US718163A - Bottle-tap. - Google Patents

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PATENTED JAN. 13, 1903.

J. A. SHERRARD.

BOTTLE TAP.

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JOSEPH ALFRED SHERRARD, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOTTLE-TAP? SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 718,163, dated January 13, 1903.

Application filed October 17,1902. Serial No. 127,709. (No model.)

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ABe it known that I, JOSEPH ALFRED SHER- RARD, of Boston, in the county of Suifolk and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Taps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a simple and efficient means for tapping closed or corked bottles or other receptacles containing liquids and also for creating an air-pressure within the bottle to facilitate the discharge of the liquid therefrom.

The invention consists in the improvements which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure l represents a sectional view of my improved bottle-tap and a portion of a bottle in which the same isinserted. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation of a portion of the tap and of the bottle-neck. Fig. 3 represents a view similar to Fig. l, showing a modification. Fig. 4 represents a view similar to Fig. l, showing the tap made on a larger scale and provided with an extension adapted to reach to the bottom of a bottle or carboy. Fig. 5 represents a View of aportion of the construction shown in Fig. 4.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all the figures.

My improved bottle-tap comprises a rigid tubular conduit a, the inner portion of which is formed to penetrate abottle-stopper, said inner portion having a penetratingpoint 2 and a helical cutting-rib or screw-thread 3. At the outer end portion of the conduit a is a cock 4, adapted to open or close the liquid duct or passage 5, which extends through the conduit. The conduit a is provided between the cock 4 and the penetrating portion with a branch 6, containing a spring-pressed airvalve 7. Said branch, as shown in Fig. 1, communicates with an annular air-duct 8, surrounding the liquid-duct said air-duct communicating with the interior of the bottle through one or more openings 9. As shown in Fig. 3, the branch 5 communicates with the liquid-duct 5.

b represents an airpump which is connected with the branch G and is adapted to force air through the latter, the valve 7 yielding to permit the entrance of air fromthe pump and closing automatically to prevent the backward passage of air from the branch to the pump. The pump may be of any suitable construction, it being here shown as a lcollapsible elastic bulb, such as is used for syringes. It is obvious, however, that a pump similar to that used for intlating bicycle-tires may be employed, if desired. It will be seen that when the pump is operated to force air through the branch 6, the cock 4 being closed, the air iinds its way into the interior of the bottle and exerts pressure on the contents thereof. When the cock 4 is opened, the airpressure forces the liquid through the duct 5, the valve 7 preventing the escape of liquid through the branch 6. It will be seen, therefore, that the described tap having provisions for accumulating air-pressure in a bottle may be used to good advantage in drawing bottled liquids of various kinds, either effervescent or still, and particularly useful in drawing,

champagne or other eervescent liquid, the pump being operated after a given quantity of the liquid has been withdrawn and creating fresh pressure, so that another charge maybe caused to iiow rapidly from the bottle.

The conduit is provided with a rigid flange or shoulder a, between which and the top of the stopper is interposed a compressible pack ing-washer of", which prevents the escape of gas or air under pressure from the interior of the bottle.

In Fig. 4 I show a construction similar to that shown in Fig. 1, excepting that the penetrating-point 2 is made separable from the body of the conduit, the lower end of the liquid-duct 5 being extended and provided with a screw-thread, to which may be coupled an extension 12, adapted to extend to the bottom of a bottle or carboy.

My improved tap will draw contents from any bottle, whether the liquid is aerated or plain. The said tap is adapted to aerate a bottle of ale, beer, porter, or similar liquid, so that the bottle may be opened, a part of contents used, and the remainder allowed to stand indefinitely and be drawn owhen required, when contentswill be found in as good condition as when first tapped. In fact, the bottle may be opened and a glass or more of the liquid used. The cork may then be replaced, and when the remainder of the con- IOO tents are required the tap may be screwed into the cork, pressure applied, and the contents will be found in as good condition as the first glass.

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leading from the conduit intermediate of said cock and pointed end, a ange or shoulder formed on said conduit, a compressible packing-Washer located below said ange, and an air-pump connected to said branch and adapted to force air into the conduit, the said cock when closed causing the air to enter the bottle and act upon the contents thereof, and when open permitting the discharge of said contents through the conduit.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH ALFRED SHERRARD.

Vitnesses:

C. F. BROWN, E. BATOHELDER.

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