Year: 1887

page_text: I SETH BEACH of No. 49 Seventh Avenue, Cedar Rapids, in the County of Linn and
State of Iowa, United States of America, Carriage Painter, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved draw-off cock specially adapted for use on tin
cans, and to a means of adapting tin cans for the attachment of such draw off
cocks.
The shank of the cock is of reduced diameter at the end, and is provided with say
three outwardly projecting lugs, the remaining portion of the shank being screw
threaded externally to receive a jam-nut. The rest of the cock is of the usual
construction.
The improved draw off cock is specially adapted to be used with and to be fastened
to a tin can and in order to adapt such can to receive the cock an aperture of triangular
or other form to correspond with and give passage to the lugs on the shank of the cock
is made in the side of the can near the bottom, said aperture being covered on the
inside of the can by a thin plate, soldered or otherwise fastened to the side of the can.
In order to attach the cock to the can the latter is laid on the side so that the aperture
is upwards and the shank with its lugs is then forced through the aperture, either
tearing through or forcing inwards the metal covering plate, the cock being then
turned partly round so that the lugs engage with the sides of the aperture in the can.
The jam nut is then screwed up against the outside of the can.
The lugs bear against the inside of the can and in conjunction with the jam-nut hold
the cock firmly in place on the can, the base of the jam-nut closing the aperture made
by the insertion of the shank and lugs through the plate, so that the liquid in the can
cannot leak out when the can is placed upright to draw off the liquid.
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By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.

page_text: improved means or Attaching Draw-on боска то Cans.
I, SETH BEACH of No. 49 Seventh Avenue, Cedar Rapids in the County of Linn
and State of Iowa, United States of America, Carriage Painter 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 :-
My Invention relates to an improved draw-off cock specially adapted for use on
tin cans, and to a means of adapting tin cans for the attachment of such draw-off
cocks.
The Invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts and details and
combinations of the same, as will be hereinafter fully described and then pointed out in
the claims.
Reference is to he had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this
specification, in which figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of my improvement,
attached to a tin can. Figure 2 is a side elevation of the inner end of the faucet.
Figure 3 is a perspective view of a tin can to which my faucet is to be attached.
Figure 4 is a sectional side elevation of part of the tin can on the line x-x of
figure 3; and figuro 5 is a sectional plan view on the line y y of figure 1. Similar
letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.
The shank of the cock A is of reduced diameter at the end B and is provided with
say three outwardly projecting lugs C. The portion D of the shank is screw
threaded and on it screws the jam-nut E. The rest of the cock is of the usual
construction.
This improved draw-off cock is specially adapted to be used with and to be fastened
to a tin can F and in order to adapt such can to receive the cock an aperture G of
triangular or other form to correspond with and give passage to the lugs on the shank
of the cock, is made in the side of the can near the bottom, said aperture G being
covered on the inside of the can by a thin plate H soldered or otherwise fastened to
the side of the can.
In order to attach the cock to the can, the latter is laid on the side, so that the
aperture G is upwards and the shank B with its lugs C is then forced through the
metal covering plate H, as shewn in figure 5, the cock being then turned partly round
so that the lugs C engage with the sides of the aperture G in the can. The jam-nut E
is then screwed up against the outside of the can, as shown in figure 1. The lugs
bear against the inside of the can and, in conjunction with the jam-nut E, hold the
cock firmly in place on the can F, the base of the jam-nut closing the aperture made
by the insertion of the lugs and shank B through the plate H so that the liquid in the
can, cannot leak out when the can is placed upright, as shewn in figure 1, to draw off
the liquid. The plate H may be entirely separated from the side of the can when
pressed inwards with the shank, as before described, but in this case the lugs C of the
shank will bear against the side of the can, as shewn in figure 5, the cock being
secured on the can by screwing up the jam-nut E, as before.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is ;
1. The shank B of a cock having the radial lugs Cat the end thereof, in combination
with the jam-nut E screwing on the threaded part D of the shank, substantially as
shewn and described for the purpose specified.
2. The combination with a cock A provided with radial lugs C at the end of its
shank B, and with a jam-nut E screwing on the threaded part D, as shown and
described, of a tin can having an aperture covered on the inside by a thin plate, the said
aperture corresponding in form to the arrangement of the lugs, so as to give passage
thereto and enable the lugs, when turned partly round, to take a firm hold of the side
of the can, as specified.