IMPROVEMENTS IN TAPS AND IN ADAPTING THE SAME TO THE NECKS OF BOTTLES AND SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I WALTER STOTT of Manchester in the county of Lancaster Wine and Spirit
merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for IMPROVEMENTS
IN TAPS AND IN ADAPTING THE SAME TO THE NECKS OF BOTTLES AND SIMILAR
ARTICLES to be as follows:-
:-
This invention relates to a new form of tap which can be applied to glass bottles
and to such application thereof. It consists in forming the neck of the bottle in
shape like the barrel of a tap, and with two recessed circles formed or cut in the
body of the tap at each end of the hole, that the plug of the tap ordinarily goes
through. The barrel interior of plug hole can be cylindrical or conical. In this
plug hole I fit a plug with two deep grooves in it at a slightly less distance apart,
measured from the nearest sides of each groove, than the distance between the two
cut out circles, and in each of these grooves I spring an india rubber washer just
filling the groove and cut out circle. This rubber washer pressing against the
body of the tap forms a perfect seal. The plug can be ground in place of conical
or it can be formed of any hard material coated with cork rubber or other
composition. The plug has the usual water way in it. This tap forming an
actual part of the bottle is an excellent stopper, and has the striking advantage of
enabling one to draw off part of the contents yet retain the rest closed from the
air. This tap is applicable to other things besides bottles, and is especially
valuable for very corrosive liquids, the stopper being in such case ground into the
glass or earthenware barrel and thus a tap is made without screws or metalwork of
any description.

page_text: I, WALTER STOTT, of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, Wine and Spirit
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN TAPS AND IN ADAPTING THE SAME TO THE NECKS OF BOTTLES AND SIMILAR
ARTICLES" 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 a new form of tap which can be applied to glass bottles
and to such application thereof.
It is best described by aid of the accompanying drawing showing a bottle and
tap in accordance with my invention in which Figure 1 is a section and Figure 2
an elevation at right angles to Figure 1 of my cock and bottle.
I form the neck of the bottle in shape like the barrel of a tap. I do this by
blowing the bottle with a bulge at A and then pinching it into the barrel shape
pulling out the ends at the same time I then mould the hole true with a conical
mandril and cut off the jagged ends to a smooth face the plug is formed conical to
suit and has a neck or groove round at B into which an india rubber washer C is
sprung if the plug be parallel, two of these are required one at each end and in
this case the plug should be covered with cork, rubber or other elastic substance,
but one washer suffices with a conical plug as it can only come out of the barrel in
one direction. The grinding of the plug in the barrel forms a perfect seal while
the rubber pressing between the face of the barrel and the groove in the plug
assists the seal at the smaller end and keeps all tight.
The plug can be ground in place if conical, or it can be formed of any hard
material coated with cork, rubber, or other composition. The plug has the usual
water way in it. This 'tap forming an actual part of the bottle is an excellent
stopper, and has the striking advantage of enabling one to draw off part of the
contents, yet retain the rest closed from the air. This tap is applicable to other
things besides bottles, and is especially valuable for very corrosive liquids, the
stopper being in such case ground into the glass or earthenware barrel, and thus a
tap is made without screws or metal-work of any description.
Having now particularly described and 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. The tap formed of a glass body and conical glass grooved plug held in place,
and kept up to its work by an india rubber washer sprung into the groove and
pressing against the body substantially as described whereby a corrosive or other
liquid passing through is exposed to no other material than glass, and so is kept
pure and free from injuring the tap.
2nd. The improvement in adapting taps to the necks of bottles and other similar
articles which consists in forming the barrel of the tap in one piece with the glass
or earthenware bottle, or other like article substantially as and for the purposes
described.
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