US334607A - Barrel-making machine - Google Patents

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J. JQPH ILBRIGK. BARREL MAKING MACHINE.

No; 334,607; Patenjpgd Jan. 19, 1886.

ATTORNEYS.

, UNITED STATES I PATENT OFFICE.

JOSIAH J. PHILBRICILIOF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA.

BARREL-MAKING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,607,6lated January 19.1886. Application filed March 30, 1885. Serial No. 160,700. (No model.)

.To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known thatI, J osIAH J. PHILBRIOK, of Birmingham, inthe county of Jefferson and State of Alabama, have invented a new and Improved Machine for Use in Raising and Goopering Barrels, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to machines for use in raising and cooperihg barrels, and has for its object to facilitate these operations, and at the same time allow more effective trussing of the staves and hold them even across the edge joints on both faces, and keep the croze of the staves even or in line all around the barrel or cask, so the headswill fill the croze, and a perfectlytight barrel or cask will be produced.

The invention consists in certain novel con= structions of parts ofthe machine, and in combination of said parts, all as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be'had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters ofreference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is an elevation of my improved machine for use in raising and coopering barrels. Fig. 2 is a top View of the expansible crozering and its'supports at the head of the stand. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section taken on the line x at, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is an elevation of the lower part of the machine-stand, taken at right angles to the same part in Fig. 1, and Fig. 5 is a plan view of the base-piece of the stand.

The letter A indicates the expansible metal croze-ring,fwhich is supported on end shoulders, a, of the'plates B, which plates serve as rests for the ring, and are fitted to the arms 0, which radiate from a central hub, 0', through which a set-screw, 0, passes, for hold- 7 ing the head 0 O at any desired height on the post D of the stand, said post being preferably made of a piece of metal pipe, combining lightness with strength, and the post is hinged to a foot piece or block, as and for the purpose hereinafter set forth. ,I make the ringrests B preferably with oppositeside flanges, b b, which loosely fit the opposite edges of the arms 0 of the head, and the rests have slots b, through which set-screws b are passed into the arms for holding the rests firmly thereto 1 and allowing their adjustment along the arms to fit rings A of various sizes used in raising barrels or half-barrelsof varying diameters and capacities. I make the ring A with a vertically-ranging band, a, and a horizontally-ranging flange, a", projecting outward from it at or near its lower edge, the band a, serving as a stop or rest to the inner faces of the barrel-staves, and the flange a entering the crozing e of the staves, the flange being beveled on the under side next its outer edge, to facilitate its entrance within the crozing as the staves are placed against the band a, as will be understood from Fig. 3, wherein a barrel-stave is shown at E in dotted lines. The ring A is an open or split ring, and to one of its ends, a and atthe inner face is fixed one end of a spring, F, which overlaps the opposite end, a*,of the ring, and has a tooth or catch, f,which is adapted to enter any one ofaseries of notches,g, formed on theinner face ofend a, so as to hold the ring at different degrees of expansion, or rather to hold the ring against expansion when itis contracted to an extreme limit by the operation of trnssing the staves against the ring. as hereinafter more fully explained. The free end f of spring Fis bent inward to facilitate grasping it to throw its catch f from the notches 9 prior to raising and coopering the next barrel.

' To prevent twisting of the ends a a, I provide on end a a lug, G, which enters aslot, H, in spring F, and keeps the separated ends of the croze-flange a in line with each other. I prefer to form the lug G by slitting the band a vertically down to the flange afiand bending the severed portion of the band backward or inward; but the lug may be an attached piece, if desired.

The letter I indicates the foot-piece, in which thestand-postD is fixed by screwing it in place or otherwise, and the foot-piece is hinged on a strong pin, '5, to the head of a base-block, J, which rises from the base-plate K, which has a series of holes, it, through which screws or bolts may be passed for fastening the machine to the floor.

On the foot-piece I is a lug or shoulder, i, which contacts a shoulder, j, on block J when the stand-post D is erect, and to the side ofthe foot-piece I is pivoted,on astrong pin or screw, Z, the lever L, the lower end of which may be forced into a notch, Z, in the block J or baseplate K, so as to cross the hinge-joint and pre- Vent the post D from folding down on the pivot 'i, and the shoulders ijlimit the back swing of the post, so the lever will be guided into the notch l, to hold the head-piece and expansible ringin positionwhile thebarrel is raised around the ring. ImaketheleverLwith its upper part, Z, bent to one side, so it may more easily be grasped and operated, and back of the pivoti the foot-piece I is cut away, as at i to form a stop to prevent the lever swinging too far when its lower end is thrown from the notch l to allow the post D and its attachments to be swung down on the hinge-pin z'when the raised barrel is partly trussed with the ringA in the croze of the staves. A screw-bolt, l\I,with a stop-nut, m, is fitted into the top of a short standard, N, fixed to the base-piece J and serves as a stop against which the foot-piece I may strike when the post D is swung down, to prevent the shifting of rests B by striking the inside of the barrel or the floor. The stop M being adjustable, the downward swing of post D may be limited as desired; but a fixed stop may be used when the machine is employed in raising barrels of uniform size. The lever L is short enough to allow the head-frame O O to be lowered on post D to suit half-barrels or casks. A suffic-ient number of expansible rings A will be provided for each size of barrel or cask to suit the number of coopers employed, and the rings will be of like diameter with the size of the finished barrel as first made, so that when the ring expands until the inner end of lug G strikes the outer end of slot H of the catch F the expansion of the ring will be limited so the ring will have an exact sizewhich will be stamped on itto gage a circle of staves, which, when fitting against the ring edge to edge, will form barrels of exact size and diameter when coopered to receive in the croze heads previously rounded and finished to a uniform size, thus avoiding the trouble and delay of using calipers to find the diameter of head required. \Vhen the ring A is fully expanded, a space of about one inch will be left between the extremities of its ends a to, allowing for trussing the barrel tightly after its staves have been shrunk by the usual firing or heating process.

The operation of the machine is as follows: Rings A of proper size will be selected, and the rests B will be set on the arms 0, to hold the rings-one at a time-snugly on the shoulders a of the rests, as in Fig. 2, and the entire head of the stand will be lowered or set on post D, so that the croze e of the upper ends of the finished staves will receive the flange a of the ring A,when the edges of the staves at or near their upper ends lie quite closely to each other, while the lower spread ends of the staves rest on the floor. A stave will now be set across the opening of the ring at its ends a a*, and the staves marked for each barrel will all be set up around the ring with the flange ain the upper croze. The truss-hoops will now be placed on the bilge and at the head of the barrel, and the head truss will be driven to tighten the inner faces of the staves against the band a, and the bilge-truss then will be tightened thoroughly, which will gather the staves so as to lift the ring A from the shoulders a of rests B, and the lever L then will be swung from the notch l, and the entire head part ofthestand will be swung over on pin i, so that the partly-formed barrel rests on its side on the floor and can be removed from the head-frame with the ring A still in the croze of the staves, and the barrel then will be fired in the usual way to shrink the staves, whereupon the barrel may be trussed tightly while on the floor, and during the final trussing operation the ring A will yield or contract as thejoints of thestaves are tightened, and at the same ti me the outward pressure of the ring-band a against the inward pressure of the head-truss will keep the inner and outer faces of the uniformlythick staves even all around the barrel, and without requiring a hammering of the staves, as usually is done, and the ring-flange a will hold the croze of the staves even or in line all around the barrel. As the ring A will remain in the croze of the barrel until the opposite head of the barrel is put in place and held by the hoops, both heads of the barrel will fill their respective croze all around, and the barrel will be perfectly close and tight at the chines, which would not be the case if the croze of the heads were out of line at any point, as will readily be understood. After removing the headtruss next the ring A the staves will open sufficiently to allow the ringwhich yet is held by the spring-catch F at the extreme limit of its contraction-t0 be removed from the croze, and the head at that end can be put in place, and the staves then will be hooped tightly around the head in the usual manner, and the barrel is complete. By releasing the spring F from the notch g, with which it is engaged, the ring A will expand readily for use again with the stand D O B when the stand has been raised and locked in erect position by the lever L entering the notch l, as aboveexplained. Theangularcross'sectional shape of the ring A gives it great strength to resist the strain of trussing the barrel or cask on an uneven floor without throwing the croze of the staves out of line, and the ring thus shaped also catches little heat when firing the barrel; hence the croze is not liable to be burned out or weakened so it will not hold the head firmly.

Having thus described my inventiomwhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a machine for raising and coopering barrels, a spring croze-ring, A, with band a, croze-flange a and the supports B, adjustable up and down by means of the post D, as described, so that the ring A is retained on the outer ends of the supports B to receive the croze of the staves on the flange a and the face of the ends of the staves to 'rest against to the opposite end, a, to govern the expanthe band a, as set forth. sion of the croze-ring A, substantially as de- 2; In a machine for raising and coopering scribed barrels, the expansible and adjustable spring I JOSIAH J. PHILBRICK. 5 croze-ring A, having a lug, G, secured to the Witnesses:

end a thereof, to move back and forth in a E. K. FULTON,

slot, H, formed inthe spring-catch F, secured S. LOVETT.

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