IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE CF CASES AND OTHER SIMILAR VESSELS OF WOOD
Year: 1848

page_text: AUD
POOLE, of the Patent Office, London, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Eighth day of August,
One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, in the twelfth year of Iler reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Moses Poole, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, Her especial licence, full power,
sole privilege and authority, that 1, the said Moses Poole, my exors, adñiors, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Moses Poole, my exors, adiiors, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at
all times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
CF CASES AND OTHER SIMILAR VESSELS OF WOOD," communicated to me from
abroad; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said
Moses Poole, should cause a particular description of the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instru
ment in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Moses Poole, do hereby declare that the nature of the said Invention, and the

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
No. 1 is the apparatus for hollowing the staves, & consists of a shaft with
circular knives for hollowing the concave side, the bed 6 having a curved iron
plate on which the staves rest while planing. c, c, the rollers, one of which is
fluted to draw in the stave; the other smooth to hold the stave down in its
place while passing under the knives. d, a pulley, with cog wheel on the
shaft, which gives motion to the rollers c, c. Tho bed b is raised to any
desired thickness of stave by the screw e, an iron bolt f, f, and bed serving
as a hinge for the bed b, which is raised or lowered with the screws.
No. 2 is the apparatus for cutting the staves to the required length.
a, circular saw stationary on a shaft. b, a saw, which is moved on the
shaft by a set screw c, to give the staves any length required. The
carriage e, with curves suited to the convex side of the staves, brings theso
up to the saws at right angles running on the ways d, d. No. 11, the
swing frame. The bed a is made concave on the top, in which staves of any
width may be formed to fit the bilge and size of the cask. The lever bis used
to spring the stave down to the curve of the bed. The plate or follower c, with
springs plies between the lever and bed to form the quarter bilge. The wires
d, d, on which the frame swings forms the radius or centre of any sized cask
required.
No. 3, the saw and apparatus for edging staves. This consists of an upright
circular saw standing between the ways b, b, on which the carriage a slides
horizontally. This carriage is formed of two side picces, which slide in grooves
made in the ways b, b, and are connected by two end pieces, which are elevated
into two standards to support the swing frame c, the stave being secured in
the frame as above described, and the frame suspended by the wires or rods
d, d, on the standard b, b, which move back and forth parallel with the saw.
The frame is first swung to one side of the saw and the carriage run past it,
taking off only so much of the stave as to leave a perfect edge. The frame is
then swung to the other side and run past as before; and as the stave is
sprung in the swing frame c to its required bilge, the stave being the segment
of a circle at the ends, and the saw cutting towards the centre of the circle,
gives to the stave the taper and bevil required.
The swing frame is then carried to the jointer No. 4, and the wires d, d,
lodged in the rests e, e, of No. 4, with the edge of the stave lying on the face

page_text: of the jointer f, which has two irons in the same frame, set about half the
length of the stave apart, and on each side of the centre, having their edges
inclined so as to cut outward from the centre in opposite directions (as shewn
in the jointer detached at No. 10). This plane is placed with its face up.
between two ways, having grooves on the inner side, in which ribs attached
to the sides of the jointer 'moved back and forth far enough to bring each of
the jointer irons alternately to the centre of the staye, and thence plane out-
ward to the end of the stave. The vibratory motion of the jointer is affected
by wheel, to which it is attached by a pitman and joint pin a. The stave
being still retained in the same position in the swing-frame a, taken from the
edging saw (as shewn at No. 3), the jointer being put in motion, and the
edges of the stave applied to the jointer, as above described, it cuts from
the centre to the ends of the stave, smoothing the edge and giving the true
bevil and taper, so as to make a perfect joint and round eask. The staves
being jointed the cask is set up in the usual way in truss hoops made of iron,
and turned smooth the inside, when the joints are all turned in, and the ends
are made even; the caps or heads h, h, having spurs on the inside to hold the
staves firmly to their place, are then put on, and the mandril i, by means of
the pin and excentric clevy k, holds the cap h, h, firmly to their place while
turning.
No. 5, the machine for turning the cask. The carriage a has a double
motion for turning the cask, as shewn upon the ways below tlic cask, by
attaching the turning. plane 6 to it, which is shewn detached above the cask:
The under carriage c is moved by the screw d on the ways c, e, in a line
parallel to the mandril. The upper carriage a rides on the lower one, but its
motion is kept parallel to the curve of the cask by the weight f, which holds
it steadily against the curved rest g while in motion, this rest being the model
by which the cask is formed.. The lathe is put in motion by the lever l, and
the turning plane applied, and the casks made perfect.
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No. 6, the crosing machine. a, a, the ring boxes; b, b, cylinder gudgeons,
which run inside the ring boxes a, a, and keep the cask firm; c, ĉ, the ways
for the carriage d to run on. The carriage is drawn back to the end of the
ways, and the cask chucked into the cog cylinder is then moved back upon
the other end of the cask, and is made fast by the dog on the rack. It is then
put in motion by cog pulley cand the chain band. The tools are then applied,
which are shewn below in Nos. 9, 12, and 18.
No. 7, lathe for. turning heads. a, a, the head blocks, used to hold the
heads firmly while turning by means of the screw b. c, c, the rests for turning
the heads, upon.
No. 8, machine for dowelling heads. a, a, represent the mandrils with the

page_text: bits for dowelling. The head rests on the bed b, which slides on the ways c.
d. d, the boxes in which the mandrils run.
No. 9, the dowelling plane, which is applied while the cask is in motion.
No. 10, jointer, with two irons moved by a pitman a, as represented at
No. 4.
No. 11, swing frame above referred to, and used in the sawing and jointing
of the staves.
No. 12, the chamfiring plane in the usual form.
No. 13, crosing plane in the usual form.
What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is, the use of
the swing frame, having a concave bed piece, shewn at a, No. 11. for the
purpose of giving to each stave its proportionate bilge and bevil (as shewn and
described at No. 3 and 11, constructed and arranged as therein described, in
combination with the apparatus for edging and jointing as described at Nos. 3
and 4, and in the manner and for the purposes therein set forth.
I also claim the method of holding the staves for turning the cask without
hoops in combination with the moveable double motion cutter carriage,
'arranged and constructed as shewn and described at No. 5.
And I also claim the combination of the frame for holding the staves and
the two plane irons in one jointer stock or frame at a distance equal to one
half the length of the stave, and cutting outward from the centre of motion, as
set forth at Nos. 3 and 4, substantially in the manner and for the purposes
above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Moses Poole, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.