A LEVER CASK STAND
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Chandler, of 58, Paradise Street, Rother-
hithe, for the Invention of "A LEVER CASK STAND."
Sealed the 2nd January 1857, and dated the 4th July 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Chandler at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
4th July 1856.
I, THOMAS CHANDLER, of 58, Paradise Street, Rotherhithe, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "A LEVER CASE STAND," to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists of an apparatus to support casks; this apparatus
has a moveable part, so that any degree of inclination may be given to the cask.
The apparatus is composed of an elliptic frame, or frame of any other shape,
of wood or metal, on which the cask is placed. This frame is completed by a
bar, curved or otherwise, which is fixed across it, and on which the cask also
rests; the ends of this bar act as trunnions on two bearings at the top of two
vertical uprights; these uprights are fixed to a stand of any suitable shape or
material. The frame may thus oscillate, and to its axis is jointed a ratchet,
which may be placed at different elevation by means of a catch on a cross
piece fixed to the stand; thus, when the cask is resting on the frame, it may
be raised or lowered at will. With this apparatus one man may with the
greatest ease hoist or stoop a very heavy cask.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Chandler in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
3rd January 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
CHANDLER, of 58, Paradise Street, Rotherhithe, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Thomas
Chandler, Her special licence that I, the said Thomas Chandler, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas Chandler,
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 "A LEVER CASK STAND," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Chandler, 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 per-
formed, 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 Thomas Chandler, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say) :-
My Invention of a lever cask stand relates to a lever stand or tilt, which is
mounted and somewhat nearly balanced on a central fulcrum, on which it is
tilted to alter the position of the cask as required; the cask being nearly
on a balance, the tilting is easily effected. The cask is also very readily
horsed, or put in position, in which it is held by a ratchet arm taking into a
fixed stop on the base of the stand.

page_text: partially tilted, showing also dotted the position of the tilt when about to horse
the cask; while Fig. 3 shows a front view of the stand as at Fig. 2.
a, a, is the lever tilt, composed of two side rails a, a, of wood, on which are
two cross ties b, b. These parts are held together by the iron bolt c, which
also acts as the fulcrum on which the tilt a, a, moves; the fulcrum, c, c, is
sustained in bearings on two supports d, d, fixed on the base e. f, f, is the
ratchet arm jointed to the front bar 6 of the tilt, and received in a stop piece g
fixed to the base e. The enlarged end of the ratchet arm will not pass
through the loop of the stop g, and prevents the cask from overbalancing back-
wards. The ratchet teeth i, i, i, abut against the stop e, and support the cask
tilt in its several positions. When horsed, the cask is first placed in the
position shown at Fig. 1, in which position it remains until it requires to be
tilted forwards, which is effected by raising the lever arm f, f, a little, and
allowing one tooth i to slip through to the stop, and afterwards, when required,
another tooth i is allowed to slip, and so on.
Having described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in which the
same may be performed, I wish it to be understood that what I claim as my
Invention, and desire to be protected by the herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent, is the arrangement and construction of lever cask stand or tilt,
herein-before described and represented in the Drawings hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Chandler, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Third day of January, One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-seven.
Witness,
W. CLARK, Patent Agent,
53, Chancery Lane, London.
THOS CHANDLER. (LS.)