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Started by gaemes, June 11, 2014, 11:43:10 AM

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rusty

#15
June 15, 2014, 12:59:37 PM Last Edit: June 15, 2014, 05:08:12 PM by rusty
Lewill wins the gold ring...

"Best Bung" found me an ebay listing with it mistakenly id'd as a tobacco plug cutter, but , it had a patent year...

It is not for removing bungs, it is for making the hole to put them in...

The ebay one also says 'enterprise', perhaps Enterprise manufacturing?

PS: The odd extra piece is for splitting the plug after boring to get it out of the cutter,
PPS: In datamp, but no example http://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?number=613132&typeCode=0
PPPS: Joseph Fellows does have a different patent assigned to Enterprise Mfg (846193)
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Lewill2

#16
June 15, 2014, 05:49:27 PM
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometime.   :smiley:

Billman49

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June 15, 2014, 06:28:15 PM Last Edit: June 15, 2014, 06:32:32 PM by Billman49
Teamwork!!!! and a bit of luck to find the best keyword....

(bad drawing on the patent application, those cutters wouldn't cut butter - and a pretty bad design - a couple of sharpenings and the cutters would be worn out...)

HeelSpur

#18
June 15, 2014, 07:04:45 PM
That sounds like an X rated prison movie,

"J. Fellows and his Bung Hole Boring Tool".

I know, I'm bad :-).
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Chillylulu

#19
June 15, 2014, 07:14:11 PM
I learned a bit from this one.    :cool:

Chilly

Papaw

#20
June 15, 2014, 09:26:45 PM
I think we all did! That's one of the joys of Tool Talk and forums like it.
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Aunt Phil

#21
June 16, 2014, 12:53:43 AM
You ought to see the powered bung remover used on returned barrels. 

That contraption will scare you if you have any brains. 

In the days before Johnson taps the guy pulling bungs always checked the tap hole to be sure the cork was gone because every now and then a barrel came back that was full of bad beer and pressure.  That was NOT a happy bath.
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Branson

#22
June 17, 2014, 12:20:20 PM
Quote from: rusty on June 15, 2014, 12:59:37 PM
Lewill wins the gold ring...
"Best Bung" found me an ebay listing with it mistakenly id'd as a tobacco plug cutter, but , it had a patent year...
It is not for removing bungs, it is for making the hole to put them in...

Strictly speaking, it's for cutting the hole for one of the inset metal bung holes like the one Billman posted.  Kirby illustrates
more than one style.  A mid 20th Century development it seems from what Kirby writes.  Some screw in, some are pressed
in. 

The old standard bung holes are tapered to receive a tapered bung.

gaemes

#23
June 17, 2014, 02:16:10 PM
You guys are the best! Jim
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