An Improved Vent Tap or Apparatus for Connecting Pipes to Vessels or Casks for Drawing up Liquid.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 6th May, 1886.
Complete Left, 7th Feb., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 8th Mar., 1887.
RESERVE
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Vent Tap or Apparatus for Connecting Pipes to
Vessels or Casks for Drawing up Liquid.
We, WILLIAM GEORGE DEACLE of Market Street, Innkeeper, and GEORGE WOOD
of Tullis Street, Commission Agent, both of Saint Helens in the County of Lancaster,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This apparatus is particularly suitable to be used in connecting pipes of beer
engines to casks, but may with advantage be used in connecting pipes for drawing up
liquid from various vessels.
According to this invention we provide a tube similar to the tube of a straight tap,
the tail end of which is intended for insertion into a barrel or other vessel, and may
be roughened or screw threaded. It is driven in like an ordinary tap but previous to
insertion the hole is closed by a cork or plug, capable of being pressed out. The other
or nozzle end of tube is provided with inner packing, and the outside screw threaded
and arranged for union connection to the pipe of a beer engine or otherwise. This
pipe is connected to a cylindrical tube which when the connection is to be made is
pressed through the tap tube forcing out cork, and secured by packing being drawn
tight by union to nozzle. The packing keeps the tube air tight while being pressed
in. This tube is intended to extend to near bottom of vessel or cask and is fitted at
end with strainer.
The tap-tube may be provided with an atmosphere acting valve to dispense with use
of vent beur.
FREDERIC PRINCE,
1, Quality Court, Chancery Lane, W.,
Agent for Applicants.

page_text: vessels or asks for Drawing up Liquid.
We WILLIAM GEORGE DEACLE, of Market Street, Innkeeper, and GEORGE WOOD of
Tullis Street, Commission Agent, both of Saint Helens in the County of Lancaster 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 is particularly suitable for connecting pipes of beer engines to casks;
but may with advantage be used in connecting pipes to various vessels for drawing up
or off liquids.
To enable our invention to be properly understood we will proceed to describe same
with aid of the accompanying drawings.
Figure 1 sectional elevation.
Figure 2 partial elevation.
Figures 3 and 4 modes of attaching invention to casks.
A bottom termination of pipe leading to beer engine soldered to union nozzle B.
Celack valve to prevent back flushing and disturbance of sediment, D stop tap to
prevent fermenting liquors passing into pumps or upper vessel, useful in the case of
ripe stout or porter; E metal tube attached to one end of tap D, and passing through
a tapered metal bush F. The upper part of F is fitted with a packing joint. G,
compressing India rubber washers H, round tube E between metal seat rings to make
joint tight. The washers may be drawn extra tight by the auxilliary joint G
The bush F is fitted with an atmospheric acting valve I to enable a vent peg to be
dispensed with. The bottom of tube E, may either be fitted with a screwed on
strainer J, or be closed and pierced with holes to act as a strainer, as at K figure 3.
The bush F may either be driven through a tapered bung of wood or other material L,
secured in cask; or said bung may be of metal, cast or otherwise, fixed on F as at
figure 4, or in cork hole in cask without bung L, as at figure 3.
To connect a cask, the bush F is drawn off tube E, and the bottom closed by a cork
and is then driven into a cask; the tube E is then passed through packing joint Ġ, which
is tightened sufficient to make the tube air tight at joint; the tube is then pressed down
bush F. pushing out cork when the connection is completed. It will be readily under-
stood that the tube E may be set to go down any distance into cask or liquid, to draw

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off the dregs or sediment if required the tightening up of the auxilliary joint G+
enables the tube E, to be retained at any height in cask. No tilting of a cask is
required as the tube may go down to the bottom, and the application can be made to
a cask in any position. The use of this invention for drawing off beer admits of a
much better draught of liquid being obtained than is now possible with the present
form of attachment of pipes to casks and lessens the length of pipe required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is
1. The means for connecting pipes to casks and certain other liquid holding vessels
to enable the contents to be drawn out or off, substantially as hereinbefore described
and represented in the accompanying drawings.
2. In an invention for the purposes described, the combination of a cylindrical
tube E, bush F packing joint G and automatic valve vent I, as and for the purposes
described.
FREDERIC PRINCE,
1, Quality Court, Chancery Lane, W.C.,
Agent for Applicants.