US469232A

US469232A - Sap-spout

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Publication number: US469232A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-02-23
Anticipated expiration: 1909-02-23

Description

(No Model.)

J. w. OU RR IERL SAP SPO UT.

Patented Feb. 23, 1892.

UNITED STATES,

PATENT Fricn.

JOHN IV. OURRIER, OF NORTH TROY, VERMONT.

SAP-SPOUT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 469,232, dated February 28, 1892.

Application filed June 1. 1891- Serial No. 394,632- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. OURRIER, of North Troy, in the county of Orleans, State of Vermont, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sap-spouts, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved sap-spout; Fig. 2, a like View representing the same in use; Fig. 3, a vertical transverse section of the spout and cover; and Fig. 4., an enlarged top plan View, the bucket-cover being broken away to show the spout-duct.

Like letters and figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawings.

My invention relates especially to a spout for collecting sap from maple-trees; and it consists in certain novel features hereinafter fully set forth and claimed, the object being to produce a simpler, cheaper, and more effective device of this character than is now in ordinary use.

The nature and operation of the improvement will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters from the following explanation.

In the drawings, A represents the spout considered as a whole. Said spout comprises a body portion 13, centrally in which a sapduct 1) is formed. On the under side of said body, near its inner end, a hook cl is constructed for supporting the sap-pail C. The outer end of the spout below the duct I) has a downwardly-projecting lip f. Two eyes it project vertically from the top of the spout, respectively, at opposite sides of the duct. On the inner end of the body B a blade D is formed, the outer end of said blade being beveled or reduced slightly, as at 2', in Fig. 1. Notches j 75 are formed, respectively, in the lower and upper edges of the blade. At the point of meeting of the blade or body D said body is reduced slightly at m, and horizontally through said reduced portion at opposite sides of the blade branch ducts p (see Fig. 4) lead into the main duct Z2.

holes for receiving the spout-eyes h.

The duct Z) is represented as open at the top, but may be closed, if preferred. On said body, at the inner end of said duct, an undercut shoulder or lip 15 is formed.

In the use of myimprovement the sap-hole n being formed in the treeE in the usual manner, the spout A is driven therein, the point of its blade D penetrating slightly the body of the tree at the bottom of the hole 1). The reduced portion m of the spout-body enters that portion of the hole 12 surrounded by the bark z of the tree, and forms a bearing for said spout. By this means the grain of the wood is in no manner compressed by the spout when inserted in the sap-hole, the only bearing of said spout in the tree being the point of the blade at the bottom of said hole and the reduced body portion in the bark. The bucket G is suspended from the hook (I, which is passed through a hole in the wall of said bucket directly under its rim as in the ordinary manner, the mouth of said spout projecting from the bucket, as shown in Fig. 2. As it is essential to oover the top of the bucket to prevent falling particles from entering the sap collected therein, I supply a thin metallic sheet H, which is provided with 1e edge of said sheet is inserted under the undercut shoulder 25 of the spout, the eyes it projecting through the openings in said sheet. A pin 15 is inserted in said eyes, whereby said sheet is secured in position 011 said spout. The sheet thus projects outward from the mouth of said bucket, serving as a cover therefor, but is so arranged thatsaid bucket can be removed and replaced by others without the necessity of detaching the cover. Sap from the hole Q) passes through the branch ducts p intothe duct 6, and is discharged into the bucket in a manner which will be readily understood without a more explicit description.

It will be seen that my improved spout in no manner interferes with or crushes the grain of the tree. The blade of said spout being thin and only partially filling the hole permits a steady and uninterrupted flow of sap from said spout. The notches j in the blade, being formed near the inner end of the body of the spout, also tend to permit free circulation of the sap.

dercut shoulder t and lug h, in combination IO with the cover H and a pin 15 for securing said cover to said lugs, substantially as described.

' JOHN W. CURRIER.

Witnesses:

JAMES L. MASON, WM; G. ELKINS.