IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ARRANGEMENT OF PIPES FOR DRAWING LIQUIDS FROM CASKS AND OTHER VESSELS."
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Francis Joseph Ortner, of 73, Great Titchfield
Street, Portland Place, in the County of Middlesex, Pewterer and
Beer Engine Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE ARRANGEMENT OF PIPES FOR DRAWING LIQUIDS FROM CASKS AND OTHER
VESSELS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Francis Joseph Ortner
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 27th April 1870.
I, FRANCIS JOSEPH ORTNER, of 73, Great Titchfield Street, Portland
Place, in the County of Middlesex, Pewterer and Beer Engine Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE ARRANGEMENT OF PIPES FOR DRAWING LIQUIDS FROM CASKS AND
OTHER VESSELS," to be as follows:-
:―
These improvements consist in the arrangement of pipes for drawing
liquids from one or more casks or other vessels by any number of pumps
or draw-off pipes, separately or together, for which purpose a pipe is

page_text: connected to the cask or casks, which pipe I call the main pipe, and to
this pipe is attached, by unions or other suitable appliances, as many
pumps or draw-off pipes as are required. By this arrangement any
number of beer engines can draw liquid from one or more casks at the
same time; also casks containing different liquids can be connected
together with the main pipe, so that the liquid drawn therefrom may be
a mixture of the different liquids.
As my said Invention is capable of various modifications without
departing from the principle thereof, I do not restrict myself to the
material or precise form, dimensions, or arrangement of the several
parts.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Francis Joseph Ortner in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 27th October 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCIS ]
JOSEPH ORTNER, Pewterer and Beer Engine Manufacturer, of 73, Great
Titchfield Street, Portland Place, London, in the County of Middlesex,
send greeting.
"
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty in the
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Francis Joseph Ortner, Her special licence that
I, the said Francis Joseph Ortner, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Francis Joseph Ortner, my s
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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE ARRANGEMENT OF PIPES FOR DRAWING LIQUIDS FROM CASKS OR OTHER
VESSELS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Francis
Joseph Ortner, 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

page_text: 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Francis Joseph Ortner, 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 (that is to say) reference being had to the
Drawings hereunto annexed :—
These improvements consist in the arrangement of pipes for drawing
liquids from one or more casks or other vessels by any number of
draw-off pipes with pumps or cocks attached, separately or together, for
which purpose I employ a pipe which I call the main, which is con-
nected to one or more casks by means of a small connecting pipe (with
unions or other suitable appliances) removable from one cask to another,
as desired, and to the main. Any number of draw-off pipes may be
attached and connected to pumps or draw-off cocks. By this arrange-
ment any number of beer engines or draw-off cocks can be applied to
draw liquid from one or any number of casks, separately or together;
also casks containing different liquids may be connected to the main, so
that the liquid drawn therefrom may be a mixture of the different liquids.
In order that the nature of my said improvements, and in what
manner the same are to be performed, may be more fully understood,
I will proceed to describe the several Figures on the Sheet of Drawings
hereunto annexed.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of an arrangement of pipes as herein-
before described. a is the stillion or cask stand; b, the main, fixed to
the same; c, the small connecting pipe, connecting cask d with main 6;
and e, e, are draw-off pipes to connect to beer engine or other pumps;
and fis a draw-off branch pipe, with cock attached.
Figure 2 is a perspective view of an arrangement with two mains, one
for drawing mixed liquids, the other for one liquid only, and is marked
with the like figures of reference as Figure 1.
As my said improvements are capable of various modifications, without
departing from the principal thereof, I do not restrict myself to the
material or precise form, dimensions, or arrangement of the several
parts.

page_text: Having now described the nature of my said improvements, and in
what manner the same are to be performed, I declare that I claim as my
Invention the arrangement of pipes for drawing one or different liquids
from one or more casks or other vessels by one or more pumps or
draw-off cocks, separately or together, as herein-before described.
..:
In witness whereof, I, the said Francis Joseph Ortner, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
FRANCIS JOSEPH ORTNER. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered
in the presence of
THO. S. TRUSS,
Friar Street,
London, S.E.