IMPROVEMENTS IN TAPS OR COOKS
Year: 1881

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Patrick O'Connor at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd March 1881.
PATRICK O'CONNOR, of Wavertree, in the County of Lancaster, Iron Monger.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TAPS OR COOKS."
My Invention relates to such taps or cocks as are provided with hollow taper
plugs, and has for its main object to provide a durable simple tap or cock practically
incapable of allowing leakage.
Under the first part I construct the taper hollow plug with an aperture leading
from the large end to one side, and I construct the barrel with two openings at the
sides, one in a line with the side opening of the plug and the other beneath the
wide end of the plug. A cap is fitted to the large end of the barrel to allow of
removal of the plug when necessary. The plug is held in position by a
washer or bearing piece screwed or otherwise secured to the small end of the
plug.
Second. I construct such inverted hollow plug taps or cocks as have the fluid
supply entering the barrel through at about the large end of the pluġ with the
discharge orifice led along the side of the barrel instead of being separated therefrom
and with a cap or piece to allow of removal of the plug.
Third. I construct inverted hollow plug taps or cocks with the large end of the
plug resting on a guide plate or piece forming part of or separate from the
moveable cap or piece above mentioned, and I construct or form the small end
of the barrel and plug with locking key or other opening and closing
mechanism.
Fourth. I construct inverted hollow plug taps or cocks generally with ratchet,
lever, brace, or equivalent mechanism, in such manner that the plug is capable of
being conveniently and advantageously turned in one direction,

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Patrick O'Connor in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
22nd September 1881.
PATRICK O'CONNOR, of Wavertree, in the County of Lancaster, Ironmonger.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TAPS OR COCKS."
My Invention relates to such taps or cocks as are provided with hollow taper
plugs, and has for its main object to provide a durable simple tap or cock practically
incapable of allowing leakage.
Under the first part I construct the taper hollow plug with an aperture leading
from the large end to one side, and I construct the barrel with two openings at
the sides, one in a line with the side opening of the plug and the other beneath
the wide end of the plug. A cap is fitted to the large end of the barrel to allow
of removal of the plug when necessary. The plug is held in position by a
washer or bearing pièce screwed or otherwise secured to the small end of the
plug.
Second. I construct such hollow plug, taps, or cocks, as have the fluid supply
entering the barrel through at about the large end-of the plug with the discharge
orifice led along the side of the barrel instead of being separated therefrom and
with a cap or piece to allow of removal of the plug.
Third. I construct inverted hollow plug taps or cocks with the large end of the
plug resting on a guide plate or piece forming part of or separate from the
movable cap or piece above mentioned, and I construct or form the small end
of the barrel and plug with locking key or other opening and closing
mechanism.
Fourth. I construct inverted hollow plug taps or cocks generally with ratchet
lever, brace, or equivalent mechanism, in such manner that the plug is capable of
being conveniently and advantageously turned in one direction.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of a ball cock for regulating the water supply to
a is the barrel of
a cistern, and is illustrative of the first part of my Invention.
the cock secured by means of the screw b to the water supply pipe o; d, hollow
taper plug with an aperture e leading from the larger end of the said plug to the
aperture fin one side thereof. The barrel b has two openings at the sides, one g,
the discharge orifice in a line with the side opening f in the plug and the other h
leading from the water supply pipe c beneath the large end of the plug d; i is a
cap screwed into the large end of the barrel a. When the cap i is removed the
plug d may be placed in or taken out of the barrel; j; washer screwed on the
spindle k of the plug d for holding the said plug in position; Z, lever secured on
the spindle k by means of the screw and washer m; n, ball or float. It will be
obvious that the plug will always be kept tight to its seat in the barrel by the
pressure of water beneath the large end.
Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of a bib tap illustrative of the first and second
parts of my Invention. a, barrel; c, water supply pipe; b, attaching screw;
d, hollow plug; e, f, aperture; g, h, openings in barrel; i, cap. It will be
observed that the construction. of this tap, Fig. 2, is the same as the one above
described, except that the hand lever or key o is substituted for the lever l and
ball and float n, and that the discharge orifice g is, under the second part of my
Invention, led along the side of the barrel a instead of being separated therefrom
in the ordinary manner,

page_text: Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of a beer or locking tap constructed under the
third part of my Invention. In this tap the hollow inverted plug d is prolonged,
so as to rest on the guide piece p held in position by the cap i; g, key for turning
the plug d. Like letters denote the same parts as in Figs. 1 and 2.
"
Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a tap similar to that described under Fig. 2 and is
illustrative of the fourth part of my Invention. The spindle of the plug d is fitted
with the ratchet washer and the lever or key o is formed with projecting teeth,
which take into the ratchet teeth in r. The teeth of the key or lever o are held in
contact with r by the spring 8. It will be obvious that the key or lever o will
only turn the plug spindle and with it the plug in the direction shown by the
arrow.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and illustrated the
same in such manner that others will be enabled to carry my improvements into
effect, I claim,-
Hollow inverted plug taps or cocks, constructed substantially as herein described
for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Patrick O'Connor, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
PATRICK O'CONNOR, (L.S.)