US297000A - paulus - Google Patents

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J. PAULUS. TAUGTT ATTACHMENT To BARRBLS. No. 297,000. Patented Apr. 15,1884.

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rrnn Starts JACOB PAULUS, OF NE\V YORK, N. Y.,

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ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND AUGUST NEYT YORK.

FAUCET ATTACHMENT TO BRRELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 297,000, dated April 15, 1884.

.9 Application filed May 31, 1883.

'o @ZZ whom, it may concern.

Be it known that I, Jiicon PAULUs, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Faucet Attachmen s to Barrels, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved faucet attachment to barrels and kegs in which fermented and other liquors are shipped, so

io that the same may be tapped with great facility by the simple inserting and turning of the faucet, and the invention consists of a fixed socket that is attached to the faucet-hole of f the keg and provided with an opening, an interior tube having 'an opening registering therewith, a face-plate provided with a hinged valve, and means whereby the valve is locked in closed position, and also the interior tube held in position. The faucet is provided at 2o the end of its barrel with alug that passes along a guide-recess of the faceplate and engages a recess of the interior tube, so as to turn the same, so that its opening registers with the opening of the fixed socket, whereby the keg is tapped. The faucet is provided with a collar and rubber gasket inffront of ,the same, so as to fit tightly to the faceplate to prevent leakage. In the accompanying drawings, Figure l 3o represents a sectional side elevation of a keg with my improved faucet attachment shown with the faucet inserted. Fig. 2 is a front View of a faucet attachment shown in locked position with 'the faucet detached. Figs. 3 3 5 and 4 are vertical longitudinal sections, showing, respectively, the faucet before and after being introduced rinto the faucethole. Fig. 5 is a vertical transverse section of the attachment on line .fr cv, Fig. 2; and Fig. 6 is a rear 4o elevation of the face-plate of the attachment.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a cylindrical socket that is securely driven by its tapering end portion into the correspondingly-tapering faucethole of the keg or barrel. The socket A is retained rigidly in this position by means of a face-plate,B, and an interposed elastic packing-ring, b, the face` (No model.)

plate being applied iiush into the head of the 5o keg and secured thereto by fastening-screws.

To the face-plate B is hinged a valve, C, which is provided at its inner sidewith a rubber disk or lining, O', so as to close tightly to the center opening of the faceplate when the valve is closed. The valve C is then locked by a cam-lever, D, the forked end of which is connected by a transverse pin, d, and guided along a slotted lug, d', of the face-plate B. The pivoted end of the lever D is made cam-shaped, 6o so that it locks the valve rigidly into position to the face-plate when swung down over the same, as shown in Fig. 5. i

.At the interior of the fixed socket A is arranged a tube, E, the exterior circumference of which is made slightly tapering, so as to fit accurately into the correspondiugly-tapering inner circumference of the socket A. The socket A is provided with an opening, a, at its bottom or under side, close to the bottom wall 7o of the keg. The interior tube, E, is also provided with an opening, e, of the same size as the opening a, and so arranged as to register therewith when the tube is turned on its axis in the socket A. The tube E is retained in the socket by the packingring and face-plate B, as shown clearly in Figs. 3 and i.

The faucet F is provided at the end of its barrel F with a cylindrical end, f, having a lug, f. The endf lits into the opening of the 8o face-plate B and into the tube E. The face-plate B is provided with a recess, f2, the tube E being also provided at its inner side with a recess, fa, that is in line with the recess f2 of the faceplate when the interior tube, E, is turned on its axis to an angle of ninety degrees, and into such a position that its opening e does not register with the opening a of the socket A. When the interior is in this position,the faucet F is inserted with its lugf into the recesses 9o fzfi. A collar, g, at the end ofthe cylindrical portion f, and a rubber ring, g', in frontof the collar g, serve to tightly close the opening ofthe faceplate when the faucet F is inserted. When the lug f of the faucet F has passed through the recess f2 of the face-plate into the' recess f3 of the tube E, the faucet is turnedon its axis through an angle of ninety degrees, so that its spout extends vertically downward, as shown in Fig. 4. This motion of the faucet causes the axial turning ofthe interior tube, E, so that its opening c is placed in register with the opening a of the socket, and thereby the keg tapped. To secure the tight connection between the faucet and faceplate, the latter is provided at its inner face with a quadrangular cam-groove, f", (shownin Fig. 6,) along which the lugf moves, so that the faucet is drawn in,and thereby the rubber ring g' tightly compressed between the collar g and the faceplate B, so that leakage is prevented. When the barrel is empty, the faucet is turned back on its axis through an angle of ninety degrees, then withdrawn from the attachment, after which the valve is locked by its locking device,and thereby the barrel closed, so as to be returned for refilling. The faucet, in turning, turns the interiortube, E, on its axis and interrupts the registering of its opening c with the opening a ofthe socket A, as shown in Fig. 3. To retain the tube E securely in this position while the barrel is in transit, the valve G is provided with a pin, lz., that enters into the re cesses j'2 f when the valve is closed, as shown in Fig. 5, said pin locking the tubeE in position.

The keg can be refilled without any danger of leakage,as its faucet-hole is closed in atwofold manner: first, because the openings of the socket A and tube E are out of register, and, secondly, by the closing and locking of the cX- terior valve, C.

Having th us described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. rIhe combination of a socket, A, attached to the faucet-hole of a barrel, said socket having an opening, a, an interior tube, E, having an opening,e,a retaining faceplate, B,a hinged valve, C, and means lor locking said valve into closed position, substantially as set forth.

2. In a faucet attachment to barrels, thc com! bination of a socket, A, secured to the faucethole, said socket having an opening, a, an interior tube, E, having an opening, e, a faceplate, B, a hinged valve, C, having a pin, 7L,

iittinginto recesses fif3 ofthe face-plate B and tube E, respectively, and means for locking said valve in closed position, substantially as set forth.

3. In a faucet attachment to barrels, the combination of a socket, A,attached to the faucethole, said socket having an opening, a, an interior tube, E, having an opening, e, a faceplate,B, and a faucet, F, the barrel F ofwhich is provided with means for engaging the interior tube, E, and turning the same on its axis, so that its opening is thrown in or out of register with the opening of the socket, substantially as set forth.

et. In afaucet attachment to barrels, the combination of the fixed socket A, having an opening, a, an interior tube, E, having an opening, e, a face-plate, B, having an opening in line with the opening oi' theinterior tube, said faceplate and tube being provided with recesses f2 f3, respectively, a faucet, F, the barrel F of which is provided with a cylindrical end, j", and lugf, whereby the interior tube can be engaged and turned around its axis, substantially as set forth.

5. In a faucet attachmentto barrels, the combination of a fixed socket, A, having an opening, a, interior tube, E, having an opening, c, and recess f, faceplate B, having recess f3, faucet F, the barrel F of which is provided with a cylindrical end, f, lugf, collar g, and elastic ring g', substantially as set forth.

6. In a faucet attachment to barrels, the coinbination of a fixed socket, A, having opening a, interior tube, E, having opening e and recess fi, face-plate B, having recess f and quadrangular cam-groove fL at its rear side, faucet F, having cylindrical end j', lugf, collar g, and elastic ring g, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JACOB PAULUS.

Vitnesses:

OTTO Risen, SIDNEY MANN.

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