Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Oct., 185.
Complete Left, 24th Jan., 1888
Complete Accepted, 24th Feb., 1888
I, JOHN HENRY SWIFT, Cloth Hall Street Huddersfield, Yorkshire, Auctioneer and
Valuer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to dispense with the wood bung at present in use,
and substitute therefor a metal bung, which bung I provide with a screwed vent peg
or stud.
In carrying out my invention 1 introduce into the orifice of the barrel, into which
the beer is introduced, a flanged rim, which is held in position, by screws or other
suitable means. The inside of this flanged rim is made with screw threads for
receiving a screwed bung, which is unscrewed, for the purpose of introducing liquor,
and replaced after the liquor is introduced into the barrel, by which it is at once made
airtight. This screwed bung has a central recess preferably square, for the purpose of
introducing a key to unscrew the said bung. At the bottom of the recess a smaller
hole is made, extending through the bottom of the bung, and into this hole I screw a
vent peg or stud, which stud has a central hole made in it vertically, and there are
also holes laterally in the said siud, communicating from the outside of the stud to
the vertical hole, so that if the vent stud be slightly unscrewed the gases within the
barrel will escape by the central vertical hole, and out at the holes made laterally in
the stud, whereby the barrel can be at once vented, and by screwing the vent stud
back the vents are closed again.
By the use of the screwed bung combined with the screwed vent stud, the parts are
substantial and durable, and the necessity of using wood bungs each time the barrel
is filled will not be necessary as the screwed metal bung constructed according to my
invention will in all probibility be as durable as the barrel.
and this 90th are of Ontahan 1007
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Agents.

page_text: A New or Improved Combination Bung and Vent Peg for Barrels.
1, JOHN HENRY SWIFT, of Cloth Hall Street, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, Auctioneer
and Valuer, 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:—
The object of my invention is to dispense with the wood bung at present in use,
and substitute therefor a metal bung, which bung I provide with a screwed vent peg
or stud.
In carrying out my invention I introduce into the orifice of the barrel, into which
the beer is introduced, a flanged rim, which is held in position by screws or other
suitable means. The inside of this flanged rim is made with screw threads for
receiving a screwed bung, which is unscrewed for the purpose of introducing liquor,
and replaced after the liquor is introduced into the barrel, by which it is at once made
air tight. This screwed bung has a central recess preferably square for the purpose
of introducing a key to unscrew the said bung. At the bottom of the recess a smaller
hole is made, extending through the bottom of the bung, and into this hole I screw a
vent peg or stud, which stud has a central hole made in it vertically, and there are
also holes laterally in the said stud, communicating from the outside of the stud to the
vertical hole, so that if the vent stud be slightly unscrewed, the gases within the
barrel will escape by the central vertical hole, and out at the holes made laterally in
the stud, whereby the barrel can be at once vented, and by screwing the vent stud
back the vents are closed again.
In order that my invention may be better understood, I will now make reference to
the accompanying sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof, wherein Fig. 1 represents a
view of my improvements partly in section, Fig. 2 another section, and Fig. 3 plan
view. a represents the wood work of a barrel made with an ordinary form of hole or
orifice for the reception of the flanged rim 6, made secure to the woodwork of the
barrel by screws c, and if necessary to make the flanged rim more secure, screwthreads
may be formed on the outside of the rim at d, so that it may be screwed into the
orifice, and the flange afterwards further secured by the screws c, as the Drawings
illustrate; such flanged rim when once secured becomes a permanent part of the
barrel and is not intended afterwards to be removed. The flanged rim is formed
with screwthreads on the inside for the reception of the bung e, which is screwed
therein after the barrel has been filled for the purpose of making it airtight. A square
hole is formed at the top of the bung for the reception of a key employed to screw
the bung in and out as more clearly shewn in plan view Fig. 3. The bunge is also
made with a hole which pierces through the bung, allowing a communication between
the inside of the barrel and the atmosphere, but into this hole I screw a vent peg
formed with a central hole h, which does not go through the length of the vent peg,
but stops short near the top thereof, and in communication with this central hole h
other holes are pierced through the peg laterally as shewn in section Fig. 2, and

page_text: plan view Fig. 3. The positions of the holes i are arranged so that when the vent peg
is screwed "home," which is done by the insertion of a screwdriver in the slit j, the
holes i are beyond the reach of atmospheric air, but if the vent peg g is unscrewed a
little, so as to expose the holes to the atmosphere, the gases in the barrel will
immediately issue and pass up the hole and out of the lateral holes i into the
atmosphere, whereby the barrel will be immediately vented; and this can always be
readily done by the unscrewing of the vent peg. The several parts may be composed
of any suitable material, and if required may be tinned, enamelled, galvanized or
vitrified according to requirements; and by the use of the screwed bung combined
with the screwed vent peg the parts are substantial and durable, and the necessity of
using wood bungs each time the barrel is filled with liquor will now be avoided, as the
screwed metal bung e constructed according to my invention will in all probability be
as durable as the barrel itself.
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 :-
Firstly. The combination with the flanged rim b of the screwed bung e formed with
a square or other angular hole for the purpose of screwing the bung into or out of its
place, in imanner substantially as described.
Secondly. The combination of the screwed bung e with a screwed vent peg g, the
latter of which is made with holes for the purpose of forming a communication
between the inside and outside of the barrel.
Thirdly. The combination of the flanged rim b, bung e, and vent peg g, all arranged
substantially as described.
Fourthly. The formation of a vent peg arranged substantially as described and
shewn where the position of the said peg is below the outer periphery of the barrel,
and beyond the reach of external materials.
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30 1
1000
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Agents.