IMPROVEMENTS IN BUNGS
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edmund Cockshutt, of Preston, in the County of
Lancaster, Iron Founder, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BUNGS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edmund Cockshutt at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 28th
June 1854.
I, EDMUND COCKSHUTT, of Preston, in the County of Lancaster, Iron
Founder, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BUNGS OR ADJUSTABLE STOPPER APPARATUS FOR CASKS AND OTHER VESSELS"
to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a novel form or arrangement of bung or adjustable
aperture stopper for casks and other vessels, whereby facility of adjustment
and accuracy of fitting are secured. As applied to a wooden cask, for example,
a metallic nut socket is first inserted in a hole in the body of the cask, being
set tightly in the hole.in the wood, and then held in position by screws or
pins passed through an external flange into the wood. This inserted metal
piece is tapped or screwed internally to a bore of the size of the intended
discharge aperture, and it has fitted into it a solid metal stopper, screwed
externally to correspond to the socket. This solid piece is the removeable
cover, and it has on its outer side a rectangular recess for the reception
of a turn-key, and it has a slight external flange which sets down flush

page_text: with the outer face of the socket when screwed in. The socket may be
attached to the wood in various ways, and the stopper may be adjusted
within it by means of various forms of key or setting apparatus. The socket
and its stopper may be made of tin, pewter, or other metals or metallic
compounds; or porcelain or other materials may be used under a similar form.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edmund Cockshutt in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
27th December 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS. SHALL COME, I, EDMUND
COCKSHUTT, of Preston, in the County of Lancaster, Iron Founder, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Edmund Cockshutt, Her special license that I, the said Edmund Cockshutt, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edmund
Cockshutt, my executors, administrators, or 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN BUNGS
OR ADJUSTABLE STOPPER APPARATUS FOR CASKS AND OTHER VESSELS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edmund Cockshutt, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly 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 Edmund Cockshutt, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings, and to the
letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say:
This Invention relates to a novel form or arrangement of bung or adjustable
aperture stopper for casks and other vessels, whereby facility of
of adjustment
1.

page_text: and accuracy of fitting are secured. As applied to a wooden cask, for example,
a metallic nut socket is first inserted in a hole in the body of the cask, being
set tightly in the hole in the wood, and then held in position by screws or pins
passed through an external flange into the wood; this inserted metal piece is
tapped or screwed internally to a bore of the size of the intended discharge
aperture, and it has fitted into it a solid metal stopper, screwed externally to
correspond to the socket. This solid piece is the removeable cover, and it
has on its outer side a rectangular recess for the reception of a turn-key, and
it has a slight external flange which sets down flush with the outer face of the
socket when screwed in. The socket may be attached to the wood in various
ways, and the stopper may be adjusted within it by means of various
forms of key or setting apparatus. The socket and its stopper may be made
of tin, pewter, or other metals or metallic compounds; or porcelain or other
materials may be used under a similar form.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Sheet of Drawings represents a plan view,
full size, of one modification of the improved bung, and socket, complete, but
detached from a cask or other vessel. Figure 2 is a plan of the bung or
stopper alone. Figure 3 is a side elevation of the bung socket, shewing the
mode of attaching it to a vessel or cask. Figure 4 is a side clevation of
the bung alone, shewing the screw thread formed thereon. Figure 5 is a
vertical section of the bung socket, shewing the internal screw threads formed
therein; and Figure 6 is a section of the bung detached, shewing the aperture
for the introduction of a key for effecting. the insertion or reuloval.
And in order that my said Invention may be more readily understood, I
shall now proceed to describe the several Figure on the Sheet of Drawings
hereunto annexed.
The metallic nut socket A is composed of tin or other soft metals or alloys,
and is inserted into a hole in the body B of the cask or other vessel to which
it is to be applied. It is set tightly in the hole in the wood, and then held
in position by screws or pins C, C, passed through an external flange D into
the wood, as shewn in Figures 3 and 5 of the Drawings. This inserted
metal piece or socket, tapped or screwed internally, as shewn at Figure 5,
to a bore of the size of the intended discharge aperture, and it has fitted
into it a solid metal stopper E, screwed externally, as at Figure 4, to correspond
to the screw threads in the socket. This solid piece is the removable cover,
and it has on its outer side a rectangular recess F, for the reception of a turn-
key; it has also a slight external flange G, made conical on its under side,
which fits into a corresponding seat in the socket, with the top of which
it is flush when screwed in. The socket and bung, in place of being com-

page_text: posed of soft metal, may be made of any other metal or metallic compound,
or porcelain or other materials may be used.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and the mode in which the same is or may be used or carried into
effect, I would observe, in conclusion, that I do not confine or restrict myself
to the precise details or arrangements which I have had occasion to describe
or refer to, as many variations may be made therefrom without deviating from
the principles or main features of my Invention; but what I claim is,-
First, the general construction and arrangement of bungs or adjustable
stopper apparatus for casks and other vessels, as herein-before described.
Second, the application and use of bungs of any suitable material, having a
screw thread formed thereon, and made to screw flush into a corresponding
socket attached or secured to a cask or vessel, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edmund Cockshutt, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-second day of December, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-four.
EDMUND COCKSHUTT. (L.S.)
Signed and sealed by the within-named
Edmund Cockshutt, in the presence of
WILL. GILBERTSON, Sol',
Preston.