Improvements in and appertaining to Taps for Barrels containing Beer, Stout, and other Liquids.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Apr., 1398
Complete Specification Left. 9th Jan., 1899- Accepted, 18th Feb., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and appertaining to Taps for Barrels containing
Beer, Stout, and other Liquids.
We, THOMAS EDMUND OVENS, of 14, Gerald Road, Lower Broughton, Manchester,
in the County of Lancaster, Commission Agent, and JAMES WILLIAM BENTLEY, Of
Breeze Mount Kersal, Manchester, aforesaid, Bleacher, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in and appertaining to taps for barrels
containing beer, stout and other liquids.
In carrying our invention into effect we form a tap hole in the barrel end and
in this hole we fit and secure a flanged bush or socket which extends through say
two-thirds of the thickness of the wood while for the remaining third the tap hole
is tapered to a smaller diameter. The flanged bush is screw threaded internally
for part of its length with a right hand thread and another part with a left hand
thread. The barrel is closed by means of a plug screwed say into the left hand
threads until it fits tightly upon the seating formed by the tapered end of the tap
hole, and the barrel is sent out by the brewer closed in this way.
To tap the barrel another plug with an ordinary tap or pump pinion is screwed
into the right hand thread of the flanged bush until a projection or projections on
the plug engage corresponding slots in the first plug and the continued screwing
of the tap plug in the right hand thread has the effect of screwing out the valve
plug in the left hand thread whereby the barrel is tapped and ready for use without
any difficulty, and without any waste.
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When the barrel is empty the tap plug is unscrewed and by this action the valve
plug is simultaneously screwed up and the barrel closed.
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H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants.
Improvements in and appertaining to Taps for Barrels containing
Beer, Stout, and other Liquids. .
We, THOMAS EDMUND OVENS, of 14, Gerald Road, Lower Broughton, Manchester,
in the County of Lancaster, Commission Agent, and JAMES WILLIAM BENTLEY, of
Breeze Mount Kersal, Manchester, aforesaid, Bleacher, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Our invention relates to improvements in and appertaining to taps for barrels
containing beer, stout and other liquids.

page_text: In carrying our invention into effect we form a tap hole in the barrel end and
in this hole we fit and secure a flanged bush or socket which extends through say
two-thirds of the thickness of the wood while for the remaining third the tap hole
is tapered to a smaller diameter. The flanged bush is screw threaded internally
for part of its length with a right hand thread and another part with a left hand
thread. The barrel is closed by means of a plug screwed say into the left hand
thread until it fits tightly upon the seating formed by the tapered end of the tap
hole, and the barrel is sent out by the brewer closed in this way.
To tap the barrel another plug with an ordinary tap or pump pinion is screwed
into the right hand thread of the flanged bush until a projection or projections on
the plug engage corresponding slots in the first plug and the continued screwing
up of the tap plug in the right hand thread has the effect of screwing out the valve
plug in the left hand thread.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings-
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation showing part of the end of a barrel with the
tap hole closed by the socket and valve plug screwed therein.
Figures 2 and 3 are detail views of the second or tap plug with projections.
Figures 4 and 5 are detail views of one part of the first or valve plug.
Figure 6 is a similar view to Fig. 1 but showing the tap in position and the valve
plug withdrawn from its seating in the socket.
Figure 7 is a view showing a pump union attached to the tap plug.
In these views, a designates the flanged bush or socket, b the barrel end, c the
valve plug which is preferably made in two parts connected by the screwed stud d;
e is the second or outer plug into which is screwed the ordinary tap f, Fig. 6.
or the pump union g, Fig. 7.
When the tap or the pump union with the plug e attached is screwed into the
right hand thread of the socket a the projections e¹ on the tap plug e enter the
slots c in the valve plug c and the continued screwing up of the plug e in the
right hand thread has the effect of screwing out the valve plug c in the left hand
thread whereby the barrel is tapped and ready for use without any difficulty and
without any waste.
When the barrel is empty the tap plug e is unscrewed and by this action the valve
plug c is simultaneously screwed up on to its seating in the socket a and the barrel
closed.
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. In combination, the flanged socket threaded internally for part of its length with
a right hand thread and for another part with a left hand thread, an inner or valve
plug screwed into one thread and having its seating in the socket and an outer
plug screwed into the other thread and having the tap or pump union attached.
one of the plugs having projections adapted to enter slots in the other plug all
substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.
2. In combination, the socket a, the plug c made in two parts connected together
and having slots c¹, the plug e formed with projections el adapted to enter the slots c¹,
the plug e being also adapted to receive an ordinary tap or pump union substan-
tially as and for the purposes herein described with reference to the accompanying
drawing.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants, 17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.