IMPROVEMENTS IN ENGINES FOR RAISING BEER AND OTHER LIQUIDS
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Line, of Lower Tower Street, Birmingham,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ENGINES FOR RAISING BEER AND
OTHER LIQUIDS."
Sealed the 30th September 1858, and dated the 27th July 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Line at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th July 1858.
J, THOMAS LINE, of Lower Tower Street, Birmingham, do hereby declare
the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ENGINES FOR RAISING BEER
AND OTHER LIQUIDS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in engines for raising beer
and other liquids, and consists in an improvement on the arrangement
described in the Specification of a Patent granted to Henry Jones, and dated
the 16th May 1857.
According to the arrangement there described, the arm or hand lever, by
which the engine is worked, is connected by a joint to a plate or disc in such
manner that the arm or lever passes through the plate or disc, that is to say,
the portions of the arm or lever on opposite sides of the joint work the
one on the one side, and the other on the other side of the plate or disc.
From one end of this arm or lever (not that on which the handle is fixed) a
connecting rod descends to the piston rod of the pump, so that when the
handle is depressed, the other end of the arm or lever is raised, and draws the
piston up with it. When the handle is moved in this manner, its lower end,

page_text: which is curved, rises up into a hollow elevation or case formed for it on the
plate or disc by which the arm or lever is carried, and this plate or disc forms
the top, or a portion of the top, of a case in which the pump cylinder is con-
tained, but the plate or disc is in no way carried or supported by the pump
cylinder, both the plate or disc and the cylinder being carried and supported
by a separate case of wood or other material. Now, according to my Inven-
tion, I mount a plate or disc carrying an arm or hand lever, arranged as before
described, on the top of the pump cylinder, and the pump cylinder is, at its
lower end, attached to a shop counter or other suitable support, thus, in this
arrangement it is the pump cylinder alone which carries the plate or disc,
and the arm or hand lever.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Line in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
26th January 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
LINE, of Lower Tower Street, Birmingham, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Thomas Line, Her special licence that I, the said Thomas Line, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas
Line, 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
termi 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN ENGINES FOR
RAISING BEER AND OTHER LIQUIDS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Thomas Line, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Line, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-

page_text: formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in engines for raising beer
and other liquids, and consists in an improvement on the arrangement
described in the Specification of a Patent granted to Henry Jones, and dated
the 16th May 1857.
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According to the arrangement there described, the arm or hand lever, by
which the engine is worked, is connected by a joint to a plate or disc in such
manner that the arm or lever passes through the plate or disc, that is to
say, the portions of the arm or lever on opposite sides of the joint, work the
one on the one side, and the other on the other side of the plate or disc.
From one end of this arm or lever (not that on which the handle is fixed)
connecting rod descends to the piston rod of the pump, so that when the
handle is depressed, the other end of the arm or lever is raised, and draws the
piston up with it. When the handle is moved in this manner, its lower end,
which is curved, rises up into a hollow elevation or case formed for it on the
plate or disc, by which the arm or lever is carried, and this plate or disc forms
the top, or a portion of the top, of a case in which the pump cylinder is con-
tained, but the plate or disc is in no way carried or supported by the pump
cylinder, both the plate or disc and the cylinder being carried and supported by
a separate case of wood or other material. Now, according to my Invention,.
I mount a plate or disc carrying an arm or hand lever, arranged as before
described, on the top of the pump cylinder, and the pump cylinder is, at its
lower end, attached to a shop counter or other suitable support, thus, in this
arrangement it is the pump cylinder alone which carries the plate or disc, and
the arm or hand lever.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawing hereunto
annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a vertical section of an engine constructed according to my
Invention for raising beer and other liquids. a is the pump cylinder, which
has formed on its lower end a suitable foot; b is a short tube, proceeding from
the bottom of the cylinder, and having a screw thread cut on its exterior; c is
a screw nut to be screwed up against the under side of the counter which is to
carry the engine, so as to hold it firmly in its place; d is a screw cap, fitting
on to the end of the tube b, and securing in their proper positions the valve
seate with its valve e', and also the piece f, which is soldered on to the end of

page_text: the pipe leading to the source of supply. The cylinder of the engine shown
in the Drawing is, for convenience of manufacture, made in two parts, which
screw the one into the other, as is shown; the lower part of the cylinder con-
tains the piston, consisting of the valve seat g with its valve h and the ring i,
which screws on to the piece g, and nips the inner edge of the leather j; the
ring is formed at the end of a forked piece , into which the piston rod is
fixed. The upper portion of the cylinder has a partition formed across it, in
the centre of which is formed a stuffing box 1, and it also has screwed into it
the cock m. The upper part of the cylinder has a screw formed upon it,
which is received by a socket formed on and forming part of the plate or
dise ; this plate or disc is furnished at its centre with a hollow elevation
for receiving the end of the arm or lever o, which elevation is most con-
veniently made in a separate piece from the rest of the plate or disc n. A
plan of this plate or disc is shown at Figure 2, one end of the lever o is
furnished with a handle p, and the other end is connected by the link g to the
piston rod.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Line, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
Witness,
ROB M. WOOD, Solicitor,
Birmingham.
THOMAS LINE. (L.S.)