IMPROVEMENTS IN MANUFACTURING METALLIC HOOPS FOR CASKS OR OTHER WOODEN VESSELS OF UTENSILS, AND IN MACHINERY THEREFOR
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Poole, of 31, Riley Street, Chelsea, in the
County of Middlesex, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MANUFACTURING METALLIC HOOPS FOR CASKS OR OTHER WOODEN VESSELS OF
UTENSILS, AND IN MACHINERY THEREFOR."
Sealed the 26th July 1867, and dated the 28th January 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Poole at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 28th January
1867.
I, JOHN POOLE, of 31, Riley Street, Chelsea, in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MANUFACTURING METALLIC HOOPS FOR CASES OR OTHER WOODEN VESSELS
OR UTENSILS, AND IN MACHINERY THEREPOR," to be as follows:-
My Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of metallic
hoops for casks and other vessels and utensils, and consists, first, in making
the said hoops without joint or rivetted lap, and in the required coned or
tapering or splayed form; secondly, in forming such jointless hoops with one
side flat and the other concave or convex, or with a corrugated belt or pro-
jection, or with one edge thicker than the other, and also rolling hoop iron
having any of the transverse sections above described (except the corrugated
form), or with the ordinary section in curve so that when jointed and riveted

page_text: up it will form a cone-shaped or splayed hoop; and, lastly, of a machine
having fixed or loose rollers adjustable so that their axles may incline one to
the other for giving the necessary splay to a plain cylindrical hoop, and also
easing and expanding the jointless or other hoops above mentioned for or by
the compers.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Poole in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th July
1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
POOLE, of 31, Riley Street, Chelsea, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Poole, Her special licence that I, the said John Poole,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
John Poole, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MANUFACTURING METALLIC HOOPS FOR CASKS OR OTHER WOODEN VESSELS OR
UTENSILS, AND IN MACHINERY THEREFOR," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said John Poole, my executors or adininistrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of 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 I, the said John Poole, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :-
My Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of metallic
hoops for casks and other vessels and utensils, and consists, 1st, in making

page_text: the said hoops entire without joint or rivetted lap and of the required coned,
tapered, or splayed form in manner following:-I pass iron already rolled
flat between three suitable rollers having their axes equidistant or nearly so,
which bend the metal into a cylindrical hoop or ring; it is then to be welded
together and afterwards heated and passed between two rollers of the shape
required.
2ndly, in forming the jointless hoops above described with one side flat
and the other concave or convex, or with a corrugated belt or projection, or
with one edge thicker than the other.
And, 3rdly, in rolling boop iron having any of the transverse sections
above described (except the corrugated form), or with the ordinary section
and curves, so that when jointed and rivetted up it will form a cone-shaped
or splayed hoop.
And, lastly, my Invention also consists in the construction of a machine
for effecting the above objects. For this purpose, in a bearing frame of
suitable construction I mount two rollers, their shafts or roller axles resting
in slots or grooves in the said frame; these slots are of sufficient size to
give the shafts or axles sufficient play, so that the same may be raised or
lowered therein, inclining one towards the other as may be found necessary
for giving the required splay or turn to the iron band or hoop. In order to
allow the endless hoop or ring to be put on and taken off with facility
the ends of the rolls are fixed so as to project and work outside of the
frames.
Having thus described the nature and object of my said Invention I hereby
further declare that I do not absolutely confine myself to the manufacture of
wrought metal boops of the shapes herein described, as the said Invention
may be applied to hoops formed of an alloy by casting; neither do I confine
myself to the precise form of machinery herein described, as the same way
require to be varied in practice.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Poole, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of July, One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-seven.
JOHN POOLE. (L.S.)