appar and hooping and chiming and crozing trussed
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 26th June, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 25th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 4th May, 1889
I CHARLES WIGG of Walmer Buildings Water Street Liverpool in the county of
Lancaster Alkali Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
The object is to simplify and render more effective machinery or apparatus for
closing and setting up staves and hooping and chiming and crozing trussed staves.
Under the first part I construct apparatus for setting up staves with a circular
frame having a central aperture to contain the staves to be placed in position on the
frame.
Under the second part for closing staves after they have been set up I employ a
rope or chain secured to a suitable standard passed around the staves to be closed and
tightened by means of screw and nut gear.
Under the third part I hoop trussed staves by means of adjustable catches secured
to chains or ropes the said chains or ropes pass through slots in a table which carries
the set up staves and have motion imparted to them by hydraulic or suitable power.
Under the fourth part I combine a horizontal rotating table with adjustable holders
and a vertical adjustable tool carrier for chiming and crozing casks.
Dated this 5th day of Inne 1888

page_text: w trussed Staves to DC nooped.
suitablo power.
Motion is given to the said catches by nyaraune or
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a view part in elevation and part in section, fig. 2 a plan, fig. 3 a view of
the base, and fig. 4 an enlarged view of the catches all of machinery or apparatus
under my invention. 1 base plate. 2 top plate. 3 columns extending from the base
plate to the top plate and bolted or otherwise secured thereto. 4 chains or ropes
attached to the crosshead 5 and passing over pulleys 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, L1 to weights 12.
For convenience the chains or ropes pass from the pulleys 7 to 8 through the
columns 3. The pulleys are carried in bearings 13 free to slide in slots 14 in
the base plate 1, set bolts or equivalent devices 15 being provided for securing
the said bearings in position. 16 are catches secured in position on the chains or
ropes by means of clips 17 and locking devices such as bolts and nuts or their
equivalents. 18 spindle formed with a screw thread and attached to the cross-
lead 5 so as to be free to rotate. The said spindle is free to slide through a
bearing 19 on the top plate 2 and fits into a nut 20 carried by the standards 21
secured to the top plato 2. 22 worm wheel keyed to the shaft 18 so that the said
shaft is forced to turn with the said wheel but is free to move and wise theroin. The
said worm wheel is carried in bearings secured to the said standard 21. 23 worm for
giving motion to the worm wheel 22. The said worm is carried on a shaft 24 free to
rotate in bearings carried by standards 25 on the top plate 2. 26 friction pulley on
the shaft 24 genring with a friction wheel 27 on the shaft 28. The shaft 28 is
carried in a fixed bearing 29 and a movable bearing 30. 31 lever and connections
for giving to and fro motion to the bearings 30 so that the friction wheel 27 may be
brought into and moved out of contact with the pulley 26. 32 fast and loose driving
pulleys on the shaft 28 for giving reverse motion thereto by means of straight lend
and crossed belts in the usual manner. 33 set up and closed staves to be hooped.
34 hoops.

page_text: When set up closed staves are to be hooped such staves are placed centrally on
the bottom plate 1, the pulleys 9 are adjusted in the slots 14 the required distance
from the centre, and the catches 16 are secured in the requisite position on the
chains or ropes, the hoop is placed over the edges of the staves and the crosshead is
depressed by throwing the friction pulleys 6 and 7 into gear and the catches are
drawn down so as to force the hoops onto the staves. The motion of the friction
pulleys is then reversed and the crosshead is raised so that the weights 12 draw the
catches back to their origina! position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is.
Machinery or annaratus for hooping set up and closed staves substantially as set