Improvements in and relating to Taps.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Jan., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 13th Oct., 1899-Accepted, 20th Jan., 1900
I, WILLIAM HENRY MOORE, of 38, Cambridge Road, Gunnersbury, W., School-
master, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
This invention relates to improvements in taps or cocks, and in accordance
therewith I provide the tap, (which is vertical and tapers or diminishes interior-
ally toward the mouth) with a ball valve, adapted to seat itself near the mouth
or outlet in order to shut off the supply of liquid.
Upon the outside of such tap I provide a sleeve adapted to slide freely up and
down thereon, such sleeve having a transverse piece or pieces upon the lower end
from which rises a vertical rod having at its upper end a suitable cup-like enlarge-
ment in which the ball-valve aforesaid is adapted to seat itself when the sleeve
is pushed up along the tap.
The said sleeve may be slotted vertically in one or more places to receive a
projection or projections, upon the exterior of the tap, such slots and projections
being for the purpose of guides and stops to respectively direct the sleeve in its
sliding movement and to stop same from being pushed up too high, or down
too low.
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The sleeve is further provided with a suitable handle for raising and lowering
game.
The vertical tap so constructed, is provided with the usual barrel. communicat-
ing with such tap and the water supply pipe or its equivalent.
In operation, the liquid entering the tap from the supply pipe, for instance,
seats. the. ball-valve upon the diminished part of the interior of such tap and
prevents any liquid issuing from the mouth of the latter, the valve being opened
and the supply turned on by raising the sleeve, which lifts the ball-valve off its
seat and allows the liquid to flow from the tap.
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Improvements in and relating to Taps.
I, WILLIAM HENRY MOORE, of 38, Cambridge Road, Gunnersbury, London, W.,
Schoolmaster, 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:-
:
invention valates to improvements in fans or cocks. and has for its obiect

page_text: to provide a tap or cock which, when turned off, will be perfectly water-tight,
while the turning off of the water-supply can be instantaneously effected.
By means of my invention waste of water is effectually prevented, whilst the
time employed in turning on and off the tap or cock is reduced to a minimum.
In order that my said invention may be the more readily understood, reference
is hereby made to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings, wherein :-
Fig. 1 is a side elevational view, partly in section, of my improved tap or cock
complete,
Fig. 2 a perspective view, partly in section, of the lower part or sleeve.
Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of the tap or cock in its turned on position,
Fig. 4 is a side elevational view of the tap or cock in its normal, or turned
off position.
Fig. 5 is a side elevational view partly in section of a beer tap constructed in
accordance with my invention, while Fig. 6 is an end elevational view thereof.
Referring to Figs. 1, 2, 3 & 4 of the drawings, wherein like letters of reference
indicate corresponding parts throughout the several figures, a represents the
vertical mouth portion of the tap or cock, the bore 6 of which tapers or diminishes
from the top to the mouth or outlet. Within this tap a I locate a ball-valve c,
formed of india-rubber, metal or other suitable material, such ball-valve normally
seating itself, by gravity, in the diminished end of the bore b, immediately above
the mouth or outlet, and thereby close same.
d represents the sleeve, which is adapted to slide freely upon the said vertical
tap a, such sleeve having a plurality of cross-bars e (or a single cross-bar may be
conveniently employed) at its lower open end, from which rises a vertical rod f
having at its upper end a cup-like receptacle f', in which the said ball-valve c is
adapted to seat itself when the sleeve d is travelled upward upon the tap a.
As shewn in Figures 5 & 6, the said sleeve d may be provided with vertical
slots d¹ in its sides, through which project guide-stops upon the exterior of the
tap a, the object of these slots and guide-stops being to limit the upward and
downward travel of the sleeve d upon the tap a, and to guide such sleeve during
its sliding movement. g represents the handle or bail (which may if desirable
be provided) which rises from the upper part of the sleeve d and has for its
function the raising and lowering of such sleeve.
The vertical tap or cock a is provided with the usual barrel h, one end of
which barrel communicates with the interior of the tap at a², whilst the other
end communicates with the supply pipe, in the usual well-known manner.
In operation, the liquid entering the tap a from the supply-pipe, seats the
ball-valve c upon the diminished part of the bore 6 and effectually prevents the
exit of any liquid from the mouth of the tap, the valve being opened, and the
supply of liquid turned on, by raising the sleeve d, which lifts the said ball-
valve c off its seat immediately above the mouth of the tap, and thereby allows
the liquid to flow from such mouth in an interrupted stream.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. The improvements in, taps or cocks, consisting in a vertical portion having a
tapered bore, said bore tapering from the top toward the mouth, and having a
ball-valve therein adapted to seat itself normally above the mouth of the tap to
close same; and a sleeve fitting over the lower part of the vertical tap, said sleeve
having a cross-piece at its lower end from which rises a vertical rod having at its
upper end a cup and by means of which the ball-valve is lifted off its seat to free
the mouth of the tap, the said vertical portion having a barrel communicating
therewith and with the supply pipe, substantially as described and shewn, parti-
cularly in Figs. 1, 2, 3 & 4 of the drawings.
2. In taps or cocks, the combination of a vertical portion communicating with
and having a bore which tapers from the top toward the bottom thereof, in which

page_text: bore a ball-valve it situated, said ball-valve normally seating itself in the
diminished part of the bore, immediately above the mouth of the tap; with a
sleeve fitting over the lower part of the vertical tap and adapted to slide thereon,
said sleeve having vertical guide-slots in its sides through which project guide-
stops on the vertical tap, and a grid upon the lower end of said sleeve from which
rises a vertical rod having at its upper end a cup, said sleeve having a lifting
handle on its upper end, all arranged, combined and operating substantially as
and for the purpose described and as illustrated particularly by Figs. 5 & 6 of
the drawings.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for Applicant.