Improved Appliances to be Attached to Casks for Containing Beverages.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left. 24th Jan., 1895-Accepted. 2nd Mar., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Appliances to be Attached to Casks for Containing
Beverages.
We, CHARLES MARCH, of Cleveland House, Uddingston, in the County of
Lanark, North Britain, Nail Manufacturer, and CHARLES WILLIAM Cox, of
Mount Eden, Uddingston, aforesaid, Agent for Messieurs Bass Rateliff and
Gretton, Limited, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows,
that is to say:-
Our said invention has for its object to promote and facilitate the complete closing
of casks for containing beverages, such as beer, ale, porter, and the like, when
emptied, for the purpose of preventing the access of air and consequent fouling or
souring of the interiors.
In carrying ont our invention we provide a metal plate to be attached to each
cask, such plate being formed with two bent out parts, a smaller one for holding a
vent peg and a larger one for holding a cork for closing the tap hole. The cork-.
holding part is preferably placed so that the cork which fits tightly secures .the
vent peg in place. The plate has also formed on it preferably in raised letters
a legend such as the words "Please put cork in tap hole and peg in vent hole,
when empty," or others. The plate is fixed to the cask, preferably by means of
tack points formed on the back of it to be driven into the cask; or the plate may
be made with holes for nails; or again it may have both tack points and holes for
nails so that a nail can be used if a tack point happens to be broken.
Instead of the cork and peg holder being a plate it may consist of wire, or of
wire combined with a plate bearing a legend.
Dated this Twenty-fifth day of April 1894.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicants' Agent.
Improved Appliances to be Attached to Casks for Containing
Beverages.
We, CHARLES MARCH, of Cleveland House, Uddingston, in the County of
Lanark, North Britain, Nail Manufacturer, and CHARLES WILLIAM Cox, of"
Mount Eden, Uddingston, aforesaid, Agent for Messieurs Bass Ratcliff and
Gretton, Limited, 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, that is to say :-
Our said invention has for its object to promote and facilitate the complete closing
of casks for containing beverages, such as beer, ale, porter, and the like, when
emptied, for the purpose of preventing the access of air and consequent fouling or
souring of the interiors.
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page_text: In carrying out our invention we provide a metal plate to be attached to each
cask, such plate being formed with two bent out parts, a smaller one for holding
a vent closing peg and a larger one for holding a cork for closing the tap hole;
and with a space for any desired legend.
Instead of the cork and peg holder being a plate it may consist of wire or sheet
metal or of wire or sheet metal combined with a plate bearing a legend.
And in order that our said invention and the manner of performing the same
may be properly understood we hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings
to be hereinafter referred to and showing three modifications of our improved
appliances.
Figure, 1, on the accompanying drawings, is a sectional plan, and Figure, 2, a
front elevation, showing one modification of our improved appliance.
Figures, 3, and 4, and 5, and 6, are, respectively, similar views showing a second
and third modification.
In these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or like
parts wherever they are repeated.
As shown in Figures, 1, and 2, we provide a metal plate, A, to be attached to
cach cask, part of which is shown in section at, B, such plate, A, being formed with
two bent out parts, C, D, a smaller one, C, for holding a vent closing peg, E, and
a larger one, D, for holding a cork, F, for closing the tap hole. The cork-holding
part, D, is placed so that the cork, F, which fits tightly secures the vent peg, E, in
place, and when the cork is in its place its inner top corner engages in the opening
in the plate, A, so as not to be liable to be unintentionally displaced. The
plate, A, bas also formed on it, preferably, in raised letters, a legend such as the
words "When empty please put cork in tap hole and peg in vent hole, return to
brewery as shown in Figure, 2, or other words. The plate, A, is fixed to the
cask, B, preferably by means of tack points, G, (Figure 1) formed on the back of
it to be driven into the cask; or it may have holes for nails instead of tack points
or both tack points, G, and holes, H, (Figure, 2) for nails so that a nail can be
used if a tack point happens to be broken.
"
As shown in Figures, 3, and 4, the plate, A, is shown as being made in a separate
piece from the bent out and lower lateral parts, C, D, these parts being made out
of thin sheet metal and the whole being secured to the cask, B, by nails, J, inserted
in the holes, H.
As shown in Figures, 5, and 6, the bent out parts, C, D, for holding the cork, F,
and vent peg, E, consist of wire bent into the necessary form and secured to the
cask, B, by nails, J, inserted in holes, H, formed by loops of the wire.
The cork
holder, D, is further made with a finger-like part, K, bent upwards and inwards,
this part being pulled outwards when inserting a cork, F, and afterwards springing
back into position with the part bent inwards on the top of the cork securing the
cork in position. This modification of cork and peg holder may be combined with
a plate (A) bearing a legend.
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:-
1. The combination, arrangement, and construction of parts constituting the
improved appliance to be attached to casks for containing beverages substantially
as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and as shown in Figures, 1, and 2,
of the accompanying drawings.
2. The combination, arrangement, and construction of parts constituting the
improved appliance to be attached to casks for containing beverages 'substantially
as and for the purposes herein before described and as shown in Figures, 3, and 4,
of the accompanying drawings.
3. The combination, arrangement, and construction of parts constituting the
improved appliance to be attached to casks for containing beverages substantially

page_text: as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and as shown in Figures, 5, and 6,
of the accompanying drawings.
Doted this Twenty-third day of January 1895.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicants' Agent.