Improvements in Vent Pegs or Spiles, which serve also to Regulate the Overflow of Fermented Liquors.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 29th June, 1892-Accepted, 6th Aug., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Vent Pegs or Spiles, which serve also to Regulate
the Overflow of Fermented Liquors.
We WALLACE DRURY of 125 Coltman Street Brewer's Agent and WILLIAM
KERSHAW MARSDEN of the Whalebone Inn Church Street Licensed Victualler
both in the Town & County of Kingston upon Hull do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
It comprises a tube of metal of suitable dimensions having an external thread or
screw preferably conical in shape, to fit a hole bored in the cask or shive, such
tube having one or more arms into which one or more porous spiles can be inserted;
the spile or spiles being retained in the desired position by an interior thread or
screw in the tube or arms this thread or screw being also used to compress the
porous spile, thus regulating the escape of the air or gas through the spile. The
tube and arms can be of such shape or form suitable to conduct the beer or liquor
passing through the spile or spiles into any receptacle provided for the purpose,
thus avoiding loss of beer or liquor & preventing the mould and dirt incidental to.
the liquor being allowed to run down the outside of the cask.
Dated this 4th day of September 1891.
JAMES
STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers, 20, High Holborn, W.C., Agent for Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Vent Pegs or Spiles, which serve also to Regulate
the Overflow of Fermented Liquors.
We, WALLACE DRURY of 125 Coltman Street, Brewer's Agent, and WILLIAM
KERSHAW MARSDEN of the Whalebone Inn, Church Street, Licensed Victualler,
both in the Town and County of Kingston upon Hull, 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 :-
Our invention relates to an apparatus designed as a substitute for vent pegs,.
while at the same time serving to control the overflow of fermented liquids, which
overflow is preserved and stored according to this invention and thus prevented
from soiling the cask or barrel as has been the case heretofore.
Our apparatus consists of an upright pipe terminating at the top into one or
more tubular arms which are bent down, and are each furnished with a hook or
projection whereon the overflow vessel or vessels are suspended. These arms are
tapped within their lower ends to receive the screw threaded porous pegs, spiles or
plugs used for the purpose hereinafter set forth. The lower end of this upright
pipe is screw threaded, or tapped to receive a flanged piece in which a thread is cut
above and below the said flange.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is a sectional view of one form of our improved apparatus and
Figure 2 a front view of a modified form of the same.
Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.
The apparatus in accordance with our invention consists of an upright pipe a
screw threaded at its lower extremity (Figure 2) or tapped (Figure 1) to receive
a tapered plug b furnished with a flange bearing against the lower end of the pipe a
and with a screw thread above the said flange, for fixing the plug in the pipe a
and below the same flange in order to fix the said pipe into the shive or bung
b

page_text: of the cask or barrel to which my improved apparatus is applied, the pipe a being
in the former case (Figure 2) inserted directly into the said shive. The upper
end of the pipe a is formed with or jointed to the tubular arms a¹ a² formed in one
piece and curved at each end as shown in Figure 2; or the said pipe a may be
merely curved down at the top as shown in Figure 1, so as to form one arm a¹
only. The extremity of the arms a¹ a², which are hollow as above stated, are
tapped to receive the screw threaded pegs, spiles or plugs c, c² made of any suitable
porous material which will allow the gases or overflowing liquids to filter through
the same in order to be caught in a receptacle f and thus be preserved while
being at the same time prevented from soiling or corroding the cask or barrel.
These arms are each provided with a projection or hook e whereon a receptacle f
is suspended. By screwing the pegs, plugs or spiles more or less tightly in the
ends of the arms a¹, a² their porosity may be modified according to requirements.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is.
The improved apparatus serving as a substitute for vent pegs and for controlling
and preserving the overflow from casks, barrels and other vessels containing
fermented liquids, substantially as herein described and shown in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 21st day of May 1892.
JAMES STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers, 20, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agent for Applicants.