IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR TILTING BARRELS ON AND DROCRIPTION OF STILLAGE
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Walton, of Wilmslow, in the County of
Cheshire, Auctioneer and Valuer, and Robert Harlow, of Heaton Norris,
in the Borough of Stockport, in the County of Lancaster, Brassfounder,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR TILTING BARRELS
ON AND DROCRIPTION OF STILLAGE "
Sealed the 9th August 1867, and dated the 14th February 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Walton and
Robert Harlow at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 14th February 1867.
We, JOSEPH WALTON, of Wilmslow, in the County of Cheshire, Auctioneer
and Valuer, and ROBERT HARLOW, of Heaton Norris, in the Borough of Stock-
port, in the County of Lancaster, Brassfounder, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR TILTING BARRELS
ON ANY DESCRIPTION OF STILLAGE," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object the construction of an apparatus which can
be readily applied to tilting a barrel on a stillage, and which is separate from
the ordinary stillage, and consists of an arched metallic bar, by preference
constructed of T or angle iron, which has two pointed feet to rest upon any
ordinary stillage, and is provided with a screw having a swivel joint at
its extreme end, to which two chains are attached having claws at their
extremities.
The mode of using this apparatus may be thus described :--The arched bar
is placed in a vertical position across the back end of the barrel so that its
pointed feet shall rest upon the stillage; one of the claws of the chain is then

page_text: caused to clutch hold of the back of the barrel, and the other chain by means
of its claw lays hold of one of the hoops surrounding the barrel; a revolving
motion being then communicated to the screw the end of the barrel is caused
to rise gradually so as not to disturb the sediment lying at the bottom of the
barrel
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Walton and Robert Harlow in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 14th August 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEPH
WALTON, of Wilmslow, in the County of Cheshire, Auctioneer and Valuer, and
ROBERT HARLOW, of Heaton Norris, in the Borough of Stockport, in the
County of Lancaster, Brassfounder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of, Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Joseph Walton and Robert Harlow, Her special license that we, the
said Joseph Walton and Robert Harlow, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Joseph Walton and Robert Harlow,
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 APPARATUS FOR TILTING
BARRELS ON ANY DESCRIPTION OF STILLAGE," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we, the said Joseph Walton and Robert Harlow, 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 Joseph Walton and Robert Harlow,
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:-
Our Invention relates to the construction of an apparatus which can be

page_text: readily applied to tilting a barrel or cask on any description of stillage, which
is simple in its construction and in action not liable to shake the contents of
a cask or barrel so as to disturb the sediment, and which is separate and
distinct from the stillage.
Now this Invention consists of an arched metallic bar, by preference
constructed of T or angle iron, which has two pointed feet to rest upon any
ordinary stillage, and is provided with a screw having a double swivel hook at
its extreme end, to which a chain having claws or hooks at its extremities is
linked.
The mode of using this apparatus may be thus described:-The arched bar
is placed in a vertical position across the back end of the barrel so that its
pointed feet shall rest upon the stillage; one of the claws of the chain is then
caused to clutch hold of the end of the staves at the back of the barrel, and
the other chain by means of its claw lays hold of one of the hoops surrounding
the barrel, or to the end of the staves at the front of the cask or barrel; a
revolving motion being then communicated to the screw the end of the barrel
is caused to rise gradually so as not to disturb the sediment lying at the
bottom of the barrel.
That this our said Invention may be the more readily seen and understood
we have hereunto annexed a Drawing illustrative of several modifications of
our improvements in apparatus for tilting casks or barrels, like letters being
used in the several views to denote similar parts.
Fig. 1 a front elevational view; Fig. 2, a side elevation; and Fig. 3 is a
plan of one modification of our improved apparatus for tilting casks or barrels
on any ordinary stillage.
Fig. 4 represents a front elevation of our improved apparatus shewn in
conjunction with a wooden block which may be used for raising the front of
the barrel whilst our apparatus is lengthened out so as to stand upon the
ground.
Fig. 5 illustrates our improved apparatus in use with a metallic stand for
the front of the barrel to rest upon.
Fig. 6 is a side view, and Fig. 7 is a front elevation of our improved appa-
ratus mounted upon a bar which may run the whole length of the vault
or cellar, so that the apparatus may be used as a tilting apparatus and a
travelling crane for removing barrels from one part of the vault or cellar to
another.
In Figs. 1, 2, and 3, A represents a stillage of any ordinary construction
upon which is mounted a cask or barrel B; C is an arched bar or frame
made of either wrought or cast iron, or of wood, or other suitable material

page_text: but by preference of angle or T iron, having its feet D, D, pointed, as illus-
trated, and resting loosely upon the upper or top surface of the stillage A;
E is a right or left handed screw either screwed through a loose nut F riveted
or bolted to the bar C, or a piece may be welded or cast upon the bar Cand
the female screw thread cut through it; or for the sake of cheapness of manu-
facture the female screw F may be formed of soft metal run or cast in a
molten state upon the screw E, thus forming its own thread and obviating
the necessity and expense of cutting a screw thread through it; G is a double
swivel hook secured by a washer and rivet to the lower end of the screw E, to
which swivel hook the chain H is linked, which chain is provided with a hook
or claw I at one of its extremities which grips hold of the end of the
staves at the front of the barrel, whilst the hook or claw J at the other end of
the chain H grips hold of the end of the staves at the back end of the cask or
barrel. The screw E is actuated by means of a handle K.
The practical operation of this modification may be thus described:-The
arched bar or frame C being placed across the back end of the barrel B with
its feet D, D, resting upon the stillage A, and the chain H being connected in
the manner herein-before described to the barrel or cask B, and booked on to
the double swivel hook G, the screw E, by means of the handle K, may be
turned so as to bring the whole weight of the back of the barrel upon the
chain H, and by continuing to turn the screw E the barrel or cask B may be
tilted with the greatest ease to any desired angle.
In Fig. 4 the tilting apparatus is precisely the same as that illustrated by
Figs. 1, 2, and 3, but the pointed feet of the arched bar or frame are extended
so as to rest upon the ground, and the screw is turned by means of a wheel L
instead of a handle. In this modification the barrel rests upon a block of
wood M, a side view of which is represented in Fig. 4*.
In Fig. 5 N is a stand upon which the front of a barrel rests, a front view
of which is shewn by Fig. 5b, and which, for the sake of cheapness, may be
constructed of angle or T iron riveted together in a tripod form to ensure
steadiness. This modification shews the tilting apparatus in action (with its
feet resting upon the ground, the same as in Fig. 4), whilst all the foregoing
illustrations and modifications are represented as being ready to be put in
action.
The modifications represented in Figs. 5 and 6 are found useful for private
families, where. the apparatus is only required for tilting single barrels.
It will thus be seen that the arched bar or frame constitutes neither more
nor less than a crane by means of which the rear end of a cask or barrel may
be raised to a tilted position, when such barrel or cask may be packed or

page_text: wedged up on the stillage and the tilting apparatus be removed, if desired, so
as to be applicable for tilting any number of casks or barrels.
It will also be readily apparent that a lever, or lever and eccentric, may be
applied to the arched bar or frame C as a substitute for the screw E, either
working in bearings on the arched bar in a line with the barrel or at right
angles to it, and the chain in such cases would be linked to such lever or
eccentric, and the end of such lever might be provided with a ratchet or chain
for the purpose of holding the cask in a tilted position.
In Figs. 6 and 70 represents the actuating screw mounted in the metallic
frame P, which runs upon wheels or pullies Q along the bar R, the screw
being provided with a double swivel hook S and actuated by the wheel T,
which forms the nut through which the female screw is cut. The action of
this modification is sufficiently apparent, but we would here state that this
arrangement is found very useful in vaults or cellars where many barrels are
stored for the purpose of tilting them in any position, and for removing them
from place to place.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this our
said Invention, together with the best methods with which we are acquainted
for carrying the same into practical effect, we wish it to be distinctly understood
that we do not confine ourselves to the precise details, relative proportions, or
dimensions herein-before described and illustrated, as the same may be con-
siderably varied without departing from the Invention, but what we do claim
is the several modifications and arrangements of apparatus or mechanism for
tilting casks and barrels, substantially as herein-before described, or any mere
modification of the same.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Harlow, have hereunto set my
hand and affixed my seal, this Thirteenth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
0 Witness,
JOHN G. WILSON,
Agent to the Patentee,
Imperial Chambers,
Manchester.
ROBERT HARLOW. (L.S.)