Improvements in Hoops for the Bottom Edges of Milk Churns and other Vessels used for the Carriage of Milk and other Liquids on Railways and Elsewhere.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 9th May, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 10th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 10th Mar., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hoops for the Bottom Edges of Milk Churns and
other Vessels used for the Carriage of Milk and other Liquids on
Railways and Elsewhere.
WILLIAM SMITH 23 Salisbury Street Marylebone in the County of London
Dairy Utensil Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as.
follows:-
My invention relates to the strengthening of the bottom hoops of milk churns
and other vessels, and to provide a hoop that will stand the wear and tear of
railway and other work, and also to provide a round bottom edge for rolling and an
edge that will not cut up floorings &c. The hoop will be made in cast, cast
maleable and wrought iron. The top edge of the hoop will be thin increasing in
thickness down a bevel on the inside; on the outside the hoop will be perpendicular
to the depth of the bevel on the inside then it inclines outwards bell shaped.
increasing in thickness forming a round edge on the bottom.
Dated this 9th day of May 1893.
WILLIAM SMITH.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hoops for the Bottom Edges of Milk Churns and
other Vessels used for the Carriage of Milk and other Liquids on.
Railways and Elsewhere.
WILLIAM SMITH 23, Salisbury Street Marylebone N.W. Dairy Utensil
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:-
My invention relates to the strengthening the bottom hoops of milk churns and
other vessels, and to provide a hoop that will stand the wear and tear of railway
and other work, and also to provide a hoop that will not break and double under
the bottom, and also to provide a good round edge for rolling, and an edge that
will not cut up flooring &c. The hoop will be made in cast iron, cast malleable
iron, and wrought iron. The top edge of the hoop will be thin increasing in
thickness down a bevel on the inside of the hoop, on the outside the hoop
will be almost perpendicular, to the depth of the bevel on the inside, then the hoop
inclines outwards, bell shaped increasing in thickness to the bottom forming a round
edge.
Figure 1 of my drawing represents a section of my hoop. The bottom of the
churn or other vessel is fitted into the bevel of the hoop and comes down to about
the line A A. B B represents the round edge of the hoop which comes into contact
with the ground.
Figure 2 represents the hoop as seen from the top edge D D and is explained by
the lines carried from Figure 1 to Figure 2.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. The use of a hoop for the bottom of milk. churns and other vessels as

page_text: aforesaid so shaped and fitted to the churn or vessel that on the latter being
dropped at an angle or rolled along the ground at an angle the hoop will bear
the weight and strain without bending or breaking inwards towards its centre
or being driven up the side of or into and perforating the churn or other vessel.
Dated this 9th day of January 1894.
WILLIAM SMITH,
23, Salisbury Street, Marylebone, N.W.