US47877A

US47877A - Improved method of securing pushes for bungs to barrels

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Publication number: US47877A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1865-05-23
Anticipated expiration: 1882-05-23

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I UMIM'ER METHOD OF URING BUSHES' EELS.- 1

' S FIELD.

FOR U-ms TOYBAR' Patented May UNITED STATES PATENT; OFFICE.

THOMAS SUMMERFIELD, on NEW YORK, n. Y.

IMPROVED METHOD OF SECURING 'lUSHES FUR BUNGS TQBARRELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 47,87 7, datcil- May 23, 1865.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, THOMAS SUMMERFIELD,

of the city and State of New York, have invented, made, and applied to usea certain new .and useful Improvement in Means for Securing Bushes for Bungs in Barrels; and I do hereto be inserted into the staves of barrels; but

in consequence of being secured by rivets whose heads have been on the inner side of the stave the bnsheshave necessarily been inserted before the barrel was complete, or by taking out the heads of oldbarrels. Bushes of this character are found in Letters Patent granted June 9, 1863, to Kenyon and A. Menzies. The naturevof my said invention consists in a lever-anvil to be inserted through the metallic bush, which serves the purpose of an anvil against which to clinch the ends of nails driven in to secure the metal bush, and at the same time acts as a lever to hold the bush firmly to the barrel while the nails are being driven and clinched.

In the drawings, a represents part of the stave of a barrel; b, the bush for the plug or bung; a, the flange of said bush, formed with holes for the reception of the nails. and use four such holes.

same, and also act to I prefer (I d are the nails employed to hold the bush to the stave firmly. I

f is my lever-anvil, formed of metal, with a fiat head, 9, at one end and agrooved head, 72, at the other, the metal shank or lever near the anvil at each end being bent, as shown, so that after the head or anvil has been passed through the bush the anvil-head may be brought up nearly flat against the inner side of the stave andthe lever bear upon the outer face of the bush, so as to be sustained by the press the bush firmly down upon the stave. After the bush has been driven into'the bung-hole in the stave, the

grooved head 71. is first to be entered toslightly, turn up the-ends of the nails cl as they are driven. (See Fig. 1.) The holes may be bored in the stave for said nails, if desired. The lever-anvil is then turned end for end, so as to enter the flat head- 9, and this clinches the nails as each nail in succession is driven firmly home by a/hammer struck upon its head. By this means the metallic bushes may be secured in barrels in the most permanent mannerwithout the necessity of taking out the head, as

heretofore usual.

What I claim, ters Patent, wis

Securing metallic bushes for bungs in barrels by means of nails. clinched on the inner side of the staveby the lever-anvil, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my signature this 29th day of March, 1865;

THOS. SUMMERFIELD. Witnesses:

LEMUEL W. SERREL THos. G o. HAROLD. I

and desire to secure by Let