Improvements in Devices applicable for Use in connection with the Delivery Taps of Vessels Containing Whiskey, Rum, or other Spirits or Liquids, to Prevent Dripping or Waste of the said Liquids, and to Facilitate the Measuring of the same.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Jan., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 8th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 14th Nov., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Devices applicable for Use in connection with the
Delivery Taps of Vessels Containing Whiskey, Rum, or other
Spirits or Liquids, to Prevent Dripping or Waste of the said
Liquids, and to Facilitate the Measuring of the same.
I, BENJAMIN HARTLEY of 18, Albion Street St. Helens in the County of
Lancaster, Photographer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has for its object a device applicable for use in connection with
the delivery taps of vessels containing whiskey, rum, or other spirits or liquids to
prevent dripping or waste of the said liquids and to facilitate the measuring of the
same.
In carrying the invention into effect, the plan I prefer is to provide a cup,
measure, or other like vessel which is adapted to be suspended from the mouth of
the delivery tube or tap by means of a light frame, wires or in other convenient
manner. The cup may be of metal, glass, or other suitable material, and the front
may be graduated to indicate the capacity, and provided with a lip to ensure correct
pouring. When made of metal, the front of the measure may have a graduated glass
window. The cup or other vessel is hinged in such a manner that it can be tipped
so as to decant the liquid into a glass.
The mode of operation is as follows:-
A cup or measure of the kind described with fittings for suspending it is secured
to the mouth of each tap, thus for example in a beer house, if there are vessels each
containing rum, whiskey and brandy, each individual delivery tap has one of my
improved cups applied to it. In drawing the spirit, the cup is filled to the required
measure and then tilted so as to decant it into the drinking vessel a small handle
being preferably provided on the pivot to facilitate the tilting. One cup being
provided to each delivery tap, each individual cup is always used for the same class
of spirit, and there is no liability of the same cup being used, for example, for rum
and subsequently for brandy, but each cup is always used for the same class of spirit.
Moreover as the cup always stands underneath the delivery tap, it catches any
drippings therefrom. The suspension device is preferably made flexible so that the
cup or measure can be pressed aside when required and a vessel filled direct from
the delivery tap without using the measure at all.
I have described the above way in which my invention may be carried into effect
as applied to vessels containing spirits such as used in restaurants, beerhouses,
etcetera, but I wish it understood that I do not confine myself to that purpose
only, as it may be used in connection with the measuring or decanting of other
liquids with equal advantage.
Dated this 22nd day of January 1896.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Devices applicable for Use in connection with the
Delivery Taps of Vessels Containing Whiskey, Rum, or other
Spirits or Liquids, to Prevent Dripping or Waste of the said.
Liquids, and to Facilitate the Measuring of the same.
I, BENJAMIN HARTLEY, of 18, Albion Street, St. Helens, in the County of
Lancaster, Photographer, 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 for its objects a device applicable for use in connection with the
delivery taps of vessels containing whiskey, rum, or other spirits or liquids to prevent
dripping or waste of the said liquids and to facilitate the measuring of the same.
The invention will be understood from the following description, reference being
had to the accompanying drawings in which,
Figure 1 is a general view of the invention applied to a spirit tap;
Figure 2 shows the measure tilted for decanting; and
Figure 3 a half plan showing an arrangement for attaching the suspension device.
Referring to these, A is a cup measure or other like vessel which is adapted to be
suspended from the mouth of the delivery tube or tap by means of a light frame
formed of the links B, and framework C which is clipped to the tap D at c c. The
links B are pivotted to C. It will be obvious however that the cup A may be
suspended in any suitable manner, and I do not confine myself to the arrangement
of suspension device described. The cup A may be of metal, glass, or other suitable
material, and the front may be graduated to indicate the capacity, and provided with
a lip a to ensure correct pouring. When made of metal, the front of the measure
may have a graduated glass window. The cup A or other vessel is mounted in the
band E which is pivoted to the ends of the links B in such a manner that it can be
tipped so as to decant the liquid into a glass. F are arms for keeping the cup A
rigid in the band E.
The mode of operation is as follows:-
A cup or measure A of the kind described with fittings for suspending it is secured
to the mouth of each tap D, thus for example in a beer house, if there are vessels
each containing rum, whiskey and brandy, each individual delivery tap has one of
my improved cups applied to it. In drawing the spirit, the cup is filled to the
required measure and then tilted so as to decant it into the drinking vessel, a small
handle F being preferably provided on the pivot to facilitate the tilting. One cup
being provided to each delivery tap, each individual cup is always used for the same
class of spirit, and there is no liability of the same cup being used, for example, for
rum and subsequently for brandy, but each cup is always used for the same
class of spirit. Moreover as the cup A always stands underneath the delivery tap D,
it catches any drippings therefrom. The arrangement of the links B enable the cup
or measure to be pressed aside when required and a vessel filled direct from the
delivery tap without using the measure at all.
I have described the above way in which my invention may be carried into effect
as applied to vessels containing spirits, such as used in restaurants, beerhouses, etcetera,
but I wish it understood that I do not confine myself to that purpose only, as it
may be used in connection with the measuring or decanting of other liquids with
equal advantage.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that
what I claim is :-
1. The improved device for use in connection with the delivery taps of vessels

page_text: containing whiskey, run, or other spirits or liquids, which consists of a cup, measure,
or other vessel suspended from the tap in such a manner that it can be filled direct
from the mouth of the tap, and then tilted to decant the liquid into the drinking
or other vessel, while also serving to catch any drippings which may accidentally
leak from the tap when not in use substantially as described.
2. The combination of a suspension device or fittings such as B C, with a cup,
measure, or other vessel suspended therefrom, and unitedly forming a measure for
measuring liquids and decanting the same into a drinking vessel, while at the same
time preventing waste by catching any drippings which may leak from the tap
accidentally substantially as described.
3. The special arrangement of suspension device for the cup or measure substan-
tially as described, whereby the cup is caused normally to hang underneath the
mouth of the delivery tap, while allowing the cup to be pushed aside when required
to fill a vessel direct from the delivery tap without using the measure at all.
4. The general combined arrangement and construction of parts forming my
improved measuring device for use in connection with taps substantially
Dated this 7th day of October 1896.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and London, Patent Agents.