US655103A - Packing barrel, keg, or tierce. - Google Patents

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GEORGE F. MOKEEVER, OF ALLEGHENY, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OFrTWO- THIRDS TO FREDERICK BARKER AND JAMES MOKEEVER, JR., OF PITTS- BURG, PENNSYLVANIA-.

PACKING BARREL, KEG,'OR TIERCE.

$PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,103, dated July 31, 1900.

Application filed March 9, 1900, Serial No. 7,953. (No model.)

invented a new and useful Improvement in.

Packing Barrels, Kegs, or Tierces; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to a combined head, groove, and hoop for ordinary wooden barrels, kegs, tubs, and similar devices, its object being to provide a device of this character which is easy and cheapto manufacture, which may be readily applied to the barrel and form a strong closure therefor, and which may be used in assembling the staves. The ordinary wooden barrel as now constructed is made up of a series of staves having grooves on their inner surfaces near the ends for receivin g the heads and provided with external hoops to bind the whole together, two hoops being usually applied to each end. The staves as they come from the mill must first be provided with the groove on the inner end surfaces thereof and the head must be carefully turned in circular form to fit the exact size of barrel desired. The groove if out to a considerable depth materially weakens the staves at the ends thereof, or if cutshallow the head is insecurely held in place. The staves and bottom head are assembled in a suitable frame and the upper head thereafter applied thereto. This operation requiresa considerable amount of skill and materially adds to the cost of the barrel.

The object of my invention is to do away with the necessity of grooving the ends of the staves and provide a head which can be readily applied to the barrel by unskilled labor and which will also serve as an end hoop, thereby dispensing with those ordinarily used.

It consists, generally stated, in a metallic barrel-head provided with anannular groove on the circumference thereof, which groove is adapted to fit over the end of the staves and provide an inner and outer bearing-surface therefor, and so formed that the head can be easily and securely fastened to the ends of the staves.

To enable others skilled in the art to make single operation of a stamping-machine.

sheet metal, having on its circumference an upwardly-projecting wall 4 and adownwardly-projecting wall 5, substantially parallel to the wall 4, and an annular ring 6, connecting the two walls at the top, thereby providing a groove 7 having substantially-parallel annular walls and opening downward. The walls of the groove are shown slightly inclined from a line perpendicular to the plane of the head in order to conform to the slightinward incline of the ends of the staves but in heads for use on barrels having substantially straight staves the walls of the groove will be substantially at right angles to the plane of the head. In some cases it is desirable to strengthen the head, and this may be done by striking up the metal, as shown at 8 9, to form ribs thereon. These ribs are shown at right angles to each other but it is obvious that they may be placed in any other relation and be of any desired number, and instead of being formed by strikingup the metal they may be separate from the head and secured thereto in a variety of ways. The head is preferably made of a single integral piece of sheet metal and is of such form that it can be readily shaped bya It is obvious, however, that it might be made of separate pieces united by soldering or brazing; but the integral form is preferred it being both stronger and cheaper to manufacture than the built-up form. i

In assembling the barrel the lower ends of the staves are inserted in the groove of the lower head, thus dispensing witha portion of the assembling-frame usually employed. The

walls of the groove are substantially'paralleli the entire depth of the grooveand are spaced such a distance apart that they bear 'fir mly on the inner and outer sides of the staveheads, whereby the head is held firmly on thev ends of the staves, thus making' it possible to movethe barrel during the -process-ofass sembling without danger'offthe head falling.

ofi. After the hoops 2 2 have been applied the upper head-is slipped over the ends of the staves and thewalls of the groove thereof clasp the staves firmly, thus holding the head in place. For barrels filled with light material no other fastening means for the heads is necessary; but if the barrels are to be filled with heavy material the headsare further secured to the barrel-body by means of nails or rivets, as shown at 11. I have shown a hoop 10 at the upper end of the barrel, its function being merely to keep the upper ends of the staves'from spreading while the barrel is being filled. The ordinary wooden barrel has two hoops at each-end; but these are dispensed with in my improved barrel, the outer wall 5 on the groove of the head serving as the end 25 hoop.

What'l claim as my invention, and desire to secure :by Letters Patent, is'

A barrel comprising a-body composed of ungrooved'wboden staves and hoops, the head 30

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