AN IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN DRAWING LIQUIDS FROM CASKS AND OTHER VESSELS
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Jones Smith, of Whitechapel, in the County
of Middlesex, Engineer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS
TO BE EMPLOYED IN DRAWING LIQUIDS FROM CASKS AND OTHER VESSELS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Jones Smith
at the Office of the, Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
31st May 1866.
I, THOMAS JONES SMITH, of Whitechapel, in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN DRAWING LIQUIDS PROM CASKS AND OTHER
VESSELS," to be as follows:-
My Invention applies chiefly to drawing beer in public houses and similar
establishments where a number of casks is placed in a cellar and put in con-
nection as required with the beer engines.
My Invention dispenses with the necessity of tilting the casks, it also does
away with the ordinary taps and unions and with lead pipes on the cellar
floor. My apparatus consists of a tube open at the top and closed at tho
bottom, where it carries a pin or projection to prevent it being lowered to the
bottom of the cask; near the lower end of this tube I form ono or more
openings which I cover with gauze or other suitable material. This tube carries
a bung which is tapered so as to fit the bung hole of any cask; I lower the tube
through the bung hole to a suitable distance in the cask and the bung closes
the bung hole. To the top of the tube I connect a tube of india-rubber or

page_text: which is attached to the pipe of the
When the beer engine is worked
other flexible material, the other end of
beer engine at the ceiling of the cellar.
the air is drawn from the tubes, the beer enters through the openings at the
side of the tube in the cask and passes to the engine, when the cask is empty
the tube and bung can easily be taken out and inserted into another cask.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Jones Smith in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 30th November 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
JONES SMITH, of Whitechapel, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, tho said Thomas Jones Smith, Her special licence that I, the said
Thomas Jones Smith, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Thomas Jones Smith, 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 Inven-
tion for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN DRAWING LIQUIDS FROM,
CASKS AND OTHER VESSELS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, tho'
said Thomas Jones Smith, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the naturo of tho said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in
the Great Seal Patent Offico within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Jones Smith, 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 thereof, reference being bad to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say:-
My Invention applies chiefly to drawing beer in public houses and similar

page_text: establishments where a number of casks is placed in a cellar and put in
connection as required with the beer engines.
My Invention dispenses with the necessity of tilting the casks, it also does
away with the ordinary taps and unions and with lead pipes on the cellar
floor. My apparatus consists of a tube open at the top and closed at tho
bottom, where it carries a pin or projection to prevent it being lowered to
the bottom of the cask; near the lower end of this tube I form one or more
openings which I cover with gauze or other suitablo material. This tube.
carries a bung which is tapered so as to fit the bung hole of any cask; I lower
the tube through the bung holo to a suitable distance in the cask and the
bung closes the bung hole. To the top of the tube I connect a tube of
india-rubber or other flexible material, the other end of which is attached to
the pipe of the beer engine at the ceiling of the cellar.
When the beer
engine is worked the air is drawn from the tubes, the beer enters through the
openings at the side of the tube in the cask and passes to the engine; when
the cask is empty the tube and bung can easily be taken out and inserted
into another cask.
Figure 1 is an elevation, and Figure 2 a vertical section of one of my
apparatus. a is a tube open at the top and closed at the bottom, where it
carries a pin or projection 6 for the purpose before mentioned; c, c, are
openings near the lower end of the tube a and covered with gauze; I do not
limit myself to any particular number or form of these openings. dis a
tapered bung carried by the tube a to fit the bung bole of any cask; this bung
is free to slide up and down the tube a according to the depth of the cask. e is
a tube of flexible material connected at one end to the tube a, the other end
being attached to the pipe of the beer engine as before mentioned. To prevent
the tube a collapsing a spiral spring fis fitted therein.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the apparatus
constructed substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Jones Smith, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of November, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.