IMPROVEMENTS IN BUSHES FOR CASKS
Year: 1884

page_text: I RICHARD WILLIAM TAYLER, 17 Angel Hill Bury St. Edmunds in the County
of Suffolk, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for the said
IMPROVEMENTS IN BUSHES FOR CASKS to be as follows:-
An Improved ductile or metalic Bush or Lining for the bung-holes and Cork-
holes of barrels and Casks made to fit the said holes and retain their position therein
by expansion, and without the aid of a thread thereon, or the addition of screws,
pins, or rivets, and stamped froin ductile metal into the required shapes for this
purpose This Invention relates to Improvements in the construction of Metalic
Bushes for the bung-holes and cork-holes of barrels and casks, and has for its object
to superceed the rigid cast metal bushes heretofore used, by a ductile bush stamped
into the required shape and capable of being expanded after it has been fitted into
the hole in the barrel or cask. In carrying the said Invention into practice the
Improved bush is stamped into any size or form required and from any ductile or
malleable metal or material such as iron, tin, steel, or preferably from sheet brass,
and dispenses with the use of a screw or thread on the outside of the bush or the
use of screws or rivets to hold it in its place in the stave barrel or cask, being by
the expansion applied to it held in its place, and the said Improved bush being
constructed of ductile metal or material admits of being expanded any number of
times or as often as it may become loose. From the nature of the construction or
manufacture of the Improved bush any name may be stamped on the rim or flanges
thereof, and the expansion or tightening of the said bush into the hole in the stave
or cask is produced by pressure being applied from within the bush in an outward
direction by an expander or mandrel, and the metal being ductilo is forced into the
pores of the wood which serves to hold it in position and at the same time provides
an air tight joint to prevent the escape of the contents of the barrel or cask; and
for the more effectual accomplishment of this twofold object rings or projections
may be stamped on the outside of the Improved bush, and these being forced further
into the hole made to receive the bush than the sides of the bush itself, the bush
must be held tightly in the bung-hole or cork-hole and an air-tight joint obtained
by one and the same means, and without the use of a thread on the bush or screws
or pins added thereto.

page_text: I RICHARD WILLIAM TAYLER 17 Angel Hill Bury St Edmunds Engineer do
horeby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN BUSHES FOR
CASKS and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Improvements in bushes for bung holes and cork holes of casks consisting of
expansive metalic bushes constructed of malleable or expansive sheet metal either
of brass or other metal or metals and stamped or pressed by dies into the required
shapes and sizes The said bush admits of and is designed to be expanded into and
arround the sides of the holes in the casks and fitted to and secured therein
mechanically true and perfectly air or liquor tight and that without the aid of any
additional or extraneous substance beyond the thickness or substance of the metal
composing the said expansive metalic bung bush and the said bush being constructed
of expansive or ductile metal also admits of being clinched on the underside of the
stave of the cask and is capable of being re-expanded in the hole of the cask as
often as necessity may require. The metalic bush also permits of a ring or
projection being formed on its lower edge so that the said ring or projection may
be expanded further into the wood than the sides of the bush itself. The bushes
can be fixed either into the staves separately or into the whole casks with equal
facility and the same advantages. A is a view of an expansive metalic bung bush.
B is a bush having the projection or ring formed on the lower edge and shewn
ready to be expanded into the stave or cask C. is a view of a bush expanded or
clinched on the underside of the stave or inside the cask.
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 :-
I An expansive metalic or malleable metal bush for the bung holes and cork holes
of casks or barrels.
II The fitting and securing of the said bush air tight and liquor tight in the holes
of casks by the application of expansion to the bush.
III. The construction of a metalic or malleable bush being produced from sheet
metal formed into the required shapes and sizes by presses or dies, and capable of
being expanded or clinched in the staves of barrels or casks.
Dated this 8th day of October 1884.