AN IMPROVED MODE OF CONSTRUCTING METAL COCKS, FAUCETS, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the "International Patent
Office," No. 8, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane; in the County
of Middlesex, Consulting Engineer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
MODE OF CONSTRUCTING METAL COCKS, FAUCETS, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES."
-A communication from abroad by William Westlake, of the City,
County, and State of New York, United States of America.....
Sealed the 8th November 1867, and dated the 11th May 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION 'left by the said William Robert Lake at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th May 1867.
I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the "International Patent Office," No. 8,
Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Con-
sulting Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED MODE OF CONSTRUCTING METAL COCKS, FAUCETS, AND OTHER SIMILAR
ARTICLES," a communication, to be as follows:
The said Invention consists chiefly in forming a cock, faucet, or other article
in parts or sections which are cut or stamped from sheet brass or other suitable.
metal and united by brazing or soldering, and also in the employment in
combination with the same of a hollow plug formed: of sheet brass or other
suitable metal.

page_text: In constructing a cock for drawing liquids from casks and like purposes the
shell or barrel is formed in two equal parts, each of which is a longitudinal
section through the centre of the barrel and plug socket. The required shape
is imparted to these sections by suitable dies, and their edges are fitted together
and then united by brazing or soldering. The two parts of the barrel are so
shaped that when united a recess or chamber is formed to receive the socket
which is cut or stamped from a sheet of brass or other suitable metal, and
turned or bent into the required shape upon a mandril or other suitable
forming tool. The said socket is brazed or soldered into the barrel or shell
and is bored out to receive the plug;-holes or slots-are-formed-through the
socket in line with the bore of the barrel. The plug is a ferrule which is first
stamped or cut from a sheet of brass or other suitable metal, and bent_or
formed upon a mandril of the required conical shape. The contiguous edges
of the ferrule are brazed or soldered together, and the same is fitted and
ground into the socket in the ordinary manner; the usual apertures are formed
through the said plug, and may be cut or stamped therein before the same is
formed upon the mandril; the hollow plug is closed below these apertures by
a metal disc soldered in its interior, and may be provided with a screw and
washer or other suitable means for keeping it tight in the socket. For large
cocks the plugs may be advantageously constructed by forming a core of cast
metal, over which a ring or ferrule of brass is fitted and soldered. A cheap
cock or faucet may be produced by fitting and brazing or soldering a socket
of sheet metal (formed as herein described) into a piece of gas piping or other
ordinary metal tubing. This mode of construction may be advantageously
employed in the manufacture of water gauges, gauge cocks for steam boilers,
gas taps, and other cocks and taps for like purposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Robert Lake in the Great Seal Patent Office, o
the 9th November 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM. THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ROBERT LAKE, of the "International Patent Office," No. 8, Southampton".
Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Consulting Engineer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Fler

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reign, did, for Herself; Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Robert Lake, Her special licence that I, the said William
Robert Lake, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said William Robert Lake, my executors, administrators, and 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 "AN
IMPROVED MODE OF CONSTRUCTING METAL Cocks, FAUCETS, AND OTHER SIMILAR
ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William
Robert Lake, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 William Robert Lake, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings forming a part of this Specification:-
The said Invention consists chiefly in forming 'a cock, faucet, or other
article in parts or sections which are cut or stamped from sheet brass or other
suitable metal and united brazing or soldering, and also in the employment
in combination with the same of a hollow plug formed of sheet brass or other
suitable-metal. In constructing a cock for drawing liquids from casks and
like purposes the sbell or barrel is formed in two equal parts, each of which
is a longitudinal section through the centre of the barrel and plug socket.
The required shape is imparted to these sections by suitable dies, and their
edges are fitted together and then united by brazing or soldering. The two.
parts of the barrel are so shaped that when united a recess or chamber is
formed to receive the socket which is cut or stamped from a sheet of brass or
other suitable metal, and turned or bent into the required shape upon a
mandrel or other suitable forming tool. The said socket is brazed or soldered
into the barrel or shell, and is bored out to receive the plug. Holes or slots
are formed through the socket in line with the bore of the barrel: The plug
is a ferrule which is first stamped or cut from a sheet of brass or other suitable
metal, and bent or formed upon a mandril of the required conical shape.
The contiguous. edges of the-ferrule are brazed or soldered together, and the

page_text: same is fitted and ground into the socket in the ordinary manner. The usual
apertures are formed through the said plug, and may be cut or stamped therein
before the same is formed upon the mandrel. The hollow plug is closed
below these apertures by a metal disc soldered in its interior, and may be
provided with a screw and washer or other suitable means for keeping it tight
in the socket. For large cocks the plugs may be advantageously constructed
by forming a core of cast metal over which a ring or ferrule of brass is fitted
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figures 1-and-2-represent-the-separate-parts-or-sections-of-a-cock.more
especially designed for drawing liquids from casks, or other vessels; Figure 3
is a top view of the said cock finished; Figure 4 is a longitudinal section on
the line, x, Figure 3; Figure 5 is a section of the plug for the said cock;
Figure 6 is a longitudinal section, and Figure 7 a transverse section of a
plug illustrating my improved method of constructing the same for large
cocks or other articles. Like letters indicate the same parts in each of the
Figures.
A is the shell or barrel which is formed of the two parts or sections a;
for ordinary cocks these parts or sections are preferably formed from sheet
brass, but may be of other metal; the socket B is also formed in like
manner, but the metal must be of sufficient thickness, to allow for boring.
C is the plug which is of the ordinary conical form, and of the required size
to fit properly in the chamber; the socket is provided with holes or apertures b,
and corresponding apertures c are formed through the sides of the ferrule C'
of the plug. The handle C is preferably formed with a shoulder c¹ and
projection, the said projection being fitted inside the ferrule C¹, and securely
brazed or soldered in the same; the metal disc or stopper is also preferably
soldered or brazed in the ferrule C¹ below the apertures c; the nut & may be
also soldered or brazed in the bottom of the said ferrule. A screw e and
washer for other ordinary devices, may be employed to adjust the plug C
properly in its socket. In the plug repesented in Figures, 6 and 7, D is the
core of cast metal upon which the ferrule C is fitted and, brazed or soldered.
A cheap cock or faucet may be produced by fitting and brazing or soldering
a socket of sheet metal. formed as shewn in Figures 3 and 4 into, a piece of
gas piping or other ordinary metal tubing.
My improved mode of construction may be advantageously employed in the
manufacture, of water gauges, gauge cocks for steam boilers, gas taps, and
other cocks and taps for like purposes.

page_text: Having thus fully described the said Invention as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, and shown how the same may be conveniently and
advantageously carried into practice, I claim,-
First, constructing a cock, faucet, or other similar article of separate
parts or sections produced from sheet metal and united by brazing or
soldering.
Second, forming the plug for a cock or faucet of a tube or ferrule of sheet
metal, substantially in the manner set forth.
Third, forming the plug for a cock or faucet by covering a cast metal
core with a tube or ferrule of sheet brass or other metal substantially as
set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Lake, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven,
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Witness,
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE. (L.S.)
THO. N. PALMER,
Clerk to Messrs. Haseltine, Lake, & Co.,
8, Southampton Buildings, W.C.