Improvements in Contrivances for use in Tapping Casks.
Year: 1897

page_text: 7 71 F
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
"Improvements in Contrivances for use in Tapping Casks.
I, THOMAS HUTT, of The Flying Horse Inn, No. 20, Wellington Street, Leicester,
in the County of Leicester, Licensed Victualler, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:
66
"
This invention relates to improvements in contrivances for use in tapping casks,
the object of which is to provide a conical tube made of straw paper or linen,
which is made upon a coned spindle or mandril revolving rapidly, and so forming
from long strips of material a cone or tapping tube with a spiral finish to the
thickness desired of about a little over one sixteenth of an inch or thereabouts,
and stiffened in the process of making, at the same time the said tubes may be
stamped with trade advertisements or trade marks be imprinted thereon.
By the employment of this tube the process of tapping casks is simplified and
performed more expeditiously than by the means now in use in the trade or by
private persons the tube conforming exactly to the shape of the spigot.
W. BESTWICK MAXFIELD,
(Applicant's Agent.)
Improvements in Contrivances for use in Tapping Casks. .
I, THOMAS HUTT, of The Flying Horse Inn, No. 20, Wellington Street, Leicester,
in the County of Leicester, Licensed Victualler, 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:-
"6
-
This invention relates to improvements in contrivances for use in tapping casks,
the object of which is to provide a conical tube made of straw paper' or linen,
or other suitable material. That this invention may be clearly understood a
sheet of drawings is annexed in which:
Figure 1 is the blank to produce the spiral lapping of the cone.
Figure 2 the base or ground work of the cone, and Figure 3 is the cone com-
pleted.
The said tapping tube is made upon a coned spindle or mandril revolving
rapidly and so forming from the strips B, of the material employed, and the base
blank A a cone or tapping tube with a spiral finish C "Figure 3
ness desired.
"
to any thick-
The most useful are preferably a little over one sixteenth of an inch or there-

page_text: abouts at the wider or thicker end of the tube, they are stiffened in the process of
making, and the strip B is impressed before coiling with an advertisement trade
mark, or the like and denoting the size as for example No. 1 marked on strip.
Figure 1. When the tube is placed upon the conical end of the tap or spigot of the
size desired it is immiediately driven home without the slightest fear of giving way
from the pressure excerised against it and the process of tapping casks is simplified
and performed more expediously than by the means now in use in the trade or
by private persons, the spiral building up of the cone causing an immiediate grip
upon the tap hole, and the tube conforming with and to the shape of the spigot.
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 contrivances for use in tapping casks, the employment of curved strips B,
and base blank A cut out of paper, linen or other suitable material and forming
the conical tube as C, having trade names or advertisements thereon, in the sizes
desired, substantially as described, and set forth.
Dated this 21st day of January 1898.
W. BESTWICK MAXFIELD,
Registered Patent Agent,
Of 34, Belvoir Street, and Regent House, Regent Street, Leicester,
(Applicant's Agent.)