Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Drawing Off Liquid Refreshments.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Nov., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 13th May, 1895-Accepted, 10th Aug., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Drawing Off Liquid
Refreshments.
We JAMES LORD FORT of 20 George Street, Barnsley in the County of York
Mechanical Engineer, and GEORGE EDWIN HOEY of 51 Huddersfield Road,
Barnsley aforesaid Accountant do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to means for conveying liquid refreshments from the
bulk to the measure. Hitherto liquids of this description have passed through
lead or other metallic piping which has proved detrimental to the liquid, the object
therefore of our invention is to substitute a more pure form of piping and to so
arrange the same and its connections that the possibility of fracture or accident
thereto is avoided and the risk of poison by contact with the piping, connections,
valves or couplings is entirely removed; to attain which we employ glass or glazed
earthenware tubes of suitable lengths or sections which we join together by means
of asbestes joints secured by clipped couplings and these lengths or sections
instead of being conducted from the delivery end of the pipe to the bulk direct
are in cases where the bulk is below the measure or delivery end conducted first
upwards out of reach and then downwards and under the gantry upon which the
bulk rests and then to the tap or valve of the barrel or receptacle containing the
bulk and the said sections or lengths are protected by pieces of wood or other
suitable shields.
Where pumps are used for drawing the liquid refreshment from the bulk to the
measure we propose in some cases to have a glass or glazed earthenware pump
barrel and valves and taps of similar material so that the liquid is thereby kept
entirely free from metallic contamination.
Dated this 6th day of November 1894.
H. F. BOUGHTON,
Barnsley, Agent.
Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Drawing Off Liquid
Refreshments.
We JAMES LORD FORT, of 20 George Street, Barnsley in the County of York,
Mechanical Engineer, and GEORGE EDWIN HOEY of 51 Huddersfield Road
Barnsley aforesaid Accountant 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 relates to piping or apparatus employed for conducting beer or
other liquid refreshment from the barrel or cask to the pump or to tubing for
drawing beer or other liquid refreshment from the barrel. Hitherto liquids
of this description have been drawn off through lead or other metallic piping
which has proved detrimental to the liquid, the object of our invention is
therefore to so arrange the said piping or tubing that it may be composed of glass
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page_text: thereby avoiding the possibility of poison to the liquid by contact with leaden or
other metallic tubing as may easily be the result when using the ordinary leaden
or metal tubing generally in use; to attain which we employ lengths of glass
tubing for drawing off the liquid refreshment from the barrel and we join or
connect the said lengths together where required by means of specially arranged
connections whereby the use of glass tubing for the general drawing off of liquid
refreshment from the cask or barrel is made practicable.
Fig. 1 is an elevation showing our improvements connecting an ordinary beer
barrel or cask to an ordinary beer pump barrel.
Fig. 2 is a similar elevation to Fig. 1, but showing a modification therein.
Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation upon an enlarged scale of our improved couplings
or connections for joining one length of glass tubing or piping to another.
Figs. 4 and 5 are details in perspective of our improved couplings.
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
The lengths of glass tubing A are connected as follows:
The adjoining or abutting ends are first ground one to the another then a ferrule
or tube of woven or other fabricated asbestos B is pressed so that one portion
thereof covers a part near the end of one length of tube A, and the remainder
covers a part of the adjoining or abutting tube A.
A concave metallic clip C is then worked over the asbestos tube C until it
attains to the position shown, and subsequently the spaces Care filled in with
cement so completing our improved joint.
The ordinary tap T of barrel O is coupled to the glass tubing A by means of an
extension of the ferrule or tube B as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.
In some cases we conduct the tubing A first upwards from the barrel O, and
then downwards underneath the gantry upon which the barrel O rests and then
upwards to a little above the pump in order that the liquid may be observed
through the glass tubing A as will be well understood by reference to Fig. 2.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
1. The use of glass tubing or piping for the drawing off of liquid refreshment
substantially in the manner described and illustrated.
2. The combination in glass tubing for drawing off beer or other liquid
refreshment from the barrel or cask of a tube of asbestos B and concave metallic
clip C for coupling said tubing substantially as described and for the attainment of
the object specified.
Dated this 11th day of May 1895.
H. F. BOUGHTON,
Barnsley, Patent Agent.