IMPROVEMENTS IN HOOPS FOR HOOPING CASKS, BARRELS, AND SUCH LIKE ARTICLES
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Reid, of Lee, in the County of Kent, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN HOOPS FOR HOOPING CASKS, BARRELS, AND
SUCH LIKE ARTICLES."
Sealed the 1st November 1860, and dated the 4th May 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Reid at tho Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 4th May
1860.
I, HENRY REID, of Lec, in the County of Kent, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN HOOPS FOR HOOPING CASKS,
BARRELS, AND SUCH LIKE ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
My improvements in hoops for hooping casks, barrels, and such like articles
consists in manufacturing such hoops of wire. For this purpose the wire, after
being cut into a suitable length, is fastened together at the ends by being welded,
twisted, or tied so as to form a perfect hoop. The hoops may be held on the
casks or other articles by means of staples, or they may be heated and shrunk
on in position.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Reid in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 3rd
November 1860.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Henry Reid, Her special licence that I, the said Henry Reid, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Reid, my
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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN HOOPS FOR
HOOPING CASES, BARRELS, AND SUCH LIKE ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Henry. Reid, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument . 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 inonths:
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Reid, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-.
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings, and
to the figures or letters marked thereon (that is to say) :-
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My improvements in hoops for hooping casks, barrels, and such like articles
consist in manufacturing the said hoops from iron, steel, brass, or copper wire
and nail rod of either a square, round, oval, triangular, or rectangular section,
by which means they can be made more economically, and also very much
stronger than hoops have heretofore been made for such purposes. Any size.
of wire, from No. 0 to 24, Birmingham wire guage, or any smaller size,.is,
suitable for the purpose. The wire or nail rod may be used singly or twisted
in strands, but in either case should ¡bo cut to the required lengths very
exactly preparatory to being connected at the ends to form a hoop. I find by
experience that the best mode of connecting the ends of wire, the size of which
is from No.. 0 to 12, Birmingham wire gunge, is to weld the same together.
Wires in thickness from No. 12 to 24, or smaller sizes, are too small to be
advantageously welded, but can be readily tied at their ends. The best form
of knot is that known as the sheet bend, correct Drawings of which are shewn
at Figures 1 and 2 in the Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed.
Another mode of connecting the ends of the wire is to solder the same.

page_text: together, and this mode is applicable for wire of any thickness, but soldering
the ends is less expeditious than welding or tying of the same. When iron
wire or nail rod is used for making the said hoops the same may be galvanized
to prevent oxidation. In hooping, the said hoops can be made to hold very
securely if first heated, so as to shrink on the cask in position, or in the case
of hoops with tied ends by turning the ends of the wire (which must be left
sufficiently long for the purpose) through small holes pierced in one of the
staves, and then twisting them together on the inside of the stave or cask.
Casks, barrels, and such like articles hooped with hoops made as above
described have a much neater appearance, and will be considerably stronger
than when hooped with wooden or flat iron hoops, as heretofore.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of the said
Invention for "Improvements in Hoops for Hooping Casks, Barrels, and such
like Articles," and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried
into effect, I would have it understood that what I consider to be novel and
original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein-
before in part recited Letters Patent, is the manufacture of hoops from iron,
steel, brass, or copper, wire and nail rod for the purposes herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Reid, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Witness,
W. H. BOWERS,
71, Fleet Street,
London.
HENRY REID. (L.S.)