US1438668A - Bottle tap - Google Patents

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A. I. SMITH. oTTLIi TAP.

APPLICATION FILED APR. I2, 1922- jlAg Patented Dec. 12,1922?.

Patented Dec. i2, i922.

NHT TT ANGUS J. SMITH, OF QUITMAN, GEORGIA.

BOTTLE TAP.

Application led April 12, 1922. Serial No. 551,837.

To a?? rho/nl 'if may concern.'

Be it known that I, ANGUs J. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Quitman, in the county of Brooks and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle Taps, of' which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to bottle taps or Stoppers. more particularly to those bottle taps for bottles. ugs and other like containers to be used in drug stores to facilitate the drawing of liquids from such bottles, jugs or containers.

One object of the invention is to dispense with the necessity of removing the bottle .stopper from the bottle, jug or other container when it is desired to draw the contents of the bottle, jug or other container.

A\nother object of' the invention is to provide a tap, the top of which may be readily grasped between the first two fingers of a hand. and the thumb of the same hand used to open a valve in the tap by pressing on its stem.

Another object of the invention is to provide a tap which while directing the contents of the bottle to the place desired, air is also admitted through the tap to take the place of the contents withdrawn.

Another object of the invention is to provide a bottle tap that is strong and durable, that will fit bottles of different size necks, liquid-tight and that will ordinarily prevent the ingress of air or the egress of liquid until the valve at the bottom of the tap is opened.

lVith the' foregoing objects outlined and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in the novel features hereinafter described in detail, illustrated in the accompanying drawings andmore particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

Referring to the drawings:

Figure l is a side view of a tap as applied to a bottle.

Figure 2 is av sectional View of the same looking from the left of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a top view on the line 3 3 of Figure 1.

ln the drawing 1 represents a hollow cylindrieal casing having a finger groove 2 2 near its top adapted to fit loosely around the first and second fingers of the hand when it is desired to open the Valve 3 by pressing on the knob 4 with the thumb of the hand.

The knob 4t is connected to the valve 3 by the stem 5. This stem extends entirely through the metallic hollow body and is surrounded at the top by a spring 6 fitting over a lug 7 at the top of the hollow metallic body 1 and normally tensioned to press against the bottom of the knob 4 with sufficient :force to keep the valve 3 pressed to its seat 8. f

Around the metallic body 1 there is fitted a rubber or cork 9 more or less conical in shape so as to fit wedgelike into the neck of the bottle 10. The cork fits snugly against the shoulder 11 at its upper end and is held on the body 1 by a thimble 12 having lugs thereon which fitinto grooves 13 extending upwardly and `then downwardly so that when the thimble is pressed upwardly, and turned slightly the lugs 12 will fit into the bottom of the groove shown best in Figure 1 and securely hold the rubber or cork to the hollow metallic body. Extending from the interior cavity of the body 1 is a spout 15 communicating with the cavity so that when the fingers grasp the body 1 and the thumb presses the valve downwardly, and the bottle tilted, the contents may How through the cavity in the body 1 and through the spout as is apparent.

The stem 5 is threaded at its bottom and passes through a suitable valve 3 made of cork, rubber or other suitable material and is screw-threaded into a cap 17 and may be held on to the stem additionally by a nut 18. Near the top of the cavity in the body 1 is an air hole 19 to allow air to enter through the cavity in the bottle to take the place of the withdrawn contents.

|lfhe operation of my improved tap is apparent from the foregoing description but to summarize, it is proposed to keep in stock dierent sized taps to fit dierent sized necks of bottles used in, say, a drug store.

The corks of bottles usually employed in the same are Withdrawn and one of my taps substituted therefor. -When it is desired to withdraw from-the bottle, say, any liquid content therein, the body 1 is grasped between the first two fingers of the hand in the groove 2. The bottle is tilted and by pressing on the knob i with the thumb of the hand the valve 3 is opened and the con-- tents allowed to run out through the spout 15, the air to take the place of the contents of the bottle rushing in through thehole 19 in the tap body.

the spring and the body portion and having a knob thereon, a conical and elastic cover for the body portion and a thimble for holding the cover on the body portion, said thimble having lugs thereon and grooves in the body portion extending upwardly then downwardly in' which the lugs project.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aix my signature.

AN GUS J. SMITH.

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