Improvements in or connected with Tapping Casks or other Receptacles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Aug., 1894
*Complete Specification Left, 21st May, 1895-Accepted, 22nd June, 1805
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Tapping Casks or other
Receptacles.
I HENRY WALTER RICE of 7 Magdala Road Nottingham Lace Manufacturer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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The tap employed may be of brass, bell metal or wood but instead of having a
brass or wood stem, the stem is formed of a thin steel tube with a cutting edge at
the end and perforated at the sides.
The cork employed to close each cask or receptacle has a wire passed through
it provided at the end within the cask with a disk of metal slightly larger than the
diameter of the cutting edge of the tap to be used, the outer end of the wire is
provided with a disk of metal slightly smaller than the interior diameter of the
cutting edge of the tap.
Or instead of the wire and disks a short corkscrew is inserted in the inner eud
of the closing cork, the back end of the corkscrew terminating in a handle formed
by a cross bar longer than the diameter of the cutting edge of the tap.
The wire and disks or the cork screw and handle may be made of silver or other
suitable metal plated or galvanized.
When the cask or other receptacle is to be tapped, the cutting edge of the tap
is pressed upon the cork round the small outer disk, or upon the centre of the cork
and forced through the cork, carrying a cylinder of cork and the wire and disks
or the cork screw with it.
Then when the cask or other receptacle is empty upon the tap being withdrawn
the cylinder of cork will be drawn into the stopping cork and fill it and thus
prevent the cask or other receptacle becoming sour or musty.
Dated this Fourteenth day of August 1894.
H. W. GOUGH, C.E.,
Agent.
Improvements in or connected with Tapping Casks or other
Receptacles.
I HENRY WALTER RICE 7 Magdala Road, Nottingham Lace Manufacturer
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:-

page_text: Figure 5 a longitudinal sectional view. of a closing cork provided with a cork-
screw in the inner end and
Figures 6 and 7 shows the inner ends of corks with corkscrews having a bar and
a cross for the handles.
The tap employed may be of brass, bell metal, or wood but instead of having a
brass or wood stem, the stem.1 shown at Figure.1 is formed of a thin steel tube
with a cutting edge at the end and perforated at the sides.
The cork employed to close each cask or receptacle has a wire 3 shown at
Figure 2 passed through it provided at the end within the cask with a disk or
washer of metal 4 the end of the wire 3 being passed through and rivetted on it,
the disk or washer is slightly larger in diameter.than the cutting edge of the stem
of the tap used. The outer end of the wire 3 forms or is provided with a disk
of metal 5 slightly smaller than the interior diameter of the cutting edged
stem of the tap. Previous to inserting the wire and securing the disks 4 and 5 in
position, the smaller end of the cork is cut to the depth shown by the dotted
lines 2ª by a cutting tube the same diameter as the tap to be used, it may then be
used to close a cask or other receptacle.
Or instead of the wire and disks being inserted in a closing cork, a short cork
screw 6 is inserted in the cork as shown at Figure 5, the back end of the cork
screw terminating in a handle, the handle may be formed by a bar 7 longer than
the diameter of the cutting edge of the tap, as shown at Figure 6, or by a cross 8
as shown at Figure 7.
The wire and disks or washers, and the corkscrews and handles may be made of
silver, or other suitable metal plated or galvanized.
When a cask or other receptacle is to be tapped the cutting edge of the tap
stem is pressed upon the outer end of the cork round the small outer disk or upon
the centre of the cork when a corkscrew is in it and forced through the cork,
carrying a cylinder of cork and the wire and disks or washers, or the corkscrew
with it.
Each closing cork is cut to the depth shown at 2" Figures 1 and 2 in order to
prevent the inner end of the cork being bulged out or broken off when the tap
stem is being forced through.
As the stem cuts its way to or near to the previously cut part it breaks the
cylinder round and carries it and the previously cut part in one piece to the
position shown at Figure 1 the greater portion of the cylinder resting. in
the cutter stem.
Then when the cask or other receptacle is empty upon the tap being withdrawn
the cylinder of cork will be drawn into the stopping cork, fill it, and remain there,
being prevented from being drawn out by the disk, or washer or by the handle of
the corkscrew and thus prevent the cask or other receptacle from becoming sour
or musty.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is:-
The construction and employment of corks for closing casks or other receptacles
each cork being provided with a wire passed through it having a disk or washer
at each end, or a bar at the inner end, to prevent a cylindrical, portion of the
cork cut from the closing cork when the cask or other receptacle is tapped from
being drawn back through the cork when the tap is taken out, substantially as
described for the purpose specified. and illustrated in the drawings annexed.
Dated this Twentieth day of May 1895.