AN IMPROVED VENT PEG FOR CASKS AND THE LIKE
Year: 1885

page_text: I FRANK ARTHUR SHARRATT, of Tower Works, Droylsden, Manchester, in the
county of Lancaster, Manufacturing chemist do hereby declare the nature of the
said invention for "AN IMPROVED VENT PEG FOR CASKS AND THE LIKE," to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to an improved construction of vent peg for casks, barrels
and other like vessels, and the invention consists in providing the bottom end of
the vent peg with a gimlet point, the vent peg being formed with a valve of
suitable construction and with channels for admitting air to the said vessel.
As a suitable means of carrying out my invention I make the vent peg of brass
or other suitable metal and with arms such as those of a gimlet to allow of its
being turned, the valve (having a seat of leather or the like) being situated in the
upper part thereof and kept closed by a spring and operated by the hand; an axial
chaunet extends from the said valve to a point below that to which the vent peg
will enter the vessel and the said channel communicates by transverse passages
with the interior of the vessel; the gimlet point can be attached to the bottom of
the vent peg by any suitable means such as by a rivet or the like and is preferably
made of a metal which is little liable to oxidize, such as phosphor bronze, but it
can if required be made of steel; if made of phosphor bronze or the like the vent
peg and gimlet point could be made in one piece.

page_text: I FRANK ARTHUR SHARRATT of Tower Works, Droylesden, Manchester in the
county of Lancaster 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 an improved construction of vent peg for casks, barrels
and other like vessels and the invention consists in providing the bottom end of the
vent peg with a gimlet point the vent peg being formed with a valve of suitable
construction and with channels for admitting air to the said vessel.
In the accompanying drawing figure 1, represents an elevation and figure 2 a
section partly in elevation of a vent peg provided with a gimlet point according to
my invention. Similar letters in both the figures represent similar parts.
As a suitable means of carrying out my invention I make the vent peg a, of
brass or other suitable metal, and with arms b, b, such as those of a gimlet to allow
of its being turned, the valve c, (having a seat of leather d, or the like) being
situated in the upper part thereof and kept closed by a spring e, and operated by
the hand, a button f, being formed thereon for that purpose; an axial channel g,
extends from the said valve to a point below that to which the vent peg will enter
the vessel and the said channel communicates by a transverse passage h, with the
interior of the vessel; the gimlet point i, can be attached to the bottom of the vent
peg by any suitable means such as by a rivet or the like and is preferably made
of a metal which is little liable to oxidize such as phosphor bronze, but it can if
required be made of steel; if made of phosphor bronze or the like the vent peg a,
and gimlet point i, could be made in one piece.
By this construction it will be obvious that when applying the vent peg to a
cask or like vessel by turning the peg by means of its arms b, it can be caused to
bore the required hole in the vessel for its reception thereby dispensing with the
necessity for using a separate tool for this purpose.
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. The combination with a vent peg of suitable construction of a gimlet point
fixed to or formed on the lower end thereof substantially as and for the purpose
herein before described and represented in the accompanying drawing.
2. The improved vent peg hereinbefore described and represented in the
accompanying drawing.