US58449A - Improvement in casks, barrels - Google Patents

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NAPEKERS, PHOTO LrrHosfuPHEn UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. I

JOSHUA MERRILL, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN OASKS, BARRELS, sbo.

Specification forming part ofLetters Patent No. 58,449, dated October 2, 1866.

To all whom zt may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSHUA MERRILL, of the city of Boston, in the county of "Suffolk and VState of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Casks, Barrels, and Kegs suitable for holding and transporting liquids 5. and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and correct description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawings, and to the letters of reference thereon.

My said invention consists in protecting the joints of ordinary casks, barrels, and kegs suitable for holding and transporting petroleums, alcohol,and similar tluids against leakage by cernenting them together with glue or other similar gelatinous cement applied to said joints when the staves and head pieces are separated or before they are put together.

The drawings show acask cemented by glue at the joints.

Figure lis a topvview of the cask; Fig. 2, a cross-section; Fig. 3, a vertical section through the heads and strives; Fig. 4, a section of a stave.

In carrying out my invention, I take the staves a and head-pieces el of the cask after they have been properly made and plainjointed, and apply hot glue to the joints b by dipping or by a brush, and then at once proceed to set them up. "If the staves have been properly made and jointed they can be trussed and the heads put in before the glue sets, esA

pecially if the staves andheads are from an old cask,or, if new, are bent and crozed before setting up. A

The driving up of the hoops forces the glue into the pores of the joints, imparting great strength to the cask when the glue sets, besides resisting the leakage of petroleums, alcohol, and liquids that do not dissolve glue.

The casks made as above described may be coated inside by a coating of glue or shellac, according to the liquid the cask is designed for. The coating ofthe inside is well known and not necessary to be described, except to say that it may readily be done with glue by pouring into the' cask a few gallons of hot glue solution; and then, by putting in the bling tight and rolling the cask about, the air within, being heated by the hot glue, forces it into the pores of the interior surface of the heads and staves.

I claim- As of my invention and improvement in casks, barrels, and kegs,incombination with the joints of a cask suitable for holding and transporting liquids, having the common straight or plain joints, a coating or stuffing of glue or similar gelatinous cement applied to the joints before putting the cask together, substantially as described.

JOSHUA MERRILL. Witnesses:

THEODORE M. PLIMPTON, GEORGE H. FOSTER.

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