AN IMPROVED RECEPTACLE FOR THE OVERFLOW OR WORKINGS' OF BEER IN FINING.
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Robert Nicholls, of Brompton Road, in the County
of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED RECEPTACLE FOR THE
OVERFLOW OR WORKINGS' OF BEER IN FINING.'
Sealed the 15th May 1877, and dated the 30th November 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Robert Nicholls at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th November 1876.
JAMES ROBERT NICHOLLS, of Brompton Road, in the County of Middlesex.
"AN IMPROVED RECEPTACLE FOR THE OVERFLOW OR WORKINGS' OF BEER IN
FINING."
My Invention relates to a "save all" or receptacle for the " workings" or
yeasty matter which works out during the fining of ale, and which is commonly
allowed to run to waste on the cellar floor, where it becomes sour and injurious to
health, besides involving a loss, as it consists partly of good beer, which by means
of the receptacle of my Invention I am enabled to save and pass to the waste butt
to return to the brewer to be allowed for.
My Invention consists of a receptacle or trough of circular or other convenient
form, of sufficient size to contain all the workings of one cask. Through the
bottom of this receptacle or trough there rises a tube to a sufficient height, and this
tube projects from the under side of the receptacle and is enlarged of a conical form
on the outside, so as to fit bung holes of various sizes, a tight joint being made by
covering the exterior conical surface with cloth or other soft material.
I prefer
woollen cloth united to the conical surface with india-rubber solution and stitched
with wire at the edge to make it secure.
Receptacles with tubes of various sizes may be used according to the size of the
bung hole, and the tube may either rise in the middle of the receptacle or near one
side thereof, and the receptacle may be provided with jointed legs to support it
in a horizontal position.
This last arrangement is convenient when there are two or more tiers of casks
upon one another.

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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said James Robert Nicholls in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 30th
May 1877.
JAMES ROBERT NICHOLLS, of Brompton Road, in the County of Middlesex.
"AN IMPROVED RECEPTACLE FOR THE OVERFLOW OR WORKINGS' OF BEER IN
FINING.'"
"
My Invention relates to a save all
or receptacle for the "workings" or yeasty
matter that works out from ale during the process of fining, and which is commonly
allowed to run to waste on the floor of the cellar, where it becomes sour and
injurious to health, besides involving a loss, as it consists partly of good beer, which
by means of the receptacle of my Invention I am enabled to save and pass to the
waste butt to return to the brewer to be allowed for.
My Invention consists of a receptacle or trough of circular or other convenient
form, of sufficient capacity to contain all the workings from the cask. Through the
bottom or at one side of this receptacle or trough there rises a tube to a sufficient
height to prevent the "workings or contents of the receptacle running back into
the cask when the working of the beer subsides, and this tube projects from the
under side of the receptacle, and is enlarged or made of a conical form on the
outside, so as to fit bung holes of various sizes, a tight joint being made by
covering the exterior conical surface with cloth or other soft material. I prefer
woollen cloth united to the conical surface with india-rubber solution, and stitched
with wire at the edge to make it secure.
Receptacles with tubes of various sizes may be used according to the size of the
bung hole, and the tube may either rise in the middle of the receptacle or at or
near one side thereof, in which case the receptacle may be provided with jointed
legs to support it in a horizontal position.
Figure 1 represents an elevation, Figure 2 a top plan, Figure 3 an under side
plan, and Figure 4 a central vertical section of the "save all " or receptacle, made
of circular form, with the overflow tube for the "working" rising in the centre
thereof.
Figures 5, 6, 7, and 8, represent similar views of a "save all," also of circular
forn, and having the tube near one side, and provided with jointed legs to keep
it level.
In Figures 1 and 5 the "save all" is shown applied to the bung hole of a cask,
a portion only of which is shown.
The same letters of reference indicate the saine parts in all the figures.
a is the trough or receptacle, which is here shown of circular form, but it may be
of any other form preferred. It is made of tin plate or other material not liable to
rust or corrode, the joints being soldered water-tight. b is the tube through which
the "workings" overflow into the receptacle a. In the arrangements shown in the
Drawings this tube passes through the bottom of the vessel and is soldered therein,
but it might pass up entirely at one side of the vessel. This tube rises nearly as
high as the sides of the vessel, and also extends downwards below it, and is enclosed
by a cone c, also made of tin plate, soldered to tube band to the bottom of vessel a.
The exterior of this cone c is covered with thick woollen cloth, or other suitable
inaterial, which is cemented to it by india-rubber solution or other suitable
adhesive material, and still further secured at e by stitching with copper wire
through holes in tube b. f, in Figures 5, 6, 7, and 8, are legs made of bent wire,
hinged or otherwise jointed to the bottom of vessel a to support the receptacle in
the horizontal position when the tube b is not in the centre. This is a convenient
form of receptacle when there are two or more tiers of casks upon one another, and
would be used as seen in Figure 5.

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Having described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of performing the
same, I declare that what I claim as my Invention to be protected by the herein-
before in part recited Letters Patent is, a save all or receptacle for the
workings" of ale, consisting of an open vessel provided with a pipe, through which
the "workings" overflow into the receptacle fitting in the bung hole, substantially
as shown and described.
it
In witness whereof, I, the said James Robert Nicholls, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
J. K. NICHOLLS. (L.S.)