US106827A - Improved barrel - Google Patents

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Lette/rs Patent N Q 106,827, dated August 3i), 1 870.

/ IMPROVED BARREL.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

i,"To all 'whom it may conce-rn Beit known that I, GEORGE M. HUNTLY, of the city'ot Grand Rapids, county of Kent'and State of Michigan, have invented a new and improved Mode of Manufacturing Barrels for the Packing of Dry Material; and 1 do hereby declare that the following is a true, full, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my in vpcntionconsists in making har- 'y rels, and half audqnarter barrels, and kegs and casks,

for the purpose of packing dry material, with the ordinary bulge and chime of three wooden bands or sections, more or less, the middle of which bands or sections is larger than the end bands or sections, and all which sect-ions are banded and hooped, as hereinafter described, with four hoops around the circumference of said barrel, and three strips of strap' or hoop-iron outside oi' said bands or sections, ruiming lengthwise of said barrel, and .eqnidistant from each other,-for thepurpose of keeping said bands or sections together, and also for the -purpose of confining and fastening the heads of said barrel in their proper places.

To enable others to make and use my invention, I proceed to describe its construction, and refer to the drawing. Figure 1 is avien of a complete barrel, showing one of the' three longitudinal iron strips, f, on the outside, but passing under the iron hoops as designed to be used.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal half section of the barrel; showing the manner of construction andinsertion.

Figure 3 is an enlarged section of one sideA of said barrel.

K represents the three wooden bands or sections, the middle of which sections is enoughlarger than the end sections to admit the end sections within it two inches, more or less, and at the point there is a hoop fastened to the inside of the middle section, as a s top to the end sections.

On the outside of the barrel, at equidistant points,

are three pieces of band or hoop-iron, passing under' the hoop, and lengthwise 0f the barrel, and three or four inches longer than the barrel itself, as shown in iig. 1, which are used for the purpose of holding the barrel together longitudinally.

Said strips, marked j; are fastened at each end by heilig bent over the chime, and nailed through the same, or to the head, as shown at fig. 1.

The heads of said barrel aremade loosely fitting, of one or more pieces, and around the circumference thereof is a wooden hoop, to make a closely-'fitting head, and fastened to'said head, as shown at iig. 3, theupper edge of which hoop is dnsh and even with the chime of said barrel, and, when the head is insei-ted, forms a part of such chime.

On the outside of the barrel, on the ends ofthe middle sections, and on the chilne ends ofthe end sections, are strong hoops, of wood, o1' of bander hoopiron, for the purpose of strengthening said sections,v

and holding'the same in shape.l

C latin What IA claim as iny improvement in dry barrels made of three sections of bent timber is,-

Goniining the sections together by means of upright iron bauds orstraps, f, secured as shown, in combination with the head, constructedwith its inside hoop b and dnge a for its support, all as shown and described, for the purpose set forth.

GEORGE M. HUNTLY.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL D. CLAY, ALBERT H. KIMBALL.

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