Improvements in Devices Particularly Applicable for Drawing off the Contents of Casks, Bottles, Jugs, and other similar Vessels. and also Applicable for Filling the same.
Year: 1888

page_text: Improvements in Devices Particularly Applicable for Drawing off
the Contents of Casks, Bottles, Jugs, and other similar Vessels.
and also Applicable for Filling the same.
MATHIAS DUHR, wine merchant, in Cologne on the Rhine, Germany do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of the present invention is to simplify the device described in British
patent No. 11661 of 1887, while at the same time obtaining the same efficiency.
In the annexed drawing:
Fig. 1 is a vertical section of the device.
Fig. 2 is a top view of the same, with the intermediate part H and nut G removed.
Fig. 3 is a vertical section.
Fig. 4 is a vertical section of the device, ready for being carried or shipped.
Fig. 5 and 6 are modifications in vertical section.
Fig. 7 and 8 illustrate the adaptation of the device to a bottle or jug.
Fig. 9 illustrates the ailaptation of the device to an ordinary bottle, jug or such
like in vertical section.
Fig. 10 is a top view of fig. 9.
Fig. 11 is a vertical section of the device to which is applied directly a contrivance
for drawing off the contents of the cask and for filling and an air cock L.
Fig. 12 is a vertical section of the device, shown as applied to a cask which is made
for receiving a device of the ordinary kind; this figure also shows an apparatus for
alling the cask, provided with a safety attachment.
Fig. 13 is a modification of the device as shown applied to a bottle, jug or like
receptacle.
Fig. 14 is a side view of fig. 13.
The invention resides in the employment of several disks provided with holes o o¹
which are arranged excentrically to the axis of rotation of the disks; the object being
to enable the device to be opened or to be closed by causing the disks to be rotated.
An opening is bored out of the cask; the opening is not however carried through the

page_text: entire thickness of the material and is screw threaded to receive a metal casing A.
A disk a of cork or other suitable material is laid under the casing A, at the bottom
of the opening. Excentrically to the center of the said disk is an opening o corresponding
to a similar opening in the cask; as shown in fig. 2, the opening leads into two
prolongations V.
Over the disk a is laid a rotating disk R provided at its upper face with an annular
rim the said disk R is for opening or closing the device. For this purpose, the
disk R has an opening o' and it is held down against the disk a by means of a ringr
let into the metallic casing A. As in the aforementioned British patent 11661 of 1887,
the holes o o¹ are excentrically to the axis of rotation. The disk R can be caused to
rotate by means of a pins secured thereto, by means of which pin the rotation of the
disk R is limited when the pin strikes against the walls of the prolongations V of the
opening o.
Instead of allowing the casing A to project, as shown in fig. 1, it may be made
flush with the outer surface of the cask, see fig. 3. The intermediate part H between
the drawing off or cock tap which is secured thereto and the device is screwed down
against the metallic casing A by means of a nut G provided with wings ff; the
contents of the cask can then be drawn.
In the arrangement shown in fig. 1, the nut G is screw threaded internally, whilst
in the arrangement shown in fig. 3, it is screw threaded externally, this difference
resulting from the modification of the casing A. In the last mentioned arrangement,
S is a disk for closing up the device when it is desired to send off or ship the cask;
the said disk S penetrates sufficiently far into the device so as to be flush with the cask,
see fig. 4. The intermediate part H is reinforced at h, fig. 1 and 3; into the reinforced
portion is a hole which engages over the pins, so that the rotation of the part II is
communicated to the disk R, thus opening or closing the hole o of the device.
Instead of sinking the disk R. into a countersunk hole, the same can be arranged as
shown in fig. 5, in which the disk R is placed within the cask and serves to open or
close the device. Between the cask and the disk R is laid a disk a, sunk into the cask.
In fig. 6, the metallic casing A as well as the disk R are above the cask, so that the
cask need only be countersunk to receive the disk a. When the herein before described
device is desired to be employed for bottles and jugs, the neck of the same must be of
a suitable shape, as shown in fig. 7 and 8. Instead of the casing A, the internal part
of the neck is screw-threaded and at the bottom it is flat for receiving the ring a. The
remainder of the device is exactly the same as hereinbefore described.
If it be desired to adapt casks which are already in use (and in which the opening
is considerably larger than that intended for my improved device) to receive my
improved device, it will merely be sufficient to countersink the hole o, already existing,
to a certain extent and to screw thread the same so that it can receive the casing A,
(see fig. 12). The bottom of the countersunk portion receives a ring a upon which is
laid a suitable disk i made of glass or other appropriate material and having a hole o ;
and onto the last mentioned disk i is set the rotating disk R.
As glass is the best material for also making the disk R, but as the edges thereof are
liable to break off, the said disk R is turned off at is periphery, see fig. 11 and 12 and
onto the turned off edge is laid a metallic ring ; the said ring is of an octogonal
shape internally, so as to fit onto the disk R and follow its motions.
Ordinary bottles or jugs, etc., can likewise be fitted or arranged so as to receive my
improved device.
Over the neck of the bottle, jug or jar is a metallic casing m made of two parts,
which are pressed on, cast on or otherwise secured; both parts are held together by
means of rings and d. Onto the top of the neck of the bottle is first laid a packing
ring a having a hole o, upon which is laid the rotating disk R. Onto the disk R may
be cast or secured a nozzle e, as shown in fig. 8, 9 and 11, and also an air valve not
shown.
In the arrangement shown in fig. 8, u is a lever for opening and closing the device. ;
when in use, the lever u engages over the nozzle e and onto a pin let or sunk into the
disk R. When the bottle is being carried or when it is not in use, the lever u, acting

page_text: as a key, is taken off and the whole device is covered by a cap n. To enable the said
cap n to be secured, the neck of the bottle is screwthreaded, corrugated or similarly
shaped.
The device shown in fig. 11 is exactly similar, in its arrangement & construction,
to the one shown in fig. 1 and 3, except that instead of employing the connecting
piece H (of the latter figures) which extends over the whole disk R and to which is
secured the tap, I make use of a drawing off or tapping pipe which is connected to
the disk R on part only of the latter's surface, so that the device can be opened and
closed by the said drawing off pipe. At its upper end, the said drawing off pipe has
a nozzle e by which a special tap or cock is rendered superfluous. As this arrangement
can also be used for filling bottles, casks and other vessels, a small air cock L is applied
to the disk R, for allowing the air to escape from inside the vessel, when being filled.
In the arrangement shown in fig. 12, the disk R is fitted on a pin 1 and is provided
with a contrivance F, through the opening o of which latter the cask can be filled.
The opening o can be covered or uncovered by the disk R. which is provided with an
opening o arranged excentrically to the axis of rotation. The rotation of the disk R
takes place on its horizontal axis l, instead of vertical one. The device secured to
the cask is exactly as the one previously described the second device applied to the
contrivance for filling the cask only acts to stop the admission of the liquid and the
said admission is stopped automatically. When the liquid in the contrivance F causes
the ball 1 which is connected by a rod 7 to a lug of the disk R to be raised, the disk R
is rotated around its axis and the entrance o becomes closed. At the same time, the
ball is pressed against the plug 72 and an acoustic signal is given by the escape of
air through the whistle P.
In the arrangement shown in fig. 13 a disk R of cylindrical form is exchanged for
the flat disk previously described the cylindrical disk R is ground into the neck of the
bottle and is held by means of a ring 7. In the said cylinder R is an inclined opening ol
by which, when the device is open, communication is established between the opening
of the neck of the bottle and the opening of the nozzle e. By turning the cylinder to
an angle of 180 degrees, the opening of assumes the position shown in dotted lines and
the bottle becomes closed.
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The essential advantage of the hereinbefore described device resides in this that by
a plain rotary motion of the disk or cylinder R, the device can be opened or closed and
that all contact of the liquid contained in the cask, bottle, jug or other vessel with another
material than that out of which the said cask etc., is made of, is prevented, because the
disk R is likewise made of the same material, viz.: wood, glass or other suitable
material.
K, fig. 1 and 11, is a sieve which may be accessory to the arrangements and L is an
air cock.
The hereinbefore described devices can be used for filling other vessels than casks.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
First. A device for drawing off the contents of casks, bottles, jugs and other like
vessels, which device is characterised by this that in casks, the hole is countersunk
and is provided with an excentric opening o, and that in bottles, jugs and such like,
the neck is either formed as shown in fig. 7, or is provided with a casing m made of
two parts and a disk i held by means of rings cd, see fig. 9, by means of which
arrangement, in combination with the disk R provided with a hole excentrically to
its axis of rotation, the device upon turning the said disk R, can be opened or closed.
Second. The adaptation of a nozzle e direct to the disk R (fig. 8 and 9).
Third. The arrangement, as a substitute for the disk R, of the foregoing arrange-
ment of a cylindrical disk R, fig. 13, which is provided with an excentric inclined
hole o by means of which the device can be opened and closed.
Fourth. The adaptation of a removable lever u, fig. 8, surrounding the nozzle e and
secured to the said disk, for the purpose of preventing access to the contents of the
bottle or other like vessel, when the said lever is removed.

page_text: Fifth. The arrangement of device for filling bottles, casks and other vessels and also
for drawing off the contents therefrom, as described with reference to fig. 11.
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Sixth. The filling device F, fig. 12, composed of a disk R. pivoted on a central
axis and provided with an excentric holo o', a connecting rod q¹ secured at
operating the said disk R by means of a float q, a valve seat q2 a whistle p or its
equivalent alarm or signal, and a filling in pipe o the bottom opening of which
coincides with the aforementioned opening o'.
Dated this 5th day of Santamban 1908