Improvements in or connected with Bungs or Stoppers for Casks, Bottles, and other Receptacles.
Year: 1895

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Bungs or Stoppers for Casks,
Bottles, and other Receptacles.
1, JAMES FINDLAY Chemist and Druggist 22 Liverpool Road, Great Crosby near
Liverpool Lancashire do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
An improvement in the method of inserting and withdrawing bungs and corkstoppers
used with bottles, jars, drums, casks, & other receptacles for containing solids and
liquide.
The usual manner in which bungs & corkstoppers are inserted or withdrawn has
a tendency to damage & waste those articles, more especially when the insertion or
withdrawal has to be performed frequently.
The object of this invention is to minimise the waste by providing a ready means
whereby the bung or corkstopper may be inserted or withdrawn without damage and
so he of use again.
This invention consists in attaching firmly to the bung or corkstopper, a ring-boit
or the like which may be in one piece with the bung or corkstopper, or inserted there
into and secured to it by a screwbolt and nut or other suitable means, or a screwed
flange nut may be fixed firmly into the bung or corkstopper and the ringbolt inserted
whenever the bung or corkstopper is to be withdrawn This latter is convenient in the
case of casks which have frequently to be rolled on their sides.
·Dated this 24th day of June 1895
Improvements in or connected with Bungs or Stoppers for Casks,
Bottles, and other Receptacles.
1, JAMES FINDLAY, of 22 Liverpool Road, Great Crosby, near Liverpool, do
hereby declare the nature of the said invention and in what manner the same is
to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to means whereby the bungs or corkstoppers of casks, bottles,
and other receptacles, used by dry salters, wine and spirit merchants, druggists, oilmen
and others, may be readily withdrawn from time to time.
It is the custom for the users of such receptacles to occasionally withdraw a portion
of their contents, either for sale or for the purpose of re-filling smaller vessels, and on
each such occasion it is necessary to securely re-cork or re-bung the larger vessel in order
that its contents may be preserved from the air. The cork or bung is therefore driven
entirely home or at least so tightly as to require the aid of a corkscrew to extract it
again. The passage of a corkscrew through a cork or bung leaves an aperture therein
and repeated use of a screw entirely destroys its efficiency.
I obviate these defects by the employment of a device forming the subject-matter
of this invention, which device resembles a ring-bolt and consists of a plate carrying a
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page_text: ring and a screwed stem alapted to receive a nut. The threaded stem is passed
through the cork or bung and the nut is screwed onto it on the underside. The
appliance thus forms a handle to the bung, the ring being taken in the fingers of the
user.
In the drawing hereto annexed Figure 1 represents such an appliance fitted to an
ordinary bung, a being the finger ring, b the plate, c the threaded stem, d the nut,
and e the bung.
Figure 2 is a plan of the appliance. In Figure 3 the plate bis
shewn provided with two stems e, for use with large sized bungs.
The appliance may be fitted to a bung when it is first applied to a cask or jar, or
may be placed in the bung after it has been primarily extracted by means of a corkscrew,
in which case it will be understood that the plate and nut effectually close the aperture
made in the bung by the screw.
For bungs of casks and the like which are frequently rolled on their side, I provide
the device shewn in Figure 4, in which a flanged socket fis passed through the bung,
the stem c screwing into the socket. When not in use the ring-bolt is unscrewed
from the socket, the latter remaining a fixture in the bung.
The appliance may be made of brass, gun-metal or other material according to the
nature of the contents of the jar with which it is used.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
The combination with bangs or corkstoppers for casks, bottles, and other receptacles,
of a device comprising a ring a, plate 6, threaded stem c, and nut d or socket f,
arranged and adapted to operate substantially as herein set forth with reference to the
drawing hereto annexed.
Dated this 8th day of November 1805
J. A. COUBROUGH,
Registered Patent Agent,
10 St George's Crescent, Liverpool, Agent for the Applicant.