Improvements in and connected with Taps for Barrels.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, fot Mar., 1994
Complete Specification Left, 1st Dec., 1894-Accepted, 5th Jan., 1895
Date of Application, rot Matij
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Complete Specification Left, 1st Dec., 1894-Accepted, 5th Jan., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Taps for Barrels.
I, JAMES ALFRED WEST of Sheepridge, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, Brick and
Pipe Maker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my improvements in and connected with taps for barrels is to
dispense with the cork or wood plugs, or stoppers now used to seal up the barrel,
or of boring a hole to receive the tap, and to provide more permanent means for
the purpose which will save the cost of renewals at each re-filling of the barrel and
render much easier the attachment of the tap thereto.
In carrying out my invention. I employ a metal socket or bush which is secured
in the end of the barrel by screws, or it may be screwed into the woodwork of the
barrel, and becomes a permanent part of it.
The said socket or bush is provided with an internal screw thread, and a peg or.
stopper with an external thread thereon is adapted to be screwed into it, such peg or
stopper having a recess or opening in one end to receive a corresponding projection
or key on the end of the tap by which it can be turned round. The tap also has
an external screw thread and is adapted to screw into the socket or bush.
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The peg is screwed into the socket or bush in sealing up the barrel, or before
liquids are placed therein and when desiring to affix the tap for drawing off
the liquid or liquor, the projection or key on the end thereof is inserted in the
opening in the peg and the latter is screwed through beyond the inner end of the
socket or bush, the thread on the tap meanwhile engaging with the internal screw
thread of the socket into which it is screwed sufficiently far to expose lateral
openings, made in the end of the tap, to the liquor or liquid in the barrel which
passes therethrough into the tap.
By this means the fixing of the tap to the barrel is facillated and can be
accomplished with ease by anyone, there being no openings to bore, no injury done
to the woodwork and no wood or cork plugs or stoppers to renew. The peg may
be arranged so as to remain or be supported on the end of the tap when the latter
is screwed "home," or said peg may be allowed to fall into the barrel and is
re-inserted in the socket at the next filling of the barrel. The parts brought into
contact with the contents of the barrel may be tinned enamelled, galvanized or
vitrified.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Taps for Barrels.
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I, JAMES ALFRED WEST, of Sheepridge, Huddersfield, Yorkshire; Brick and
Pipe Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
satne is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
The object of my improvements in and connected with taps for barrels is to

page_text: dispense with the cork or wood plugs, or stoppers now used to seal up the barrel,
or of boring a hole to receive the tap, and to provide more permanent means for
the purpose which will save the cost of renewals at each re-filling of the barrel and
render much easier the attachment of the tap thereto.
In carrying out my invention I employ a metal socket or bush which is secured
in the end of the barrel by screws, or it may be screwed into the woodwork of. the
barrel, and becomes a permanent part of it. The said socket or bush is provided
with an internal screw thread, and a peg or stopper with an external thread thereon
is adapted to be screwed into it, such peg or stopper having a recess or opening in
one end to receive a corresponding projection or key on the end of the tap by
which it can be turned round. The tap also has an external screw thread and is
adapted to screw into the socket or bush. The peg is screwed into the socket or 'bush
in sealing up the barrel or before liquids are placed therein, and when desiring to
affix the tap for drawing off the liquid or liquor, the projection or key on the end
thereof is inserted in the opening in the peg and the latter is screwed through
beyond the inner end of the socket or bush, the thread on the tap 'meanwhile
engaging with the internal screw thread of the socket into which it is screwed
sufficiently far to expose lateral openings made in the end of the tap, to the liquor
or liquid in the barrel which passes therethrough into the tap.
My invention is hereafter more fully ascertained and described with reference to
the annexed drawings illustrative thereof, wherein :-
Fig. 1 is elevation of a tap constructed according to my invention, for drawing
off beer or other liquids or liquors contained in barrels and adapted for use in con-
junction with the metal cork or plug for sealing the barrel and corresponding bush
or socket into which said cork is screwed shewn in part sectional elevation in
Fig. 2.
Fig. 3 is front elevation of Fig. 2.
Fig. 4 shews the tap inserted in the end of the barrel and the metal cork or plug
displaced or forced out.
Referring to the drawings A represents the tap which is made in two forms, one
for publicans or trade use, as shewn in Figs. 1 and 4 and having a screwed end B
to receive an ordinary union for coupling a pipe to the tap and the other
form of tap for the use of private consumers as shewn in Fig. 5.
The barrel of the tap is provided with a screw thread C which is adapted to be
screwed into the metal bush or socket D secured to the beer or other barrel E by
small screws F, or said bush may be screwed into the woodwork of the barrel. Into
the bush or socket D is screwed a metal cork or plug G having formed in one end
thereof a recess or keyway H to receive a square or key I on the end of the tap.
The metal cork G seals up the barrel when filled with. liquid or liquor and on
desiring to tap the barrel, the square end I is inserted into the recess or keyway H
in the cork and the tap then turned around so as to gradually drive the cork
through the bush towards the interior of the barrel. By the time the cork has
been screwed partly out of the bush the screw thread C.oir the tapihas arrived at,
and engaged with the internal screw thread in the bush into which it is now
screwed until the metal cork or plug G is driven clear of the bush as shewn in Fig. 4
whereupon it falls into the barrel and remains there until the latter is emptied when
it is taken out and again screwed into the bush on the barrel being re-filled.
When the tap has been screwed into the bush as shewn at Fig. 4 the liquor or
liquid is free to pass into same through the lateral openings or perforations K and
is drawn off through the tap in the usual way.
The square or key I may be made sufficiently long to hold 'the cork G thereon
when driven through the bush into the barrel.
By the means above described a considerable saving in wear and tear of the
barrels is effected; a permanent cork and bush are provided which will last the
life of the barrel; there are no openings t bore and no wood or cork plugs or
stoppers to renew, and the insertion of the tap into the barrel is facilitated and
effected without the least waste of liquor or liquid.

page_text: The parts brought into contact with the contents of the barrel may be tinned,
enamelled galvanized or vitrified to prevent corrosion or contamination of the
liquids.
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 :-
In barrels for beer and other liquids or liquors, the combination of a metal cork
or plug, bush or socket for same secured to the end of the barrel and tap A having
a screwed body C, lateral openings K and square end or key I, all arranged, con-
structed and acting in the manner and for the purposes substantially as herein
shewn and described.
Dated this 30th day of November 1894.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Huddersfield, Patent Agents.