US1272739A - Device for rolling cylindrical bodies. - Google Patents

Description

E. WALTER.

DEVlCE FOR R'OLLlNG CYLINDRICAL BODIES.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 5. x911.

1,272,739; Patented July 16,1918,

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27 I o fi I a BY J} 7 ZTTORNEY.

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E NEST WALTER, OF BELLEVILLE, NEW JERSEY, AssienoR r0 vERoNA CHEMICAL COMPANY, or NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION or NEW ERSEY.

DEVIGE FOR'ROLLING CYLINDRICAL BODIES.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST VVALTER, a citizen of the United States, and a. resident of Belleville, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Rolling Cylindrical Bodies, of which the following is a specification,

This invention relates to a devicefor rolling barrels and is adapted for use in plants and establishments where cylindrical bodies,

such as barrels, drums, tanks andthe like,: are moved about both empty and filled, and sometimes for comparatively, long hauls where the places in the plant from and to which the barrels must be moved are separated by a considerable distance. It is customary at present to either roll the barrel along the ground by manual labor, which is somewhat intermittent and slow and requires considerable labor, another way being to use acarriage heavy enough to support a barrel or drum and rolling the barrel by means of skids oran inclined way onto the carriage. This also requires considerable manual labor, taking usually two or three men in case of a full barrel, and more in the case of larger sized drums which are-filled with liquid. These above described methods at present in use are expensive and slow.

My invention relates to a device which moves the barrel without lifting it from the ground and that provides means for its steady rolling, since the force is applied by means of the device so that the friction is minimized and the rolling of the barrel is thus made steady and comparatively quick.

The invention is further designed to pro-. vide a device of this-kind which is easily portable, not being necessarily strong enough or heavy enough to support a barrel, but be- .ing in turn supported by the barrel when it is in place and acting to prevent any material relative movement between the carriage and the barrel wh1le the carriage or frame is in position on the barrel.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this kind in which the rollers that engage the barrel, when the device is on the barrel, can also be used for supporting the device so that it can be easily rolled along the ground when the device is not on the barrel. V v v The invention is adapted for wooden bar- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 16, 1918.

Application filed January 5, 1917. Serial No. 140,676.

to a barrel, but this is simply for thepurA pose of making the description clear, since the devicecan be used on any form of cylindrical body that is to be moved along the ground by'rolling it without necessarily lifting it.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which one embodiment of the invention is shown, it being understood, however, that different forms of the device may be used and the parts differently disposed to bring about the same result, but the embodiment that is illustrated shows one of the preferred forms of the device. I

In said drawing, Figure 1 is a plan view of one form of frame, the view illustrating the frame in place on a barrel, and Fig. 2 is a side view of the construction illustrated in Fig. 1.

The device primarily consists of a carriage or frame that is constructed with rollers to minimize the friction between the device and the barrel when the device is placed over a barrel; The device when on a barrel being preferably suspended from contact with the ground and having means thereon whereby the barrel, or other cylindrical body on which the device is supported, can be" moved. In the form shown the frame comprises side portions or members, these side portions each having a beam 10 which is a draft beam in the form illustrated, the side portions having means for supporting an upper roller or rollers, such means, in the form shown, consisting of brackets on each side portion, each bracket comprising an inclined beam 11 and a substantially vertical beam 12,, thus providing a triangular side portionwhich, with the opposite triangular sideportion, provides a means for supporting several of the rollers. The rollers 1.3 and the rollers 14, are fixed in the sense that they are arranged in the frame so that they have no movement relative to each other, these rollers being arranged re against in oi einent on the axles by suitable be readily seen that when the frame is pulled by suitable traction ineans the draft be sleeper the br'aielie't supported thereonp'us on t11 eterre1u1reu 1i the axles and the rollers' aforesaid and the barrel i's'ir'o lled along the" greund; since this pressure" free 7 the roll-ere 13 and 14' is appliecrjir rear of beams 10- riitge" 011' a barrel;

the point of rolling Contact 18 of tlieb'arirl 19. grl'ny suitable means for' sieving, the device Cairbe e1'ep1e' ed;,man ower 'beifi g used? ifthe case of small barrels, but in the case the larger cylindrical bodies, hoise is 7 preferably employed" which 7 can" be l 2 13t tachedby suitable harness, the; i iewfilli' .trating Strands 20' connected by riirge zi this the draft beams 10, but. any other forrii of 't achmnt can be"u'sfed, as will beuii'der stood;

"To permit a meter that is being moved forward? to be stopped, toproyide ftiri' may h1g a barrel backward; amtalso .to' 'preiride apassive meansfor holding the-"oer; and as" a still setter-- means fb'r pr'o idiiig for-"theremoiialiand installation. of the" defiiie on a" barrel; I re- \'%i a third sever rollers Q2,the reners 2'2" being ar-r-a-liged tolerate freely on a r exit 23', which axle is-adjiis'table so that the dis tance between the rollers 13, 14 and- 22 cm? Varied so as'to fit different sizes of bar leis. On to adjustmentassume,this emprieing perforations 24 in the" draft which; in; the re-rm stews,- made of h n; these erferanens tie-'- (if-them adapteerto'reeeirerh e1 l0 23 cl/Cblliif and it pi'fi Zfib used te preventfian slit me emefit themxle "mi heperforatioi is' 24 Wheni th 1 611ers' 2-2'e1-e to -bemoved to ermitthe" device to he either ut on" or takerrfromj barrel, or tofprovjide'an adjustntre'ijit for :15 diff ent size of barrel, the' 'ends"of the draft 1eemu-s-1'0 airejslightly sprung apart after the pin 26has been removed, this springinfg bef in}: sufficient to clear the endsfofthe axle 23', then the e'an'b'e moved in'toany of "the I holesQlfzindf after the" axle is fitted. in th'e proper hole the i draft beams 10 are permit ted to resume theirioriginal positions, the pin 261i's replaeed 1n the" position shown' 'm' the drawing,- and the"ad -uStment'is completer I t-willthus be readily'seenthat the rollers and 14:; can-'be used: to provider trae-tioir f-or'the device whenit. is iiot on a barrbh; all; the; rollers-ti of. the-- devieegvhoweverg eooperttiiig are supporting: the device these functions.

bear on. the barre of itStIOlllllg point; of contact with the ground, provide a means for bringing about Many different v forms of device can be uncle-without departin from the scope of the invention, but the form shown embodies features of advantage,"the'axlesi this e' eervi'ngto" eoiihec't and so toseparate he siee frames"- or oi-tiers;- permetglitrl the rel ably at? niits ev erewnig ojnithe serew tlireade d ends 28* of the axles 15* rea m,

The number of rollers on varied; but" I prefer to arrange-"tween ejaeh as shown being sep' rated far enough tdn'raheiteas the 'dir'eetion of' the b ellsligl 1 causei't to turn a *ei gpossible oir aeeount of the independent mot come this;

fixed axle, a second axle I o'nathe-side'beamsr and adjustable toward and fronfiithe i'fixed" axle, and rollefs onl-tlie adjustable axle Ade ice forrollingbarrelscomprising-- r-frame havingdraft beams at the sides,- brackets" on the draft? beams,- rollers supported from the draft meme-meme braele etsj-the side beainsbeihgperforated, an axle removable from= the p erforations,-- rollers on the removable axle, and means for fastening the. removable aide in; the perforhti (ins;

3; device for rollin flbarfelsfomprising a' .ffitlfie" having; draft" heams at' the sides,

brackets on the; draft beams-rollers; supported! fronritlie draft-beams and the braele et's fi the side: beams beingperforated and adapted to slightly sprung apart}, a re movable mile; in the pe-r fbra ti onsf, rollersoh the removable axle, and means for securing the axle into "plaicev and the" beams against sprin g'ing; 1 Y

4; A: device, for rolling barrels eomprisi iig aframe provided "at" its forward" ejndj' with an; ax-lo and a pair of rollers; I on" said axle, and provided afl'itS rearward eiidwith an axle ands a pairof rollers) thereon, the axle of the forward pair of; rollers being adjustabletoii'ard and aeivayfroni the rear axle,'and rollers on said frame receivedabo ethe first arid secondsetsofr0ller-s,-all o'f saidrollers being adapted 'to en gage barrel by the periphery thereof and to reeeive the barrel bodily, therebetween: 1

on of each" I i filler; on" its" o. A device for rolling barrels comprising adapted to engage a barrel by the periphery a frame provided at its forward end With thereof and to receive the barrel bodily an axle and a pair of rollers on said axle, therebetween. 10 and provided at its rearward end with an In testimony that I claim the foregoing, axle and a pair of rollers thereon, and rollers I hereto set my hand, this 2nd day of J anuon said frame received above the first and ary, 1917.

second sets of rollers, all of said rollers being ERNEST WALTER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0. r

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