Improvements in or in Connection with Taps for Casks and other' Purposes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 13th June, 1889-Accepted, 27th July, 1809
TROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or in Connection with Taps for Casks and other'
Purposes.
I REGINALD HADDAN of the firm of Herbert & Co., Patent Agents of 18-
Buckingham Street, Strand W.C. London in the County of Middlesex, Civil.
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention, a communication to me from
abroad by Frederic Alexandre Ricoux Junior of Meés in the Republic of France,
Engineer to be as follows:-
:-
This invention relates to taps for casks and other purposes and consists in the
following improvements therein. With a tap of usual construction having a rotary.
spigot or screwdown valve or other suitable means of closing, is combined a hollow
plug extending from the tap and adapted to be inserted into the hole in a cask'or the
like; this plug is substantially cylindrical but tapered towards its outer end which is
closed. In the said plug is fitted a similar hollow-plug revolvable therein and in the
side walls of these plugs are suitable holes, so that on turning the inner plug the said.
boles may be brought to coincide and so open communication through the plugs.
The end of the tap has a projection fitting into a bayonet slot or recess in the inner
plug, so that by turning the tap the inner plug may be turned to open communication
between the tap and interior of the cask or close the same as desired. To prevent
withdrawal of the tap from the plug, a ring is inserted, said ring having a slot
permitting the projection on the top to pass, to enter the recess in the inner plug
when the ring is in a certain position, by moving the ring or by moving the tap and
inner plug the tap is locked in place. The ring may be so fixed that the tap can
only be inserted or withdrawn when the plugs close the cask. Turning the tap will
then open the plugs, removal of the tap will automatically close the cask.
Dated this 27th day of September 1888.
HERBERT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or in Connection with Taps for Casks and other
Purposes.
I-REGINALD HADDAN of the firm of Herbert & Co., Patent Agents of 18 Buckingbam
Street, Strand W.C. London in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer do hereby
declare the nature of this invention a communication to me from abroad by
Frederic Alexandre Ricoux Junior of Meés in the Republic of France Engineer 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 taps for casks and other purposes and consists in the
following improvements therein. With a tap of usual construction having a rotary
spigot or screw down valve or other suitable means of closing is combined a hollow
plug extending from the tap and adapted to be inserted into the hole in a cask, or the
like; this plug is substantially cylindrical but tapered towards its outer end which is
closed. In the said plug is fitted a similar hollow plug revolvable therein and in the
side walls of these plugs are suitable holes so that on turning the inner plug the said
holes may be brought to coincide and so open communication through the plugs.
The end of the tap has a projection fitting into a slot or recess in the inner plug so
that by turning the tap the inner plug may be turned to open communication between
the tap and interior of the cask or close the same as desired.

page_text: To prevent withdrawal of the tap from the plug a ring is inserted, said ring having
a slot permitting the projection on the tap to pass to enter the recess in the inner
plug when the ring is in a certain position by moving the ring or by moving the tap
and inner plug the tap is locked in place. The ring may be so fixed that the tap can
only be inserted or withdrawn when the plugs close the cask. Turning the tap will
then open the plugs, removal of the tap will automatically close the cask.
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In the accompanying drawings:
A is the outer plug or cylindrical case having the shape of a truncated cone, B is
the inner plug fitting exactly into the first one to rotate within the same with slight
friction. HH are the respective openings in these two plugs. When the tap is
open these two openings coincide and allow the liquid to enter the pipe of the tap.
The end D of the tap is inserted in the plug B; this end of the tap is provided with
a projection K which enters the slot K¹ in the plug B. C is the locking ring placed
upon the key in front of the plug B and inserted exactly into the part A to secure the
plug B in its place.
The plug A may be fixed in the cask by means of the screw thread A¹, OO being
slots for receiving the tool for screwing or unscrewing or it may be secured by
driving it in like an ordinary tap or by any other means.
Fig. 1 represents this improved construction in combination with a metal tap M, the
plug A and the parts within the same being of wood.
Fig. 2 represents the same system but the ordinary tap M is dispensed with.
In Fig. 3 the fixing ring C is done away with and the plug B is secured by means
of the pin p. over a washer and traversing the rod t which is an extension of said
plug B passing through the end of the plug A.
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:
In a cask tap or the like, the combination of the two plugs A and B. having the
holes H and adapted to receive the end D of a tap or pipe and to be fixed and
operated substantially as set forth.
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1000
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.