Improvements in and relating to Tapping Drums, Tanks, and other Receptacles for Liquids.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Aug., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 3rd May, 1895-Accepted, 3rd Aug., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Tapping Drums, Tanks, and other
Receptacles for Liquids.
1 THOMAS GUY BLOOD 27 Great Hampton Street Birmingham do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
1st. A metal collar to
The subject of my Patent is the following combination.
be fixed into a drum, tank or other vessel or receptacle for holding liquids.
2nd. A metal tap to be screwed into the collar when it is fixed on to the vessel.
3rd. A metal cap threaded to fit the aforesaid collar & thus interchanging with the
1ap. The principle advantage of the above is for transit purposes viz.:-When
the tank or drum is being conveyed from one place or another I unscrew my
projecting tap & screw on to the collar in its place the cap which thus projects
very little & consequently the risk of the taps being broken is overcome.
combination with above & to enable the very slightly projecting cap to be
unscrewed I depress in the outside of the cap a chamber which may be oval,
square or other shape & I also fashion on the end of the handle of the tap a
corresponding key wrench or turn-screw to unscrew the tap & I claim that each of
the four parts is necessary for my combined article.
Dated this 2nd day of August 1894.
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Improvements in and relating to Tapping Drums, Tanks, and other
Receptacles for Liquids.
I, THOMAS GUY BLOOD Neptune Works, 27 Great Hampton Street
Birmingham Sheet Metal Worker, Japauner and Maker of Wooden Goods
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 :-
This invention has relation to taps or traps for the delivery of liquid and
semi-liquid substances from vessels and is particularly applicable to the apparatus
known in commerce as a "treacle-trap," which consists of a jointed lever carrying
a plate or closure front which is turned trap-wise from in front of and from before
a faced opening in a drum or tank and wherethrough the substance to be delivered
is run.
Now such taps or straps are commonly made a fixture with the drum or tank and
consequently the said drums become injured during transport.
The object of my invention is to make such trap fittings separate and attachable
and detachable to and from the tank and drum as aforesaid and this I accomplish
by providing the drum or tank with an inside screwed collar surrounding the
outlet to the tank and adapted to engage with an outside screwed shank or bush of
the tap or trap, and also adapted to have fitted to it, when the tap or trap is not in
position, a closure cap having a key-hole or like sinking in its outer side, with
which a like keyed end or part of the handle or lever of the tap or trap engages
for removal by unscrewing of the said cap from the collar.

page_text: Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents, in front elevation, my
invention applied to a treacle trap or a tap for the delivery of treacle or sluggish-
flowing liquids or semi-liquid substances.
Figure 2 represents a part horizontal section of the same.
Figure 3 represents a like horizontal section of the tank collar, but with the tap
removed and a closure cap fitted to the collar in its stead. The said cap is only
used when the tank is stored or in transport.
Figure 4 represents a front elevation of the cap, showing the key-hole sinking
therein.
Figure 5 is an elevation of the key end of the lever.
a is the tap or trap, consisting of a body a', bore a², flange a³ and a faced
mouth a, closed by a shutter b, jointed by a pin , to the mouth flange a³, of the
body a', and having at the end opposite to the joint, a shouldered part 2, which
engages with an inclined inside-edged staple catch a, carried by the tap a, which
said shutter has a handle or lever 63, curved to follow the contour of the drum or
vessel terminated by a square key end 4.
The shank a', of the tap is outside screwed and takes within an inside screwed
ring or collar c, soldered or brazed around the outlet or piercing d', in the drum d,
with the flange a³, coming up to the front edge of the collar or upon an interposed
washer located thereon.
When the tap is removed for convenience in packing the tank or drum for
storage or transport, the ring or collar is closed by a closure or cap e, whose ontside
screwed shank e¹, worms therein, taking the overhanging flange e², thereof up to the
interposed washer is an angular or irregular shaped sinking formed in the front
of the cap and adapted to receive the corresponding shaped key end 6, of the lever
of the trap in order to facilitate removal.
Figure 6 represents a modified form of collar adapted to be used in connection
with wooden drums or receptacles.
d is the drum, d' the outlet therein and c is the flanged collar or ring, secured to
the drum and around the piercing by small wood screws g.
Figure 7 is a further modification of collar for use with wooden drums.
In this arrangement, the collar c, is provided with an outside screwed extension e¹,
which is screwed into the correspondingly wormed outlet d', to the drum d, and
there affixed.
My invention is applicable to taps generally as well as to taps or traps of the
lever-shutter type.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
First. Providing drums, tanks and like receptacles with a fast or attached collar
for receiving either the end or the screwed end of a tap or screwed closure or cap,
substantially as and for the purpose as described and set forth.
Secondly. The combination with a detachable tap or trap and a collar adapted
to receive said tap, of an inwardly curved handle following the contour of a drum
container, and having a key or turn at its end, substantially as described and set
forth.
Thirdly. The combination with the handle or lever of a tap or trap, of a key or
turn end adapted to take into a like-shaped sinking in the screwed cap or closure
for the purpose of removing the same, substantially as described and set forth.
Dated the 26th day of July 1893
THOMAS GUY BLOOD,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.