US595371A

US595371A - Barrel-head

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Publication number: US595371A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1897-12-14
Anticipated expiration: 1914-12-14

Description

(No Model.)

A. N. CLARK. BARREL HEAD.

No. 595,371.- Patented Dec.14,'1897 NITED STATES .ATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED N. CLARK, OF ATHENS, MICHIGAN.

BARREL-H EAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,371, dated December 14, 1897.

Application filed Tune 24, 1896.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, ALFRED N. CLARK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Athens, in the county of Calhoun and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Method of Joining or Binding Together Two or More Pieces of Wooden Heading or Box- Shooks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in helads for barrels, tubs, and like storing vesse s.

This invention consists of certain novel constructions, combinations, and arrangements of parts, all of which will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a central vertical section through a barrelhead embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 represents an enlarged detail side elevation of one of the staples before its application to the head.

A B in the drawings represent the respective sections of the barrel-head, and S the securing-staples. The said improved head is preferably formed in two semicircular sections A and B. The peripheries of said sections are beveled in the usual manner to provide for their fitting into the grooves in the ends of the staves of the barrel. The said semicircular heads are secured together, so as to form an approximately circular head, by metallic staples S S, one of said staples being driven into the respective semicircular halves of the head at the middle upon one side and two of said staples being driven into said halves toward each end upon the opposite side, thus doubly bracing the said sections Serial No. 596,818. (No model.)

and firmly securing them together. Each staple is driven entirely through the respective sections and the protruding ends turned down upon the opposite sides and again crossed over the division between the sections and driven into the respective halves of the head.

My improved connected head is a great advantage in coopering, as such a head can be held much more easily than a head formed in sections, especially in such shops as employ machinery for assembling the various parts of the barrels or kegs.

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

1. In a barrel-head, the combination with a plurality of sections, of staples securing said sections rigidly together and each comprising a single piece of wire formed into a loop which is passed through the respective adjoining edges of the sections and provided with extended arms bent down and driven into the wood upon the opposite sides of the joints between the sections, substantially as described.

2. In a barrel-head, the combination with two semicircular sections, of staples for securing said sections rigidly together, each consisting of a single piece of wire formed into a loop, the respective tines of which are passed through said sections and bent down and driven into the wood of the opposite section from that through which they pass, substantially as described.

ALFRED N. CLARK.

Witnesses:

NAT L. ROWE, I. E. WnLLs.