Improvements in Securing Taps to Stoneware and other Bottles.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Securing Taps to Stoneware and other Bottles.
I, THOMAS JOHN THORNE, of 13 Byron Terrace, Windmill Hill Bedminster, Bristol,
Pottery Stock Keeper, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists in making the tap sockets of stoneware, or other bottles in
suitable form, to allow of a given size of tap, being fitted, liquid-tight, to a given size
of tap socket, without the use of the ordinary cork bosses. The Bottle socket is made
with a flange, that will allow of a part of the flange, belonging to the tap, being bent over,
to serve as a fastening, or, the tap flange can be provided with projections, to pass
through notches provided in the socket flange, so that the tap flange be securly
twisted on to the same. To form the liquid-tight joint a ring of rubber, or other
material suitable for the purpose, is put between the tap and socket flange. To pull
up the joint, thumb screws are used.
The Bottle socket may, if so desired be provided with a screw thread, which will
allow of a tap being screwed on to same, the joint to be put between the flange faces
as described above.
Dated this 4th day of May 1897
Improvements in Securing Taps to Stoneware and other Bottles.
I, THOMAS JOHN THORNE, 13, Byron Terrace, Windmill Hill, Bedminster, Bristol,
Pottery Store Keeper, 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:—
This Invention consists in making the tap socket of stoneware, or other bottles, in
suitable form, to allow of a given size of tap, being fitted, liquid-tight, to a given size
of tap socket, without the use of the ordinary cork bosses. The Bottle Socket is made
with a flange, that will allow of a part of the flange, belonging to the tap, being bent
over, to serve as a fastening, or, the tap flange can be provided with projections, to
pass through notches provided in the socket flange, so that the tap flange be securely
twisted on to the same. or the bottle flange may be provided with holes to receive the
tapholding bolts. To form the liquid-tight joint a ring of rubber, or other material
suitable for the purpose, is put between the tap & socket flanges. To pull up the
joint, thumb screws are used.
The accompanying drawings, show the Invention applied to an ordinary tap bottle.
Fig. 1. is an elevation, of an ordinary tap bottle, with a tap shown firmly secured by
the invention

page_text: T. S. is the thumb screws for tightning tap, up to bottle-socket-flange.
The same letters refer to the same parts in both figures.
Having now particularly described, and ascertained the nature of my said 1
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. An improved arrangement for securing taps to stoneware and other bottles so as
to end the difficulty hitherto experienced by the use of cork bosses, made in
accordance with the principles explained in the foregoing specification.
Dated this 31st day of August 1897.
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THOMAS JOHN THORNE.