A New or Improved Casing for Protecting Wood and other Taps.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 9th May, 1892-Accepted, 18th June, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Casing for Protecting Wood and other Taps.
JOSEPH BUCKLAND Ironmonger 4 East Street Taunton Somerset do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
It consists of a metal tube into which a wood, metal, or other lining may be
inserted, but I wish it understood the tube or casing may be constructed in one, or
more parts, with or, without ends, perforated or otherwise, to suit taps varying
in shape.
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17h dow of Contambar 1801
JOSEPH BUCKLAND.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Casing for Protecting Wood and other Taps.
I, JOSEPH BUCKLAND, of No. 4 East Street, Taunton in the County of
Somerset Ironmonger do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
My invention consists of the new or improved casing for protecting wood, soft
metal and china or earthenware taps hereinafter described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
The protecting casing constituting my invention consists of a close fitting metal
tube placed or drawn upon the body or the body and barrel of the tap, the said
protecting metal tube or casing being made preferably in one piece but it be
made in two or more pieces and with open or closed ends and perforated or
unperforated to suit taps of varying shapes."
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By the use of my invention the weakest part of the wood or soft metal or china
or earthenware tap, that is, the part through which the plug passes, is so protected
and strengthened that the durability and efficiency of the tap are much increased.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings, represents in side elevation and Figure 2
in longitudinal section, a wooden tap to which my new or improved protecting
casing is applied ;
Figures 3 and 4 represent cross sections of the same taken respectively on the
dotted lines a a and b Figure 1.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the
drawings.
c is the body and d the perforated barrel of the tap made of wood; e is the thin
metal casing made to closely fit upon and cover the barrel d and the greater part
of the body c of the tap.
The ends of the metal casing e are open and the larger or body end of the casing
is provided with a beading which abuts against a shoulder at f thereby leaving the
wooden head of the tap uncovered. By means of the head the barrel part of
the tap is driven into the cask or vessel.
One or both ends of the protecting casing e, e may be closed and made to cover
one or both ends of the wooden tap. The protecting casing e, e is perforated at
opposite sides marked g for the passage through it of the plug h of the tap, the said
plug working in the cross hole made in the wooden body of the tap. The plug h
works liquid tight in the cork or other packing or lining in the cross hole in
the body of the tap (see Figure 2) and the said plug is fixed in its place by screws
passed through the metal cap or cover k and made to take into the wooden body of

page_text: the tap as seen in Figure 3. The head of the plug i is turned by a key of the
ordinary kind.
Figure 5 represents in side elevation; Figure 6 in longitudinal section and
Figure 7 in cross section a wooden tap provided with a metal protecting casing
according to my invention. In this tap the metal casing is applied only to the
body c of the tap, the barrel d being uncovered. The metal casing is made to
abut against a shoulder at m on the barrel and the head of the tap is left
uncovered for driving the barrel of the tap into the cask or vessel.
Figure 8 represents in side elevation; Figure 9 in longitudinal section and
Figure 10 in cross section a lead or soft metal tap, the body of which is protected
by a hard metal casing, such as brass, according to my invention.
In this tap the lead or soft metal body is marked p and the barrel is marked q.
The brass or other hard metal protecting casing at the body of the tap is marked n.
The said hard metal casing n extends over the head of the body of the tap and is
furnished with a tubular downward extension n³ for partly covering and protecting
the plug and seating the cork or other linings in the cross hole in the body of
the tap (see Figure 9). The capt of the plug is screwed upon the top tubular
extension of the hard metal casing n as represented.
I apply my invention to china or earthenware taps substantially in the manner
hereinbefore described and illustrated with respect to wood and soft metal taps, and
to taps fitted with fast keys or valves.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner of performing the same I declare that I claim as my invention:--
The new or improved casing for protecting wood and other taps herein before
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings; that is to say, a close
fitting protecting metal casing applied to or combined with the outside of the body
or the body and barrel, of wooden taps or lead or other soft metal taps or china
or earthenware taps for the purposes and substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated the Third day of May 1892.
JOSEPH BUCKLAND.