Im- PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CORKING, FOR DRAWING CORKS IN TAPS, IN THE NECKS OF BOTTLES, IN THE BUNG HOLES OF BARRELS, AND IN SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1859

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frederick Herbert Maberly at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th February 1859.
I, FREDERICK HERBERT MABERLY, of Stowmarket, in the County of Suffolk,
Master of Arts, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CORKING, FOR DRAWING CORKS IN TAPS, IN THE
NECKS OF BOTTLES, IN THE BUNG HOLES OF BARRELS, AND IN SIMILAR ARTICLES,"
to be as follows:-
I propose to compress to compress the corks by a screw or screws conjointly
with other power, so as to render them fit for putting into the bottle without
any other force than that of the finger and thumb. The cork drawer to be of
needle kind, plain, or screwed, or wormed, easily and rapidly passing through
the cork, and then throwing out spring barbs, so that the cork drawer cannot
be withdrawn without bringing out the cork, which may be withdrawn by
band or screw power, when the barbs may be shut up, and the cork drawer
drawn out from the cork, and the cork is left fit for and ready to be applied to
the making of life buoys, according to another Patent of mine. The tap with
a shoulder on its exterior (which is leathered), is screwed into the barrel
screwed for the purpose. The tap is hollow and screwed in its inner outward
end, into which a screw stopper (with its end hollow, and screwed internally to
receive a cork) is introduced, and then this screwed stopper screws the cork,
which it carries against a hole in the screwed tap, which has a shoulder within

page_text: it to receive the cork, and against which it presses, and stops the running out
of the liquor, which when it is let out by unscrewing the stopper runs it
through a hole in the screwed tap with a neck to it for bottling, and which
hole the cork closes when screwed forward, as also the hole of the tap itself.
The cork being screwed into the stopper of the tap cannot leave the same.
The neck of the bottle has a shoulder all round in its inner side against
which the cork presses, and so closes the hole of the neck of the bottle,
while this part. of the neck of the bottle is rather larger than its mouth,
so that the cork when put into it pressing both endways and sideways forms
a complete stopper to such bottle. The mouth of the bottle or vial is so
shaped, nevertheless, that the liquor is easily poured out from it into
anything else, a great desideratum where a small quantity only is required
to be poured out at once, or it is wanted to drop the liquor from the same.
This will be found a valuable acquisition altogether to those wanting bottles
hermetically stopped. For the purpose of more effectually pressing the
cork against the shoulder of the bottle, part of the inside of the neck of
the bottle may be screwed. The bung holes of barrels are screwed, and have
a shoulder against which the bung, cork, or wood, or other material (which is
also screwed), presses when screwed into the bung hole, and so closes the
barrel. These screws may be fixed into the barrel as made in the barrels
themselves. These bungs have a vent peg screwed into them previously to their
being put into the barrel, the turning of which either lets wind into the barrel
or shuts it out, and altogether this bung and bung hole and vent peg will be
found very convenient for brewers, as the bung is thus easily removed, and is not
destroyed or lost, as is now the case, and the barrel may be rolled with this
equally as with other bung holes, the vent peg being sunk into the bung so as
not to be affected by the rolling of the barrel.