Improvements in or Attachment for the Outlet of Beer and like Engines and Taps.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Apr., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 27th Jan., 1897-Accepted, 27th Feb., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Attachment for the Outlet of Beer and like
Engines and Taps.
I, WILLIAM GRANVILLE, of Empire Hotel, Middlesbrough, in the County of
Yorks, Licensed Victualler, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
My invention has for its object to so modify the outlet of beer and like engines
and taps, or to provide such an attachment therefor that the beer and other
liquids will issue in the required frothy condition, and that the usual funnel may
be dispensed with when filling a beer bottle or similar vessel.
The
For this purpose I reduce the end of such outlet both internally and externally,
and form on the exterior of this reduced portion longitudinal grooves.
internal reduction is intended to ensure a greater agitation of the liquid as it
escapes, whilst the external reduction is to permit of the end of the outlet being
placed in an ordinary bottle neck, the grooves forming air passages from the bottle
when so arranged.
To attain the same object with an attachment 1 preferably employ a nipple
having a shoulder formed on its exterior near its middle.
One of the ends of this nipple has formed on its exterior grooves or air passages,
and is of such size as to permit it to enter a bottle neck. The opposite end of said
nipple I roughen and fit with a tube of indiarubber or other suitable material of
such thickness that it will constitute a packing between the nipple and the outlet
of a beer or like engine, into which said end of the nipple may be forced.
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CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, Mitre Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in or Attachment for the Outlet of Beer and like
Engines and Taps.
I, WILLIAM GRANVILLE, late of Empire Hotel, Middlesbrough, but now of
17 Westfield Terrace, Undercliffe, Bradford, in the County of Yorks, Licensed
Victualler, 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 has for its object to so modify the outlet of beer and like engines
and taps, or to provide such an attachment therefor, that the beer and other
liquids will issue therefrom in the required frothy condition, and also that the

page_text: usual funnel may be dispensed with when filling a beer bottle or similar.narrow-
necked vessel.
For this purpose I reduce the end of such outlet both internally and externally,
and form on the exterior of this reduced portion longitudinal grooves. The
internal reduction is intended to ensure a greater agitation of the liquid as it
escapes, whilst the external reduction is to permit of the end of the outlet being
placed in an ordinary bottle neck, the grooves forming passages between the bottle
neck and the tap to allow the air to escape from the bottle as it is displaced by the
liquid.
To attain the same object by means of an attachment I preferably employ a
nipple having a shoulder formed on its exterior about halfway between the two
ends thereof.
One of the ends of this nipple has formed on its exterior grooves or air passages,
and is of such size as to permit it to enter a bottle neck. The opposite end of
said nipple I roughen on the outside and fit with a tube of indiarubber, or other
suitable material of such thickness that it will constitute a packing between the
nipple and the outlet of a beer or like engine or tap, into which the said end of the
nipple may be forced, or the same may be fixed thereto in any other suitable
manner.
To enable my invention to be more fully understood and easily carried into
practical effect, I will now proceed to further describe it with reference to the
accompanying drawings, of which
Fig. 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of the tap of a beer engine;
Fig. 2 is an elevation of a reducing nipple ;
Fig. 3 is a sectional view of Fig. 2, and
Fig. 4 is a plan of the nipple as seen from below.
The same letters refer to like parts in the various figures.
a represents the tap of a beer engine or the like having the nipple reduced
internally ate and externally as at C and having the longitudinal grooves d formed
on the external reduced portion, which allow the air to escape from a bottle or the
like when being filled. The packing of rubber or other suitable material is fitted
on to the upper corrugated or otherwise roughened outside surface of the separate
nipples n having the external shoulders y formed upon them.
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 :-
(1) In a beer or like engine a tap having its outlet reduced internally and
externally substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
(2) In a beer or like engine a tap having its outlet reduced internally and
externally and having grooves formed on the externally reduced portion sub-
stantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
(3) A detachable reducing nipple for fitting to the outlets of beer or like engines
or taps having a part of its external surface reduced and grooves formed thereon
and its upper portion roughened and fitted externally with rubber or other packing
and having formed upon it near or at the centre a shoulder substantially as
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
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CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, Mitre Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.