Improvement in Means for Tapping Beer Barrels, Casks, and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 10th June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 10th Mar., 1893-Accepted, 13th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Means for Tapping Beer Barrels, Casks, and
the like.
CLARENCE JAMES CHILDS "Wentworth Arms" Branbridge Street, Burdett
Road, Mile End Road, Publican, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
An object made in any shape (at discretion of inventor) of any material say for
instance, brown-paper, leather, india-rubber, say object to be conical, to exactly fit
tap. The four corners of the object are to be clipped off, the idea of this is that
it allows greater scope for having more brown-paper on, the cuts at top of object
slipping over cock of tap, the cuts at bottom slip over perforated end of tap, giving
a perfectly free vent to the holes. The idea of having a good quantity of brown-
paper is, that you are liable to get a very large hole & the tap slip through. The
object to be slipped on tap, & driven home, thereby saving time & labour. The
inventor, claims prevention of damage to hands, & the slipping off, leaking &
unfurling of paper.
Dated this 9th day of June 1892.
Improvement in Means for Tapping Beer Barrels, Casks, and
the like.
I, CLARENCE JAMES CHILDS of the "Wentworth Arms" Branbridge Street
Burdett Road London, E. Publican, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion, 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 the tapping of barrels casks and the like containing
liquor, and its object is to enable the same to be done more quickly and efficiently
than has hither been possible.
Hitherto it has been the practice to wrap a strip of brown paper around the tap
just before inserting it into the hole in the cask for the purpose of preventing any
leaking around the tap, but this is found to be very inconvenient and at best
always looks clumsy, the paper frequently coming unrolled and causing leakage and
it is also a method which takes more time than my invention which I will now
proceed to describe.
I take a strip of pliable sheet material preferably paper and wrap this several
times around a "former" of preferably conical shape. I then cement in a
suitable way preferably by paste, the edge of the said paper to the body of the
paper cone thus formed. By this means it will be seen that a paper envelope or
cone is formed which if slipped over a tap will enable the latter to be readily
cleanly and effectively inserted in the hole in the barrel and which cannot possibly
come unfurled or allow the liquor to escape.
Fig. 1 in the accompanying drawings represents my improved cone as herein
described and Fig. 2 is a plan of the same.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The manufacture of cones for slipping over taps for the purpose of tapping beer
barrels casks and the like as herein described and set forth.
Dated this Tenth day of March 1893.
CLARENCE JAMES CHILDS.