US533034A - Machine for making barrels - Google Patents

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MACHINE POR MAKING BARRELS, Kms, aw. No. 533,034. Patented JamZZ, 1895.

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. Y E. CAMPBELL. MACHINE PoR MAKING BARRELS, KBGS, 6.0.

- No. 533,034. Patented Jan. 22, 1895.

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HENRY CAMPBELL, oE BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

MACHINE FOR MAKING BARRELs, KEGs, ato.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters vPatent No. 533,034, dated January 22,1895. Application led September 6, 1894. Serial 110.522,266. (No model.) Y

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, HENRY CAMPBELL, a citizen of the United States of America, and residing at -the city of Baltimore, State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Making Barrels, Kegs, &c., of which the following is a specification. f

My invention relates to that class of barrelmaking apparatus in which the heads of the barrel, keg, or other article composed of staves, properly held with relation to 'each other, are rotated while the staves are applied successively thereto, the stavesA being subsequently windlassed and secured in place in any suitable manner to form a complete barrel or other receptacle.

It is the object of the invention to simplify the machine and render it `more certain and efficient in operation, providing means by which barrels, Y dac., may be manufactured with great economy by either hand or other power.

With such object in view my invention consists in the parts and combinations thereof hereinafter more particularly set forth.

In order to make the invention more clearly understood I have shown in the accompanying drawings means for carrying it into practical effect, without limiting Iny improve ments, in their useful applications, to the particular construction which, for the sake of illustration, I have delineated.

In said drawings:-Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of a barrel making machine embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view on line II-II, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on line III-III, Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, 1 indicates a stand or table supported inany suitable manner, as by legs, portions of which are indicated at 2.

3 and 4 indicate frames or bearing brackets rigidly mounted 'upon the` table 1 and provided. at 5 Withbearings in which are mounted in line with each other longitudinal shafts 6 and 7. The outer end of the shaft 6 is preferably furnished with an additional support gozsuch as a bearing bracket 8, and may be provided with means by which it may be conveniently turned by hand or by power. In the construction shown such means consist f a hand wheel 9. The shafts 6 and 7 are free'to turn in their bearings 5 and are provided at their inner ends with disks 10, or with equivalent plates or radial arms. Each shaft is further provided with a central projecting point 11 which is preferably screw threaded so that it may readily engage and hold the barrel head. When the latter is so held it will rest against and be kept in a 'vertical position, or in a position transverse to the axis of the machine, by the disks or arms 10.

12 and 13 are transverse supporting disks or frames secured respectively to the shafts 6 and 7 and movable therewith. These disks are provided at intervals on their periphery with blocks or other supports 14, which may be cast integral with the disks, and upon which are mounted and secured in place by bolts 15, supporting and ratchet rings 16, 17. The ratchets of said rings are indicated at 18 ane are adapted to be engaged by one or more pawls 19 pivotally mounted upon one or both ofthe frames 3 and 4 so as to hold the shafts carrying the barrel heads from backward rotation. A forward rotation of said rings and their'attached shafts, disks and barrel heads, is effected by hooks or pawls 2O adapted to engage said ratchets and provided with shanks 21 extending down to and operated by a treadle or other. mechanism not illustrated. It will be observed that each downward movements of the hook 20 will turn the ratchets one or more teeth according to the length of movement of the hooks, and that during the upward or return movement of the hooks the parts will be held from rotation by the pawl or pawls 19. At or near the inner faces of the rings 16 and 17, said rings areY formed with shoulders 22 which are adapted to temporarily su pport the extreme end or ends of the barrel staves as the latter are fed into the machine by hand or otherwise.

said rings are also formed annular grooves or recesses 23 adapted to receive catch-hoops 24, ready to be moved longitudinally of the machine over the ends of the staves after the latter are in place around the edges of the Suclrlongitudinal movement barrel heads.

In the inner faces of y IOO is imparted at the proper time to the catchhoops by lugs 25, which are mounted and adapted to reciprocate in bearings or openings 26 in the frames 3 and 4, the inner ends of said rods passing at such times through segmental spaces 27 within the rings 16 and 17 and between the blocks 14. The rods 25 may be thus actuated by any suitable mechanism. In the construction illustrated they are attached at their outer ends to arms 28 fixed on hubs 29, the latter fitting and sliding upon the shafts 6 and 7, the latter movement being effected by actuating levers 30.

31 and 32 are posts fixed on the base 1 and carrying at their upper ends, opposite and near the ends of the barrel, pulleys 33 over which pass windlass ropes 3i and 35. The lower ends of the latter are preferably provided with weights 36 or other means for causing the desired degree of tension in the ropes, and their upper ends are attached to hooks or arms 37 carried by the rings 16 and 17.

The disks 12 and 13 are longitudinally movable upon their shafts so as either to support the ends of the staves or release them and allow their engagement with the barrel heads. 38 indicates hand levers connected with the disks for this purpose.

The machine being constructed and arranged in the manner above described, or in any equivalent manner, its mode of operation is as follows: Catch-hoops 24 are first placed in the recesses 23 of the supporting disks, the rods 25 being in their outermost or retracted position. Barrel heads are then centered and screwed upon the points 11 at each end of the machine. The stave supporting ring at one end of the machine is moved slightly inward relative to the barrel head so that thel staves when placed in the machine will rest at that end upon its shoulder 22, in Fig. 1 the ring 16 being shown in this position. The staves S are then placed in position one after the other their right hand ends resting directly upon the barrel head II, at that end of the machine, with the croze of the staves properly engaging the beveled edge of the head, and their left hand ends resting upon the shoulder 22 ofthe ring 16. As fast as the staves are thus put in place the shaft and barrel heads are rotated in such direction as to take up and wind upon the exteriors of the staves the windlassing ropes 3l and 35, such rotation being effected by the hooks 20 as already described. All of the staves being thus applied and the barrel having made a complete rotation, the catch-hoop at the right hand end of the machine is thrust inward over the ends of the staves soV as to secure them tightly upon the head I-I. The windlassing rope 34 is then drawn tight so as to bend inward the left hand ends of the staves and cause them to engage the head I-l, the supporting ring 16 having been preliminarily moved outward from within the stave-ends. The catch-hoop at this end of the barrel is then thrust inward over the ends ofthe staves; and the barrel is then released from the machine by disengaging the ends of the ropes from the arms 37, unwrapping them from the barrel and replacing them in position upon said arms for the next operation, andfurther by the outward movement of the shafts 6 and 7 and their disks 10 away from the barrel heads.

The tension upon the windlassing ropes for the above described operation may be effected by the rotation of the barrel or by other equivalent or preferred means.

The barrel when released from the machine may have applied to it such additional hoops as are desired.

1. In a barrel machine the combination of means for holding and rotating the barrel heads, and a longitudinally movable supporting ring or bracket for temporarily supporting the ends of the staves at one end of the machine, substantially as set forth.

2. In a barrel machine the combination of means for supporting and rotating the barrel heads, and windlassing ropes for holding tho staves as they are applied to the heads, substantially as set forth.

3. In a barrel machine the combination of means for supporting and rotating the barrel heads, means for holding a hoop in proper relation to the end of the barrel, and rods for moving said hoop inward and a Windlassing rope for holding the staves as they are applied to the heads, substantially as set forth.

4c. In a barrel machine the combination of means for supporting and rotating the barrel heads, supports for the staves, rotating means, a holder for a hoop at the end of the barrel, devices for forcing the same over the ends of the staves, and a windlassing rope for holding the staves as they are applied to the heads, substantially as set forth.

5. In a barrel machine the combination of means for holding the barrel heads, shafts supporting said holding means, disks on said shafts provided with ratchets and hooks or pawls for simultaneously operating the latter and a windlassing rope for holding the staves as they are applied to the heads, substantially as set forth.

6. In a barrel making machine the combination of rotary shafts provided with means for holding the barrel heads, disks mounted on said shafts provided with a recess for a hoop and having means for supporting the ends of the staves, rods for forcing the hoops over the ends of the staves, windlassing ropes for holding the latter as they are applied to the barrel head and to said supporting means,

and mechanism for rotating said shafts,sub t stantially as set forth.

7. In a barrel machine the combination of frames provided with `bearings in line with each other, shafts mounted in said bearings and adapted to carry the barrel heads, a disk mounted on one of the shafts, longitudinally IOO movable, adapted to temporarily support the In Witness whereof I have hereunto signed ends of the staves away from the head, and my name in the presence vof two Witnesses. having a recess for a hoop, and rods or pushers mounted in one of said frames and adapted HENRY CAMPBELL' to engage the hoop to force the latter over the VVtnesses:

staves after the latter have been applied to THos. KELL BRADFORD,

the barrel heads, substantially as set forth. SAML. D. BRADFORD.

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