IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLE AND BARREL STOPPERS
Year: 1879

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LETTERS PATENT to Augustus Bowdin Joy, of Ilkley, in the County of York,
Brewer, for the Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLE AND BARREL
STOPPERS."
Sealed the 21st October 1879, and dated the 23rd April 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Augustus Bowdin Joy at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd April 1879.
AUGUSTUS BOWDIN JOY, of Ilkley, in the County of York, Brewer.
MENTS IN BOTTLE AND BARREL STOPPERS."
"IMPROVE-
The object of this Invention is to render the tapping of barrels easy, and not
only to dispense with corks for the same but to prevent the barrel from foisting or
fouling.
I accomplish the above object by inserting into the barrel at the corkhole a
screwed ferule with square or six side head; in the inside of this ferrule is a
screwed plug or valve at the end of which inside the barrel is a flange projecting
from the screwed part, and when this flange is screwed against the end of the
ferrule, the same forms a valve and prevents the liquid escaping therefrom.
The tap is an ordinary one with the following exceptions:-It is screwed behind
the perforations to the same thread as the inside of the ferrule, and terminates in
front of the perforations with a V shaped key which fits securely by means of a
side spring into the outer portion of the inside plug or valve, on turning the tap it
will turn the screwed valve from off the face to the inside of the barrel, the
contents can then be drawn off. When it is required to close the barrel, the tap is
unscrewed and the inside valve is brought again to its face; on relieving the
side spring the tap can be detached, thus leaving the barrel tight and closed as
before.
With regard to bottles I place the ferrule in the form of a cap upon or insertion
into the bottle neck, and when it is required to draw off the contents the tap as
above described is inserted; the object of my improvement when applied to bottles
is identically the same as that in view with regard to barrels.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Augustus Bowdin Joy in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd
October 1879.
"
AUGUSTUS BOWDIN JOY, of Ilkley, in the County of York, Brewer. 'IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BOTTLE AND BARREL STOPPERS."
The object of this Invention is to render the tapping of barrels easy, and not
only to dispense with corks for the same but to prevent the barrel from foisting
01 fouling.
I accomplish the above object by inserting into the barrel at the cork hole a
screwed ferrule with a square or six sided head; in the inside of this ferrule is a
screwed plug or valve, at the end of which inside the barrel is a flange projecting
from the screwed part, which can be faced with a washer made of india rubber
or other flexible material, and when this flange is screwed against the inside end
of the before mentioned ferrule, the washer is compressed, forms a valve, and
prevents the liquid escaping therefrom.
The tap is an ordinary one with the following exceptions:-It is screwed behind
the perforations to the same pitch of thread as the inside of the ferrule, and
terminates at the end with a screwed projection smaller in diameter than the body
of the tap, and with a V shaped key or pin which fits into a recess formed in the
outer portion of the inside plug, and is held therein by means of a spring. On
screwing the tap into the ferrule the key or projecting pin will turn the plug,
and screw the flange and washer from off the face of the plug inside the barrel,
and when the perforations in the tap are screwed beyond the end of the ferrule,
the contents can then be drawn off.
When it is required to close the opening into the barrel or vessel, the tap is
unscrewed and the inside flange and washer forming the valve are brought to the
end of the ferrule, thus closing the communication between the tap and the inside
of the barrel; on releiving the spring the tap can be detached, thus leaving the
barrel tight and closed as before.
With regard to the bottles I place the ferrule in the form of a cap upon or inserted
into the neck of the bottle, and when it is required to draw off the contents, the
tap as before described is inserted into the ferrule. The object of my improvement
when applied to bottles is identically the same as that in view with regard to
barrels.
Such being the nature and object of this my Invention I will now proceed to
describe the same in detail by reference to the accompanying Drawings. In the
Figures similar letters represent similar parts.
Figure 1 represents a longitudinal section through my improved stopper;
Figure 2 is an elevation of the tap when detached from the ferrule, and Figure 3 is
a view of the ferrule and plug.
The ferrule which is indicated by the letter A is screwed into the end of the
barrel or inserted into the bottle neck; a screwed thread is formed in the inner
diameter of the ferrule into which is screwed plug B having a flange C at one end
inside the vessel; this flange may be faced with a flexible ring D, such as india
rubber, which when screwed against the inside end of the ferrule forms a valve.
At the end of plug B and in the centre of the same is bored a hole which is
threaded, into which the end E of tap F is screwed, and the key or pin G is forced
by spring H into a hole formed in the end of plug B, so that by screwing the
tap forward the key or pin will cause plug B to screw towards the inside of the
barrel, and the thread J on the tap F will screw into the ferrule, as shewn in
Figure 1; the liquid will then pass through the perforations M, and on opening
the plug L can be withdrawn from the barrel or bottle.
If in case the perforations M become stopped with hops or other solid
matter, the tap can be unscrewed and withdrawn from the ferrule, and cleaned by

page_text: pressing the projection N towards the spring H, the key or pin is withdrawn out
of the hole in the plug, the tap can then be unscrewed and detached from the plug
which will retain the liquor in the vessel.
By the adoption of stoppers as described, the vessel containing the liquor cannot
be tapped or drawn off without first inserting the end of the tap into the plug, and
screwing it out of the ferrule into the interior of the barrel or bottle.
Having thus described my Invention.and the manner in which the same may be
carried into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the
precise details of attaching the tap F to the screwed part J, but what I believe to
be novel and original, and claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein
before in part recited Letters Patent is,-
The arrangement and combination of the various parts of the apparatus for
stopping barrels and bottles, substantially as herein before described and illus-
trated by the accompanying Drawings.
The arrangement and combination of the various parts of the apparatus for
tapping or drawing off the liquor contained in the barrel or bottle, substantially as
herein before described and illustrated by the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Augustus Bowdin Joy, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.
Witness,
JOHN WAUGH,
Patent and Engineering Offices,
Bradford,
Yorks.
AUGUSTUS BOWDIN JOY. (L.S.)