US1080825A - Metal barrel. - Google Patents

Description

Patented Dec. 9, 1913.

GEORGE G. FRYER. OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORIL METAL BARREL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 9,1913.

Application filed January 3, 1912. Serial No. (569,248.

To all whom, it may concern:

.Be it known that 1, Gannon G. Fnrnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Syracuse. in the county of Onondaga and State of Xew York. hare invented certain new and useful linprovenn-nts in Metal Barrels, oi. which the following is a specificainptied.

The object of my invention is to provide a sheet metal barrel which. while being as conrcnie a nd suitable for the 1 uses to which such barrels are generally applied as those heretot'orc made. shall be free from the above stated detects. To this end I. in the first instance,

wake the barrel body in two parts, each of which preferably forms one half of the barrel. which are joined together on its central circumference to make the completed barrel body. lly reason of this manner of construction the two halves of the barrel may be spun out so that the completed barrel' shall be of a bilged shape instead of being in the form of a cylindrical drum as heretofore. T also provide means for securing the two parts of the barrel body together to make a complete container and such means may, as in the preferred form hereina't'ter described. present a narrow bearing surface upon which the barrel may be easily turned when rolled from place to place even tl'iough it be made in the form of a cylinder.

My invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings illustrating an embodiment thereof. Figure l or which shows an elevation of a barrel body with its two parts joined together by a connecting band. which is shown as partly broken away. Fig. 2 shows a section of a part of the shell of the barrel and the conn cting band on the line Q-2 Fig; 1; Fig. 3 shows a portion of the two halves of the barrel bod with the connecting band ready to he put. in place: Fig. 4 is a plan view of a portion of the barrel body on its central circumference, showing the two halves joined together; Fig. 5-is an elevation showing a portion of a circumferential band with connecting lun's tl'iereon; Figs. 6 and 7 show correspondin; parts of the two halves of the barrel ho 5 with lugs thereon adapted to engage with corresponding lugs on the circumferential band; Fig. 8 is an elevation of parts of the. two halves of the barrel showing in detail a modfied means of attaching lugs thereto.

Refe ring to the drawings. A. A, indicate the two halves of a barrel body. Each of these is provided with a head, B, forming the usual barrel heads. and is of such size and shape that when the open ends of the two parts are placed together they will form complete barrel body with a central circumferential division. The parts. A, A are made of sheet metal and are preferably spun out in the process of manufacturing. or otherwise treated in a manner that will be well understood by those skilled in the art, so that they are larger at their open than at their closed ends, and thus the barrel body formed by putting them together is of bilged shape. i. 6., larger on its central circumference than at its ends.

Each of the parts. A. A. is provided along its edge with a series of lugs or projections. a. a, so shaped that when they are .put together in pairs as shown in Figs. 1

and 3, they form a series of wedge shaped lugs or projections around the central circumference of the barrel. I

C. indicates a metal band arranged to surround the barrel on its central circumference and provided interiorly with projecting lugs c. 0. arranged in pairs. The lugs, c, c, of each pair are so spaced apart as to provide between them a space into which a pair of the lugs. a. a. on the barrel body may be driven and closely fitted.

In assembling the two parts, A, A, to form a barrel body their open ends are placed together edge to edge. so that the lugs a. o. are assembled in pairs. The band is then put in place around t-he'centcr of the barrel. the space between each pair of lugs. c. c. being: opposite a corresponding pair 0 the lugs. a. a. and the band C is then turned so that the lugs. a. 11 enter and are closely held between the lugs. o, o. In this mannor the two halves of the barrel are closely drawn and locked together. and thus held from separation. The accidental turning of the band, C, in the opposite direction with consequent separation of the parts, A, A,

may be prevented by the'insertion of any suitable wedge as a piece of strap iron, 1), inside the band, C, and between the interlocked lugs on the band and the barrel. VVhenthe barrel is emptied the parts, A, A,

may be separated by turning the band, C,

band also provides anarrow bearing upon which the barrel can easily be turned in rolling it from place to place.

In Fig. 8, which shows a part-of each half of the barrel at its central circumference, 1 have illustrated a modified and preferred means of attaching the lugs a, a, to the barrel. In this case the lugs, a, a, are attached to rolled steelbands, A A, which are attached to the two halves of the barrel, as by riveting, adjacent the central circumferential seam. These bands can be rolled out in lengths and then cut and Welded together to form the bands and the lugs can be struck up in the process of rolling or spot welded to the bands as may be desired.

It will be understood that the means for securing the parts of the barrel together may be largely modified in ways that will readily occur to those skilled the art, with out departing from the spirit of my invention which is not limited to the exact form of locking device illustrated in the drawings.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent i5:

1. The combination with a metal barrel, formed in separated halves, of a band secured to each half adjacent the central circumterence of the barrel, lugs on said bands arranged to be joined in pairs when the barrel sections are together and a circumferential band provided with separated lugs between; which thesaid first mentioned lugs sections a series oilugs secured to the two sections of the barrel adJacent their joining edges and arranged to be oined in pairs to form wedge-shaped members when the barrel sections are together and a circumferential band rotatablenpon the barrel and provided with separated lugs between which th first mentioned pairs of lugs are adapted to be engaged by the rotation of the band.

3. in a metal barrel made in separable sections, the combination of a series of lugs secured to the two sections of the barrel adacent their ]O1111ng edges and arranged 'to be joined in pairs when the barrel sections are together, a circumferential band prorided with separated lugs between which the first mentioned pairs of lugs are adapted. to be engaged by a rotary movement ofthe band and means-for preventing the rotation of the bandonthe barrel when the sections thereof are engaged.

4. In a metal barrel composed of separable sections the combination of a circumferential band adapted to surround the exterior arranged to engage in said slots when the' barrel sections are together.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, this 26th day of December A. 33., 1911. I

' enonen o. Ferns.

lVitnesses FRED Pi. HER'rzoG, JOHN THUnwAcH'rER.

Copies oithis patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of latenta,

. Washington, D. G.

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