US1386430A - Device for securing hoops on casks, barrels, tubs, and other receptacles - Google Patents

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I. F. C. SCHAFFNER.

DEVICE FOR SECURING HOOPS 0N CASKS, BARRELS, TUBS, AND OTHER RECEPTACLES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 6.1914.

Patented Aug. 2, 1921.

- ,.,ff JFCSc/laffner IIII UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH FERNAND CLEMENT SGHAFFNER, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

DEVICE FOR SECURING HOOPS 0N CASKS, BARRELS, TUBS, .AND OTHER RECEPTACLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 2, 1921.

Application filed. June 6, 1914. Serial No. 843,513. (GRANTED UNDER THE PROVISIONS 0F THE ACT 0F MARGH 3, 1921, 41 STAT. L., 1313.)

To all whom t may concern.'

l Be it known that I, JOSEPH FERNAND CLE- MENT SCHAFFNER, a citizen of the French Republic, residing at 4L Rue de Lille, Paris, France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Securing Hoops on Casks, Barrels, Tubs, and other Receptacles, (for which I have filed applications in England, 592, dated J an. 8, 1914;, and in France, 78,285, dated Sept. 18, 1913,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a device intended for securing hoops on casks, barrels, tubs, and other' receptacles and consisting substantially of a metal plate adapted to be placed under the hoops and in which incisions and cuttings have been made so as to form tongues, the ends of which can be folded over the hoops or rolled around into pads, so as to secure the hoops iirmly on the casks or the like.

These hoop-retaining plates have in cross-section preferably the form of a segment of a circle so that when they are applied they do not cause any appreciable deformation of the hoops which are on the casks, barrels or the like.

In the accompanying drawing, given by way of example,

Figure 1 shows one of the forms of construction of the hoop-retaining plate.

Fig. 2 is a transverse section thereof.

Fig. 3 is a partial transverse section of a cask, provided with a hoop-retaining"1 plate of rectangular section.

Fig. l is a similar section with a plate, the sectional form of which is that of a segment of a circle.

Fig. 5 represents a tub furnished with hoop-retaining plates.

Fig. 6 represents a barrel with hoop-re taining plates.

The hoop-retaining7 plate according to Fig. 1 has a series of longitudinal incisions a made in the middle of the plate and of lateral eXcisions Z2, so as to form tongues d, the ends c of which may be curved. The eXcisions Z9 are made alternately on the two edges of the plate, so that the tongues l appear likewise alternately on the two sides. The tongues Z in the upper half o f the plate moreover, run in an opposite direction to that in which those in the lower half run. This arrangement enables a large number of tongues Z to be formed on the plate, without its being necessary to make the plate wider, this width being the same over the whole length of the plate.

In applying the plates to a tub (Fig. 5) or to a cask (Fig. 6) the plates are passed under the hoops the ends c are then folded over the latter which are thus secured so as to be immovable. Two diametrically opposite plates are generally sufficient.

It will be observed that for the threehoop tub shown in Fig. 5 a half plate is suiiicient while the cask shown in Fig. 6 requires an entire plate such as is seen in Fig. l, with tongues el of the upper half running in a direction opposite to that of the tongues in the lower half.

The ends of the plates are folded over toward the interior of the Cask and are fixen to the inner edges of the staves by means of a nail or a screw, which completely prevents the plates from slipping sidewise.

It is easy to see that the hoops can be tightened or loosened without however being able to move of themselves.

The cross-sectional form of the plates is that of a segment of a circle, as shown in Fig. 2.

In consequence of this, the plate placed under the hoops does not cause any appreciable deformation of the latter, as will be seen from Fig. 4, while if the section were square shape as in Fig. 3, the hoops might be deformed. 4

What I claim and desire to secure by Iletters Patent is A device for securing hoops on casks and the like, comprising a plate with simple incisions made along the central longitudinal line, and excisions which unite the incisions with the edges of the plate so as to form tongues alternately on the two sides of the plate.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH FERNAND CLEMENT SCHAFFNER.

Titnessesz I-IANsoN C. Coxn, CHABLns FABER.

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