AN IMPROVED VENT PEG
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Fellows, of Canterbury, in the County of
Kent, Clerk, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED VENT PEG."
Sealed the 14th May 1859, and dated the 24th December 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Fellows at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
24th December 1858.
I, EDWARD FELLOWS, of Canterbury, in the County of Kent, Clerk, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED VENT
PEG," to be as follows:-
My improved vent peg consists of a metal peg or stopper made of a taper
form, with a screw upon it. This vent peg is screwed into the vent hole made
in the cask, which it fills, and stops the admission of air, as required. When
it is desired to admit air by this vent peg, it is simply necessary to unscrew it
a little, when sufficient passage will be afforded for air to pass. By reversing
the motion and screwing it up tight, all further passage of air will be prevented.
This vent peg is furnished with a cross or thumb head, by which to handle it,
& being of considerable difference in diameter at the point & head, will fit
various sized holes, or may constantly be forced further as a vent hole wears
larger.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Fellows in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
18th June 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
FELLOWS, of Canterbury, in the County of Kent, Clerk, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Edward Fellows, Her special licence that I, the said Edward Fellows, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward
Fellows, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend,, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED VENT PEG," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward Fellows, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause.
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Fellows, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed,
and to the letters and. figure marked thereon (that is to say)::
My improved vent peg consists of a metal peg or stopper made of a taper
form, with a screw upon it, to be used instead of the ordinary vent peg.
In the annexed Drawing, a represents the metal vent peg, which is screwed
into the vent hole made in the cask 6, part of a stave of which is shown in
section, which it fills and stops the admission of air as required. When it is
desired to admit air by the vent peg d, it is simply necessary to unscrew it a
little, when sufficient passage will be afforded for air to pass. By reversing
the motion and screwing it up tight, all further passage of air will be
prevented. This vent peg is furnished with a cross or thumb head c, by which
to handle it, and being of considerable difference in diameter at the point and

page_text: head, will fit various sized holes, or may constantly be forced further as a vent
hole wears larger.
Having described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of per-
forming the same, I declare that what I claim as the Invention, to be
protected by the herein-before recited Letters Patent, is, the application of a
screwed taper or conical vent peg, as herein-before set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Fellows, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eleventh day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
EDWARD FELLOWS. (L.S.)