Improvements in Portable Vessele for Use in Retailing Liquids.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Aug., 1896-Accepted, 3rd Oct., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Portable Vessele for Use in Retailing Liquids.
I, EMIL LYOHENHEIM, of Schwartau, near Lübeck, in the Empire of Germany,.
Brewery-proprietor, do heruby declare the nature of this invention and in what'
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
Transportable vessels for retailing liquids, especially beer, have been employed
of late; such vessels substantially consist of a comparatively large vessel for
containing the liquid such as beer, to be retailed and an auxiliary chamber for
receiving a forcing or pressure agent such as carbonic acid gas which enters and!
expands in the liquid-containing chamber in proportion as the liquid escapes.
therefrom, the latter being forced out of its chamber by the said pressure-
agent.
This invention relates to a vessel of the above kind.
Referring to the accompanying drawing, B is the vessel its characteristic feature-
being that the chamber a for containing the forcing agent is arranged beneath the-
bottom of the larger chamber for containing the liquid and has the reducing
valve c arranged in its interior. Through this valve the forcing agent enters a
conduit d, through which it passes into the liquid chamber b. The vessel B is.
provided with a tightly closing, detachable cover and a ring 6. The discharge
pipe e traverses the cover and terminates at the exterior in a tap e'. A tight
joint is secured around the discharge or tap pipe e by means of a stuffing box b
Into the dome shaped upper part of the cover the safety-valve and the
casing containing the non-return valve closing the pressure conduit, are
screwed is a stop-cock for the pressure conduit. The cover is or may be
secured in the top opening B' of the vessel, for example by means of a screw.
threaded ring, by means of which an intermediate indiarubber ring b is flattened
and so pressed firmly against the inner lining of the opening in the vessel, so that.
the frictional contact between the lining 6 and the india rubbor packing ring is
sufficient to hold the cover in place.
Owing to the fact that the space or chamber a for containing the pressing agent
is located neither in the interior of nor around, but below the liquid containing
chamber, various advantages are obtained, the value of which has not beeu
recognized until now. Although both spaces or chambers are combined in a single
vessel, the liquid containing chamber is nevertheless kept separate from the
chamber containing the forcing or pressure agent, and may thus for example have.
its temperature altered, without the other chamber being thereby influenced to any
perceptible extent. It is preferable that a vessel of this kind be provided with a
hollow foot, support or base A, so that the bottom of the liquid chamber may not
come in direct contact with the ground. The free space of this support or base A.
is utilized according to this invention, thus the vessel as a whole is not materially
increased in bulk because the chamber for containing the pressure agent is located
within the base A. A further advantage consists in placing the reducing valve c
in the chamber a and thus protecting it efficiently against external influences or
injuries.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that whot I
claim is :-
A portable vessel for retailing liquide in which the snace or chamber (a) for.

page_text: containing a forcing or pressure agent such as carbonic acid is arranged beneath
the space or chamber (6) for containing the liquid to be retailed (for example beer)
and the said pressure agent chamber having located in its interior the reducing
valve (c) connected to the conduit (d) for the pressing agent, so that both the said
spaces or chambers are relatively independent one of the other while the space
usually left free in the base of vessels of this kind, is utilized to contain the forcing
or pressure agent, substantially as and for the purpose described.
Dated this 21st day of August 1896.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant