Volume 24 (1872) (424 pages)

204 O04 Og Og Og OO, Oy Oy, Oy eoTeFe"* oe Te a@ 4%, 0, © 4 Oa px JL-LuUsTRATED JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC AND 7, Lechanix¢ P=, 9 J NpUSTRIAL PROGRESS, tts and dnsentions, BY DEWEY & Co., Patent Solicitors. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1872. VOLUME XAT. Number 3. Rickey's Improved Bung and Bung . Inserter. A cheap, convenient and perfectly tight bung has long been’a necessity, especially for hrewers pnrposes, where they are liable to leak or he blown out if they are not perfectly fitted and secured. Many different kinds of patent hungs have been offered to the puhlic from time to time, hut each of them has heen thrown to one side after a short trial as defective or wanting in some particular. The illustration presented herewith represents Rickey’s Patent Bung and Bung Inserter, the latter heing an instrument devised hy Mr. Rickey for screwing the hushing into which the hung or plug fits, into the barrel stave. The hnng seems to us to he quite complete and we see no reason why it will not eventually take the place in the market of all others. By referring to the euts, it will be seen that the central figure, A, is the metallic ring or bushing, which is provided with internal and external screw-threads in the ordinary manner. This ring is made slightly tapering or conical and the threads narrow at the hase and quite sharp, so that when it is screwed into a hole of the proper size it will cutitsown threads. This may he done hy theuse of the hung inserter, shown on the left-hand side. The inserter consists of a metal standard, #, in the upper end of which isa hole. The hase of this standard is made of the same size as the hung and provided with screw threads as shown. Resting upen this hase and encircling the standard, &, is a ring, g, in the upper face of which and opposite each other, are two oppositely inclined depressions, as shown, and passing through the standard so that its opposite ends will rest in these depressions is a har, /. To use this inserter the hase is screwed into the hushing until the ring, g, is hrought down against the face of the bush. The standard, EH, is then turned until the ends of the har, /, rest as far as possihle up the incline of the depressions. The hase is then screwed down until the ring rests upon the face of the hushing. A proper-sized hole having heen first made in the harrel stave by means ofa hnng horer, the hushing is started into it, when, hy placing a rod through the hole in the standard as a lever the hushing can he screwed into the hole in the stave until it is snugly down; and when once it has heen thus forecd down so as to cut its own thread it cannot he started hy ordinary means, and will not leak. After the hushing has heen firmly screwed down the inserter can he roadily removed hy turning the standard, #, in a reverse direction which canses the har, 7, to move to the lowest part of the depression and relieves the pressure on the screw. In the ordinary hung the washer is merely placed on the projecting seat on the lower end of the hushing and the hung screwed down upon it, thus leaving it free to he washed out every time the harrel is cleansed, and, if left for any length of time the leather hecomes hard and adheres hoth to the seat in the hushing and to the bung so that it is almost impossihlo to remove the hung. Tho one illustrated entirely ohviates this difliculty and is also provided with more convenient means for heing turned. B represents a top view of the hung whichis cast with a square socket in its upper face, the sides slightly convexed into which the wrench, H, is made to fit. The Fig. marked, B, C, D, shows the hottom of the hung with the disk, C, attached hy means of the stem as seen at B, in the right hand figure. C represents a metallic disk, having = projecting flango on its undor side around which a groove is turned. The washer (either leather or rubher) is stretched over the lower flange so as to fit in the groove, around the outer edge of the disk and thus he permanently fixed upon it. The stem projecting from and the leverage ohtained hy using a har in the hole in the standard of that tool, the, hushing can he screwed down as deep as required. The importance of this ingenious and useful invention is readily seen when the number of harrels and casks that are used on this coast are taken into consideration, and all mado of imported material, causing them to ho an expensive article. The wear and tear on harrels is principally on the hung stave, which is always the hest stave in the harrel, hut nevertheless the first to give out, owing to the difficulty in always finding a hung of the proper size or shape, in consequence of the hele hecoming elongated. The wood in the hole presents two different surfaces, one with the grain of the wood-at the sides and the other against it. To avoid this it hecomes necesssary to frequently bore or hurn them RICKEY’S the upper center of this disk passes up through a hole in the hottom of the hung, B, as shown, into the socket where a washer is placed over it and it is headed down. By this means the disk is attached to the hottom of the hung 30 as to revolve independently. The ohject of this is to allow the disk and washer, as soon as the washer has touched the seat in the hushing, to remain stationary until the hung is firmly screwed down. When the hung has remained this way any length of time and it is desired to remove it, hy unscrewing the hung, the disk and washer will he lifted directly upward by the screws aud thus avoid the trouhle heretofore oxperienced on account of its adhesion. D represents the washer which is to he stretched into the groove in the disk, and can he made either of leather or ruhher as desired. It will be seen that the bushing, A, as IMPROVED BUNG AND BUNG shown in the lower cut, sets helow the face of tho stave. This is done without! any preparation of the hole, with the use of hut acommon hung-horer. The threads of the hushing are sharp, and as said hefore, the hushing is made slightly tapering, so thathy the use of the hung inserter . INSERTER.out, in order to keep them round, Each operation of this sort necessarily enlarges the hole and weakens the stave, and for this reason the hung in a new harrel is left much too small for corvenience. Moreover, if hy carelessness or an extra quality of timher the hole is not enlarged hy this means, it hecomes necessary after awhile to take out the head of the cask to get at the corks that have heen driven in. Tt will he soen from this that it is diffieult to keep these holes of uniform size, and consequently a great variety of different sized hungs are required, and these have to he selected with care for each different harrel, consuming considerahle time. These hungs ‘are frequently made of old staves and vary in thickness. The thin ones if a good fit, form » shoulder at the hottom, which, when a thicker one is drivenin, is hroken and the lower end of the wood around the hole hecomes a mass of splinters, rendering it difficult to clean, and liahle to leak. The ohject of the ahove mentioned improvement is, not only to provide a means that will preserve the hungstave as long as any other stave in the harrel, hut to furnish a safe and reliahle hung which will he a great saving of lahor. This improvement has heen thoroughly tested hy all the hrewers of San Francisco, and has given general satisfaction. One firm alone in this city, Messrs. Mangels & Co., of the Alhany Brewery, have about 1,000 in use, and heartily recommend them. The patent for this device was secured through the Screnriric Press Agency by D. B. Rickey, who may he addressed at No, 111 and 113 Davis street, San Francisco. ~ A New Stock Board. The amount of husiness which has heen transacted in mining and other stocks during the past few months in the San Francisco Steck Beard and on the streets has heen much greater than at any time since its formation. The protracted sessions and heavy husiness of the old Board has caused considerahle dissatisfaction among some of the dealers, who complain that they cannot transact their full husiness. The meetings of the Board have heen necessarily prolenged over the usual time in order to permit the hrokers to huy and sell the full amount of their orders. In view of this a numher of dealers and hrokers convened on Saturday evening last at John Middleton & Sen’s auction rooms for the purpose of organizing a new. Beard. The new organization is to consist of 40 charter memhers who are to pay an initiation fee of $100 each, and to these may he added at the discretion of the Board, ten special members who are to pay $500 each for that privilege. The name adopted is “The California Stock and Exchange Board.” Two meetings are to he held . daily—from quarter past 10 to 11 a.m. andfrem quarter past2to3p.a. These henrs have heen chosen go as to permit persons to transact husiness in the in old Board, which meets after the adjournment of the new one. The price to he paid for placing any stock on the list of the Board is to he $50. With this exception all the rules of the San Francisco Stock Board have heen adopted, as they have heen found to work well in practice, The following are the 40 charter memhers: George W. Ramage, T. J. L. Smiley, John Middleton, E. J. Baldwin, W. W. Lawton, A. Difthat, A. C. Chick, J. F. Crossett, C. Hosmer, B. M Rudsdale, T. J. Poulterer, T. J. Sanhorn, F. Wolff, E. L. Smith, RB. Broderick, H. 8. Logan, E. S. Tibhey, J. McKenty, H. 8S. Fitch, J. Marina, J. P. Canton, George S. Sorren, M. D, Townsend, W. H. Wright, J. H. Owens, E. J. White, P. H. Phehe, R. T. Kent, Samuel Barrell, Simon Marks, C. A. Kenney, William H. Brown, D. Fay, J. Kloppenstein, W. J. Smith, Samuel Heineman, Georges Rogers, Charles L. Weller, W. J. Williams, John Harper. Minerat Discoverms rv Astaric Russia. Mines of extraordinary value are said to have heen recently discovered in the province of Semipalatinski, Siheria. Copper mines yielding 60 per cent.; lead mines of 70 per cent.; silver ‘‘ one-seventh of pure ore” and coal yielding 60 to 90 per cent. of coke are reported.

204 O04 Og Og Og OO, Oy Oy, Oy eoTeFe"* oe Te a@ 4%, 0, © 4 Oa px JL-LuUsTRATED JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC AND 7, Lechanix¢ P=, 9 J NpUSTRIAL PROGRESS, tts and dnsentions, BY DEWEY & Co., Patent Solicitors. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1872. VOLUME XAT. Number 3. Rickey's Improved Bung and Bung . Inserter. A cheap, convenient and perfectly tight bung has long been’a necessity, especially for hrewers pnrposes, where they are liable to leak or he blown out if they are not perfectly fitted and secured. Many different kinds of patent hungs have been offered to the puhlic from time to time, hut each of them has heen thrown to one side after a short trial as defective or wanting in some particular. The illustration presented herewith represents Rickey’s Patent Bung and Bung Inserter, the latter heing an instrument devised hy Mr. Rickey for screwing the hushing into which the hung or plug fits, into the barrel stave. The hnng seems to us to he quite complete and we see no reason why it will not eventually take the place in the market of all others. By referring to the euts, it will be seen that the central figure, A, is the metallic ring or bushing, which is provided with internal and external screw-threads in the ordinary manner. This ring is made slightly tapering or conical and the threads narrow at the hase and quite sharp, so that when it is screwed into a hole of the proper size it will cutitsown threads. This may he done hy theuse of the hung inserter, shown on the left-hand side. The inserter consists of a metal standard, #, in the upper end of which isa hole. The hase of this standard is made of the same size as the hung and provided with screw threads as shown. Resting upen this hase and encircling the standard, &, is a ring, g, in the upper face of which and opposite each other, are two oppositely inclined depressions, as shown, and passing through the standard so that its opposite ends will rest in these depressions is a har, /. To use this inserter the hase is screwed into the hushing until the ring, g, is hrought down against the face of the bush. The standard, EH, is then turned until the ends of the har, /, rest as far as possihle up the incline of the depressions. The hase is then screwed down until the ring rests upon the face of the hushing. A proper-sized hole having heen first made in the harrel stave by means ofa hnng horer, the hushing is started into it, when, hy placing a rod through the hole in the standard as a lever the hushing can he screwed into the hole in the stave until it is snugly down; and when once it has heen thus forecd down so as to cut its own thread it cannot he started hy ordinary means, and will not leak. After the hushing has heen firmly screwed down the inserter can he roadily removed hy turning the standard, #, in a reverse direction which canses the har, 7, to move to the lowest part of the depression and relieves the pressure on the screw. In the ordinary hung the washer is merely placed on the projecting seat on the lower end of the hushing and the hung screwed down upon it, thus leaving it free to he washed out every time the harrel is cleansed, and, if left for any length of time the leather hecomes hard and adheres hoth to the seat in the hushing and to the bung so that it is almost impossihlo to remove the hung. Tho one illustrated entirely ohviates this difliculty and is also provided with more convenient means for heing turned. B represents a top view of the hung whichis cast with a square socket in its upper face, the sides slightly convexed into which the wrench, H, is made to fit. The Fig. marked, B, C, D, shows the hottom of the hung with the disk, C, attached hy means of the stem as seen at B, in the right hand figure. C represents a metallic disk, having = projecting flango on its undor side around which a groove is turned. The washer (either leather or rubher) is stretched over the lower flange so as to fit in the groove, around the outer edge of the disk and thus he permanently fixed upon it. The stem projecting from and the leverage ohtained hy using a har in the hole in the standard of that tool, the, hushing can he screwed down as deep as required. The importance of this ingenious and useful invention is readily seen when the number of harrels and casks that are used on this coast are taken into consideration, and all mado of imported material, causing them to ho an expensive article. The wear and tear on harrels is principally on the hung stave, which is always the hest stave in the harrel, hut nevertheless the first to give out, owing to the difficulty in

always finding a hung of the proper size or shape, in consequence of the hele hecoming elongated. The wood in the hole presents two different surfaces, one with the grain of the wood-at the sides and the other against it. To avoid this it hecomes necesssary to frequently bore or hurn them RICKEY’S the upper center of this disk passes up through a hole in the hottom of the hung, B, as shown, into the socket where a washer is placed over it and it is headed down. By this means the disk is attached to the hottom of the hung 30 as to revolve independently. The ohject of this is to allow the disk and washer, as soon as the washer has touched the seat in the hushing, to remain stationary until the hung is firmly screwed down. When the hung has remained this way any length of time and it is desired to remove it, hy unscrewing the hung, the disk and washer will he lifted directly upward by the screws aud thus avoid the trouhle heretofore oxperienced on account of its adhesion. D represents the washer which is to he stretched into the groove in the disk, and can he made either of leather or ruhher as desired. It will be seen that the bushing, A, as IMPROVED BUNG AND BUNG shown in the lower cut, sets helow the face of tho stave. This is done without! any preparation of the hole, with the use of hut acommon hung-horer. The threads of the hushing are sharp, and as said hefore, the hushing is made slightly tapering, so thathy the use of the hung inserter . INSERTER.out, in order to keep them round, Each operation of this sort necessarily enlarges the hole and weakens the stave, and for this reason the hung in a new harrel is left much too small for corvenience. Moreover, if hy carelessness or an extra quality of timher the hole is not enlarged hy this means, it hecomes necessary after awhile to take out the head of the cask to get at the corks that have heen driven in. Tt will he soen from this that it is diffieult to keep these holes of uniform size, and consequently a great variety of different sized hungs are required, and these have to he selected with care for each different harrel, consuming considerahle time. These hungs ‘are frequently made of old staves and vary in thickness. The thin ones if a good fit, form » shoulder at the hottom, which, when a thicker one is drivenin, is hroken and the lower end of the wood around the hole hecomes a mass of splinters, rendering it difficult to clean, and liahle to leak. The ohject of the ahove mentioned improvement is, not only to provide a means that will preserve the hungstave as long as any other stave in the harrel, hut to furnish a safe and reliahle hung which will he a great saving of lahor. This improvement has heen thoroughly tested hy all the hrewers of San Francisco, and has given general satisfaction. One firm alone in this city, Messrs. Mangels & Co., of the Alhany Brewery, have about 1,000 in use, and heartily recommend them. The patent for this device was secured through the Screnriric Press Agency by D. B. Rickey, who may he addressed at No, 111 and 113 Davis street, San Francisco. ~ A New Stock Board. The amount of husiness which has heen transacted in mining and other stocks during the past few months in the San Francisco Steck Beard and on the streets has heen much greater than at any time since its formation. The protracted sessions and heavy husiness of the old Board has caused considerahle dissatisfaction among some of the dealers, who complain that they cannot transact their full husiness. The meetings of the Board have heen necessarily prolenged over the usual time in order to permit the hrokers to huy and sell the full amount of their orders. In view of this a numher of dealers and hrokers convened on Saturday evening last at John Middleton & Sen’s auction rooms for the purpose of organizing a new. Beard. The new organization is to consist of 40 charter memhers who are to pay an initiation fee of $100 each, and to these may he added at the discretion of the Board, ten special members who are to pay $500 each for that privilege. The name adopted is “The California Stock and Exchange Board.” Two meetings are to he held . daily—from quarter past 10 to 11 a.m. andfrem quarter past2to3p.a. These henrs have heen chosen go as to permit persons to transact husiness in the in old Board, which meets after the adjournment of the new one. The price to he paid for placing any stock on the list of the Board is to he $50. With this exception all the rules of the San Francisco Stock Board have heen adopted, as they have heen found to work well in practice, The following are the 40 charter memhers: George W. Ramage, T. J. L. Smiley, John Middleton, E. J. Baldwin, W. W. Lawton, A. Difthat, A. C. Chick, J. F. Crossett, C. Hosmer, B. M Rudsdale, T. J. Poulterer, T. J. Sanhorn, F. Wolff, E. L. Smith, RB. Broderick, H. 8. Logan, E. S. Tibhey, J. McKenty, H. 8S. Fitch, J. Marina, J. P. Canton, George S. Sorren, M. D, Townsend, W. H. Wright, J. H. Owens, E. J. White, P. H. Phehe, R. T. Kent, Samuel Barrell, Simon Marks, C. A. Kenney, William H. Brown, D. Fay, J. Kloppenstein, W. J. Smith, Samuel Heineman, Georges Rogers, Charles L. Weller, W. J. Williams, John Harper. Minerat Discoverms rv Astaric Russia. Mines of extraordinary value are said to have heen recently discovered in the province of Semipalatinski, Siheria. Copper mines yielding 60 per cent.; lead mines of 70 per cent.; silver ‘‘ one-seventh of pure ore” and coal yielding 60 to 90 per cent. of coke are reported.