Improvements in Taps for Jars, Barrels, and other Vessels.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 19th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 25th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Taps for Jars, Barrels, and other Vessels.
We EDWARD WHEELER FIELD, of Aspley Hall, Nottingham, Farmer, and THOMAS
EssEX NEAL of 50 Melbourne Street, Nottingham, Brewer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our improved taps are applicable to jars, barrels, and other vessels made of glass,
china, earthenware, metal or wood, having the tap hole portion or boss of tho vessol
projecting outwards, with a male screw thread on its exterior. Each tap is formed
with a cap provided interiorly with a corresponding female screw thread and a pro-
jecting tube, between the tube and the inside of the cap a washer of india rubber,
cork or other suitable material is placed, which forms a tight joint, when the tap is
screwed upon the projecting tap hole boss.
Instead of placing the washer within the cap of the tap we form that end of the
cap which when in use is nearest the vessel with a projecting ring or rim grooved
to receive a washer which is forced onto the side of the vessel when the tap is screwed
onto the boss.
Taps so constructed may be made of metal, wood, vulcanite or other suitable
material or combination of materials, and are applicable to vessels containing beer,
wine, or other liquid, whether gaseous or otherwise.
Dated this 20th day of March 1889
H. W. GOUGH, C.E.,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Taps for Jars, Barrels, and other Vessels.
We EDWARD WHEELER FIELD, of Aspley Hall, Nottingham, Farmer, and THOMAS
ESSEX NEAL, of 50 Melbourne Street, Nottingham, Brewer, 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:-
Our improved taps are applicable to jars, barrels and other vessels made of glass,
china, earthenware, metal or wood, having the tap hole portion or boss of the vessel
projecting outwards, with a male screw thread on its exterior.
One of our improved taps is shown in section at Figure 1.
Each tap is formed with a cap A provided interiorly with a female screw thread B
to correspond with the male screw thread of the boss of the jar, barrel, or other vessel
upon which it is to be screwed.
Within the cap a tube C projects, upon which a washer D of india-rubber, cork,
or other suitable material is placed, which forms a tight joint, when the tap is screwed
upon the projecting screw threaded tap hole boss of the jar or other vessel.
Taps so constructed may be made of metal, wood, vulcanite or other suitable
material, or combination of materials, and are applicable to vessels containing beer,
wine, or other liquid, whether gaseous or otherwise.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
The construction and employment of improved taps substantially as described and
illustrated in the Drawings annexed.
Dated this Eighteenth day of December 1889:
H. W. GOUGH, C.E.,
Agent.