IM- PROVEMENTS IN STANDS OR SUPPORTS FOR CASKS, BARRELS, AND OTHER LIKE VESSELS
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Barlow, of King William Street, in
the City of London, Ironmonger, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN STANDS OR SUPPORTS FOR CASKS, BARRELS, AND OTHER
LIKE VESSELS."
Sealed the 28th May 1853, and dated the 30th November 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Barlow at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 30th November 1852.
I, JAMES BARLOW, of King William Street, in the City of London,
Ironmonger, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN STANDS OR SUPPORTS FOR CASKS, BARRELS, AND OTHER
LIKE VESSELS" to be as follows: _
To the front of an ordinary stand I fit a nut, through which a
screwed shaft is free to move up or down on motion being com-
municated to it by a hand wheel fitted thereto. The upper end of
the screw shaft carries a crutch for supporting the front end of the
cask or barrel; and on turning the shaft from right to left, or vice
versa, the front of the cask is raised or lowered as required. Instead
of a screw shaft and nut a rack and pinion may be used.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said James Barlow in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 28th May 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JAMES BARLOW, of King William Street, in the City of London,
Ironmonger, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said James Barlow, Her
special licence that I, the said James Barlow, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
James Barlow, 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 night 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 STANDS OR SUPPORTS
FOR CASKS, BARRELS, AND OTHER LIKE VESSELS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said James Barlow, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, 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 im-
mediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Barlow, 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, reference being had to the
Drawings hereunto annexed (that is to say):
In the front of an ordinary stand I insert a nut, through which a
screwed shaft is free to move up or down on motion being com-
municated to it by a hand wheel fitted thereto. The upper end of

page_text: the screw shaft carries a crutch for supporting the front end of the
cask or barrel; and on turning the hand wheel and shaft from right
to left, or vice versa, the front of the cask is raised or lowered as
required. A, A, is an ordinary stand or frame for a cask, with the
front legs A', A', lower than the hind legs. The front bar B, has a
nut sunk in it, through which the screwed shaft C, works. The
upper end of the shaft carries a crutch D, for supporting the front
of the cask, while the lower end has affixed to it a hand wheel E.
By turning the hand wheel from left to right the front of the cask
may be raised, whereby any sediment will be deposited at the back
of the cask and below the level of the tap used for drawing off the
contents: by moving the hand wheel in the contrary direction the
front of the cask can be lowered so gently as not to disturb any
sediment that may have been deposited, and thus the fluid contents
of the cask can be drawn off clear and bright.
Instead of a screw shaft traversing the front bar a rack and
pinion might be employed with the same results.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, I declare that I
claim the improvements in stands for casks, barrels, and other like
vessels, whereby the fronts thereof can be raised and lowered as
herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Barlow, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, this Twenty-seventh day of May, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
JAMES BARLOW. (L.S.)