US295516A - Hoop-nailing machine - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.) A. G. BATOJHELLBR.

4 H001? NAILING MAHINE. NQ.`Z95,516. Patented Mar. 25, 1884.

UNITED STATES PATENT @Erica ANDREW c. BATCHELLER, oF-BAY CITY, MICHIGAN.

HOOP-NAILING MACHINE.

SPECPICATION forming-part of Letters Patent No.1295,5l6, dated March 2.5, 1884.

Application filed January 18, 1884. (No model.)

To @ZZ whommay concern.'

Be it known that I, ANDREW C. BATCHEL- LER, a citizen of the UnitedUnitedStates, residing in Bay City, in the county of Bay .and State of Michigan, have invented a new slipped off the form is ready to be driven upon the barrel; and the object of my nimprovement is to reduce the labor of manufacturing barrels by providing a form which may easily be adjusted to conform to the size of different barrels, and lI attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Wliicli- Figure l shows a vertical section of my improved hoop-former- Fig. 2 shows a transverse section of the same at the dotted line m fr.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in all the views.`

a and b represent two parts of a circular form, the circumference of which, when the parts are connected together, is about or nearly the same as that of an ordinary barrel. These parts a and b of the form are united together at f and h by the bolts c. A portion at one end of this bolt cis provided witha right-hand thread and a portion of the opposite end with a left-hand thread, while between the threads and midway between the ends of the bolt c, and rigidly attached thereto, is the nut d, and the parts a and b of the form are provided with a suitable thread to engage with that on the bolts c. So that when the bolts c are in position to connect the parts a and b together,

as shown in Fig. 1, by turning the bolts c in one 45 direction the circumference of the form is enlarged, and by turning the bolt-s c in the opposite direction the circumference of the form is diminished, and by this means an accurate adjustment of the form is obtained to conform 5o to the exact size of the barrel to be hooped, and as the size of the barrels manufactured is often changed, a corresponding change is quickly and easily made in the size of the form as shown. y

The usual manner of nailing the hoop is to place the hoop around the barrel somewhat above the position it is designed to occupy, and overlapping the ends and holding them together bythe hands; it is raised off the bar- 6o rel and placed ou a suitable solid piece or anvil, and nails or staples are driven into the overlapping parts, and the hoop is then placed Von the barrel and driven down to itsproper position. Much of this labor is avoided by 65 the use .of my improved form, as when the form is adjusted the hoop is placed thereon, and the overlapping parts nailed together. It is then placed on the barrel and driven down to its proper position. 7o`

Having fully described my improvement, j what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is I In a hoop-nailing machine, a circular form consisting of the semicircular parts a and b, 75 joined together at their ends, as described, by

`the bolts c, which are provided in their cenl ANDREW' C. BATCHELLER.

Witnesses:

G. H. FRANcIs, JAMEs E. THoMAs.

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