A METHOD OF AND APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE SEALING OF THE JOINTS IN METALLIC CASKS AND OTHER SIMILAR VESSELS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Benjamin Noakes and Frederic John Wood, of
Spa Road, in the County of Surrey, Metal Cask Manufacturers, for
the Invention of "A METHOD OF AND APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE
SEALING OF THE JOINTS IN METALLIC CASKS AND OTHER SIMILAR VESSELS."
Sealed the 1st December 1857, and dated the 12th June 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Benjamin Noakes and
Frederic John Wood at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 12th June 1857.
We, BENJAMIN NOAKES and FREDERIC JOHN WOOD, of Spa Road, in the
County of Surrey, Metal Cask Manufactures, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "A METHOD OF AND APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN
THE SEALING OF THE JOINTS IN METALLIC CASKS AND OTHER SIMILAR VESSELS," to
be as follows:-
Our Invention consists in sealing the joints (principally the side joints) of
metallic casks with metal in a molten state, contained in a bath or vessel
fitted with a grating or gauge, which is slung or retained at such a distance
from the bottom of the bath, and the level of the metal maintained at such.
a height, that the joint to be sealed shall descend sufficiently into the metal
to receive the necessary coating, while the grating or gauge supports the body
of the cask.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Benjamin Noakes and Frederic John Wood in the Great
. Seal Patent Office on the 12th December 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, BENJAMIN
NOAKES and FREDERIC JOHN WOOD, of Spa Road, in the County of Surrey,
Metal Cask Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Benjamin Noakes and Fredetic John Wood, Her special licence
that we, the said Benjamin Noakes and Frederic John Wood, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Benjamin Noakes
and Frederic John Wood, 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 "A
METHOD OF AND APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE SEALING OF THE JOINTS IN
METALLIC CASES AND OTHER SIMILAR VESSELS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Benjamin Noakes and Frederic John Wood, or one
of us, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our,
or their, or one of our or 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 Benjamin Noakes and Frederic John
Wood, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
Drawings hereunto annexed, that is to say:-
Our Invention consists in sealing the side joints of metallic casks with
metal in a molten state, contained in a bath or vessel, fitted with a grating
or gauge,
which is supported or retained at such a distance from the bottom
of the bath, and the level of the metal 'maintained at such a height, that the
joint to be sealed shall descend sufficiently into the metal to receive the
necessary coating, while a grating or gauge supports the body of the cask.

page_text: The form of the apparatus employed for carrying our Invention into effect
may be varied, but we prefer the following arrangement:―
Figure 1 of the Drawings hereunto annexed is a view in plan of the appa-
ratus; Figure 2 is a longitudinal section through the line a, b; and Figure 3
is a transverse section through the line c, d. The same letters indicate similar
parts in the three Figures.
A is a pit, bath, or vessel formed with a flange B on its upper part; C is
a grating or gauge, which is supported or retained in the pit or bath A by
means of the tongues or supports e, e. For sealing the joint of a metallic
cask by means of this apparatus molten metal is poured into the pit, bath, or
vessel A until it slightly covers the grating C. The joint of the cask is then
placed on the grating C, and the molten metal completely surrounds and seals
the joint. The cask is then removed, and the coating of molten metal allowed
to dry or harden. The metal in the bath is kept in a molten state for sealing
a number of casks successively by means of any suitable heating apparatus
placed beneath the bath.
And having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same may be performed, we declare that we claim, the method
of sealing the side joints or joints in the bodies of metallic casks with metal
in a molten state, by means of a bath or pit with a grating or gauge to support
the cask, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Benjamin Noakes and Frederic John
Wood, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twelfth day of
December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-seven.