US817980A

US817980A - Cask-repairing device.

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Publication number: US817980A
Application number: US25213305A
Authority: US
Inventors: John Majoros
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1905-03-27
Filing date: 1905-03-27
Publication date: 1906-04-17
Anticipated expiration: 1923-04-17

Description

i PATENTEDAPR.17,1906.

J. MAJoRos. CASK REPAIRING DEVI/GE.

APPLICATION }`ILED MAR.27, 1905.

JOHN MAJ OROS,

OF HAMILTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF'ONE-HALF TO DANIEL SOHROEDER, OF HAMILTON, OHIO.

oAs'K-REPAIRING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 17, 1906.

Application filed March 27,1905. Serial No, 252.133.

To all whom t may concern,.-

Be it -known that I, JOHN MAJoRos, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, (post-office address No. 107 Walnut street, Hamilton, Ohio have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cask-Repairing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention, relating to a device for repairing damaged casks, will be readily understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a portion of the stave of a cask having applied to it my improved repairing device. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same. y

The very large casks usually employed in the brewers cellars are often in the neighborhood of ten feet in diameter and length and are closely stored in tiers, filling the cellar with substantial compactness. Occasionally a stave of such a cask will be found to have become partially broken at the bilge, the defect probably having existed from the time the stave was originally bent. VThe result of this defect is that the stave bulges outwardly beyond its two side neighbors, thus opening local joints and permitting leakage to occur at this place as well as possibly through the break itself. Owing to the close compactness of the casks in the cellar, it is practically impossible to remove the cask for repairs, and the driving ofhoops, if it could be effected, would often be without avail in curing the defect referred to. It has therefore been customary to allow such casks to rot in the cellar. By means of my improvement I draw the bulging stave back to place and find it practipable to cure all such defects as I have mentioned.

Inthe drawings, l indicates the center or bilgd portion of a stave which is to be assui'ned as damaged and bulged unduly outwardly; 2, a hole bored through the stave at about its center of width and at ,the location of the defect 3 aplatelaid against the outside of the damaged portion of the stave, preferably conformed to the normal shape of a sound stave; 4, a bolt passed through the hole 2 and screwed into the plate; 5, an arch with its ends disposed against the inner surface of the stave and straddling the defective portion, the ends preferably arranged to conform to the normal inner surface of a sound stave, the bolt 4 passing through the crown of the arch; 6, a nut screwed on the bolt against the crown of the archl and serving to draw the bilge of the stave inwardly and tend to straighten the stave; 7, packing,.as of yarn, disposed around the bolt at the inner surface of the stave and preferably in a suitable counterbore at the inner end of hole 2; 8, a washer disposed against this packing, 9, a nut upon the bolt seating against the washer and intended to compact the packing around the bolt and against the stave.

In using this device a workman enters the damaged cask and bores the hole 2 through the defective stave at the wound. He then screws the bolt `into the plate 3 while the latter is held in position by another workman. A little difficulty may be sometimes experienced in locating and holding the plate 3, owing to the inaccessibility of the location; but a rolling of the cask will in all probability permit the defect to be gotten at. The workman within the cask applies the arch and screws up the nut, thus bending the stave back to proper position or sufficiently so to cure any leakage. He then applies thepacking and screws up nut 9.

I claim as my invention-d 1. In a cask-repairing device, the combination of an exterior plate formed of a single iece of metal, adapted to be laterally included within the width of a stave, an interior member having two feet conformed to the normal shape of the inner surface of a stave, separated from each other a distance considerably greater than the length of the exterior plate, a bolt adapted to pass through a stave, engaging the plate at the center and passing through the interior member at the center, and a nut on the bolt engaging said member for drawing the plate and member toward each other and forcing a stave into its normal position.

2. In a cask-repairing device, the combination of an exterior plate formed of a single piece of metal conformed to the normal shape of the stave and adapted to be laterally included within the width of a stave, an interior member having two feet conformed to the normal shape of the inner surface of a stave, separated from each other a distance considerably greater than the length of the exterior plate, a bolt adapted to pass through IOO other a distance considerably greater than the length of the exterior plate, a bolt adapted to pass through a stave, engaging the plate at the center and passing through the interior member at the centerJ and a nut on the bolt engaging said member for drawing the plate and member toward each other and forcing a stave into its normal position.

JOHN MAJ CROS. Witnesses:

E. R. SHIPLEY, M. S. BELDEN.