Improvements in or connected with Casks or Barrels for Containing Cement or the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 8th July, 1896-Accepted, 8th Aug., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Casks or Barrels for Containing
Cement or the like.
1 THOMAS CHARLES HOOMAN, of the Bridge Cement Co., Rochester, in the
County of Kent, Cement Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the construction of, and mode of fastening, casks or
barrels for containing cement or the like, and consists in forming tho said head of
suitable metal and striking or turning up the edge to form a raised rim, which is
then bent over and brought down to form a depending flauge, which when the head
is in position, surrounds and embraces the tops of the barrel staves, the said
tops entering the recess formed by the raised edge of the head and the depending
flange.
A metal or other hoop or band is forced over the head of the cask or barrol when
such head is in position, so that the said hoop or band will tightly encircle the flange
or depending edge of the raised rim formed on the head, and firmly maintain the
latter in place.
Dated this 18th As of October 1805
Improvements in or connected with Oasks or Barrels for Containing
Cement or the like.
I, THOMAS CHARLES HOOMAN, of the Bridge Cement Co., Rochester, in the
County of Kent, Cement Manufacturer, 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 relates to improvements in, or connected with casks or barrels for
containing cement or the like and refers to the construction of, and modo of,
fastening the heads of such casks or barrels.
In accordance with this invention the said heads are formed of any suitable motal,
struck, or turned up at the edge to form a raised rim; this is then bent over and
brought down to form a depending flange, which when the head is in position,
surrounds and embraces the tops of the barrel staves, the said tops entering the
recess formed by the raised edge of the head and the depending flange.
Metal or other hoops or bauds are forced over the heads of the cask or barrel
when such heads are in position, and suitably secured, so that the said hoops or
bands will tightly encircle the flanges or depending edges of the raised rim formed
on the bend and firmly maintain the latter in place.
And in order that this my invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into effect I will now proceed to describe same with reference to the accompanying
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page_text: sheet of drawings and to the figures and letters of reference marked thereon, that is
to say.
Fig. 1. is an elevational view of one end of a cask having the head constructed in
accordance with this invention.
Fig. 2 is a sectional elevational view of the same.
A is the cask or barrel, and 6 the head. This head & has a raised rim & formed
by striking or turning up the edge of the head, and this rim b' is then bent over and
brought down so as to form the depending flange b³.
The recess formed between the raised rim & and the flange fits over (when the
head is placed in position) the tops of the staves or ends of the cask or barrel a and
is there firmly secured by the hoops or bands e which are forced over the head of
the cask or barrel and there suitably secured, tightly encircling the depending
flange of the 'head aforesaid.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to bo performed, I declare that what I
claim in:-
1. The improvements in, or connected with, casks or barrels for containing cement
or the like, substantially as hereinafter described and shown in the accompanying
drawings.
2. In casks or barrels for containing cement or the like the construction of the
head & of a suitablo metal having a raised rim 6' and depending flange & with space
between when used either with or without the hoops or bands a tightly encircling
the flanges of the head b, all substantially as herein before described and
shewn,
Dated 1-1 1000
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.