Improved Tap for Beer, Spirits, and other Liquids.
Year: 1898

page_text: WILLIAM HERBERT HYATT, 67, Wellesley Road, Gunnersbury, in the County
of Middlesex, Chemical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows;―
This invention relates to the watertight fixing of taps into the orifices of jars
casks or other recepticles for liquids. The method of application is exemplified
as follows, the tap has a screwed thread, and on this thread is a nut somewhat
cork shaped, the thin end of the conical or cork shaped nut fits into a straight
piece of elastic tube, or other material with a collar on it. The whole is inserted
into the orifice up to the front plate of tap. On turning the tap on its axis the
end of nut enters the tube, and compresses the air within causing the compressed
air to expand the tube till it forms a watertight joint at the same time a good
joint is formed in the front & on the inside of orifice. The method may be varied
according to the requirements so long as I use such shaped nuts as will compress
the air or form a joint from within outwards.
Dated this 22nd day of Angust 1908
Improved Tap for Beer, Spirits, and other Liquids.
WILLIAM HERBERT HYATT, of 67, Wellesley Road Gunnersbury, in the County
of Middlesex, Chemical Engineer, 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:-
This invention relates to the watertight fixing of taps into the orifices of jars,
casks, or other receptacles for liquids. The method of application is exemplified
as follows: The tap has a screwed thread, and on this thread is a nut somewhat
cork shaped, the thin end of the conical or cork shaped nut fits into a straight
piece of elastic tube, or other material with a collar on it. The whole is inserted
into the orifice up to the front plate of tap. On turning the tap on its axis, the
end of nut, being gripped slightly by the neck of tube, is drawn into the tube,
travelling along the thread on tail of tap, and compresses the air within, causing
the compressed air to expand the tube till it forms a watertight joint, at the same
time a good joint is formed in the front and on the inside of orifice. The method
may be varied according to the requirements so long as I use such shaped nuts
as will compress the air, or form a joint from within outwards.
By reversing

page_text: the revolution of the axis of tap the nut may be disengaged and tap removed. I
prefer to exemplify this principle of fixing taps by the following drawings, in
which A (Fig. 1) is the elastic tube with collar, B (Fig. 2) is the cork shaped or
conical nut through which the thread on tail of tap is screwed, the nut being
drawn straight into tube without revolving. Fig. 3 is the tap ready to be used,
and Fig. 4 is a sectional drawing showing tap in orifice, in which A is the elastic
tube with collar, B is the cork shaped nut drawn into tube by screwing the tail
of tap C through it, and I) is a section of the side of receptacle.
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:-
1. The herein before described method of fixing taps into orifices which consists
in the effectual plugging of the channel of the orifice, except for the necessary
hole through tail of tap which plugging is effected by the cork shaped nut moving
up the thread of the tail of tap and compressing the air in the elastic tube till
it sufficiently expands the tube to plug orifice, at the same time a wedge shape
joint being formed by the nut and elastic tube on the inside of the orifice, and a
tight joint between the front plate of tap and exterior of orifice, substantially as
set forth.
2. The construction of aforesaid method of fixing taps by the above combination
of cork shaped nuts and elastic tube used in such a manner as to produce an
intended compression of air in the elastic tube, and consequent expansion of the
tube sufficient to fit and form a grip on channel of orifice, and by reversing the
direction of the revolution of the axis of the tap, release such compressed air,
and allow of the removal of tap from orifice, all of which is substantially
described.
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