a trough containing water with gearing adapted to impart to the
supporting rollers and the brush roller their relative directions of motion and
speeds, in order to cleanse the outsides of casks in the manner described.
In witness whereof, we, the said James Oxley and George Wilson, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, the Thirteenth day of April in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
Witness to the signatures of the
said James Oxley and George
Wilson,
CHARLES W. CLARK,
JAMES OXLEY.
(L.S.)
GEORGE WILSON. (L.S.)
Draughtsman,
Frome.