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 bolo provided with a female screw
We employ several modifications of taps.
thread
In one modification we form a perforated stem with a male screw thread on its
exterior to correspond with the female screw thread in the vessel with which the top
is to be used, the stem is provided with a cap or head either round or other suitable
shape with a milled edge suitable for gripping when screwing up, on the shoulder of
the cap is placed an elastic ring of india rubber, cork or other suitable material, which
forms a light joint, when the stem is screwed into the tap hole of the vessel. In the
cap or head of the stem a tap is secured.
In a second modification we form the perforated male screw threaded stem with its
cap and the tap in one piece, and provide it with a washer to form a tight joint.
In a third modification we form a tap with a screw threaded tapered stem and a
milled head, upon the stem we mould while in a plastic state a male screw thread of
vulcanite or similar material.
Either of the 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.,
A gent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Taps for Jars, Barrels, and other Vessels.
We EDWARD WHEELER FIELD of Aspley Hall, Nottinghain, 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 provided with a female screw
thread.
One of our improved taps is shown in side view at Figure 1.
Each tap is formed with a perforated stem provided with a male screw thread A on
its exterior, to correspond with the female screw thread in the vessel with which the
tap is to be used. The stem is provided with a cap or head B either round, or other
suitable shape for gripping while screwing the tap into a vessel, the cap forms a
shoulder round the screw threaded stem, upon which is placed an elastic ring C of
india-rubber, cork, or other suitable material, which forms a tight joint when the stem
is screwed into the tap hole of the 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.