A Combined Gas Tap Key and Moveable Taper Holder.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Jan., 1887
Complete Left, 13th Sept., 1887
Complete Accepted, 18th Oct., 1887
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Combined Gas Tap Key and Moveable Taper Holder.
THOMAS WARBURTON REDFORD, 12 Halstead Street Bolton, Lancashire, Clerk,
FREDERICK GEORGE REDFORD, 66 Davenport Street, Bolton Lancashire, Teacher do
hereby declare the nature of our invention for A COMBINED GAS TAP KEY AND
MOVEABLE TAPER HOLDER, to be as follows:-
To one end of a light rod or pole is affixed a key, for turning a gas tap. On one
side of this key we attach one or more brackets, and to this bracket, or brackets, we
apply the taper holder. The taper holder is a short tube, in which the taper fits,
preferably slit down one side, with a cross piece at one end. The cross piece is
pivotted at its centre to the said brackets, one arm of the said cross piece is connected
by means of a wire, or string, to a thumb piece, or button, at the butt end of the rod.
The other arm of the crosspiece is pulled, or pushed, by a spring constantly tending
to hold the taper in a vertical position. Pressure on the thumb piece acting on one
arm of the cross piece by means of the connecting wire or string, turns the taper down
to the horizontal position, in opposition to the force of the spring, which is acting on
the opposite arm. On releasing the button the taper rises to the vertical position, by
the force of the spring. The action may be reversed by exchanging the relative
attachments of the spring and the wire on the cross piece.
The object of the invention being to move the taper out of the way whilst the gas
tap is turned.
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page_text: THOMAS WARBURTON REDFORD 12 Halstead Street, Bolton, Clerk, FREDERICK
GEORGE REDFORD, 66 Davenport Street Bolton, Teacher, 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 invention relates to that class of gas tap keys which are affixed to the end of a
light rod or pole; with these we combine a Taper holder so arranged as to be movable
from the opposite, or butt, end of the rod or pole. The object of the invention being
to move the Taper out of the way whilst the gas tap is turned.
The nature of our invention and the manner in which the same is to be put into
practical operation will be readily understood on reference to the sheet of Drawings
annexed, and the following explanation thereof.
To one end of a light rod, or pole, is affixed a key for turning a gas tap, on one side
of this key we attach one, or more, brackets, and to this bracket (or brackets) we
apply the Taper holder.
The Taper holder is a short tube in which the Taper fits, preferably slit down one
side, with a cross piece at one end. The crosspiece is pivotted at its centre to the said
bracket, or brackets, one arm of the said crosspiece is connected by means of a wire,
or string, to a thumb piece, or button, at the butt end of the rod. The other arm of
the crosspiece is pulled (or pushed) by a spring constantly tending to hold the Taper
in a vertical position. Pressure on the thumb piece acting on one arm of the cross-
piece by means of the connecting wire, or string, turns the Taper down to the
horizontal position, in opposition to the force of the spring, which is acting on the
opposite arm. On releasing the button the Taper holder rises to the vertical position
be reversed by exchanging the relative
by the force of the spring. The action cross piece.
attachments of the spring and the wire on
In Fig. 1, on the sheet of Drawings annexed, a is the rod or pole, is the gas tap
key, c is the bracket (or brackets) preferably attached as shown, but which may be
affixed to the rod below the key, d is the Taper holder (shown separately in Fig. 2)
E is the pivot on which the Taper holder turns, F is the crosspiece, G is the spring,
H is the thumbpiece or button, J is the wire, or string, which may pass direct from
the crosspiece to the thumbpiece, or button, but is preferably arranged as shown in
the Drawing, where K is a lever which, as will readily be seen, enables the greater
portion of the wire to work within a slot in the rod, or pole.
Fig. 3 is an elevation of a form of key suitable for three kinds of gas taps, (square,
ordinary thumb, and pull down) with our Taper holder applied, and showing it in
the horizontal position; Fig. 4 and 5 are respectively plan and section (at 8) of the
same. Fig. 6, 7, and 8, show the bracket (or brackets) and Taper holder applied to
another kind of gas tap key.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
First: The use in connection with a gas tap Key (of that class which is mounted
on a rod or pole) of a Taper holder movable on a pivot.
Secondly: The combination in connection with a gas tap key (of that class which
is mounted on a rod or pole) of a Taper holder pivotted on a bracket, or brackets, and
so arranged as to be movable from the butt, or opposite, end of the rod or pole, by
means of a thumbpiece, connecting wire, or string, and spring, substantially as heroin-
before described and illustrated by the Drawings annexed.
Dated this Twelfth day of September 1887.