Improvements in Cocks, Taps, or Valves for Facilitating their Attachment to Casks, Tanks, and other Receptacles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 19th. May, 1893
Complete Specification Left. 19th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 7th Apr., 1894
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cocks, Taps, or Valves for Facilitating their
Attachment to Casks, Tanks, and other Receptacles.
I, THOMAS LEWIS BANKS, of Holmrook, Cumberland, F.R.I.B.A. do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved construction of cocks, taps or valves for
enabling them to be readily and effectually secured to casks, cans, tanks and other
receptacles more particularly in those cases where the surface to which the cock
is to be attached is too thin to allow of its attachment by driving or screwing in
the spigot end of the cock in the usual manner.
For this purpose the spigot end of the cock, tap or valve has pivotted to each
side of it a metal bar, such bars being if necessary connected at the ends by cross
pieces, and being so weighted that unless held in position in line with the spigot
they will turn into a position at right angles thereto.
The part of the spigot next the cock tap or valve is formed cylindrical, with a
screw thread, and on it is screwed a disc-shaped nut, upon the inner side of which
is placed a washer of caoutchouc leather or other suitable material for forming
a fluid-tight joint.
For fixing a cock, tap, or valve in a receptacle, the latter is in the first instance
made with a hole large enough to pass the spigot with its two bars, placed in line
therewith, through it.
When the spigot end has been passed sufficiently far through for the pivotted
bars to be free on the inside, these will fall into the position at right angles to the
spigot, so as to lie across the hole of the receptacle.
The nut and washer are then screwed along the outer part of the spigot until
they come in contact with the outer surface of the receptacle, so that, on now
screwing the nut up tight, the side of the receptacle will be firmly gripped between
the cross bars on the inner side, and the nut with its washer on the outer side,
thus forming a perfectly fluid tight fastening for the cock, tap or valve.
Instead of pivotting two bars, one on each side of the spigot as described, the
end of the latter may be slotted vertically and a single bar be pivotted in the
middle of the bore thereof to a pin passing horizontally and transversely through
the spigot, so that when the spigot is inserted through the side of the vessel, the
bar will turn in the slot into the required vertical position.
The turning of the bar may in some cases, be effected by spring action.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cocks, Taps, or Valves for Facilitating their
Attachment to Casks, Tanks, and other Receptacles.
I, THOMAS LEWIS BANKS, of Holmrook, Cumberland, F.R.I.B.A., do hereby
O 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:-
My invention has for its object an improved device to be employed in connection

page_text: with cocks taps or valves for enabling them to be readily and effectually secured
to casks, tanks, cans, boilers and other receptacles, more particularly in those
cases where the surface to which the cock is to be attached is too thin to allow
of its attachment by driving or screwing in the spigot end of the cock in the
usual manner.
For this purpose, a tubular piece, which may either be formed in one with the
cock so as to constitute its spigot end, or may be a separate piece to be secured
to the cock, is firstly so constructed that when it is passed through a hole in the
vessel to which it is to be secured, portions thereof can be made to project over the
edges of such hole on the inner side, and secondly it is provided with a screw
thread on part of its length, on which is fitted a screw nut. Thus when the said
tubular piece has its end passed through the hole in the receptacle in such manner
that the said parts thereof project over the edge of the hole on the inner side, and
the nut is then screwed tiglit up against the outer surface of the receptacle, with
the intervention of a suitable washer for making a fluid-tight joint, the side of the
vessel will be firmly gripped between the said screw nut and its washer on the
outer side and the projecting parts of the tube on the inner side, thus forming a
perfectly fluid-tight fastening for the cock tap or valve, or of the tube to which
the cock tap or valve is attached.
The device on the tube for affording the requisite abutment on each side of the
hole when the tube is inserted may consist either of a separate piece or pieces
pivotted to the end of the tube which, when this is inserted, assume a position at
right angles to the tube so as to extend across the hole of the vessel, or it may
consist of two or more ribs or lugs projecting laterally from the end of the tube,
which are passed through corresponding slots or notches in the sides of the hole
when the tube is inserted, after which the tube is turned partly round so as to bring
the lugs against the parts of the vessel between the slots."
I will proceed to describe the mode of carrying my invention into practice
with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figs. 1 to 5 shew the
first above described arrangement and Figs. 6 and 7 shew that last described.
In the arrangement at Figs. 1 to 5, A is the tubular piece forming the spigot
end of the cock A¹; it is made cylindrical with two flat faces a a at the end, against
which fit the sides bb of the separate piece B, as shewn more clearly in the part
plan and section at Figs. 2 and 3.
This piece is pivotted to the tube A by a strong pin C passing through both
parts, the weight of the solid portion & of B having the tendency to turn it from
the horizontal position at Fig. 1 to the vertical position at Figs. 4 and 5. At b
the parts b are formed with notches which butt against corresponding shoulders
on A and thus prevent the piece B from turning on its pivot when the tube A with
its cock is turned round from the position shewn at Fig. 1 into the diametrically
opposite position, while when in the position at Fig. 1 the piece B is quite free to
turn down on its pivot. The part of the tube A beyond the ends of the piece B
is formed with a relief screw thread a' with which a nut D can be made to engage.
E is a shield. fitted loose on A and partly covering the washer F of suitable
material forming a fluid tight packing.
The cock thus constructed is fixed to the vessel G as follows. The cock being
beld in the inverted position above referred to so that piece B is held in line
with A, these parts are passed through the hole in the vessel until the ends of 6 b
are free of the hole, inside the vessel. The cock is then turned into the position
shown at Fig. 1, whereupon the piece B will turn on its pin into the vertical
position shown in dotted lines. The tap is then drawn outwards till it assumes the
position shewn at Fig. 4 with the part B bearing against the inner face of the
vessel G, and the washer F and shield E being pushed close up to the outer face
of G, the nut is then screwed onto the thread until it presses the shield and
washer tight against the vessel, so as to nip this firmly between the washer and the
part B, as shown at Fig 5.
It will be seen that the neck of the shield E requires to be made of a length

page_text: corresponding to the distance r Fig. 1 between the piece B and the inner face of
the vessel.
For removing the cock when required, the nut is unscrewed, and the tube of the
cock having been pushed inwards into the position at Figure 1, it is turned half
round so that the weighted end 6' of the piece B is uppermost. Upon then giving
the cock a slight jerk, the piece B will fall back into the position in line with A, so
that this can be withdrawn from the hole.
In the modification shewn at Figs. 6 and 7, the pivotted piece is replaced by lugs
or ribs a³ formed at opposite points on the end of the tube A; the vessel G is
formed with corresponding slots 9 9 on opposite sides of the hole, so that on
passing the lugs through these and then turning the tube one quarter round, the
lugs will be situated as shewn at Fig. 7, so that on now screwing up the nut D as
before, the vessel G will be nipped between the lugs g and the washers E F.
These washers must of course be made of such a size as to insure a fluid-tight
joint being made beyond the ends of the slots. The tube A is in this case shewn
separate from the cock and with a screw thread a to which the cock or a tubular
extension thereof may be fixed by a screw union as indicated by dotted lines.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In combination with cocks taps or valves the use for the attachment thereof
to casks, tanks, boilers and other receptacles, of a tubular piece having an external
screw thread on which is a screw nut, and having its ends so constructed that when
it is passed through a hole in the receptacle a part or parts thereof can be made
to project over the edges of such hole on the inner side, in order to form an
abutment for taking the pressure exerted by the screw nut when this is screwed
against the outer face of the receptacle substantially as described.
2. In cocks, taps or valves for attachment to casks, tanks, boilers and other
receptacles, the combination of a cylindrical externally threaded tubular part such
as A with a screw nut such as D and a part such as B pivotted to the end of the
tubular part and adapted to turn on its pivots so as to project over the edges of the
inner side of the hole through which the tubular part is passed, and thus form an
abutment for taking the pressure exerted by the screw nut against the outer face
of the receptacle, substantially as described.
Doted this 17th day of Wahmin 1001
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.