A New or Improved Sink or Draining Surface for Beer and like Engines.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 23rd May, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Sink or Draining Surface for Beer and
like Engines.
I, CARL ERB of Mörchingen, in Alsace, in the Empire of Germany, Architect,.
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:
My invention relates to an improved sink or draining surface for the wells of
beer and like engines, and has for its object to provide a means whereby such sinks
may be more easily kept sweet and clean than obtains with such sinks as hitherto.
employed for this and like purposes.
In beer and similar engines having a well or sink beneath the taps to catch the
drippings and waste, it has hitherto been customary to provide in the said well a
metallic grid or perforated frame upon which to stand the measures when not in
use, but it has been found in practice that such grids or frames unless frequently
cleaned with hot water become slimy and dirty by reason of the liquor acting upon
the metal. To obviate such inconveniences and provide a straining surface that
shall be more ornamental, impervious to action by alcoholic liquors, and more easily
cleaned and kept clean, I purpose constructing such sinks or draining surfaces of
ornamental toughened glass, substantially as hereinafter described and shewn.
In order to render my said invention quite clear and more easily understood
I have hereunto appended a sheet of drawings of which
Figs. 1 and 2 are plan and elevation respectively of my improved sink substantially
as I prefer to construct it.
Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section of same taken centrally or thereabout of
Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is a plan view of the frame of Fig. 1 with the draining surface removed
therefrom.
I carry my invention into effect by casting or otherwise providing of hardened,
toughened or unbreakable glass, of any color or combination of colors, transparant
or opague, and of any desired size, a preferably rectangular frame or receiver A,
having upon its inner surface any number of extensions or projections such as B,
of any design, shape or configuration, the upper surface of these being at such a
distance below the upper surface of the frame or receiver A as to form a recess for
the reception of a portable straining surface C, also of similar glass, and of any
desired color, similar or dissimilar to that of A, or B, and either transparant or
opaque.
The said straining surface C may have formed therein any number of holes or
perforations D of any desired size or shape, or this straining surface may be in the
form of a grid or partly so and partly of holes D, or otherwise formed in any desired
manner by which beer or other liquor may freely percolate therethrough.
It is obvious that my said invention is equally applicable as a sink or draining
surface for the wells that are sometimes provided beneath the spirit taps in licensed
houses, or as a draining surface for the wells of engines, similar to beer engines,
but used for the sale of paraffin and other oils, turps and other spirits and for
purposes analogous thereto.
The said frame or receiver A being of concave formation internally receives and
holds such liquor as may percolate through C, from which it may be periodically
emptied, or if desired a hole may be provided in any suitable part of A over or

page_text: adjacent to the usual conduit leading from the wells of beer and like engines into a
waste collector in the cellar or elsewhere.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is.
1st. The employment of glass of any color or combination of colors transparent or
opaque, in the manufacture of sinks or draining surfaces, and the use and application
of same for collecting and holding the drippings or waste from the taps of beer and
like engines, and for purposes analogous thereto substantially as herein described and
shewn.
2nd. In an improved sink or draining surface for beer engines and the like, the
construction use and application of a frame or receiver such as A, having projections
or extensions such as B, arranged to receive a straining surface such as C, the
whole made of hardened, toughened or unbreakable glass substantially as herein
described and shewn by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 12th day of March 1896.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1 Broad Street Buildings, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.