Improvements in Automatic Spile Pins for use in the Venting of Casks.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Automatic Spile Pins for use in the Venting of
Casks.
I, ALEXANDER METCALFE, of the Lobster Hotel, Coatham, Redcar, in the County
of York, Licensed Victualler, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
An improvement in automatic spile pins for use in the venting of casks for
public and private use, by the construction in parts of a spile pin to be manu-
factured in brass or other metal, or part wood and part metal, preferably brass-
which construction I carry out as follows, that is to say: -
I provide a screw pin with cup and thumb screw or combination of cup with
nut inside cup is a seat of lead, leather, rubber, or other material at entrance
of passage through pin; cup is threaded inside to receive screw cap with open
orifice in the centre of cap--the orifice or opening to be round and to contain
seat for and guide valve; such valve to protrude through orifice when in
position the valve to be provided with a seat to make the cap air tight; and
the stem of valve to be triangular shape so that when pressed in or drawn by
suction it opens the air passage through the orifice or opening in cap,-such
valve to be kept in position by a spring coil to work automatically inside cap.
Dated this 24th February 1898.
Improvements in Automatic Spile Pins for use in the Venting of
Casks.
I, ALEXANDER METCALFE, of the Lobster Hotel, Coatham, Redcar, in the County:
of York, 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:-
-
An improvement in automatic spile pins for use in the venting of casks for
public and private use, by the construction in parts of a spile pin to be manu-
factured in brass or other metal, or part wood and part metal, preferably brass,
which construction I carry out as follows:- that is to say I provide a hollow
screw pin with cup and thumbscrew or combination of cup and nut, inside cup
is a seat of lead, leather, rubber or other material at entrance of passage through
pin; cup is threaded inside to receive screw cap with open orifice in the centre
of cap, the orifice or opening to be round and to contain seat for and to guide
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page_text: valve; such valve to protrude through orifice when in position-the valve to
be provided with a seat to make the cup air tight and the stem of valve to be
triangular shape so that when pressed in or drawn by suction it opens the air
passage through the orifice or opening in cap-such valve to be kept in position
by a spring coil to work automatically inside cup.
Drawings are described as under:-
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. An automatic spile pin consisting of hollow screw pin with cup and thumb-
screw or combination of cup and nut with triangular valve working through
open orifice in screw cap and spring to work automatically.
2. A combination of parts as shewn.
3. An automatic spile pin to act in any position and to practically bottle the 2
contents of any cask.