Improvements in Faucets.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 21st June, 1892-Accepted, 23rd July, 1892.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by SIMON SCHLANGER, of 50, Cypress Street,
Chicago, in the County of Cook, State of Illinois, United States of America.]
Improvements in Faucets.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agents 45 Southampton Buildings in the County of Middlesex, 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 a novel construction of a two-part detachable faucet ;
and the nature of invention is fully set forth in the following Specification.
In the accompanying drawing:
Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a faucet and connection, embodying my
invention.
Figure 2 is an outer end elevation of the same.
Figure 3 is a section on line y y of Figure 1.
Figure 4 is an inner end view of the outer faucet section said section being
removed from the fixed section.
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Figure 5 is an elevation of the inner end of the fixed connection.
Figure 6 an elevation of the valve in the fixed section on line rx.
Figure 7 is a modification of the fixed section represented as extending outward
further from the head Y of a cask, than in the other figures, so that it may pass
through the wall of an ice box.
Figure 8 is a longitudinal elevation of the plunger rod, removed from the other
parts of the faucet.
Figure 9 a sectioned elevation on line of Figure 1.
A represents the head and B the perforated cylinder which is rigidly attached
to the hollow fixed part C, and extends through the head of a cask. The part C
is attached to and communicates with the cylinder B, with the hollow straight
part I, and with the curved discharge part M; that liquids may be drawn from a
cask. The enlarged space E within the section C, as shown at Figure 1, is so that
a valve seat can be formed on the inner end of section C, and that sufficient fluid
space can be provided and room attained for connecting the two sections. The
portion F on the section C is an inwardly projecting flange, through which radially
are formed two notches G. The inner end of the straight part I is provided, as a
part thereof, with a thin annular metal neck K which telescopes through the
opening in the flange F, and which is provided with opposite exteriorly projecting
pins H which pass through the notches G; and by being turned to the right or
left engage the inside of the flange F, and thus hold the section I to the section C,
a rubber packing J placed between the sections C, and I, make the connection
water-tight. The pins H support a bearing X, within the neck K and through it
the plunger rod D has a reciprocating movement, said support not being so broad
as to prevent the ready flow of fluid past it. In practice the discharge portion M
is formed of the same piece of metal as the straight section I and the neck K.
Within the section C, and at its inner end of the latter is placed the valve W
which is held to its seat by the pressure of a coil spring T to prevent the outward
flow of liquid, till the valve is acted on by the plunger rod D. The straight
section I is provided at its outer end with a head N through which the plunger
rod D has a bearing and a reciprocating movement. Two standards V are formed
of the same casting as the pipe M and project up from it; and lying between them,
and pivoted to them is a cam lever P. Q. which is so constructed that the inner
end of the cam portion Q is brought against a buffer R on the outer end of the

page_text: plunger rod D, when the lever P is brought to the position shown by dotted lines Z;
and the plunger rod is thrust inward and opens the valve W to permit fluid to flow
from a cask through the pipe M. *
I am aware that coil springs has been employed to close the valves of faucets
and that faucets have been made detachable by other means than I employ. I
therefore confine the novelty of my invention to the elements and combinations
⚫expressed in the annexed claim.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
In an improvement in two-part detachable faucets, the straight hollow section I,
with the curved discharged portion and neck portion as a part thereof in combination
with a fixed section a valve therein, a cylinder attached to the inner end of the
fixed section and a spring therein operating against the valve, a notched internal
flange, on the fixed section and pins on said neck portion connecting the sections a
plunger rod extending through the straight section with a bearing within the fixed
section and a head at the outer end of said straight section and a cam-lever exterior
to the faucet, operating against the said plunger rod, as and for the purpos.:
:specified.
Dated thin 01st 1
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1000
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.