An Attachment for Beer Taps.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Nov., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 16th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 16th Feb., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Attachment for Beer Taps.
I ALFRED PARMENTER of 74 Upper Park Road, Hampstead, in the County
f Middlesex, Plumber and Gasfitter, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows :-
This invention relates to means for preventing the dripping of beer from the
orifice of a beer tap after the supply has been cut off, that is to say, after the
pressure has been removed from the handle of the beer pump.
The invention comprises a perforated cover plate which is attached in any
suitable manner to the beer tap in such a way as to completely cover over the
orifice of the tap. The cover plate may be made of wire gauze of suitable
mesh or of any other suitable perforated material, but preferably I make it of
wire gauze secured in au annular frame which is attached to the mouth of the
tap in any convenient manner. Sometimes I use two or more pieces of gauze
and place them one above the other in the annular frame with annular distance
pieces between each two gauzes to separate them, so that if the beer drips
through one of the gauzes, it will be baffled by the next gauze or gauzes as
the case may be.
By the use of this invention the waste and nutidiness resulting from the
drippings of ordinary beer taps will be entirely obviated, the waste beer will
be saved, and the perforated cover plate will act as a sieve or filter and prevent
solid impurities, if any, from passing into the glass or other drinking vessel.
The invention is preferably attached to the mouth of the beer tap in such
a way that it can be readily removed and cleaned and replaced after cleaning
when so desired.
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ALFRED PARMENTER of 74 Upper Park Road, Hampstead, in the County
of Middlesex, Plumber and Gasfitter, 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 means for preventing the dripping of beer from the
orifice of a beer tap after the supply has been cut off, that is to say, after the
pressure has been removed from the handle of the beer pump.
The invention comprises a perforated cover plate which is attached in any suitable
manner to the beer tap in such a way as to completely cover over the orifice of the
tap. The cover plate may be made of wire gauze of suitable mesh or of any

page_text: other suitable perforated material, but preferably I make it of wire gauze secured
in an annular frame which is attached to the mouth of the tap in any convenient
manner. Sometimes I use two or more pieces of gauze and place them one above
the other in the annular frame with annular distance pieces between uach two
gauzes to separate them, so that if the beer drips through one of the gauzes it will
be baffled by the next gauze or gauzes as the case may be.
By the use of this invention the waste and untidiness resulting from the drippings
of ordinary beer taps will be entirely obviated, the waste beer will be saved, and
the perforated cover plate will act as a sieve or filter and prevent solid impurities,
if any, from passing into the glass or other drinking vessel. The invention is
preferably attached to the mouth of the beer tap in such a way that it can be
readily removed and cleaned and replaced after cleaning when so desired.
The accompanying drawings shew one form of my invention and the method in
which the same may be fitted to the mouth of an ordinary beer tap.
Figure 1 is an elevation shewing part of the tap with the invention securely fitted
thereto;
Figure 2 is a detached sectional elevation of the aunular frame in the bottom of
which three gauzes are secured one above the other;
Figure 3 is an elevation shewing the annular frame screwed over the end of a
tubular connecting piece,
Figure 4 is a vertical section and Figure 5 a bottom plan of Figure 3 ;
Figure 6 is a detached enlarged elevation of the three gauzes, and
Figures 7 and 8 are respectively plan and section of one of the gauzes shewn in
Figure 6.
The same letters of reference where they occur are used to indicate the same or
corresponding parts in all the figures.
The interior of the mouth of the beer tap A is screw threaded and the upper
end 6 of the connecting piece B is screwed thereinto. The piece B has a way or
passage therethrough (see Figure 4) and an external multifaced Hange b² whereby
it can be screwed up into the mouth of the tap by means of a spanner or similar
tool. The lower end of the piece B is externally threaded and over this is screwed
the annular frame C which latter has a ledge or flange c (see Figures 2 and 4)
around the central orifice c¹ on which said ledge is laid a ring washer d and the
gauzes done above the other. The annular frame is so made that when screwed
over the connecting piece B, the bottom ³ of said piece B bears on the uppermost
of the gauzes d' whereby they are caused to press tightly on the washer and to
make a tight joint between the washer and the ledge or flange c.
The gauzes may have distance rings between them or preferably they may be
made in a ring shaped frame as shewn in Figures 6, 7 and 8 thereby dispensing
with the necessity for using distance rings. I do not wish to confine myself to the
details shewn in the drawings, as the number of gauzes used and the method
of securing same to the mouth of a beer tap may be considerably modified without
departing from the nature of my invention.
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. For attachment to an ordinary beer tap a perforated cover plate secured to
the mouth of the tap in such a way that the beer is compelled to pass through the
perforations in the cover plate substantially as described and for the purpose
stated.
2. For attachment to an ordinary beer tap a perforated cover plate comprising
an annular frame containing one or more perforated or gauze discs and a washer
for making a tight joint between said annular frame and the disc or discs, and
an externally screw threaded annular piece for connecting said cover plate to
the mouth of the tap the connection being so made that the beer is compelled

page_text: to pass through the perforated or gauze discs sub-tantially as and for the purpose
hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 16th day of January 1895.
F. W. GOLBY,
36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agent for the Applicant.