IMPROVEMENTS IN ARRANGEMENTS OR APPARATUS FOR WITHDRAWING BEVERAGES OR OTHER LIQUIDS PROM CASES OR OTHER VESSELS, AND FOR ELEVATING THE SAME
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Simpson, of Glasgow, in the County of
Lanark, North Britain, and Lionel Strauss, of Wiesbaden, in the
Kingdom of Prussia, but at present residing at Glasgow, aforesaid,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ARRANGEMENTS OR APPARATUS
FOR WITHDRAWING BEVERAGES OR OTHER LIQUIDS PROM CASES OR OTHER
VESSELS, AND FOR ELEVATING THE SAME."
Sealed the 6th May 1870, and dated the 11th November 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Simpson and
Lionel Strauss at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 11th November 1869..
We, GEORGE SIMPSON, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North
Britain, and LIONEL STRAUSS, of Wiesbaden, in the Kingdom of Prussia,
but at present residing at Glasgow, aforesaid, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ARRANGEMENTS OR
APPARATUS FOR WITHDRAWING BEVERAGES OR OTHER LIQUIDS FROM CASES OR
OTHER VESSELS, AND FOR ELEVATING THE SAME," to be as follows, that is to
say:-
This Invention has for its object the providing of simple and convenient
means for withdrawing and elevating beverages without straining the

page_text: casks or other vessels containing them, and without producing the
disturbance and intermixture of sediment accompanying appliances
hitherto in use for the same purposes..
The Invention consists mainly in applying a separate vessel, which
may be of comparatively small size, which is placed at a slightly lower
level than the cask, so that the beverage may run gently into it from
the cask by a siphon or other pipe, and which is provided with, two other
pipes, one communicating with the lower part and leading up to the
clevation required, and the other communicating with the upper part,
and admitting air or a suitable gas under pressure when required to
press on the surface of the beverage and force it up the ascension pipe.
A valve in the pipe leading from the cask prevents the pressure from
acting in the cask. The air or gas for pressing up the beverage may be
compressed by any of the various appliances already in use for such a
purpose, but where water can be obtained from a main or elevated
reservoir under sufficient pressure it is preferred to use it for compressing
the air. For this purpose an air vessel is provided with an inlet at the
bottom for the water, and with a pipe leading from the top down to the
vessel in which the pressure is to act. An outlet pipe for the water is
also provided, and the various pipes are fitted with stop-cocks whereby
their action may be controlled. When it is wished to transfer a portion
of the contents of the cask into the separate vessel the pressure in that
vessel is reduced, which may be conveniently done by letting out some
of the water from the air-compressing vessel, and if such vessel is placed
in the upper part of a house the water may be received into a cistern
for use.
In another modification a bellows for the air or for carbonic acid gas
is arranged in the vessel into which the water is admitted, so that when
the water is run out from it the air or gas is drawn back into the vessel,
and thereby assists the inflow of the beverage from the cask into the
elevating vessel. When the beverage is withdrawn from the cask it is
preferred to provide for the space being occupied by carbonic acid gas
so as to preserve what beverage remains, but such gas is not allowed to
exert more pressure than it will naturally have when flowing into the
cask by a pipe from an open reservoir at a slightly higher level. If
preferred the beverage may be elevated from the separate vessel by
means of a pump.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Simpson and Lionel Strauss in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 10th May 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
SIMPSON, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, and
LIONEL STRAUSs, of Wiesbaden, in the Kingdom of Prussia, but at
present residing at Glasgow, aforesaid, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said George Simpson and Lionel Strauss,
Her special licence that we, the said George Simpson and Lionel Strauss,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
George Simpson and Lionel Strauss, our 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 ARRANGEMENTS OR APPARATUS
FOR WITHDRAWING BEVERAGES OR OTHER LIQUIDS FROM CASKS OR OTHER VESSELS,
AND FOR ELEVATING THE SAME," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said George Simpson and Lionel Strauss, our executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, 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
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 we, the said George Simpson and Lionel
Strauss, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement in writing, reference
being had to the accompanying Drawings, that is to say :-
Our said Invention has for its object the providing of simple and
convenient means for withdrawing and elevating beverages or other
liquids without straining the casks or other vessels containing them,

page_text: and without producing the disturbance and intermixture of sediment
accompanying appliances hitherto in use for the same purposes.
And in order that our said Invention, and the manner of performing
the same, may be properly understood we have hereunto appended a
Sheet of explanatory Drawings to be herein-after referred to, and
representing by way of example one of the various modifications of
which our improved arrangements are susceptible, the Drawing being a
sectional elevation.
Our Invention consists mainly in applying a separate vessel 1, which
may be of comparatively small size, and which we prefer to have made
of glass. This vessel 1 is placed at a slightly lower level than the bottom
of the cask or vessel 2 from which the liquid is to be withdrawn, so that
the liquid may run gently into it from the cask by a pipe 3, and it has.
in connection with it two other pipes, onc 4 communicating with its.
lower part and leading up to the elevation required, and the other 5
communicating with the upper part and admitting air or a suitable gas,
preferably carbonic acid under pressure, when required to press on the
surface of the liquid in the vessel 1, and force it up the ascension pipe 4..
A valve 6 in the pipe 3 leading from the cask 2 prevents the liquid from
returning to the cask and the pressure from acting. therein, whilst a
valve 7 in the bottom of the ascension pipe 4 prevents liquid that has..
been forced into that pipe from returning. The air or gas for pressing
up the liquid may be compressed by any of the various appliances.
already in use for such a purpose, but where water can be obtained from
a main or an elevated reservoir under sufficient pressure we prefer to.
use it. For this purpose we provide an air vessel 8, with an inlet 9. at
the bottom for the water to enter from a service pipe 10, and with a
pipe 5-leading from the top down to the vessel 1, in which the pressure
is to act. An outlet pipe 11 for the water is also provided, and the
various pipes are fitted with stop-cocks whereby their action may be.
controlled, the stop-cock on the ascension pipe being at or near the
elevated point where it is wished to receive the liquid from it. When it
is wished to transfer a portion of the contents of the cask 2 into the
separate vessel 1 the pressure in that vessel is reduced, which may be
conveniently done by letting out some of the water from the air-com-
pressing vessel 8, and if such vessel is placed in the upper part of a
house the water may be received into a cistern for use.
•The air vessel 8 acts as an air pump or bellows, the letting off of the

page_text: water causing the air or gas to be drawn back from the vessel 1, thereby
assisting the inflow of the liquid from the cask 2. Where water under
pressure cannot be conveniently had from the main or from a cistern a
cylinder 12 with a heavy plunger 13 is provided for forcing the water
into the air-compressing vessel 8, and on drawing up the plunger 13 by
the handle 14, or by a chain passing up to an apartment above, tho
water will be withdrawn from the vessel 8 by a pipe 15 and the air or
gas from the vessel 1, so that a fresh supply of liquid may flow into the
latter from the cask 2. When a beverage is withdrawn from the cask 2
we prefer to provide for the space being occupied by carbonic acid gas,
so as to preserve what beverage remains, but such gas is not allowed to
exert more pressure than it will naturally have when flowing into the
cask by a pipe from an open reservoir at a slightly higher level. If
preferred the liquid may be elevated from the separate vessel 1 by means
of any convenient kind of pump.
Having thus particularly described our said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, we have to state that we do not
restrict ourselves to the precise details herein described or delineated;
but that what we believe to be novel and original, and claim as the
Invention secured to us by the hercin-before in part recited Letters
Patent is, the withdrawing and elevating of beverages or other liquids
from casks or other vessels by means of improved apparatus, sub-
stantially such as is herein-before described, and in particular the using
of a separate vessel to withstand the pressure instead of the cask or
vessel from which the liquid is to be withdrawn.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Simpson, on behalf of myself
and the said Lionel Strauss, have hereunto set my hand and seal,
this Ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy.
Witness,
EDMUND HUNT,
Patent Agent,
Glasgow.
GEO. SIMPSON. (L.S.)