US74625A - Improvement in beee-fa uoets - Google Patents

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IMPROVEMENT IN BEER-I'AGETS.

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Be it known that I, J. MICHAEL STARK, of. Buffalo, in the county of Erie, aud State-of New York, have invented a new and improved Beer-Faucet; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the saine, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which the gure represents a longitudinal and vertical section. l

Letter A is the faucet-barrel, into which B, the combined squirt-cyliuder and valve, is placed. The valve, consisting of a sharp edged ringQC, provided on the bottom `ol' the squirt-cylinder', has its bearing upon a leather washer, D, which is secured to the lbottom cap E. The squirt-cylinder slides up and down iu the faucet-barrel A, for the purpose of opening and shuttingthe valve. is the plunger, and is provided with the angular part G on its lower end, and with the handle Hno'n its upper end. Into the angular paxt Gr the guide-bolt -I is secured, upon which the plunger-'ring K slides up andwdown. `This plungerriug is provided with the four feeding openings L in its inside, and on its outside with a leather or other elastic ring', M, serving as packing. The plunger" F is guided by and the faucet-barrel shut with the top cap N, which is furnished with a leather washer, O, for packing the joint about the plunger F while sliding upand down. l? is the discharge-opening for-the heer :Elowing off, and Q the discharge-openingfor the squirt-cylinder. R R are a series of holes provided on the upper end of the cylinder F, for feedingl,

To operate this faucet, the handle H, provided on F, is raised bypulling it upward. This will first open gommunieation betweenthe vessel into which the faucet is driven and the squirtcylinder, in consequence 'of the space left between the plunger` F and the plunger-ring K; then, when raised still more, it will open the valvev C, in consequence ofthe friction of the plunger-ring K in the squirt-cylinder B, by raising the squirt-cylinder B u ntil the top of B reaches the top cap N, and' at last, when raised up so -high that the angular part G of the plunger F comes in contact with the top cap N, it will allow the beer to pass through the feeding-holes, pass bythe plunger F, through the feeding openings L in the plunger-ring K, and lillV the space between the plunger and the bottom 0E the sqnirt-cylinder. Ifthe faucet is to be sluit, the handle H is pushed down. This will rst stop connection between the-faucet and the squirt-eylinder, as the angular part G of the plunger will come in contact with the plunger-riu` K in the squirtcylinder Bun till the valve-ring C comes to its bearing upon the leather washerD, which will stop the owing oif of been, and then, when the plunger is pushed down until the plunger-ring K reaches the bottom of the squirt-cylinder, itwll empty the squirt-cylinder Vot' the beer contained therein through the discharge-opening Q, and' thus produce afstrong and line stream. of beer in the vesseljust lled. 4

The advantage of my improvement over all other 'faucets used for the same purpose, consistsin the arrangementot the valve in thefauCet-barrel, which will prevent the faucet from leakage, even when the faucet is com pressed i'n consequenceo'f the repented knock'ings it receives when driven into the beer-barrel or cask.

` Claim,

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combined cylinder andvalve B C, provided Vith Vthe feeding and discharge-holes R Q, the plunger F G, and ring K, all constructed and arranged to operate` within 'the body of the faucet, substantially as described. i

' 'J.' MICH. STARK.

Witnesses:

JOHN STARK, Cnnisr. SrAnoN.

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