US1493933A - Knockdown barrel - Google Patents

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j v N A. GIBBONS KNOCKDOWN BARREL Filed March 8 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 N. A. GIBBONS KNOCKDOWN BARREL Filed March 8, 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 "Patented May 13, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NATHAN ALLEN GIBBONS, OF MARTINS FERRY, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO. WHITAKER- GLESSNER COMPANY, OF WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA, A CORPORATION OF WEST VIRGINIA.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NATHAN ALLEN GIB- BONS, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Martins Ferry, county of 6 Belmont, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Knockdown Barrels, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates broadly to metallic- 1 barrels and similar containers, and more particularly to a barrel of collapsible, or knock-down, type.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive and improved 15 form of knock-down metallic barrel, the

same being conveniently set up and taken apart as occasion requires and, when. set up and closed, possessing great rigidity and strength.

A further object is to provide a barrel embodying staves of light sheet metal and having a detachable head and chime structure whereby said staves are supported and reinforced to the extent that they are maintained 2 rigidly against collapse.

With this and other objects in view, the invention resides in the features of construc= tion, arrangement of parts and combinations of elements which will hereinafter be de- 30 scribed, reference being had to'the accompanying drawings, in which- 7 Figure 1 is a perspective view of a barrel embodying my invention;

Figure 2 is a central vertical section of the as same; J

Figure 3 is a central horizontal section of the same;

Figure 4 is a perspective view of the chime;

Figure 5 is a perspective view of a stave;

Figure 6 is an enlarged detail section of a fragmentary portion of an end of the barrel with the head and chime in place;

Figure 7 is a plan view of the metal blank 45 from which the stave shown in Fig. 5 is formed;

Figure 8 is a perspective view of a modified form of stave;

Figure 9 is a plan view of the blank from ea which said modified stave is formed;

Figure 10 is an end view of the stave shown in Fig. 8;

posite ends of said body.

'in Fig. 7 in which the lateral edges 2 of the body 3 have a slight convex curvature extending from end'to end thereof, and in-- tegral tongues 4 of suitable reduced Width extend from the central portions .of the op- In the formation of he stave 1, the said lateral edges 2 of the blank are turned or bent outward and inward to form hook like flanges 5. Thus, when two staves are placed in abutting relation, as 'shown in Figs. 3 and 12,.the adjacent flanges or hooks 5 thereof are adapted to receive in interlocking relation thereto the op osite or reversely directed hooks 6 of lock having a length correspondlng to that of said hooks 5 and being 'slidable lengthwise along said hooks into and out of interlocking position.

The reduced tongues 1 have small outwardly pressed horizontal beads 7 formed therein at points substantially midway of their lengths, and the channel formed interiorly of the tongue in the production of said bead is designed to aline with the channels of ton ues of other staves employed in the formation of the barrel. whereby is constituted a, substantially continuous internal ing strips 6, said strips annular channel. at each end of the barrel.

Said channel is designed for the reception of an external annular head 8 pressed in the upright annular flange 9 ofa head 10 whereor chime 11 is fitted into embracing relation m1dlength of the latter. These to the tongues 4 and head flange 9, said chime being of saddle shape and having a plain vertical inner member 11 designed to closely seat against the internal face of the flange 9 and having the outer member 11 thereof designed to closely embrace the various tongues 4 for holding the latter firmly against said head flange, said outer member having a channel 12 pressed therein for the reception of the beads 7 of said tongues.

The chime 11 is of split ring form, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4. One of the ends of said ring or chime has the inner member 11 thereof prolonged to form a tongue 13 which, when said chime is seated in place, projects between the members 11" and 11 of the opposite end and has a bolt hole 14 provided therein located in register with similar holes 15- provided in alined relation in said members. A small stove bolt 16 introduced through the alined holes will not only retain the chime ends in closed relation, but will also cooperate with one or more additional suitable located bolts 17 for retaining said chime and the head 10 in their seated positions. Said bolts 17, as also the bolt 16, are also directed through holes 18 and 19 provided, respectively, in the intermediate head-flange 9 and stave-tongue 4, as is shown in Fig. 6.

In the formation of the modified stave shown in'Figs. 8, l0 and 11, a straight edged blank body 3? is employed, and the end portions of said blank are rendered slightly tapered in form by the provision of suitably formed corrugations 20 extending from the opposite ends of the stave to points near the corrugations are turned over and flattened inthe form of crimps 21 in the tongue portions 4 of the stave, somewhat in the manner shown in What is claimed is- 1. A sheet-metal barrel comprising staves having lateral outwardly turned hook-like flanges, locking strips having lateral inturned flanges interlocking the flanges of adjacent staves, said strips being slidable lengthwise into and out of interlocking relation to said stave-flanges, each stave having form a tongue and the tongues of said staves having horizontal outwardly pressed beads formed therein whereby is constituted an internal annularchanne'l, a head having an upright annular flange fitted closely within the embrace of said tongues, said flange having an outwardly pressed bead for seating in said channel, a saddle-like chime fitted over and embracing said tongues and the head flanges, the outer member of said chime being channeled interiorly to conformably fit upon the beads of said tongues and means detachably securing said chime in position.

2. A sheet-metal barrel comprising staves having lateral outwardly turned hooklike flanges, locking strips having lateral inturned flanges interlocking the flanges of adjacent staves, said strips being slidable lengthwise into and out of interlocking relation to said stave-flanges, each stave having its end reduced in form a tongue and the tongues of said staves having horizontal outwardly pressed beads formed therein whereby is constituted an internal annular channel, a head having an upright annular flange fitted closely within the embrace of said tongues, said flange hav- 1ng an outwardly pressed bead for seating in said channel, a saddle-like chime fitted over and embracing said tongues and the head flanges, the outer member of said chime being channeled interiorly to conform-ably fit upon the beads of said tongues, said chime being of split-ring form and having a tongue at one end thereof for fitting between the inner and outer members of the opposite end thereof, and detachable means for securing said chime in its seated position.

3. A sheet-metal barrel comprising staves having lateral outwardly turned hook-like flanges, turned flanges interlocking the flanges of adjacent staves, said strips being slidable lengthwise into and out of tion to said stave-flanges, its end reduced in width and prolon ed to form a tongue and the tongues 0 said staves having horizontal outwardly pressed beads formed therein whereby is constituted an internal annular channel, a head having each stave having width and prolonged to v locking strips having lateral in interlocking relaan upright annular flange fitted closely fitting between the inner and outer members its end reduced in width and prolonged to NATHAN ALLEN GIBBON S. WVitnesses:

H. E. DUNLAP, M. T. MANION.

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