Improvements connected with Devices for Tapping Barrels and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 17th June, 1897-Accepted, 14th Aug., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with Devices for Tapping Barrels and
the like.
I, ALFRED JANSEN of Knappenmarkt 142 Kirchweg, Oberhausen in the Empire of
Germany, Innkeeper, 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 relates to devices or shields for the draw off taps of casks, barrels
and the like, and has for its object to protect the clothes of persons when tapping
casks or barrels of beer or wine and prevent them from being splashed with the
liquid which, as is well known, spurts out with considerable force. This device
is extremely simple and may be easily applied to any cask or barrel now in use.
Three forms of construction of the said device are shown in the accompanying
drawings,
Figure 1 being a plan of the arrangement when open,
Figure 2 a plan when closed,
Figure 3 a plan view of a modification of the invention when closed.
Figure 4 is a view of Figures 1 and 2 when the tap has been inserted in a cask or
barrel.
Figure 5 is a further modification also shown in connection with a draw off tap.
The ends of a spring wire b are soldered to the shorter arm of a spring clamp a,
Figures 1 and 2, and bent first in small curves on each side afterwards extending into
a larger curve. On this wire which thus is of a heart shaped form a piece of canvas c
or other suitable material suitably cut to fit it is sewn or otherwise attached.
The canvas may if desired be impregnated with any suitable substance.
A device for protection against splashing formed in the manner herein before
described may be employed in the following way. The clamp a is compressed, that
is to say brought into the position shown in Figure 1 and then placed over the tap d
at any convenient place. The clamp is then released so that the device closes by
reason of its spring action, and in this position the canvas c forms an impenetrable
impediment to the liquid escaping from the cask or barrel when the tap is
inserted.
The modification shown in Figure 3 only differs from that just described by the
two ends of the spring wire b¹ being fastened in a handle a¹ and having a tendency
themselves to remain in the position shown.
The modification shown in Figure 5 consists of an upper indiarubber ring and a
lower metallic ring y which are both connected by a funnel or conical shaped casing
of canvas or other suitable material for preventing the escape of the liquid.
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 :-
1. A device for preventing splashing for draw off taps of casks barrels and the like,
consisting of a flat or funnel shaped shield of canvas or other suitable material easily
attached to the said tap and capable of preventing the liquid spurting up from the
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page_text: cask when tapped; substantially as hereinbefore described and shown in the
accompanying drawings.
2. A device for preventing splashing from draw off taps for casks, barrels and the
like, consisting of a piece of canvas or other suitable material stretched over a spring
wire, the ends of said wire being connected with one another by a spring clamp or the
like, or themselves forming springs, secured in a handle, (Figure 2), and when
closed clasping the tap in such a way that the canvas forms an impervious impediment
to the liquid spurting out of the cask or barrel when being tapped, substantially as
herein before described and shown in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 18th dau ^£• Tune 1807
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.