US1207444A - Sap-spout. - Google Patents

Description

G. H. SOULE.

SAP SPOUT.

APPLI CATION FILED NOV. ll. l9l5. 7 1,207,444. Patented Dec. 5,1916.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE H. SOULE, 0F FAIRFIELD, VERMONT.

Application filed November 11, 1915.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE H. SoULE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Fairfield, in the county of Franklin and State of Vermont, have invented a new and Improved Sap-Spout, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view are: to pro vide a spout of the character mentioned with means for completely sealing the sapgathering bore with which the tree is pro vided, to compel the sap to pass through the channel furnished in said spout; to provide means for automatically fastening the spout in the bore to prevent the withdrawal therefrom; and to provide a detachable hanger hook and a protective cover therefor.

Drawz'ngs.Figure 1 is a side view of a spout and hook constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention, the same being shown in conjunction with fragments of a tree, a bucket, and a cover therefor; Fig. 2 is a section taken as on the line 22- in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a detail view in perspective, of a spout constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention; and Fig. 1 is a detail View of a hook constructed and arranged for service in conjunction with said spout.

Description-.As seen in the drawings, the spout 9 has a tapered plug portion 10, the ofiice whereof is to enter the sap bore 11 for the collection of sap therefrom. The body of the spout has a central passage 12 therethrough. The passage 12 opens outwardly into a top-opening spout 13, which, at its extreme end, is furnished with a pouring lip 14. At the inner end of the passage 12, the sides of the body are cut away to form a gapping mouth 15, the construction thus provided serving to prevent the clogging of the inner opening to the passage 12.

In its application, the spout is driven into the bore 11 until the plug portion 10 closely fits the outer end of said bore. It is held in its adjusted position by a barb 16, which barb is embedded in the upper wall of the bore 11, by a rocker 17. The rocker 17 is rounded, as shown best in Figs. 1 and 3 of the drawings, to form a bearing surface in the bottom of the bore 11 advanced beyond the spur end of the barb 16.

When the spout is introduced into the bore 11, the back or incline of the barb 16 cants or tilts the spout, the rocker 17 co- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 5, 1916.

Serial No. 60,860.

operating therewith. will be found that the back or incline of the barb 16 is held approximately parallel with the upper wall of the bore 11. When, however, the plug portion 10 reaches the end of the bore 11 and is driven thereinto, the spout is righted to a position where the passage 12 is approximately co-axial with the bore 11. During this movement of the spout, it will be seen that the inner end is caused to rock on the rocker 17, with the immediate result that the barb 16is relatively lifted to be embedded in the wood in the upper wall of the bore 11, thereafter holding the spout 9 firmly in its operative relation even though the inserted end of the spout be relatively small. It will also be observed that when the weight of the bucket 18 is imposed on the spout, by means of a hook 19, the tendency to rock the said spout causes the same to fulcrum on the plug portion 10, and augments the hold of the barb 16 in the body of the tree.

The hook 19 above referred to, is held in its operative relation to the spout 9, by a spur 20 formed on the body of the spout in spaced relation to the plug portion 10. The intervening space between the plug portion 10 and the spur 20 forms a saddle in which the looped end 21 of the hook 19 is seated when operatively disposed.

It will be noted that the hook 19 may be removed from its engagement with the spout 9 only when the said hook is inverted, so that the triangular space 22 formed in the end 21 thereof is raised to aline with the spur 20. The said space 22 is shaped to conform with the shape of the spur 20, to pass therethrough. When the space 22, however, is disposed as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, it will be seen that the looped end 21 may not be drawn forward over the spout 9.

The hook 19 is provided at the upper end thereof with a hinge kunckle 23 adapted to receive a hinge pin 24 provided in the construction of a cover 25. The cover 25 and the bucket 18 are of conventional shape and are disclosed in this application only to show the service relation of the spout 9 and the hook 19 to these elements with which they cooperate in service.

Claim:

As an article of manufacture, a sap spout comprising an open-ended tubular body portion having integrally formed thereon at In this position, it-

the driving end thereof, a relatively long barb, the back edge whereof tapers toward said driving end of said body portion; a relatively short rocking member disposed at the opposite side of said body portion and at the driving end thereof, the bearing the spur of said barb; and a tapered plug portion disposed in spaced relation to said barb and adapted to level said body portion when in service in a sap bore and to elevate said barb to force the spur thereof into the Wall of the sap bore into Which said spout is driven.

GEORGE H. SODLE.

Witnesses:

H. GUFHN, :O, M. BROWN.

,Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, 1). G.

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