Today in 1902, US Patent 701335 A was issued, an invention of Lucien H. Handy, assigned to the American Faucet Company, for his “Device For Drawing Liquids.” There’s no Abstract, though the description in the application states that he’s “invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Drawing Liquids,” such as:
My invention relates to that class of devices for drawing liquids in which a faucet connection is made and broken with a permanent bung in the barrel or keg simultaneously with the operation of the bung-valve, due to said connection; and said invention is especially applicable to those devices of this type in which for the purpose of drawing lager-beer means are provided for passing a slip-pipe into the liquid in the receptacle and forcing air under pressure upon top of the liquid, whereby the latter is forced up through the slip-pipe.
My invention consists in the novel combinations of bung, controlling-valve, and faucet connection, with its locking and operating key, slip-pipe, and air-passage and in the novel details of construction and arrangement in connection therewith.
