Improvements in the Manufacture of Metallic Hampers or Skips for Carboys and other Articles.
Year: 1889

page_text: s Print is in accordance with the original Specification as it stands aftor
Amendment (under Section 18 of the Patents, &c. Act, 1883), as allowed by
the decision of the Comptroller General of the 10th day of June 1896.
Date of Application, 23rd Apr., 1889
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Complete Specification Left, 23rd Jan., 1890-Accepted, 15th Mar., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Metallic Hampers or Skips for
Carboys and other Articles.
HERBERT FINCH, of the Aqueduct Chemical Works Marple near Stockport in the
County of Chester, Chemical Manufacturer, and JOHN MACKENZIE of Egglescliffe,
Yarm-on-Tees in the County of Durham, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows :-
This invention consists in the application of a simple mechanical principle to the
hoop-iron or steel or other metal used in making carboy hampers, by which they
can be made stronger, lighter, and cheaper than hitherto.
Instead of using the hoop-iron or steel, or other metal as it is rolled for ordinary
purposes, we bend, flute, or corrugate it in the form of a channel, preferably in the
form U, or into any other form that will give the stiffness required.
By using the fluted hoop-iron, or steel, or other metal for the circular top and
bottom hoops of the hamper, great lateral strength is obtained in like manner to the
vertical strength which is secured by the fluted standards.
Furthermore there is no necessity for any girth-hoops with the requisite rivetting
as the necessary strength is secured when the top and bottom hoops respectively are
connected with the standards at each end, and this is done by bending the ends of the
standards over, under, and round the top and bottom hoops."
The bottom of the hampers consists of hoop-iron, or steel, or other suitable metal
flat, or bent, or corrugated, or tubular, resting upon the upper curved surface of the
bottom hoop, and connected with it in a similar manner to that in which the standards
are connected, or ordinary wire may be used for the bottoms.
It is obvious that various forms of fluting or channeling can be employed for the
purpose of giving stiffness to the standards, and the top and bottom hoops. They may
even be made round in the form of a tube, and the principle of construction will
apply not only to carboy hampers with circular top and bottoni hoops, but to skips and
receptacles of various shapes used for other purposes, in which case girth or
surrounding hoops, rivetted or affixed otherwise, may be employed or not as the
circumstances may require.
Dated this 20th day of April 1889
HERBERT FINCH.
JOHN MACKENZIE,

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION (AMENDED).
Improvements in the Manufacture of Metallic Hampers or Skips for
Carboys and other Articles.
We, HERBERT FINCH, of The Aqueduct Chemical Works, Marple, near Stockport, in
the County of Chester, Chemical Manufacturer, and JOHN MACKENZIE of Egglescliffe
Yarm-on-Tees, in the County of Durham, 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 :-
The invention is primarily designed for the package of carboys containing acids or
other chemical liquids.
Hitherto these metallic hampers have been made with uprights of flat hoop iron
or steel in the flat form as it is rolled for ordinary purposes or of iron or steel
strips, slightly curved in cross section their entire length which rendered it
difficult to attach them to the hoops top and bottom also, usually with a strong heavy
hoop, top and bottom, and one, two or more intermediate or girth hoops of the
same material as the uprights, the several uprights or hoops being connected
together by a rivet or rivets where they cross one another.
The invention consists essentially in the formation of the upright standard of
metallic skips or hampers from strips or bars of iron or steel which have been
bent, and fluted, to a channel, U or ỷ shape in cross section, for the greater part of
their length leaving the ends flat.
It will be fully described by reference to the accompanying drawings which
show a hamper or skip constructed in accordance with the invention.
Fig. 1 is an elevation of a metallic hamper for a carboy.
Fig. 2, plan of same.
Fig. 3, sectional elevation.
Fig. 4, sectional plan at widest part.
Fig. 5, enlarged elevation of upright standard before being secured in position.
Fig. 6, similar elevation showing the joint on inside of top hoop.
Fig. 7, enlarged section showing joint of upright with top hoop.
In carrying out the invention we take flat hoop iron or steel (or other metal) as it
is ordinarily rolled, and cut it into the required lengths for the upright standards and
then bend it into a channel U or V shape leaving the ends which are to form the
joints flat and at the same time (or if desired by a separate operation) give them
any bend or curve longitudinally that may be required.
We prefer to form the uprights preferably of U shape by stamping them, the
tools being of such shape as to give both the lateral and longitudinal curves
required in them at the one operation. The hoops for the top and bottom we
prefer to curve both laterally and longitudinally by rolling, the two operations
being carried on simultaneously.
The upright standards A so formed are connected to the top hoop B. and to the
base hoop by the flat ends which are turned over the convex outside of the
hoops and then bent into and tightly compressed against the concave inside as
shown in detail in Figs. 6 and 7. The bottom of the hamper is formed of a
curved or arched channel or U shaped bar D stretching diametrically across the
base hoop C and of two, three or more flat strips E laid across it. The bar D
and strips E are connected to the base hoop in the manner already described with
reference to Figs. 6 and 7. The arched form gives a strength and rigidity to the
base not otherwise attainable.
We consider that metallic hampers or skips made in accordance with our
invention will be much stronger both vertically and laterally while the individual
standards will be less liable to damage and at the same time they will be lighter and
will be cheaper to construct.
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page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we wish it to be understood that
we are aware that hoops curved in cross section have been used for the top hoop of
metallic carboy hampers also that the uprights have been slightly curved in cross
section for their entire length and such do not in themselves form any part of our
invention but we declare that what we claim is :-
2. The construction of metallic hampers or skips for carboys or other articles
with upright standards of U, channel or V shape in cross section curved or bent
longitudinally and formed with flat ends by which they are attached to top and.
bottom hoops substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 17th day of January 1890
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.