USRE8026E - Improvement in apparatus for pumping fluids from casks - Google Patents

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, n W. P. GLASS'. Assignor 1*, 0 WonswIK MANUFACTURING COMPANY. Apparatusfor Pumping Fluids from Casks, &c

No. 8,026. Reissued Jan. 8,1878..

To all-whom it may conoern:v

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.wml-,IAM F. oLAss, or cLEvE'LANn, OHIO,- AssIGNoR 'ro ,woes-varonl MANUFACTURING ooMrANr, on sAME PLAGE.

Specification forming part Letters Patent No. 191,656, dated June 5, 1877; Reissue No. 8,026, dated 4 t January-8,1877; application inea member 1, 1317.

Be it known that I, WILLIAM- CLAss, of Cleveland, in theV county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Pumping Fluids from Casks, &c,.;` and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description lof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art -to which i it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification. VThe nature of my invention consists in the A construction of a plug or tap in apparatus for pumpingl fluids from casks or other vessels, as will be hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings, Figure l is a vertical transverse section of an apparatus such as may be used -in connection with the plug or tap. Fig. 2 is a similar View of the plug or tap, and Fig. 3 is a detail view of a part of the apparatus shown in Fig. 1.

A represents the bedor base plate, upon Ywhich the air-pump is supported on suitable posts B B. The upper ends of these posts are formed with screws a,.ou which is first placed a dat ring `or flange, b, then a leather or rubber disk, O, and on that an inverted dish or truncated cone, D, having a projectingl flange around its lower edge to pass over the bolts a'. On the top of this ange is then placed a cylindrical air-chamberJ E, having also a flange yaround its lower edge, and the whole then fastened by nuts d, screwed upon the ends of the screws a. These parts are further firmly united by any suitable number of bolts, e, passing through them.

In the center of the flexible disk C is secured a metallic plate, f, provided with a post, h, projecting downward from the center thereof. This post is hollow at its upper end, with a check-valve, k, on the top, and a passage, i,

leading out at the side.

-tached to the under side of the ilan ge b. The

flexible disk is distended downward to its full extent by means of an interior' spring, H, in-

'Division B'. v t terposed between it and the truncated cone l). I n the top of this cone is a check-valve, m, to admit air into the air-chamber E and to prevent the air from returning. From one side of the air-chamber E, extends -a bent outlet-tube, I, to a check-valve, J, -and to this check-valve is connected a rubber or other exible tube, K, for conducting the air to the vent-plug that is to be inserted in the cask or barrel, or other vessel from which the fluid is to be pumped. This vent-plug is constructed of a slightly-tapering barrel, L, having near its upper end a suitable aperture for the insertion of a nipple, O, to which the end of the lexible tube K is attached.

The upper end of the barrel L has an interior enlarged chamber, n, and a suitable flange around its outer side. To this flange is belted a cap, P, which has a central opening corresponding with the main bore of thebarrel. Between the barrel and cap is fastened a rubber ring or thimble, p, with a small central opening. This opeuin g should be smaller than the outside circumference of a pipe, R,"

which is passed through the cap and barrel, and, of course, through the rubber ring or 'thimble p, which latter forms a cut-oito prevent the escape of the air through the opening in the cap.

The cap P has also an interior chamber, u', corresponding somewhat with the chamber n within the barrel L. .These chambers are, as seen, one above and one` below the rubber ring or thimble p, and are of great importance, as they allow room for the movement of the rubber ring or thimble p in inserting and drawing out the pipe R, and thus facilitating.

such movement. l

The plug thus constructed is driven into the vessel to be emptied, after which the tube R isfrced down through the plug to any de-l sired depth in the cask or vesselto be drawn from. The air is now forced, by means of the air-pump, into the barrel L and around a pipe, B, into the vessel, forcing the liquid up through said pipe R. The airchamber E of the pump may be dispensed with and the flexible p'pe K attached directly to the checkvalve m in the top of the cone 1 O. This air passes down around the the pipe v1l into vthe cavity of the cask above theA The operationof the is follows: when it is placed in or brr'elthe pipe R is made to pass down into the duid, ifl

needs be to the bottom, or at least so that its emi shal beimmersed in the contained and. Air is now injected into the induction-pipe its contained liquid. The inwardly-opening valve o, with whichA the induction-pipe 0 is' provided, prevents any-escape of the air thus inducted, and the elastic thimble p acts 'as a packing around the pipe R, and'prevents any escape of air in this direction. The pressure exerted by the induction of air, as just describd( will thus obviously be exerted upon cask, which pressure will force said fluid through the .pipe B, uponthe endof which is placed any suitable faucet.

I do not lay any claim in this division (B) o f reissue tothe pumping device shown and de-.

scribed, as the same forms the subject-matter of Division A of reissue of the original patent.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isfbody'of y of -the contain'd `fluid within the4 re: y 1 p sume 1. In a plu g, the combination, with the conical or cylindrical barrel and the edut'lohpipe, of the elastic ring andthe annular chambers, formed, respectively, above and below the inner edge of said ring, substantially-as set forth.

2. In a plug, the combination, with the barrel, of the induction-pipe provided with the inwardly-opening valve, governing communication between the same, substantially as set forth.

with the barrel and the inductionfpipe provided with an air-valve, of the eduction-pipe, 1

the elastic ring, the upper and lower ring, expanding chambers, and the cap-piece, sub- Ystantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 21st day of November, 1877, in the lpresence of two subscribing witnesses.

'WILLIAM F. CLASS.

`Viitnesses: 'l

v F. ToUMEY,

JN0. CRQWELL, Jr.

3. A `plug consistingin the combination,

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