A METHOD OF MANU- FACTURING COCKS FOR DRAWING OFF ALE, BEER, OR ANY OTHER LIQUID
Year: 1795

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
TIMMINS, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Button Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twelfth day of January last past, did give and grant unto
me, the said James Timmins, my exors, admors, and assigns, His special
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said James
Timmins, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
that part of Great Britain, called England, the Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A METHOD OF MANU-
FACTURING COCKS FOR DRAWING OFF ALE, BEER, OR ANY OTHER LIQUID;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a provisoe that if I, the said James
Timmins, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within one calender month next after the date of
the said Letters Patent, then the said Letters Patent should be void, as in and
by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, will appear.
. NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Timmins, do hereby declare that the nature of my Invention is an
improvement in the Method of Manufacturing Cocks for Drawing off Ale, Beer,
or any other Liquid, by which the inconveniences attending the present mode of
riveting the plug or key in the barrell of the cock and soldering on the head
is removed, and a simple and easy method adopted, by which they may be
taken to pieces to clean and oil or grease the plug or key, thereby making

page_text: then go as easy and be as free from leaking as when first made; and consist
of two distinct methods, as exhibited by Drawings in the margin hereof, and
are made or composed of copper or brass or any other metal or compound of
metal, or of cast iron, and are made of any size or form I prefer.
The Drawing, Figure 1, is the profile of a cock when finished, the component 5
parts of which are,-A, the barrel of the cock; B, the plug or key; C, a socket
in which the end of the plug or key (after being turned with a groove), as at D,
works; E is a piece of metal which is rivetted, soldered, or screwed in or to
the bottom of the barrel of the cock at F, in which is a hole, as at G, which
the bottom of the socket C is received into; H, II, is a pin which screws into
the bottom of the socket C through the hole G, and keeps the plug or key
when in the barrel of the cock in its place; I 1, 2, 3, shows the socket C in
different views, videlizet: I 1 shews the top of it turned exactly the reverse
of the end of the plug or key 1), and into which it is received; 12 shews the
bottom of the socket with the screw into which the pin H is received; I 3
is the side view of the socket C, cut through the upper part with a spring saw
in several places, which when put on the end of the plug or key B are closed
up together, by which mean the convex rim in the inside of the socket I 1
is forced into the concave or groove 1); K is a section shewing the manner
in which tho end of the plug or key B is received and works in the socket C.
The Drawing, Figure 2, is the section of a cock, the component parts of
which are: L, the barrel, with the head cast on instead of being soldered on;
M, the plug or key, which is thickest at the bottom and tapers to the top;
N is a shoulder which works against another on the inside of the barrel, there-
by making it water-tight upwards; O is a screw which is received at the
bottom of the barrel of the cock, after the plug or key M is placed in it; P is
a smaller screw which passes through the larger O, and on the point of which
the plug or key works as upon a center, and by which the plug or key
is screwed up tighter, or cased at pleasure; Q is a flat piece of metal, with
the hole the form of the key, which is soldered or riveted on the top of tho
head of the cock at R. In describing this cock, the references are the same to
the section as to its component parts. thereby shewing the application of
them all.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Seventh
day of February, in the thirty-fifth year of the reign of our Sovereign
Lord George the Third, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France,
and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the year
of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-five.
JAMES TIMMINS. (L.s.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventh day of February, in the
year of our Lord 1795, the aforesaid James Timmins came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the
Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Eleventh day of February, in the year of our Lord One