US466294A - Knockdown barrel - Google Patents

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R. W. 'BAYLOR, KNOCKDOWN BARREL.

(No Model.)

No. 466,294. Patented Dem- ZQ 1891..

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ROBERT W. BAYLOR, OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA,

PATENT OFFICE.

ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ALEXANDER M. MURRAY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

KNOCKDOWN BARREL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 466,294, dated December 29, 1891. V

I Application filed April 18, 1891- Sarial No. 389,519. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT W. BAYLOR, of N or'folk, in the county of Norfolk and State of Virginia, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Knockdown Barrels, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of knock down barrels in which the slats or staves of the barrel are made straight and are connected to flexible bands or hoops which may be rolled up into cylindrical form to form barrels or laid out fiat for compact return transportation-such, for instance, as is shown in my previous patent, No. 158,777, dated January 19, 1875.

My present invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the parts of the barrel, which I will now proceed to describe. v V

Figure 1 is a view of the sides of the barrel laid out flat. Fig. 2 is an edge view of one of the staves. Fig. 3 is an end view of the barrel. Fig. 4 is a side view of the central partition. Fig. 5 is a side and cross-sectional view of the wedge or key for tightening the head, and Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the barrel complete.

A represents the straight slats or staves of the barrel. These have near their ends and upon their inside faces croze-grooves c c to receive the edges of the head-sections O O, and at the middle upon the inside have the transverse grooves b to receive the two sections of a middle partition E E. Upon the outside of these staves, about half-way from the middle to the ends, are transverse grooves a a, which are undercut, and are designed to receive and hold the flexible metal bands B, which constitute the hoops of the barrel and hold the staves together. The slats or staves 0 are held and properly spaced upon the hoops by means of the undercutgrooves a, and when the bands are rolled up with the staves and suitably fastened about the heads and middle partition a perfect two-compartment barrel is formed. The heads are afterward tightened by means of a wedge or key D, Fig. 5,

which fits between the head-sections with a tongue-and-groove joint. The barrel or crate thus formed may be used for shipping all of the circular heads and circular partition,

a series of staves having upon their inner sides a middle transverse groove and crozegrooves at the ends and having upon their outer sides transverse undercut grooves a, and the flexible bands inserted in said undercut grooves of the staves and connecting the latter, substantially as shown and described.

ROBERT W. BAYLOR.

Witn esses EDWARD J. TOOLE, THOMAS A. MULLIN.

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