US145942A - Improvement in machines for forcing hoops on barrels - Google Patents

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JOHN GREENWOOD, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR FORCING HOOPS ON BARRELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 145,942, dated Dccember 30, 1873; application filed April 21, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JOHN GREENWOOD, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe, in the State of New York, have made certain Improvements in Machines for Forcing Hoops upon Oasks or Barrels, of which the following is a specification:

In the drawings, Figure l is an upright side '\y iew of the machine, and Fig. 2 is a section of same. Fig. 3 is a top view, and Fig. 4 detail.

. swung around out of the way and allow a barrel or cask to be put in position between the rods, or be taken from such position after being operated upon, and when in position for operation is held by the projecting lugs b5. Upon each of these screw-rods are projecting hook-nuts b b, that can be adjusted to any desired position upon the rods by sirnply turning them upon the screw'threads cut on the rods B and B', and when they are in the required position are securely held in that place by the jam-nuts b', that screw on the rods above the hooks-nuts b, as seen in Fig. l. rlhese hook-nuts project more on one side of the rods B and B than on the other, so that diiferent diameters of casks or barrels can be acted upon to force the hoops thereon. C is a pivoted handlever, to which is secured the horizontal shaft C', fast on which is the gearwheel C and pulley D. Gear-wheel O is made to be moved nearly in a horizontal direction by the pivoted lever O, and gears into gear-wheel D on horizontal shaft d, that goes centrally and longitudinally through the body A. E E are eccentrics or cams fast upon shaft d, and are caused to revolve in the proper di rection by applying power to pulley D', revolviug gear-wheel C, that gears into wheel D on shaft d, on which the cams E are made fast. F is a table or carriage supporting a platen, which has an upward-proj ecting ilange, F', that tapers on its inner side outward as it rises, and has downward-projecting guide-legs F Fll at each side, and between which are bearingblocks f, that bear at all times upon the cams or eccentrics E, as seen in Fig. 2. Table or carriage F will slide freely up or down on guideways on the carriage, working in the body A of the machine.

The cask being set up in the usual way, and a hoop placed upon the top of the table, the set-up cask is placed in a perpendicular position, and so that the end of the cask will enter the hoop on the table, which is down, as seen in Fig. l. Hoops are now placed upon the upper portion of the barrel or cask, and

the hook-nuts in proper position to take hold of them, when the operator, by the hand-lever O, throws gear-wheel O" into gear with gearwheel D, which revolves the eccentrics or cams E, which are in contact with the bearing f at point f', and, as they revolve, the eccentrics will cause the carriage F to rise, and with it the barrel. The hook-nuts, being stationary and taking hold of the hoops, force the hoops upon the barrel as it is lifted up ward, and at the same time the bottomv hoop is driven or forced upon the bottom end of the barrel. One revolution of the cams, and the table or carriage, with the barrel thereon, will have been lifted to the utmost range of the increased diameter of the eccentric. When it arrives at that point, the table and barrel will fall of their own weight, when the operator, by reversing thc movement of the lever, throws the gear-wheel C out of gear with wheel D, and the carriage is at rest, when thc cask can be set the other end up, and the hoops, by a repetition of the movement of putting the machine in motion', will be driven upon the end.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

l. In a machine for hooping barrels, the combination of the revolving eccentrics or cams E and table or carriage F with the hooknuts b ou screw-rods B and B', n the manner b 011 rods B and B', constructed and opera-tsubstantially as and for the purposes deing substantially as and for the purposes described. scribed.

2. In a. machine for hoopiug barrels, the JOHN GREENWOOD. combination of the vibrating drvnggear Witnesses: Wheel C, Wheel D 011 shaft al, cams E, vertic- D. L. JOHNSTON, ally-reciprocating carriage F, and hook-nuts PATRICK MCINTYRE.

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