US1703432A - Floor stand for supporting vinegar barrels and barrels of other liquid content - Google Patents

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Feb. 26, 1929 H. L. SHELLABARGER FLOOR STAND FOR SUPPORTING vlugle ARKBARRELS AND BARRELS OF OTHER LIQUID 001mm Filed Sept. 1926 jfwwziar;

Patented Feb. 26, 1929.

UNITED STATES.

HUGH L. SHELLABARGER, OF CASTLE ROCK, COLORADO.

FLOOR STAND FOR SUPPORTING VINEGAR BARRELS ANDBARRELS OF OTHER LIQUID CONTENT.

Application filedseptember 7, 1926; Serial No. 133,978.

My invention relates to a new and novel floor stand for supporting vinegar barrels and barrels of other liquid content, which is dispensed at stores in retail orders.

And the objects of my invention are:

First: to provide a floor stand for-liquid holding barrels, that is adapted to support such barrels high enough above the floorto allow its contents to be easily drawn off through a spigot, placed in its bottom edge, into measures placed on the floor beneath said spigot and which tilts the barrel forwardly far enough to permit all of the liquid therein to be drawn out.

Second: to provide abarrel supporting floor stand, that is arranged to fit over one end of a barrel and that is provided preferably with three legs, two of which are of rocker form to allow heavy barrels of liquid content, tobe righted to a vertical position by an attendant, and supported on said stand, such operation without the improved stand requiring the effort of two or more persons.

Third: to provide a simple and inexpensive floor stand in the form of an angle bar ring, which is adapted to be placed over one. end of a barrel, and which is provided with preferably three supporting legs, two of which are in the form of rockers, whereby a heavy barrel of liquid content can be easily canted from a horizontal to a vertical position by a single attendant, and supported at a distance above the floor to permit the placing of measuring vessels beneath the spigot of said barrel, which is usually inserted near the lower end thereof.

I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which: I

Figure 1, is a sidc view showing a barrel supported on the improved stand in a position for use. I

Figure 2, is a side view illustrating the manner in which a barrel can be canted from a horizontal to a vertical position through the medium of the improved supporting stand.

Figure 3, is a plan view of the stand.

Figure 4:, is a slightly enlarged sectional View on the line l4 of Figure 3, and

Figure 5, is a view of a portion of the stand showing the manner of securing the front leg thereto. 7

In the retail trade, certain liquid, commodities, for example, vineganis dispensed direct- 1y from a barrel, which is supported in a vertical position upon any suitable object, such as a box or piece of timber, so that the lower end portion of the barrel, in which a spigotis inserted, will be far enough above the floor to PGIHRit'Ol measuring tins being placed beneath the said spigot. Such barrels are very heavy and require the service oftwo or more persons in orderto place them on the required support. The present invention, however, is

designed to eliminate much of the effort or- I dinarily required in placing such barrels upon supports, by providing an improved support, which also functions as a means of facilitating the canting of a barrel from a horizontal to a vertical position, as will. hereinafter appear. Referring to the accompanying drawings The numeral 1 indicates a ring which is formed from an an le bar, so as to comprise an inwardly projecting circular base or horizontal flange 2, and an upright rim 3 which is of adiameter corresponding to that of the end of the barrel upon which it is to be placed. To the base flange are bolted three legs which are substantially equidistant, one of the legs 4*, being the front leg and the other legs 5, being rear legs. The front leg 4 is preferably about a half inch shorter than the rear legs, and is about an inch and a quarter thick, and its upper end is formed with lateral projections 6 which are bolted to the base flange 2 of the ring. The rear legs 5 are of sector shape to provide rockers, their rear edges being curved from. their'upper ends to the lower end portions which rest upon the floor. These rockers are socured to the base flange of the ring by screws 7 which extend through the said base flange and into threaded holes in the upper edges of the rockers. The rockers are preferably arranged to converge slightly, with respect to each other and their upper ends extend rearward far enough beyond the points where they are bolted to the ring, to be in line with rearinost point of the ring, as will be understood by referenceto Fig. 3. By converging the legs 5 the maximum mechanical strength is obtained since, as will be apparent from Fig. 3, the rocker legs 5 may be secured to a relatively narrow flange 2 at comparatively vwidely spaced points. The converging of'the legs facilitates the handling of heavy barrels since the weight of a barrel when in horizontal or in inclined position is supported at points which are closer to the inedial plane between legs 0 than would be the case if the legs were parallel. For these reasons I prefer to locate the legs 5 in planes which are approximately tangential to the base flange.

In practice, where it is oesired to support a barrel of any liquid cont at upon theirnproved floor stand, ring 1 is placed over one end of the barrel, and if it is necessary in order to hold the ring in place, which, however, very seldom happens, a looped wire I is messed under the ring justback 01" the front leg l, and is hooked over a nail or screw 8, which is temporarily inserted in the lower portion of the ba rel above the said front leg, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The barrel, which is new in a horizontal tiosition, can be easily canted to a vertical position by swinging the same over upon the rockers 5 until it rests squarely upon the rockers and upon the front i, and as the front leg slightly shorter than the rear legs or rockers, the barrel will have a slightly forward inclination, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. A spigot- 9, is inserted in a hole in the lower end portion of the barrel a slight distance from the bottom head thereof, while the barrel still in a horizontal position, and as the legs or the barrel are about twelve inches long, this spigot will be high enough above the floor to permit of measuring vessels being placed beneath the said spigot to be filled therefrom. As the barrel has a slightly forward inclination, and the spigot is located near the bottom head of the barrel. practically all of the contents of the barrel mosses can thus be drawn 01% through the spigot. The wire 7 is only a temporary expedient to hold the ring on the barrel, while the barrel is being canted from a horizontal to a. vertical position and therefore, the said wire serves no purpose after the barrel assumes an upright position on the base flange 2, of the stand, and may be removed. The improved stand not only provides a simple and practical manner of supporting a barrel of any liquid content in position to permit the con tent to be drawn oil as required, but it also greatly reduces the manual eiiort necessary in the usual manner of placing such barrels upon a support.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A stand for supporting a barrel in vertical position, said stand comprising a ring having a narrow annular supporting flange and an upwardly extending vertical flange at the outer periphery of said annular flange, and three legs secured to said ring at substantially equidistant points about the circumference thereof, two of said legs being each of similar sector shape with an outer edge which curves outwardly from the base of the leg, wl'ierehy the said sector shapedlegs serve as rockers tor canting a barrel fromhorizont'al position into vertical position upon said stand.

In testimony whereof, I ahix my signature.

HUGH L. SHELLABARGER.

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