An Improved Tap for Stoneware and like Barrels and Jars.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Mar., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 21st Dec., 1891-Accepted, 20th Feb., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Tap for Stoneware and like Barrels and Jars.
I, WILLIAM JOSEPH YOUNG, of Woodstock Road, Moseley, Worcestershire,
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists in the herein described improved tap for stoneware and
like barrels and jars for containing beer spirits or other liquids, which tap is con-
structed so that it cannot be surreptitiously removed from the barrel or jar or the
contents surreptitiously withdrawn.
In one form of my improved tap the body thereof is made of wood consisting of
a flange having on one side a central screwed or other spigot and at the other side
a boss through which passes a metal lining at right angles to the said spigot. This
lining contains the plug which is made with a side and a bottom opening as usual.
The upper part of the lining projects beyond the boss and forms a cap or guard
for the top of the plug on which the key fits and the lower part of the lining forms
the spout of the tap. The lining is or may be made in two or more parts for
convenience in getting in the plug. The said spigot of the wooden body of the
tap enters in the tap hole of the said barrel or jar and is there fixed by suitable
cement, the said flange assisting in making the joint.
Instead of being made of wood, the body of the tap may be made of metal.
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CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Tap for Stoneware and like Barrels and Jars.
I WILLIAM JOSEPH YOUNG of Woodstock Road Moseley in the County of
Worcester Agent 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 an improved tap for stoneware and like barrels
and jars by which means such jars may be used for supplying beer spirits and
other liquids in smaller quantities than usually supplied in barrels and this without
fear of the contents being surreptitiously withdrawn or the tap removed.
In one form of my improved tap the body thereof is made of wood consisting
of a flange having on one side central screwed or other spigot and at the other side
a boss through which passes a metal lining at right angles to the said spigot. This
lining contains the plug which is made with a side and a bottom opening as
usual.
The upper part of the lining projects beyond the boss and forms a cap or guard
for the top of the plug on which the key fits and the lower part of the lining forms
the spout of the tap. The lining is or may be made in two or more parts for
convenience in getting in the plug. The said spigot of the wooden body of the tap
enters in the tap hole of the said barrel or jar and is there fixed by suitable cement
the said flange assisting in making the joint. Instead of being made of wood the
body of the tap may be made of metal.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practise I have appended hereunto a sheet of drawings upon which I have
shewn my invention applied to a stoneware jar.

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Mar., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 21st Dec., 1891-Accepted, 20th Feb., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Tap for Stoneware and like Barrels and Jars.
I, WILLIAM JOSEPH YOUNG, of Woodstock Road, Moseley, Worcestershire,
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists in the herein described improved tap for stoneware and
like barrels and jars for containing beer spirits or other liquids, which
is con-
tap
structed so that it cannot be surreptitiously removed from the barrel or jar or the
contents surreptitiously withdrawn.
In one form of my improved tap the body thereof is made of wood consisting of
a flange having on one side a central screwed or other spigot and at the other side
a boss through which passes a metal lining at right angles to the said spigot. This
lining contains the plug which is made with a side and a bottom opening as usual.
The upper part of the lining projects beyond the boss and forms a cap or guard
for the top of the plug on which the key fits and the lower part of the lining forms
the spout of the tap. The lining is or may be made in two or more parts for
convenience in getting in the plug. The said spigot of the wooden body of the
tap enters in the tap hole of the said barrel or jar and is there fixed by suitable
cement, the said flange assisting in making the joint.
Instead of being made of wood, the body of the tap may be made of metal.
Dated this 20th day of March 1891.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Tap for Stoneware and like Barrels and Jars.
I WILLIAM JOSEPH YOUNG of Woodstock Road Moseley in the County of
Worcester Agent 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 an improved tap for stoneware and like barrels
and jars by which means such jars may be used for supplying beer spirits and
other liquids in smaller quantities than usually supplied in barrels and this without
fear of the contents being surreptitiously withdrawn or the tap removed.
In one form of my improved tap the body thereof is made of wood consisting
of a flange having on one side central screwed or other spigot and at the other side
a boss through which passes a metal lining at right angles to the said spigot. This
lining contains the plug which is made with a side and a bottom opening as
usual.
The upper part of the lining projects beyond the boss and forms a cap or guard
for the top of the plug on which the key fits and the lower part of the lining forms
the spout of the tap. The lining is or may be made in two or more parts for
convenience in getting in the plug. The said spigot of the wooden body of the tap
enters in the tap hole of the said barrel or jar and is there fixed by suitable cement
the said flange assisting in making the joint. Instead of being made of wood the
body of the tap may be made of metal.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practise I have appended hereunto a sheet of drawings upon which I have
shewn my invention applied to a stoneware jar.

page_text: I have shewn my improved tap in connection with the stoneware jar A which
may be protected by the basket or not as desired and this stoneware jar has the
screw stoneware stopper a' which may be provided with a wooden air plug and
covered when full with the label of the firm supplying the liquid by which means
the liquid cannot be removed from the mouth without breaking the label. At or
near the bottom of the jar AI provide my improved tap the body Bof which is formed
of wood having the flange and screw or other suitable spigot 62 which is screwed
into the tap hole a³ the joint being either made good with cement or the india
rubber ring a. A hole is formed through the wooden boss B in which the metal
lining D is inserted and this lining contains the plug E which is made with the side
opening e¹ and bottom opening e² in the usual way.
The upper part of the lining D projects above the boss and forms the cap d' or
guard for the top of the plug e³ on which the key fits the lower part of the lining
forming the spout d².
The lining may be formed in two parts for convenience in getting in the plug.
The tap may be formed wholly of metal and when sent out containing liquid the
label of the firm would be cemented over the key-hole of the tap to prevent any of
the liquid being surreptitiously withdrawn.
Having now particularly ascertained the nature of my said invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is-
1st. An improved tap for stoneware and like barrels and jars substantially
as and for the purpose herein set forth and shewn upon the accompanying
drawing.
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. Dated this 18th day of December 1891.
WILLIAM J. YOUNG.