Improvements in the Means of Affixing Taps to Bottles, Jars, and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Lelt, 29th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 4th June, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Means of Affixing Taps to Bottles, Jars,
and the like.
I, JOHN WILLIAM HOWARD of Lawn Street Lower Broughton, Manchester in
the County of Lancaster Herb Beer Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a means of affixing taps to bottles, jars and the like, and
the object of this invention is to obviate the necessity of employing force in fitting
said taps and thereby avoid the risk of fracturing the boss or neck of a bottle, jar
or other like vessel, in which a tap is required to be fitted.
I attain this object by the means hereinafter described and as illustrated in the
accompanying sheet of drawings. In the several views therein shown, similar
letters refer to similar parts.
In this invention I construct a hollow plug with a round or other suitably shaped
shank or spindle b. I form a collar at one end and a screw thread d on the
opposite end of said spindle.
Fig. 1. represents aforesaid spindle detached from the tap a in which it is intended
to be fitted in the position shown.
Fig. 2 shows my invention applied. This view represents the bosse of a bottle,
jar or other vesself and the shank or spindle of the hollow plug hereinbefore
described, passed through the hole g in the bottle with the collar c on the inside
fitted against a washer h. The screwed end d having been passed through the
hole g is connected to the tap a by said tap being screwed thereon until the collar j
is fitted closely against the washer and the boss or neck is gripped firmly between
the collars c and, the washers and preventing any liquid escaping through the
hole g. By these means the tap is securely fixed without any risk of fracturing
the bottle or other vessel by employing force to press or drive said tap into
the hole.
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THOMAS PRESCOTT,
53, Arcade Chambers, St. Mary's Gate, Manchester,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Means of Affixing Taps to Bottles, Jars,
and the like.
I, JOHN WILLIAM HOWARD of Lawn Street Lower Broughton Manchester in
the County of Lancaster Herb Beer Manufacturer 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 a means of affixing taps to bottles, jars, and the like and
the object of this invention is to obviate the necessity of employing force in fitting
said taps, and thereby avoid the risk of fracturing the boss or neck of a bottle, jar,
or other like vessel in which a tap is required to be fitted.
I attain this object by the means hereinafter described and as illustrated in the
accompanying sheet of drawings. In the several views therein shown similar letters
refer to similar parts.
Fig. 1. is an end view and Figs. 2 and 3 are side views of portions of a tap
constructed according to this invention.

page_text: Fig. 4 represents side view of the same tap with parts connected.
Fig. 5 is an end view and Figs. 6 and 7 are side views of portions of a like tap or
a modification thereof and Fig. 8 is side view of the same with parts connected.
Figs. 9 and 10 show my invention applied to jars.
In this invention I construct a plug with a hollow shank or spindle having a
collar cat one end and a screw thread d at the opposite end thereof, said screw
thread may extend externally as in Fig. 2 or may be formed internally as in
Fig. 6.
The external shape of the spindle may be either as represented in Figs. 1 and 5,
or of other preferred form, according to the shape internally of the neck or boss e
of the bottle, jar, or other vessel to which it is intended to be affixed. In order to
apply my invention for use as represented in Figs. 9 and 10, I place a washer / on
the spindle and pass the aforesaid plug to the inside of the vessel with the
shank extending through the hole in the boss or neck e, and the collar c on the
-inside of said boss, having the washer between the back of the collar and the inside
of jar.
I connect the front portion of the tap a to aforesaid plug by screwing said tap
either onto the screwed portion d as in Figs. 2 and 3 or into said spindle as in
Figs. 6 and 7, a washer & being previously placed between the end of the boss e and
the back portion of the tap a.
By these means the tap is securely fixed without any risk of fracturing the bottle
or other vessel by employing force to press or drive said tap into the hole g.
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. A tap that may be affixed to a bottle, jar, or like vessel by means of a plug
with a collar such as formed thereon, and a hollow shank or spindle terminating
with a screwed end such as d for screwing said tap thereto, for the purpose and in
the manner substantially as herein before described.
2. A tap that may be affixed to a bottle, jar or like vessel, by means of a plug
with a collar such as e formed thereon and a hollow shank or spindle with an
internally screwed end such as d for screwing said tap thereto in the manner and
for the purpose substantially as herein before described.
Dated this 28th day of April 1802
THOMAS PRESCOTT,
53, Arcade Chambers, St. Mary's Gate, Manchester,
Agent for Applicant.