Improvements in the Mode of Clarifying and Reviving Ale, Beer, and other Liquids.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Oct., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 13th July, 1893-Accepted, 9th Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Mode of Clarifying and Reviving Ale, Beer,
and other Liquids.
I ALBERT THOMAS HARRIS of 4 Totness Terrace Wembley in the Parish of
Harrow in the County of Middlesex Cellarman, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
My invention which relates to refining ale, beer, and other liquids, in casks and
other receptacles, is an atmospheric gas burner so constructed as to ensure perfect
combustion while immersed in the liquid.
It consists in a copper combustion tube 30 inches long by 12 inches diameter.or
any other suitable length or diameter.
The bottom end "assuming it to be standing on end upright" is sealed with a
screw, at the bottom "inside is placed an atmospheric gas burner the combustion
being assisted by a copper air tube of an inch or any other suitable diameter
reaching from the top to the burner at the bottom "inside" of the combustion
tube.
The gas being supplied to the burner by a copper gas tube or 1 of an inch in
diameter, and passing down to the burner inside the air tube, or outside the air
tube but inside the combustion tube.
The gas may be lit by means of the screw at the bottom of the combustion
tube.
This apparatus may be inserted through the bung hole into a cask of beer when
it will give to the beer a healthy, bright, and sparkling appearance.
Dated this 12th day of October 1892.
ALBERT THOMAS HARRIS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Mode of Clarifying and Reviving Ale, Beer,
and other Liquids.
I ALBERT THOMAS HARRIS of 4 Totness Terrace, Wembley in the Parish of
Harrow, in the County of Middlesex, Cellarman, 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 which relates to refining ale, beer, and other liquids, in casks
and other receptacles, is an atmospheric gas burner so constructed as to ensure
perfect combustion while immersed in the liquid.
It consists in a copper combustion tube 30 inches long or
length the section being two thirds of a circle with a flat side.
accompanying sheet of drawings."
any other suitable
"See Section I in
And a copper air tube 30 inches long or any other suitable length the section
being one third of a circle with a flat side "see Section II."
"
The combustion tube and the air tube are then fixed together as shown in
Section III" forming a cylinder, the outside diameter being 11" or thereabouts.
At the bottom "inside" of the combustion tube "assuming it to be in a vertical
position is placed an atmospheric gas burner, the gas being supplied to it by
means of a tube passing through the air or combustion tube, the combustion
being assisted by the air tube, there being an opening between the air tube and
combustion tube near the burner.

page_text: The bottom end of the tubes is sealed by a screw cap, which may be removed
for lighting the gas at the atmospheric burner.
This apparatus may be inserted through the bung-hole into a cask of beer, when
after a very short time slightly warming the beer it will give to it a healthy,
bright, and sparkling appearance.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
laim is :-
:-
1. In an apparatus for clarifying ale, beer, and other liquids the combination of
the combustion tube and air tube hereinbefore described, and substantially as
shown in accompanying drawings.
II. In an apparatus for clarifying and reviving ale, beer, an.1 other liquids, the
use of an atmospheric gas burner in a combination of combustion and air tubes
substantially as hereinbefore ascertained and described.
Dated this 13th day of July 1893.
ALBERT THOMAS HARRIS.