US679201A - Liquid-drawing device. - Google Patents

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WILLIAM ALLISON AND PATRICK H. KEEFE, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

LIQUID-DRAVVING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 679,201, dated July 28, 1901.

Application led July 20, 1900.

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM'ALLIsoN and PATRICK H. KEEFE, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Penn- Sylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Liquid-DrawingDevices, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in liquid-,drawing devices, and more particularly to beer-tapping devices.

The invention has for its object the provision of novel means whereby beer or other malt liquors may be efficiently drawn from a barrel or keg without incurring a loss of the carbonated gases; furthermore, to produce a device that will be extremely simple in its construction, strong, durable, and comparatively inexpensive to manufacture.

The present invention further aims to construct an apparatus of the above-described class that may be readily attached to a barrel or keg and easily removed therefrom; furthermore, a device that may be operated in conjunction with an air-pump or any suitable air-pressure tank usually employed for this purpose.

With the above and other objects in View the herein-described invention finally consists in certain novel features of construction, combination, and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more particularly described, and specically pointed out in the claim.

In describing the invention in detail reference is had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and wherein like numerals of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views, in which- Figure l is a vertical sectional view of a barrel with our improved apparatus attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a similar enlarged view of the apparatus and a portion of the barrel. Fig. 3 is a detail View of the air-valve. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view of the same.

In the drawings the reference-numeral 1 indicates the barrel or keg, which is provided Serial No. 24,316. (No model.)

with the usual outlet 2, arranged in the head of the barrel.

The reference-numeral3 indicates a collar, carrying on its periphery screw-threads 4t. This collar is also interiorly screw-threaded, as shown at 5, and a flange 6 extends outwardly from the periphery, the latter being formed integral with the collar. A contracted opening 7 is arranged in the lower portion of the collar, the latter being adapted to receive the beer-discharge pipe 8, extending downwardly into the barrel. This pipe 8 carries a removable collar 9, the latter being exteriorly screw-threaded and adapted to engage the iuteriorly-screw-threaded portion 5 of the collar 3. A gasket or flexible washer 10 is interiorly arranged in the collar 3 above the contracted opeuin g and the lower extremity of the collar 9. To the upper end of the dischargepipe 8 is rigidly secured a twin coupling 11, forming on one side an upward extension 12 of the beer-discharge, and on its one side an air-inlet 13, extending upwardly at an angle and formed integral with the said upward extension 12, carries an enlarged portion 14, having seated therein a valve 15, carrying an operating-handle 16. The upper end of the extension 12 is slightly iianged and is provided with exterior screw-threads 17, which are adapted to receive a cap 18, the latter in turn being interiorly screw-threaded, as shown at 19, and provided with a central opening 20, the diameter of which is less than the interior diameter of the extension 12.

A nipple 21 is adapted to snugly iit into the opening 20, said nipple having formed integral therewith, on its lower extremity, an annular ange 22, which is seated under the cap 18. A washer 23 is interposed between the flange 22 and the upper end of the extension. The upper end of the nipple 21 is provided with a flexible tube 24, leading to and connected with a suitable discharge-faucet.

The air-inlet 13 is provided with an enlarged air-chamber 25, communicating with a contracted air-pipe 26, the latter leading into the extension 12 and downwardly through a portion of the beer-discharge pipe 8, terminating into a discharge-port 27, formed in the discharge-pipe 8. The upper end of the air-chamber is exteriorly screw-threaded, as

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shown at 28, and is also interiorly screwthreaded, as indicated by the reference-numeral 29, the latter serving to receive the collapsible valve 30, which is formed of a disk 3l, having exterior screw-threads 32 and a central opening 33V and carrying a boss 34 atv its lower end, and a contracted neck portion 35 to receive the flexible collapsible tube 36. The said tube may be fastened to the neck portion Vby any suitable means, such as a band 0r wire 37. The upper face of the disk 31 is formed with a` slot 38, serving' as means to properly seat and adjustlthe Valve within the air-chamber. Thus, if desired, disks havingvarying capacities may be applied.

An in'teriorly-screwthreaded cap' 39 engages the screw-th reads 28 of the air-chamber, said cap having a central opening'40 to receive the nipple 41, carryinganannulartlauge 42, the latterpbeingadapted to t in the cap 39, a washer -l3 being' interposed betweenthe under face of said iiange and the end of the air-chamber. e

,'lhereference-n u ineral 44 represents a flexible tube connected to the nipple 4l, said tu be leading to a pump or air-pressure tank, as the case may be'.

In View of the above detail description of the various parts it is thought a description as to the operation ot' the device is unnecessary. changes may be made in the details of construction without departing from the general spirit of our' invention.

Having thus fully described ourI invention,

'what we claim as new, and desire to secu re by Letters Patent, is'- It will be noted, however, that various to the upper end of said discharge-pipe, an airinlet pipe formed integral with said upwardlyextending pipe and arranged at an angle thereto, a contracted air-pipe communicating with a contracted air-pipe extending downwardly through the beer-discharge pipe into said barrel, a removable disk having a centrai opening, a boss arranged on the under side of said disk, and a contracted neck portion between said boss and said disk, a collapsible check-valve arranged upon said neck land boss in the' interior upper extension of said air-pipe; a Valve arranged in said upward extension, exterior s`crew-threads arranged at the upper ends of said upward eX- vtension andVair-pipe, interiorly-screw-threaded caps each having a central opening formed therein' secured-u pon said screw-threaded portions, nipples, flanges on said nipples seated in said screw-threaded cap, a washerinter- `posed between the under face ofV said flanges tures in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM ALLISON. PATRICK H. KEEFE. Wi tn'esses:

JOHN NOLAND, H. C. EVERT.

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