Improvements in the Construction of Spindle Taps, Cocks, or Valves.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 8th Nov., 1389—Accepted, 28th Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Spindle Taps, Cocks, or
Valves.
I, ALFRED SEELEY, of The Ferns, Onslow Road, Richmond Hill, in the
County of Surrey, Artist, lo hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide means for the lubrication of taps, cocks,
or valves with vertical spindles.
According to this invention, I construct the taps, cocks, or valves with a channel
or annular cup or lip around the seating of the spindle or valve so that as the spindle
or valve turns it will work the oil or other lubricant down between the seating and
the spindle or valve. One or more vertical ducts may be used in conjunction with,
or in place of, the annular cup or lip, and may be made to taper downwards and to
terminate at a suitable depth from the top of the seating.
The oil reservoir may be placed in any suitable position on the seating which is
easily accessible for filling with the lubricant. In the ordinary form of domestic
water tap, and in taps, cocks, or valves of a similar construction, I prefer to place the
oil reservoir on the top of the seating as being convenient of access and easily
turned, bored or otherwise formed either when the tap is being made or afterwards.
Dated this 26th day of October 1889.
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CASTLE SMITH,
Invention” Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Spindle Taps, Cocks, or
Valves.
1, ALFRED SEELEY, of The Ferns, Onslow Road, Richmond Hill, in the County of
Surrey, Artist, 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 this invention is to provide means for the lubrication of taps, cocks, or
valves with vertical spindles.
According to this invention I construct the taps, cocks, or valves with a channel or
annular cup or lip around the seating of the spindle or valve so that as the spindle
or valve turns, it will work the oil or other lubricant down between the seating and
the spindle or valve. One or more vertical ducts may be used in conjunction with, or
in place of, the annular cup or lip, and may be made to taper downwards and to
terminate at a suitable depth from the top of the seating.
The oil reservoir may be placed in any suitable position on the seating which is
easily accessible for filling with the lubricant. In the ordinary form of domestic
water tap, and in taps, cocks, or valves of a similar construction, I prefer to place the
oil reservoir on the top of the seating as being convenient of access and easily
turned, bored or otherwise formed either when the tap is being made or afterwards.
In the accompanying drawings, which are furnished in illustration of this
invention, Figure 1 shews an ordinary domestic water tap; Figure 2 a beer tap, and
Figure 3 a steam cock, each fitted with means for lubricating the spindle according to
this invention.
The upper part A of the seating is bored or turned on the inside edge thereof as
shewn at B so that when the spindle C is in position, B forms an annular cup around

page_text: the spindle. One or more ducts or channels D are formed in the seating E leading
downwards from the annular cup B to convey the lubricant to the working face of the
spindle. As the spindle is turned the lubricant will work down between the spindle
and its seating and effect the lubrication required.
Any number of ducts or channels D may be made around the spindle and may be
in the seating as shewn in the drawings or may be made in the spindle or valve itself,
or in both spindle and seating as found convenient. As previously stated the ducts D
may be used alone or in conjunction with the annular cup B.
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:
(1) The construction of spindle taps, cocks, or valves with lubricating means,
consisting of annular cups or channels B, or vertical ducts D. or both, formed in the
seating or in the spindle C, substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein-
before set forth and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
(2) The application of lubricating means to taps, cocks, or valves with vertical
spindles substantially in the manner described and illustrated.
Dated this 8th day of November 1889.
CASTLE SMITH,
Per F. W. Golby,
"Invention Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.(., Agent for the Applicant.