Improvements in Vent Pegs.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Apr, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 19th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 12th Oct., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Vent Pegs.
I, WILLIAM READ REYNOLDS, of 144, Stanstead Road, Forest Hill, in the county
of Kent, Merchant's Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to an improved vent peg which can be driven into a barrel
or the like in the ordinary manner but which does not require to be removed when
drawing liquid.
According to my invention the peg is made hollow and is closed at its outer end
by a screw stopper or plug which is also hollow. Around the body of the stopper
beneath the head are formed holes communicating with the interior. When the plug
is screwed tightly down these holes are closed, but when the stopper is turned say
half a turn, air can pass through the stopper and the plug into the barrel.
Instead of placing the stopper in the end of the plug it may be arranged at right
angles to the same or in any other desirable position.
Dated the 2nd day of Anril 1889.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Vent Pegs.
I, WILLIAM READ REYNOLDS, of 40, Ringstead Road, Catford, in the county of
Kent, Merchant's Clerk, 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 :-
My invention relates to an improved vent peg which can be driven or screwed into
a barrel or the like in the ordinary manner, but which does not require to be removed
when drawing liquid.
According to my invention the peg is made hollow and is closed at its outer end,
by a screw stopper or plug, which is also hollow. Around the body of the stopper
beneath the head is or are formed a hole or holes communicating with the interior.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will proceed to describe
the same by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which—
Figure 1 is an elevation of my improved vent peg applied to a cask or barrel, the
peg being closed.
Figure 2 is a similar view to figure but showing the stopper of the vent peg
partly unscrewed so as to show the hole in the body of the stopper.
.
Figure 3 is a section of figure 1.
Similar letters in all the figures are used to represent similar parts.
a represents the peg which, as shown in figure 3, is made hollow at a¹: in the
drawing this peg is shown cut with a screw-thread 6 to allow of it being screwed into
the cask, but it will be obvious that it may be made plain so as to allow of it being
driven into the cask.
C is the stopper or plug formed with a screw-thread, so that it can be screwed into
the screwed upper part of the peg a; the neck part c' of the stopper being advan-
tageously somewhat reduced in diameter. It will be seen by reference to figure 3
that the body of the stopper or plug c is hollow: d is a hole formed in the neck c¹ of
the stopper, communicating with the hollow part thereof and consequently with the
hollow in the peg a.

page_text: By this construction it will be obvious that if the screw plug c is screwed tightly
down, as shown in figures 1 and 3, the hole d is closed, and the contents of the cask
cannot be drawn off, but if the screw plug or stopper is partly unscrewed, say half a
turn, air can pass through the said hole d in the stopper and down through the hollow
part a¹ of the peg into the cask thereby allowing the contents of the cask to be drawn
off in the usual manner.
Instead of placing the stopper e in the end of the peg as hereinbefore described
and illustrated in the drawing, it may be arranged at right angles to the peg or in any
other desirable position.
In practice I find it advantageous to make my improved vent peg, with its stopper,
of a material, such as vulcanite or lignum vitae, which is not affected by atmosphereic
changes or by the contents of the cask, but it will be obvious that it may be made of
metal or other suitable material.
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 manufacture and use of the improved vent peg, hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the ...
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.