Improvements in Means for Connecting Valves or Cooks, Pipes, and the like to Barrels, Cisterns, Tanks, and analogous artioles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 13th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 13th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 18th Apr., 1896
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Connecting Valves or Cooks, Pipes, and
the like to Barrels, Cisterns, Tanks, and analogous artioles.
I, HENRY BILKE HOLLIS, of 16 Holborn Bars, London E.C, Brewer, do hereby
declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to fit improved self-closing ferrules or faucets to
the heads or other parts of barrels, the walls of cisterns, tanks and analogous
articles; to which a valve, cock, pipe, or other connection may be readily
attached or detached, without any of the ordinary inconveniences usually
attending such operations.
In describing the application of my invention to the head of a barrel, its
application to other articles is included and intended to be so understood.
According to my invention I fit a permanent faucet to the head of the barrel
consisting of two cylinders, one inside the head, preferably of about 3 inches in
length, bored right through and screw threaded at each end, it also has
longitudinal openings or other perforations to permit the liquor to have access
to the interior. At the back end a disc or cover is fitted having a central hole to
act as a nut and guide to a screw. The inner cylinder is held in its place against
the inside of the head by another, shorter, cylinder, which passes through a holo
in the head, and 18 screwed into the end of the first cylinder. The two cylinders
are thus secured to the head and rendered fluid tight by rubber or other washers
if necessary. The outer cylinder of the faucet is internally tapped with a screw
thread to receive a correspondingly tapped plug. This plug is made solid. Its
back end 18 fitted with a screw which passes through the disc or cover at the back
end. The thread of this screw is of the samo pitch as that on the plug. The
front end of the plug, and the back end of the coch to be used therewith, are fitted
with means for mutually rotating together, such as a square bole in one and a
square plug to the other, or a key may be used for a similar purpose. The back
end of the cock 18 screw-threaded in a similar manner to the plug. When the
faucet has been fixed to the head, the outer end of the plug is left flush (or
thereabouts) with the outer end of the faucet, whereby the faucet is rendered
fluid tight, the back end of the plug being provided with means for effecting this
purpose.
In order to "tap" the barrel, the back end of the cock is fitted to the front end
of the plug. The cock is then turned to the right and screwed into the front end
of the faucet, the plug simultaneously receding from its former position, until the
back end of the cock has entered the faucet sufficiently fai for the liquor to gain
access thereto in the usual manner
When the cock is withdrawn from the faucet by unscrewing, the plug is rotated
therewith, thereby advancing forward and plugging up the faucet as the cock 18
withdiawn.
Toted 12th May 1905
GEO. DOWNING,
8 Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.

page_text: Improvements in Means for Connecting Valves or Cocks, Pipes, and
the like to Barrels, Cisterns, Tanks, and analogous artioles.
I, HENRY BILKE HOLLIS, late of 16 Holborn Bars but now of 31 Fitzroy
Square, London W.C. Biewer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement.―
The object of my invention is to fit improved self-closing ferrules or faucets to
the heads or other parts of baricls, the walls of cisterns, tanks and analogous
articles, to which a valve, cock, pipe, or other connection may be readily
attached or detached, without any of the ordinary inconveniences usually
attending such operations.
In describing the application of my vention to the head of a barrel, its
application to other articles is included and intended to be so understood. The
improved self closing ferrule or faucet is specially applicable to barrels and like
vessels from which the ferrule ou a portion of same is readily removed by external
means when it is necessary to cleanse the interior of the same and leaves a clear
passage for the ordinary processes of cleansing or steaming of the barrels, thero
being also no portions likely to become injured by such steaming operations.
An in order that my said invention may be particularly described and ascertamed
reference is hereby made to accompanying drawings in which similar letters of
reference indicate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of a portion of the head of a barrel with a
valve or cock attached thereto by means of any improved self closing ferrule or
faucet.
Fig. 2 18 a sectional elevation and Fig. 3 is a front view of my improved
ferrule applied to the head of a cask, Fig. 2 being a section, on the line of
Fig 3.
Fig. 4 is a back view of the cock or valve
Y,
According to my invention 1 fit a ferrule a to the head of a bairel, bored
right through and screw theaded externally and internally as heroinafter
described. The back end is formed with a turned over edge which acts
as a guide to a plug d, the inner portions of the edge also sciving as a
valve sent.
The plug is formed with a left handed screw thread portions of which are
cut away at e to permit the liquid to pass the plug, the back portion of the
ferrule a being formed with an interual left handed thread to serve as a nut to
the plug. The plug is preferably provided with a cylindrical strainer which
passes through the opening in the back of the ferrule, the front of the plug being
provided with a feathered spindle as shown or other means for readily rotating
the plug. The back end of the cock is screw-threaded to take into the right-hand
thread in the forward end of the ferrule aud is also formed with an opening k
corresponding to the spindle of the plug, suitable perforations being also
formed around the central opening, as shown in Fig 4, for the passage of the
liquid.
When the ferrule or faucet has been fixed to the head the plug d is screwed in
until the outer end or spindle of the plug d is loft flush (oi thereabouts) with
the outer end of the ferrule as shown in Fig. 2, the back of the plug being
fitted with a suitable washer or packing m to make a fluid tight joint with the
seating c.
In order to "tap" the barrel, the back end of the cock is fitted to the front end
of the plug The cock is then turned to the right and screwed into the ferrule,
the plug simultaneously rotating and receding from its former position, until the

page_text: back end of the cock has become looked in the ferrule, when the parts assume the
position shown in Fig. 1. In this position the liquid is free to pass through
the strainer g to the interior of the ferrule, and through the grooves è in the plug
and perforations to the cock.
When the cock is withdrawn from the ferrule by unscrewing, the plug is rotated
therewith and driven against the seating, thereby plugging up the ferrule as the
cock is withdrawn.
In some cases the strainer g may be dispensed with, any suitable form of guide
being provided if found necessary for the proper working of the plug.
A oap
is sometimes provided to screw into the ferrule, as shown by dotted lines-
in Fig. 2, without rotating the plug to prevent dirt lodging in the ferrule when
the barrel is in transit or the valve, pipe or the like is detached from the barrel,
cistern, tank or analogous article
A suitably formed key may also be provided for removing the plug previously
to cleansing or other operations.
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 18.-
1. The improved menus for connecting valves or cocks, pipes and the like, to.
barrels, cisterns, tanks and analogous articles, substantially as descubed.
2. In means for connecting as aforesaid the combination with a ferrule, formed
and screw threaded as described, of a correspondingly threaded plug d, formed
with a spindle h and with or without a strainer g the spindle being adapted to be
operated upon by a correspondingly shaped opening & in the back end of the valve,
pipe or the like, the whole operating in a manner substantially as herein before
described and illustrated by the drawings.
Dated 12th March 1896.
GEO.
DOWNING,
8 Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.