Improvements relating to Filters for Beer, Wine, Spirits, and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: This Print is in accordance with the Original Specification as it stands after
Amendment (under Section 11 of the Patents, &c., Act, 1883), as required
hy the decision of the Chief Examiner of the 2nd day of September 1898.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Filters for Beer, Wine, Spirits, and the like.
FRED PALLISER, 3, Derby Street, Preston, Hotel Bar Fitter, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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The filter is made in two chambers, when combined, forms a funnel.
The upper chamber contains a tube or thimble of wire gauze, for straining the
heaviest part of the sediment from the liquor. The lower chamber or bottom
half contains a bag, made of fur or flannel, this bag receives the liquor from the
upper chamber and retains any particles of sediment that may have passed
through the upper chamber, the liquor than passes through a tube at the baso
of the lower chamber into the bottle or barrel.
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COMPLETE DEMOTIVATION (ALENDED).
Improvements relating to Filters for Beer, Wine, Spirits, and the like.
I, FRED PALLISER, Hotel Bar Fitter, 3, Derby Street, Preston, in the County
of Lancaster, do hereby 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:-
This invention has reference to filters for beer, wines, spirits and the like and
consists in certain improvements in the construction thereof having for their
object to more effectually strain or separate the sediment or solid particles from
the liquid than is possible with such filters as at present constructed.
The invention will be understood from the following further description in
reference to the accompanying drawing and from the claims at the end of the
specification.
Referring to the drawing, Figure 1 shows an elevation of a filter constructed
in accordance with this invention having the front partly removed to show the
internal construction and arrangement.
Figure 2 is a detail or fragment of the straining medium D and the rim to
which it is attached.

page_text: The filter, as shown consists of two chambers A and B which fit removably
the one over the other in a similar manner to a saucepan and steamer or other-
wise.
The upper chamber A is enclosed by a removable lid A and it has a hole
centrally in its floor over and around which is soldered or otherwise fixed a short
perforated tube and over the latter is placed a tube C of gauze or other finely
reticulated material.
In the lower chamber there is suspended a bag or diaphragm D of flannel,
fur or other fine straining medium which to keep it in position is fastened by
stitches, paper fasteners or the like passing through holes D in a rim D¹ which
is hooked or has a turned over edge to ledge over the bottom chamber B as shown
The straining medium may be otherwise attached to the said rim.
A hole centrally in the bottom of the lower chamber surrounded by a short
tube E of perforated metal forms the exit for the strained liquid, the said exit
communicating with a tube E¹ which leads therefrom to conduct the liquid out
of the filter.
The mode of using the filter is as follows:-
The unstrained liquor (such as the bottoms of a beer or wine barrel or the like)
is placed in the upper chamber A and the gauze tube C intercepts all but the
very finest solid particles.
These with the liquid pass through into the second chamber and drop on to
the filtering medium D which intercepts any sediment or solid particles which
still remain and the clear effluent then passes out the bottom chamber through
the pipe E¹ into a barrel bottle or other receptacle into which the said pipe is
placed.
The two wedge shaped blocks F F on the underside of the filter are for the
purpose of fitting over a barrel into which the strained liquor is to be introduced.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I wish it to be under-
stood that I am aware that it has been previously proposed to both strain and
filter beer, wines, spirits and the like in the same vessel, and I therefore make
no broad claim to a filter in which these two processes are carried out; but
I declare that what I claim is:-
1. In a filter such as described the use or employment of a filtrating medium
such as D for intercepting and separating the sediment or fine solid particles
from the liquid substantially as described.
2. The improved filter constructed, arranged and operating substantially as
described and with reference to the accompanying drawing.
Witness:
E. N. LEWIS,
Berridge Street Chambers, Leicester.
FRED PALLISER.