CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-ACTING TILTS FOR CASKS, BARRELS, OR OTHER RECEPTACLES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Isaac Hudson, of Stockport, in the County of
Chester, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-ACTING
TILTS FOR CASKS, BARRELS, OR OTHER RECEPTACLES."
Sealed the 16th July 1869, and dated the 9th March 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Isaac Hudson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th March 1869.
I, ISAAC HUDSON, of Stockport, in the County of Chester, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
SELF-ACTING TILTS' FOR CASKS, BARRELS OR OTHER RECEPTACLES," to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists in improved self-acting apparatus for tilting
casks, barrels, and other receptacles containing liquids as the said liquids
decrease in quantity, the motion being so gentle and effectual as to
prevent any possibility of the liquid being disturbed.

page_text: The casks or barrels are placed on the ordinary stillages, and above
each cask or barrel I employ a double lever or steelyard suspended to a
bar or rail at the upper part of the cellar or other elevated position. On
one arm of this double lever there is a weight which can be adjusted and
held at any required position, and the other arm is formed as a quadrant,
to which is connected one end of a chain or cord, the other end of which
is passed through one eye of a hook having two eyes, and then turned up
and linked or fastened to the chain or cord, the said hook being hooked
to one of the ends of the cask or barrel. Through the other eye of this
hook is passed another chain or cord, having at one end a hook which is
hooked to the other end of the cask or barrel, and the end of this chain
or cord which is passed through the eye is turned back and linked or
fastened to the same chain or cord. When the full cask or barrel is in
its place on the stillage with the hooks on its ends, and the chains or
cords properly tightened, the double lever is horizontal or thereabouts,
and as the liquid decreases in quantity the weighted arm of the double
lever descends and raises the quadrant arm which pulls the chain or cord
connected to it, and raises or tilts that end of the cask or barrel.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Isaac Hudson in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 9th September 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ISAAC
HUDSON, of Stockport, in the County of Chester, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors
give and grant unto me, the said Isaac Hudson, Her special license
that I, the said Isaac Hudson, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Isaac Hudson, 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-

page_text: ACTING TILTS' FOR CASKS, BARRELS, OR OTHER RECEPTACLES," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Isaac Hudson, 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 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 Isaac Hudson, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say) :-
:-
This Invention consists in improved self-acting apparatus for tilting
casks, barrels, and other receptacles containing liquids as the said liquids
decrease in quantity, the motion being so gentle and effectual as to
prevent any possibility of the liquid being disturbed.
The manner in which this Invention is to be performed will be clearly
understood by the following particular description thereof, reference
being had to the figures and letters on the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings, in which Figures 1 and 2 are side views drawn to a reduced
scale of my improved tilting apparatus in different positions, and
Figures 3 and 4 are side and end views of part of the same drawn about
half size.
The casks or barrels are placed on the ordinary stillages a and
above each cask or barrel b I employ a double lever or steelyard
c, d, suspended by a link e to a bar or rail fat the upper part of the
cellar or other elevated position. On the arm d there is a weight g
which can be adjusted and held at any required position, and the other
arm c is formed as a quadrant, to which is linked one end of a chain h,
the other end of which is passed through one eye k of a hook 1, having
two eyes, and then turned up and hooked to the chain to any length
required, the hook being previously hooked to one of the ends of the
cask or barrel. Through the other eye m of this hook is passed another
chain n, having at one end a hook o which is hooked to the other end of
the cask or barrel, and the end of this chain passed through the eye m is
turned back and hooked to the same chain to the length required. The
lever and weight are so calculated as not to lift the cask or barrel until
the liquid gets down to the point where it is required to be tilted. When

page_text: the full cask or barrel is in its place on the stillage with the hooks l, o,
on its ends, and the chains properly tightened and fastened, the double
lever is horizontal or thereabouts, as shewn in Figure 1, and so remains
until the cask requires to be tilted, and then as the liquid decreases in
quantity the weighted arm d of the double lever descends and raises the
quadrant arm e, which pulls the chain h, and gently raises or tilts that
end of the cask or barrel as seen in Figure 2, representing one of the
raised or tilted positions. Instead of chains, cords, or ropes with hooks
at their ends may be employed, or a combination of cords and chains, or
cords and rods, and the forms and dimensions of the various parts may
be varied according to the requirements.
Having now described the nature and particulars of my said Invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be
understood that I claim the improved self-acting tilts for casks, barrels,
and other receptacles, as herein described and illustrated in the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whercof, I, the said Isaac Hudson, have hereunto.
set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
Witness,
G. SEPTIMUS HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
ISAAC HUDSON. (L.S.)