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Class 147
COOPERING
Class Definition:
Includes machines which are used exclusively in the
manufacture of wooden barrels, fruit-boxes, baskets, or
crates. Coopering does not include machines for sawing,
bending, or planing staves or machines for sawing, splitting,
cutting, or coiling hoops, except such as separate the hoops
from a scored rod by racking or abruptly bending the rod or
which combine two or more operations in the production of
hoops, as planing and bending or planing and lapping or
pointing.
REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
29, Metal Working, subclasses 592+ for a method of, and
subclasses 700+ for a machine for, assembling articles, as
those indicated in the note to Class 227 below, not elsewhere
classified.
83, Cutting, appropriate subclasses for stave-cutting
devices.
144, Woodworking, subclass 114.1 for a machine for planing
staves, subclasses 182+ for a machine for skiving or
splitting hoops, and subclasses 254+ for a machines for
bending staves.
227, Elongated-Member-Driving Apparatus, appropriate
subclasses for apparatus for assembling a basket or barrel
combined with means to apply a member, e.g., nail, thereto.
SUBCLASSES
Subclass:
1
Machines which perform some operation not specifically
classified and those which do more than merely set up and
truss a barrel. They usually croze, howel, and head the
barrel and sometimes plane it off.
Subclass:
2
Two circularly-grooved end plates into which the staves are
fed until the grooves are filled. Most of them shape the
barrel, and the staves are secured by truss-hoops.
Subclass:
3
Frames within or around which the staves are arranged on end
and then confined by truss-hoops.
Subclass:
4
Machines for compressing the staves of barrels to receive the
truss-hoops.
Subclass:
5
Machines for compressing the staves of a barrel by means of
conical formers forced upon the ends of the barrel. In some
instances hoops are driven by the conical formers.
Subclass:
6
Machines which place the heads in the barrel and in some
instances form the barrel and insert the head.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
100, Presses, subclasses 54+ for portable receptacle lid
applying presses not elsewhere provided for.
Subclass:
7
Machines or implements which force hoops upon barrels by
mechanism, not otherwise specifically classified.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
100, Presses, appropriate subclasses for presses not
elsewhere provided for.
Subclass:
8
Machines which force the hoops upon barrels by means of
cam-gearing presses.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
100, Presses, subclasses 291+ for reciprocating platen
presses, not elsewhere provided for, and in which a cam acts
directly to actuate a platen.
Subclass:
9
Machines which comprise hydraulic or steam presses for
forcing hoops upon the barrel.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
100, Presses, subclass 269.01 for fluid actuated
reciprocating platen presses, not elsewhere provided for.
Subclass:
10
Machines which force hoops upon barrels by lever or crank
gearing.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
100, Presses, subclass 293 for reciprocating platen presses,
not elsewhere provided for, in which a lever acts directly
upon a platen to actuate it.
Subclass:
11
Machines which force hoops upon barrels by screw-gearing
presses.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
100, Presses, subclasses 289+ for reciprocating platen
presses having a screw and a nut actuator and not elsewhere
provided for.
Subclass:
12
Machines in which the hoops are forced upon barrels by the
impact of a falling weight.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
100, Presses, subclasses 265+ for reciprocating platen
presses, not elsewhere provided for, having a spring or
weight actuator.
Subclass:
13
The barrel is clamped in a nonrotating clamp, and a rotary
cutter-head carried by a frame which rotates on an axis
concentric with the axis of the barrel cuts the croze, howel,
or chamfer.
Subclass:
14
Machines in which the barrel is rotated on its axis and while
rotating cutting-tools are projected radially from a fixed
head to croze, howel, or chamfer the staves.
Subclass:
15
Machines in which the staves of the rotating barrel are
successively brought into engagement with a rotary
cutter-head for cutting the croze, howel, or chamfer.
Subclass:
16
Machines in which the cutter is carried upon a slide or rest
and which is projected into the rotating barrel for cutting
the croze, howel, or chamfer.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
14
Subclass:
17
Machines in which a tool carried by a swinging rest is
brought into engagement with the staves of the barrel as it
is rotated on its axis for cutting the croze, howel, or
chamfer.
Subclass:
18
Machines which are designed for cutting the croze, howel, or
chamfer of staves before the barrel is formed and which are
not otherwise specifically classified.
Subclass:
19
Machines having an endless feeding device for feeding the
staves against a rotary cutter journaled in fixed bearings.
Subclass:
20
Machines in which the stave is carried upon a sliding support
into engagement with a rotary cutter.
Subclass:
21
Machines in which the stave is carried into engagement with a
rotary cutter by means of a swinging stave-supporting frame.
Subclass:
22
Machines in which the crozing, howeling, or chamfering cutter
is journaled in a swinging support.
Subclass:
23
Machines for crozing staves in which the stave is immovably
supported and the croze, howel, or chamfer is cut by a knife
carried in a reciprocating carrier.
Subclass:
24
Short curved places constructed to cut the croze, chamfer, or
howel in trussed barrels.
Subclass:
25
Machines for beveling and tapering the adjoining edges of
barrel-staves by jointing-machines not otherwise designated.
Subclass:
26
Machines for beveling and tapering the adjoining edges of
staves by mechanism which lowers and raises the work-carrying
platform as it passes between inclined or tapered revolving
cutters.
Subclass:
27
Machines for beveling and tapering the adjoining edges of
barrel-staves by means of rotary cutters mounted in movable
bearings controlled by reciprocating patterns or rotating
cams.
Subclass:
28
Machines for beveling and tapering the adjoining edges of
barrel-staves by means of saws placed at an inclination to
each other.
Subclass:
29
Machines for beveling and tapering the adjoining edges of
barrel-staves by means of large rotating disks provided with
knives in their faces.
Subclass:
30
Machines for beveling and tapering the adjoining edges of
barrel-staves in which the stock is supported by a movable
carriage controlled in movement past a single saw by a
guiding-track.
(1) Note. Stave-jointing machines in which the stock slides
past a single saw and in contact with an adjustable guide are
included in this subclass.
Subclass:
31
Machines for beveling and tapering the adjoining edges of
barrel-staves in which the stock is supported by a
longitudinally-movable carriage capable of being tilted on
trunnions which are located in the extended plane of the
saw.
Subclass:
32
Machines for beveling and tapering the adjoining edges of
barrel-staves by means of a suitable guiding-support and a
reciprocating slicing-knife.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
144, Woodworking, subclass 162.1 for a wood slicer,
generally.
Subclass:
33
Machines for beveling and tapering the adjoining edges of
barrel-staves by means of reciprocating planes or
shaving-tools which are made to follow the contour of a
templet or pattern.
Subclass:
34
Machines for beveling and tapering the adjoining edges of
barrel-staves by means of a saw journaled in a movable frame
controlled in its movement by a curved guide. The stock is
clamped to a stationary support while being operated upon.
Subclass:
35
Machines for beveling and tapering the adjacent edges of
laterally-fed barrel-staves by knives placed longitudinally
in the periphery of a rotating cylinder.
Subclass:
35.5
Machines for finishing staves with convex outer and concave
inner surfaces; also, machines for reducing the thickness of
staves between their ends, so that they may be more readily
bent to give the proper bulge to the barrel.
Subclass:
36
Machines for cutting out barrel-heads and shaping the edge
thereof to fit the barrel-croze. A few of these machines
also plane the heads or bore the joints for dowel-pins.
(1) Note. This subclass comprises machines for forming
barrel-heads which are not otherwise specifically
classified.
Subclass:
37
Machines for holding barrel-head stock concentric with a
knife or cutting-tool carried on a rotary arm.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
144, Woodworking, subclass 150 for woodworking by a rotary
disk cutter of the end thrust type.
Subclass:
38
Machines in which the stock is carried by a rotating chuck
into engagement with a rotary saw (plane or dished).
Subclass:
39
Lathe-like machines exclusively adapted for forming
barrel-heads.
Subclass:
40
Machines in which the stock is carried by a rotary chuck and
is operated upon by rotating molding-cutters.
Subclass:
41
Cutting-tools comprising a radial arm carrying at one end a
centering-pin and near its outer end a cutting-tool to be
operated by hand.
Subclass:
42
Tools for chamfering the staves when set up in barrel form.
Subclass:
43
Machines which perform two or more consecutive operations
peculiar to the production of hoops, as planing and bending,
planing and lapping, or planing and pointing
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
144, Woodworking, subclass 41 for a machine for sawing and
planing of wood, generally.
Subclass:
44
Machines in which bars of wood, checked or split at one end,
are separated into hoops by abruptly bending the bars
progressively from the checked ends toward the opposite
ends.
Subclass:
45
Machines which cut the bevels and point the ends of hoops.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
46
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
144, Woodworking, subclass 147 for woodworking shaper
machine which uses a reciprocating knife.
Subclass:
46
Machines which cut the notches near the ends of hoops,
whereby the ends may be interlocked.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
45
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
144, Woodworking, subclasses 75+ for a woodworking
mortising machine having a chisel and subclasses 147 for a
woodworking shaping machine having a reciprocating knife.
Subclass:
48
Forms, male and female, for shaping baskets. Formers for
shaping fruit-boxes and crates are also included.
Subclass:
49
Temporary hoops forced upon the barrel to secure the staves
in barrel form until they become permanently bent and
seasoned or dried.
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Last Modified: 6 October 2000