Improvements in or connected with the Tapping of Casks or other Vessels.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 26th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 26th Apr., 1594
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with the Tapping of Casks or
other Vessels.
I HENRY MAYER, Pencil Manufacturer of 28 Paternoster Row, in the City of
London, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention for Improvements in or connected with the Tapping of Casks or
other Vessels relates to vessels of that class having tap holes closed by a cork that
is driven into the vessel by the end of the tap on tapping the vessel, and has for its
objects to prevent shaking of the contents of the vessel during the tapping, to obviate
the use of a hammer or mallet and to prevent injury to the end of the cask.
In an apparatus constructed according to this invention, a metal bush is screwed
or otherwise secured in the vessel in place of the usual cork hole, preferably it is
slightly tapered so as to ensure a tight joint. The outer end of the bush is screw
threaded internally and the inner end is plain and of a less diameter than the
threaded part. The cork is forced into this reduced part by means of a tapering
tube and plunger. The tap for use with this vessel is formed at the end with a
plain part of small diameter and of slightly less length than the length of the internally
screwed part of the bush, and then with a screwed part fitting into the screwed
part of the bush and a collar. When desired to tap the vessel the tap is screwed
into the bush and the plain part forces the cork into the barrel. An india rubber
or other washer is provided and bears against the outer end of the bush and the
collar on the tap. A suitable key is provided for screwing the bush into the
barrel.
Dated this 26th day of April 1893.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with the Tapping of Oasks or
other Vessels.
I HENRY MAYER, Pencil Manufacturer, of 28 Paternoster Row, in the City of
London, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication to me
from Theodor Gauss, Manufacturer, of Pforzheim Baden in the Empire. of
Germany) and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention for Improvements in or connected with the Tapping of Casks or
other Vessels relates to vessels of that class having tap holes closed by a cork that
is driven into the vessel by the end of the tap on tapping the vessel, and has for its
objects to prevent shaking of the contents of the vessel during the tapping, to
obviate the use of a hammer or mallet and to prevent injury to the end of the cask.
In an apparatus constructed according to this invention, a metal bush is screwed
or otherwise secured in the vessel in place of the usual cork hole, preferably it is
slightly tapered so as to ensure a tight joint. The outer end of the bush is screw
threaded internally and the inner end is plain and of a less diameter than the
threaded part. The cork is forced into this reduced part by means of a tapering
tube and plunger. The tap for use with this vessel is formed at the end with a
plain part of small diameter and of slightly less length than the length of the

page_text: internally screwed part of the bush, and then with a screwed part fitting into the
Bcrewed part of the bush and a collar. When desired to tap the vessel the tap is
screwed into the bush and the plain part forces the cork into the barrel. An india
rubber or other washer is provided and bears against the outer end of the bush
and the collar on the tap. A suitable key is provided for screwing the bush into
the barrel.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings:
Fig. 1 is an elevation of a tap constructed according to this invention and
Fig. 2 is a section of a bush adapted to be screwed into the end of the barrel and
to receive the usual cork or the tap, and
Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the tap and bush in place in the end of a barrel.
The bush a is screwed into the end of the barrel 6 and is adapted to receive the
cork c in its reduced inner end. The tap d has a screw thread e fitting into screw
thread of the bush and a plain part 9 adapted to enter the reduced inner end of
the bush and force the cork into the barrel when the tap is screwed into the bush.
The flexible washer ensures a tight joint between the bush and flange i of
the tap.
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 :-
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1. The Improvements in or connected with the Tapping of Casks or other Vessels
consisting of a bush adapted to be secured in the cask or vessel and to have its
inner end closed by a cork and provided at its outer end with an external screw
thread and of a tap provided with a thread corresponding to that of the bush and
with an end part adapted to force the cork into the barrel when the tap is screwed
into the bush substantially as described.
Dated this 26th day of January 1894.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.