Iм- PROVED APPARATUS FOR RAISING OR TILTING CASKS AND OTHER VESSELS OR ARTICLES REQUIRING TO BE TILTED
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jean Cirille Marius Béziat, of No. 114, Rue
Mouffetard, Paris, in the Empire of France, for the Invention of "Iм-
PROVED APPARATUS FOR RAISING OR TILTING CASKS AND OTHER VESSELS OR
ARTICLES REQUIRING TO BE TILTED."
Sealed the 12th November 1861, and dated the 17th May 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jean Cirille Marius
Béziat at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 17th May 1861.
I, JEAN CIRILLE MARIUS BÉZIAT, of No. 114, Rue Mouffetard, Paris,
in the Empire of France, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR RAISING OR TILTING CASKS AND OTHER VESSELS OR
ARTICLES REQUIRING TO BE TILTED," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates principally to what may be called a "tilting jack,"
for tilting casks of wine, beer, or spirits without disturbing the lees or sedi-
ment, but the same apparatus either with or without modifications may be
employed for raising or tilting other heavy bodies.
The apparatus consists principally of a bar or lever of iron provided at one
end with a pointed fork and at the other with a roller. At or near the
centre of this bar or lever is a metal roller to which is attached a strap
of leather or other material having a hook at the other end. To this
roller is fixed a spur wheel driven by a small pinion or a worm wheel driven
by a worm, the said pinion or worm having a winch handle attached thereto..
It will be evident that upon placing this apparatus in a diagonal position
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page_text: above a cask, the fork resting against one of the front hoops, and the roller
against the wall behind, if the hook be placed under the backward end
of the top stave and the handle be turned, the strap will be wound on
the roller, and the cask will be gradually tilted forwards. A wedge or block
of wood may then be placed under the cask, and the apparatus be removed
and applied to another cask, so that any required number of casks may be
tilted with one apparatus.
The exact method of applying the apparatus will depend upon the position
of the particular cask to be operated on, and in some instances where a
cask is isolated a strut of wood or an empty cask may be necessary to form
a support to the roller end of the bar or lever. Heavy gratings, cellar flaps,
or trap doors, carriage axles, and other articles requiring to be raised may also
be acted upon in a similar manner.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Jean Cirille Marius Béziat in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 16th November 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JEAN
CIRILLE MARIUS BÉZIAT, of No. 114, Rue Mouffetard, Paris, in the Empire
of France, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight. hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Jean Cirille Marius Béziat, Her special licence that I, the said Jean
Cirille Marius Béziat, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Jean Cirille Marius Béziat, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR RAISING OR TILTING CASKS AND OTHER VESSELS OR
ARTICLES REQUIRING TO BE TILTED," upon the condition, amongst others, that
I, the said Jean Cirille Marius Béziat, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
.particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause, the same to be filed