US321520A - Timothy o beien - Google Patents

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Nrren STATES Fureur @einen TIMOTHY OBR'IEN, OF BOSTON, MASS., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO DAVID A. MURRAY AND JAMES OROWLEY, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

BARRELNCONNECTION.

FECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 321,520, dated July 7, 1885.

Application filed April 2l, 1884. (No model.)

To @ZZ infront t may concern:

Be it known that I, Triro'rnv OBRrnN, of Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Barrel- Connections, of which the following description,in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

The object of this invention is to provide barrels for beer or other liquors with a connection which shall secure the retention of the contents of the barrel after the same has been iilled and until it is to be used, and which will then permit the ready attachment thereunto of a pipe or faucet wit-hout loss of liquor or gas.

In accordance with my invention, I have provided the head of the barrel with a headed bushing, screwthreaded externally for insertion in the barrel and internally for the reception of a flanged plug threaded externally at one end to enter the bushing, and at the other end, at the opposite side of a llange thereon, with another thread to receive a pipe-coupling or faucet, thc said flange being shaped to be engaged by a wrench, the llange entering an enlarged chainborcd head in the outer end ol the bushing, as will be described. Longitudinal movement of the plug into the barrel effects the uncovering of ports in the plug which permit the outward flow of the liquid, and a similarbnt reverse movement of the plug effects the covering ofthe parts for cutting off the outflow of the liquid. The invention consists in the detail of construction hereinafter set forth and claimed.

Figure l, in section, shows one end of a barrel with my improved connection applied and in position to retain the contents of the barrel. Fig. 2, in full lines, but on a larger scale, represents alongitudinal section of the connection Fig. l. Fig. B shows the cap removed and a Vcoupling of a pipe partially turned upon the plug preparatory to engaging the flange of the plug by the wrench to be described. Fig. 4 shows the plug after it has been moved longitudinally backward in the bushing; Fig. 5, a front view of Fig. 4; and Figs. 6 and i are different views of the wrench.

The bushing A, threaded externally at 2 to enter the wood of the barrel-head, has an enlarged chambered head, A2, (see Fig. 2,) forin- 'ing a shoulder, 3, for contact with the barrelhead. The bushing` is threaded internally to receive the sc1ewthreaded inner end of the hollow plug B, provided with ports b for the y passage of tluid and gas. rlhe plug at its inner end beyond the screw-threads, which engage the interior 4of the bushing, is reduced in diameter and provided with an extension, b, which is screw-threaded and receives upon it aleather or other packing washer, c', anda nut or collar, c, so that the longitudinal movement ot' the plug outward in the bushing will cause the ports b to be brought within the bushing and the packing against the end ot' the bushing, thus preventing the escape of lluid, and in such condition, as shown in Figs. l and2in full line, the cap d will be screwed upon the screw-threaded outer cud, b, of the plug at the right of the ilangc D", the said cap closing the outer end of the plug closely, a washer, e, being preferably used in the cap. The flange bl is provided with a series of notches, if, for the reception ot' the prongs l. of a wrench, f. A filled barrel with the bushing stopped, as in Fig. l, having been removed from the brewery, and it being desired to use the liquid therein, the cap d will first be removed. If the liquid is beer, and is to be taken out through a long pipe and stationary faucets in another story, the end of the plug will be placed next the end of a pipe, Il., having a loose coupling, h', provided with ahandle and a packing, fr', and the coupling will be turned upon the outer end of the plug` until the parts are as in Fig. hwhen the wrench f will be applied outside the coupling, so that the prongs/l will enter the hollow head A2 and the notches Ii of the ilange of the plug, after which the plug will be rotated by the said wrench and will be moved longitudinelly into the bushing, removing the packing e from the inner end of the bushing, uncovering the ports b, such movement of the plug also causing the packiu g m to be forced against the seat m and the coupling to be carried into the hollow head of the bushing, as in Fig. fl, crowding the packing m against the seat m.

In case it is desired to insert a faucet into the barrel, the faucet, provided at its inner end with ascrew-thrcad to engage the threaded end IOO . biof the plug, maybe applied to the latter, the

cap d having been first removed. Fig. 2, by dotted line, shows part of a faucet in the position it will occupy. The enlarged head of the bushing is let into a recess in the barrel-head, which is nearly as thick as the bushing is long, and the bushing and plug are therefore confined within the chine.

I claiml. The bushing A,havi ng the enlarged chambered head A2, and screw-threaded externally to enter the barrel, and also screw-threaded internally, combined with. the longitudinallymovable screw-threaded plug B, tting the threaded interior of the bushing, and having the screw-threaded projection b and cap cl, all arranged to operate Substantially as shown and described.

2. The screw-threaded hollow plug B, havin'g the nut c, packing e', and openingsbat one end, and the iiange b, packing m, and screwthreaded projection b3 attbe other end, combined with the internally-screw-threaded bushing A,l1aving the chambered head A?, and the screw-cap d, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

TIMOTHY OBRIEEL Witnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, B. J. N oYEs.

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