DUID Improvements in and in connection with Means for Tapping Casks and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: COME DUID
Improvements in and in connection with Means for Tapping Casks
and the like.
I, DILLON BEEBE of 1137 Broad Street, Newark, in the County of Essex,
State of New Jersey, United States of America, Lumber Dealer 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
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statement:-
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This invention relates to that class of faucet-attachments for barrels, casks,
kegs, and the like, in which the operation of securing the faucet upon said
barrel serves in opening the barrel so that there may be an exit of fluid therefrom
into the faucet, and, when the faucet spigot is turned to its open position, an outflow
of fluid from said faucet.
The objects of the present improvements are to simplify the construction and
reduce the number of working parts, and thus reduce the wear and render the
device more durable and more perfectly impervious to leakage, and to secure other
advantages and results some of which will be referred to in connection with the
description of the operating parts.
The invention consists in the improved faucet attachment and bung and in the
arrangements and combinations of parts, all substantially as well as fully set forth
and finally embraced in the clauses of the claim.
Referring to the accompanying drawing in which like letters indicate corresponding
parts in each of the figures;
Figure 1 is a central vertical section of the faucet and attachments, when applied
to the keg or barrel ;
Figure 2 is a front elevation of a metallic bung in detail;
Figure 3 is a section of the same on line x, and
Figure 4 is an end view and Figure 5 a side view of the key end of the faucet.
Figures 6 & 7 illustrate a modified form of said key end and
Figure 8 illustrates the rear face of the bung, and showing an interior chamber in
outline.
In said drawing, a, indicates a bottom portion of a barrel having a bung-hole
through which all, or a greater part, of the fluid contents may flow out by gravity
or gaseous pressure in the ordinary manner; b is a threaded bushing screwed into
said bung-hole and making an impervious joint therewith, at 6'. The said bushing
is of a length coinciding with the thickness of the wood of the barrel, so that there
will be no material inward projection thereat. The inner wall of the bushing is
also threaded to receive a correspondingly threaded bung, the threads, producing
an impervious and substantially permanent joint not liable to be opened when
applying the wrenching force exerted in fastening or removing the faucet and
dispensing with packing rings, washers and the like. The bung may be screwed
directly into the wood.
The bung, c, is a metallic casting exteriorly threaded to admit of being screwed
into the bushing, as at c'; flanged, as at c', to be prevented from entering too deeply
into the bushing, and notched, as at c', to admit of the bung being turned by means
of a suitable tool.
Said bung is centrally perforated and ground to receive a tapering spigot, d,
and form an impervious joint therewith without rubber or similar packing, and is
provided with an open outflow passage, e, which has an open, uncovered exit at the
inner face of the bung and, at its opposite end coincides with an outflow passage, f.
in the bung spigot when said spigot is in its open position.
The bung at one side of said central spigot perforation is cored out, as at e¹,