IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR LETTING OFF AND STOPPING THE FLOW OF LIQUIDS FROM CASKS AND VESSELS, SUCH APPARATUS FORMING A TAP AND SUBSTITUTE FOR THE ORDINARY VENT PEG
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Wilmott Newington, of Goudhurst, in the
County of Kent, Surgeon, for the Invention of "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
LETTING OFF AND STOPPING THE FLOW OF LIQUIDS FROM CASKS AND VESSELS,
SUCH APPARATUS FORMING A TAP AND SUBSTITUTE FOR THE ORDINARY VENT
PEG."
Sealed the 24th October 1862, and dated the 29th April 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Wilmiott Newington
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
29th April 1862.
I, SAMUEL WILMOTT NEWINGTON, of Goudhurst, in the County of Kent,
Surgeon, do hereby declare the naturo of the said Invention for "IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR LETTING OFF AND STOPPING THE FLOW OF LIQUIDS FROM CASKS AND
VESSELS, SUCH APPARATUS FORMING A TAP AND SUBSTITUTE FOR THE ORDINARY
VENT PEG," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in forming a tap by having, as usual, a tube or duct
with an open or perforated end to be inserted into the cask or vessel, and with
a nozzle or outlet; but the outlet is not obliged to have a plug or stopper, as
in ordinary taps, being provided with a flexible tube which has a small metal
tube at the end whereby the liquid can be let off when required, and which
afterwards is to be inserted into the vent-hole of the barrel and will then
prevent the flow of liquid therefrom as also stop the vent-hole. Hence, by

page_text: this arrangement, when letting off is in progress the vent-hole is unstopped,
and when the letting-off is finished the vent-hole is to be stopped by the said
vent tube. And the flexible tube may be made attachable or detachable by
means of screw joints or otherwise.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Wilmott Newington in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 29th October 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
WILMOTT NEWINGTON, of Goudhurst, in the County of Kent, Surgeon, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of April, in the year, of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Samuel Wilmott Newington, Her special licence that I, the said Samuel
Wilmott Newington,my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Samuel Wilmott Newington, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR LETTING OFF AND STOPPING THE FLOW OF LIQUIDS FROM
CASKS AND VESSELS, SUCH APPARATUS FORMING A TAP AND SUBSTITUTE FOR THE
ORDINARY VENT PEG," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Samuel Wilmott Newington, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should parti-
cularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Wilmott Newington, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:―
(Part No. I.) The nature of this Invention, as bath heretofore been set
forth in and by the Provisional Specification for the said Letters Patent,

page_text: I now, in compliance with the said condition in the aforesaid Letters Patent
contained, hereby declare to consist in forming a tap and substitute for the
ordinary vent peg by having an ordinary tube or duct with an open or per-
forated end to be inserted into the cask or other vessel of capacity, also
provided with a nozzle or outlet (though it is not a matter of necessity, as in
ordinary taps, that the same should be provided with a plug or stopper, neither
shall I ordinarily use the same), the nozzle being provided with a flexible tube,
which has a small tube at its end, whereby the liquid can be let off when
required, or the flow thereof stopped, by simply inserting the same in the vent-
hole of barrel, cask, or vessel of capacity, thus stopping the vent-hole and the
flow of liquid by one and the same operation. Hence, by this arrangement,
when letting-off is in progress the vent-hole is unstopped, and when the
letting-off is finished the vent-hole is to be stopped by the said vent tube.
(Part No. II.) Having thus far particularly described and ascertained
the nature of the said Invention, I now proceed to particularly describe and
ascertain in what manner the same is to be performed, by reference to the
accompanying illustrative Drawings, in and by the words, figures, and letters
following, that is to say:-
A denotes a cask, barrel, or vessel having my improved apparatus applied
thereto; B, the vent-hole thereof; C, a tap, shank, or duct, fitted into the end
of the said cask, barrel, or vessel, the nozzle or end not inserted in the said cask,
barrel, or vessel having a piece of vulcanised india-rubber or other flexible
tubing C' secured thereto by the nozzle being inserted therein and wire being
then tightly twisted around the portion so inserted, as shewn. The other end
of this flexible tubing having a small tube D of metal, as brass, or of glass,
fictile ware, or wood, secured to the flexible tubing by inserting this small tube D
in the said flexible tubing and afterwards twisting wire tightly around the
same, as shewn. This small tube is shewn inserted in the vent-hole of the
cask, barrel, or vessel, and when in this position it is evident that the flow of
the liquid will be stopped; and when the liquid is to be let off, then this small
tube must be taken out of the vent-hole and lowered, so as to let flow the liquid
in the manner desired; and after the desired amount of liquid has been let
off, then the said small tube is to be replaced in the vent-hole again, stopping
the exit of the liquid. By this apparatus a vent stopper will always be handy
and ready to be inserted, so that the loss and spoiling of liquids resulting from
carelessness in not replacing the vent peg will be avoided, though the vent-hole
will still remain, and will not be hereby unfitted for the use of the common
vent peg. Though I recommend that the vent-hole and vent peg be increased
in diameter. The tap shank might have a tap plug and handle for turning

page_text: the same if particularly desired, but I prefer the arrangement herein before
described. And the flexible tube might be secured to a screw union connecting
the same to the nozzle.
(Part No. III.) Having now particularly described and ascertained the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
I hereby, lastly, declare that I do not claim any of the constituent parts of the
apparatus herein described per se and apart from the purposes hereof; what
I claim being the improved apparatus for letting off and stopping the flow of
liquids, such apparatus being used for a tap and substitute for the ordinary
vent peg, as I have described the nature and character of the same in the
outset (commencing with the words Part No. I., and terminating at the words
Part No. II.) of this my Specification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Wilmott Newington, have hereunto
sot my hand and coal this Twenty-seventh day of October.
SAM. WILMOTT NEWINGTON. (L.S.)
Witness,
CHARLES E. FITZMAYER,
A Clerk to the General Patent Company, Limited,
71, Fleet Street, London, E.C.