US68322A - Improvement in the cohsteuction of baeeels - Google Patents

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G. ST. GEORGE;

CONSTRUCTION OF B ARRELS.

No. 68,322. Patented Aug. 27, 1867.

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GEORGE ST. GEORGE, JR., OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent 1V0. 68,322, dated August 27, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BARRELS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, GEORGE ST. GEORGE, Jr., of the city, county, and State of New York, haveinvcnted a new and useful Improvement in the Manufacture of Barrels for branding purposes; and that the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exact specification of the same, wherein I have set forth the nature and principles of my said improvement, by which my invention may be distinguished from all others of a similar class, together with such parts as I claim, and desire to have secured to me. by Letters Patent.

The objectof this invention is to facilitate and expedite the removal of the brand marks on barrels in such a manner as to effectually prevent them from being used more than once, and at the same time being a more certain method of marking the same; and it consists in having one of the heads or other part of the barrel constructed with raised or prominent surfaces formed by grooves in the wood between the raised surfaces, on which surfaces the brand is placed or cut, and which raised'surfaces may be readily chipped oil when it is desired to remove the brand mark, such removal of the brand mark being required by section thirty-eight of the act of Congress dated July 13, 1866, of which the following is a true copy:

7 And-any person who shall fraudulently use any cask or package bearing inspection marks for the purpose of selling any other, spirits than so insneeted, shall be imprisoned for a term of six months, or shall pay a fine of one hundred dollars for each'cask or package so used, in the discretion of the court; and any person who shall knowingly purchase or sell, with inspection marks thereon, any cask or package after the same has been usedfor distilling spirits, or who shall fraudulently omit to erase or obliterate the inspection marks upon any such package or cask at the time of emptying the same, shall forfeit and pay the sum of two hundred dollars for every cask so purchased or used, or on which the marks are not so obliterated.

I consider one of the heads of the barrel the most desirable part of the barrel on which to form the prominent surfaces to receive the brand marks, and in the accompanying sheet of drawings Figure 1 represents an outer or face view of a barrel-head having two concentric annular grooves made in it for that purpose.

Figure 2, a section of the same, taken in the line z x, fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

A represents the head ofa barrel, and b 6 two concentric annular grooves made in it, which form raised surfaces 0 c, the former, 0, being annular and between the two grooves 12 I), and the other, 0, being within the smaller or inner groove 6. These grooves may be made simultaneously with the cutting out of the head during the manufacture of the barrel, and at an inappreciable expense, as the heads are cut out by machinery, and there would be no additional labor expended in the cutting of them, the application of the cutters to the machine and the k coping ofthem in working order being the only additional expense. The brand marks may be made on either or both of the raised surfaces, and it will be seen that they may be cut out or erased with the greatest facility, the chipping 011' of the raised surfaces being attended with no difliculty whatever.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent Constructing a barrel with raised surfaces made on the head or heads or other suitable part thereof,'sub

stautially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

GEO. ST. GEORGE, JR.

Witnesses:

WM. F. MCNAMARA, Nansen CHASE.

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