US554446A - Josiaii jones - Google Patents

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Nirnn STATES JOSIAH JONES, OF IIALLSVILLE, MISSOURI.

HOOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 554,446, dated February 11, 1896.

Application filed September 13, 1895. Serial No. 562,423. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, JOSIAH JONES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hallsville, in the county of Boone and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Hoop, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hoops, and particularly to the means of joining together the meeting ends of the hoop so as to do away with nails or staples and with the liability of the hoop to loosen and come apart.

The object of my invention is to provide a hoop-lock adapted to any band or tie,whether used on a barrel, pail, tank, bale or any other place, which will secure a smooth joint flush with the inner face of the joined members, and which also leaves a smooth outer surface with no loose ends, and which cannot be loosened by any strain, either lateral or longitudinal,short of bursting the hoop itself.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a front elevation of myimproved hoop. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the locking ends separated in unlocked position. Fig. 3 is a plan view thereof in locked position. Fig. 4 is a central longitudinal section thereof. Fig. 5 is a cross-section on line 5 5 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 6 is a similar cross-section online 6 6 of Fig. 1.

()ne end of the hoop 1 is provided with anelongated slot 2, whose squaredouter end 3 terminates at the point in the hoop where the outer bevel ibegins. The sides of slot2 converge at the rear end 5, which end is beveled to provide a guiding-groove 6 to aid in directing the thin edge 7 of the opposing end 8 of the hoop. This end 8 is provided on either edge withnotches 9 cut down slantingly from their rear ends to form a nick orshank 10, and out directly in at right angles to the hoop edges at their outer ends to formretainingshoulders 12 projecting laterally from either side of saidshank 10.

The end 8 is adapted to be bent around obliquely below and in front of the slotted end, and its edge 7 is then inserted throughslot 2 until theshank portion 10 passes into said slot. The two ends are then brought back into alignment and theshoulders 12 hooked behind the outer end of the slot. To insure certainty of alignment and rigidity and compactness, I shave down the inner side ofshank 10 at 13 so as to thin it toward the shoulders, and then cut out aninner shoulder 14 aligned withshoulders 12. Thisinner shoulder 14 is arranged to abut against a similartransverse shoulder 15, formed by shaving the side walls of theslot 2 on their inner faces from the rear end of the slot outward to formrecesses 16, terminating in thesquare shoulder 15 aligned with theslot end 3. In order to allow the adjacent inner surfaces of the portions of the hoop beyond saidshoulder 12 and 13 to align properly flush with each other, I thin down theportions 17 beyondshoulders 12, leavingwalls 18 aligned withshank 10 parallel to the hoop edges so that saidportions 17 may lie in and correspond to therecesses 16. Aflat groove 19 is also pro vided, sloping outwardly fromend 3 of the slot, to receive theshank 10. Therear bottom end 20 of thisgroove 19 is flush with the inner faces or bottoms ofrecesses 16. Thus it will appear that, inasmuch asshoulder 14 is of the same depth asshoulder 15, the arrangement just described will necessitate that the abutting inner edges of said shoulders shall lie flush with each other.

The operation of my hoop lock or joint has already been alluded to. It consists of twisting the hook end 8 so as to pass its thin edge 7 through theslot 2 with the aid of guidinggroove 6. The hoop is then allowed to spring back into its normal plane, which brings theshoulders 12 and 14 of the hook end 8 locked or hooked againstshoulder 15 of the slot end of the hoop. Shank 10 now rests snugly with its side 13 inflat groove 19, and thethinned strips 17 occupy therecesses 16, theadjacent walls 18 thereof abutting against the side walls of the slot and the edges of the shank 1O resting against the walls ofgroove 19.

My improved interlocking arrangement of the hoop ends has been described as applied to a wooden hoop; but of course the same form and arrangement of parts is equally applicable to metallic hoops or to any separated parts which are to be hooked together and permit of a twisting motion, as in clasps for hawsers, splices, &c.

hat I claim is-- 1. An interlocking joint for two independ-' longitudinal slot, a recessed portion behind said slot tapering from a thin rear end to a deeper outer end in alignment with the outer end of said slot whereby a single transverse shoulder is formed extending entirely across the end, a central longitudinal neck or shank in the other end provided atits outer end with a single inner transverse shoulder extending entirely across the end and also provided with two lateral shoulders, one on either side of said shank aligning with and constituting parts of said transverse shoulder, whereby each of said ends is provided with but a single shoulder which extends transversely entirely across it and both of said shoulders being adapted to oo-operate substantially as described.

2. In a locking-joint for a hoop, the combination with the two usual ends beveled to thin edges at their extremities, one end having a tapering recess formed in the inner side of one hoop end and terminating at its outer portion in a transverse shoulder extending entirely across its respective end, a closed longitudinal slot through said end outwardly beveled at its rear end and terminating at its outer end in alignment with said inner shoulder and constituting a part thereof and a shallow groove in the outer side of said hoop end longitudinally aligned with said slot and tapering in at its rear bottom end to align flush with the outer bottom end of said inner recess, a tapered depression on the inner side of the opposite hoop end terminating at its outer end in a transverse shoulder extending entirely across the said end, said hoop end being notched at either edge adjacent to the said depression to form a shank adapted to fit within the aforesaid slot, said notches terminating at their outer ends in shoulders aligned with and constituting portions of the said inner transverse shoulder and said shoulders being cut away on their outer faces to bring said faces in alignment flush with the bottom of said inner depression, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of Witnesses.

JOSIAH JONES;

Vitnesses XV. L. ROBINSON, D. B. CARPENTER, A. O. IIULEN.

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