Improvements in Casks and other Vessels to Facilitate their Tapping and in Apparatus for Corking the same.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 6th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 14th Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Casks and other Vessels to Facilitate their
Tapping and in Apparatus for Corking the same.
I WILLIAM MUSSEL WHITE of High Street Marlborough in the County of Wilts,
Grocer and Wine Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
This invention for improvements in casks and other vessels to facilitate their
tapping and in apparatus for corking the same relates to vessels of that class
having tap holes ordinarily closed by means of a cork which is forced into the
vessel when inserting a tap for the purpose of drawing off the contents and consists
in providing a metallic socket or bush secured into a stave in the cask and forming
a bush for the reception of the cork and also serving as a socket for receiving and
securing the drawing-off tap, and in a long taper barrel through which the cork
is forced into position in the socket or bush when corking the vessel.
In an apparatus constructed according to this invention a metal socket with an
outer flange or collar is preferably threaded externally and screwed into a hole in
the cask and is formed internally, at the end remote from the flange, of a smooth
barrel for holding the cork and at the end near to the flange of a threaded part
for the reception of the barrel of the drawing off tap which is screwed to corre-
spond with the internal thread of the socket. When the tap is screwed into the
said socket it forces the cork out of the socket into the interior of the cask and
the tap is then screwed home until a collar on it provided with an india rubber
or other elastic packing washer forms a tight joint between it and the socket
flange.
The internal diameter of the inner end of the socket is greater than the outer
and threaded end, being about the diameter of the root of the internal thread so
that when the cork is driven therein it can be forced out of the socket into the
cask from the outside of the cask but cannot be withdrawn from the outside, thus
rendering it impossible to extract the contents or any part thereof and then replace
the cork, or to insert a fresh cork except by means of a special apparatus.
To insert a cork in the smooth part of the socket past the contracted and threaded
part, the cork is moistened and forced through a long taper barrel placed over the
hole by means of a suitable forcing plunger and is by these means contracted in
diameter sufficiently to clear the said threaded part.
The flange on the socket may be recessed flush into the cask.
Dated th:00-1 1
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1000
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
156, Strand, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Casks and other Vessels to Facilitate their
Tapping and in Apparatus for Corking the same.
I WILLIAM MUSSEL WHITE of High Street, Marlborough in the County of Wilts,
Grocer and Wine Merchant 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 for improvements in casks and other vessels to facilitate their
tapping and in apparatus for corking the same relates to vessels of that class having
tap holes ordinarily closed by means of a cork which is forced into the vessel when
inserting a tap for the purpose of drawing off the contents and consists in providing
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page_text: a metallic socket or bush secured in the cask and forming a bush for the reception
of the cork and also serving as a socket for receiving and securing the drawing
off tap.
In an apparatus constructed according to this invention a metal socket with an
outer flange or collar is preferably threaded externally and screwed into a hole in
the cask and is formed internally at the end remote from the flange of a smooth
barrel for holding the cork and at the end near to the flange of a threaded part for
the reception of the barrel of the drawing off tap which is threaded to correspond
with the internal thread of the socket. When the tap is screwed into the said socket
it forces the cork out of the socket into the interior of the cask and the tap is then
screwed home until a collar on it provided with an india rubber or other elastic
packing washer forms a tight joint between it and the socket flange.
The internal diameter of the inner end of the socket is greater than the outer and
threaded end, being about the diameter of the root of the internal thread so .that
when the cork is driven therein it can be forced out of the socket into the cask from
the outside of the cask but cannot be withdrawn from the outside, thus rendering it
impossible to extract the contents or any part thereof and then replace the cork, or to
insert a fresh cork except by means of a special apparatus.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings
Fig. 1 represents a vertical section of a socket with the cork partially forced out by
the drawing off tap.
Fig. 2 represents a vertical section of a socket with an appliance for forcing the
cork past the threaded portion of the same and
Fig. 3 is an end elevation of a socket constructed according to my invention.
A metal socket a with an outer flange and external thread c is screwed into a
cask, and is formed internally at the end remote from the flange 6 of a smooth
barrel d for holding the cork e and at the end near the flange of a threaded part f
smaller in diameter than the part d for the reception of the threaded barrel of the
drawing off tap provided with an elastic packing washer g.
To insert a cork in the smooth part of the socket the cork is moistened and forced
through a long taper barrel h past the threaded part d by means of the forcing
plunger i.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is.
1. The construction of a socket threaded externally for screwing into a cask and
internally for the reception of a drawing off tap and having at its inner end an
internally enlarged part for the reception of a cork substantially as described.
2. The arrangement and construction of a socket to facilitate the tapping and
corking of casks and other vessels substantially as described with reference to
Figs. 1 and 3 of the drawings.
Dated this 6th day of November 1889.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, Agents.