Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Apr., 1886.
Complete Left, 28th Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 18th Mar., 1887.
I, JOHN CUTHBERT WALKER, of the Forge Inn, Grangetown, Cardiff, in the County
of Glamorgan, Pattern Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention is for the purpose of automatically raising the rear ends of casks or
other similar vessels containing liquids, and is particularly adapted for use with Beer,
Porter, Cider and other similar liquids, where a constant and gradual raising is
required while the liquid is on tap."
In carrrying my invention into effect, I attach to the rear end of the cask a double
clip hook, one end of which engages under the rim of the cask, while the other end
rests on a stave of the cask. The clip is suspended from a spring balance, the
strength of the spring of which is adjusted to suit the weight of the barrel to be tilted.
The upper end of the spring balance is attached to a length of chain passing over a
chain pulley fixed in a suitable carrier. A ratchet wheel, with a pawl to prevent the
cask dropping after the spring has been adjusted to its proper position, is fixed to
move with the pulley. A long bar may be run the entire length of the room or cellar
in which the casks are kept, and the chain and sheave (one or more) may be adjusted
at convenient points thereupon.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: CUMI LEIDDI DUITIVALIUN.
Improvements in Apparatus for Tilting Barrels.
1, JOHN CUTHBERT WALKER, of the Forge Inn, Grangetown, Cardiff, in the County
of Glamorgan, Pattern Maker, 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 has for its object an improved apparatus by means of which beer-
barrels, and other similar vessels, can be automatically tilted, and it is particularly
adapted for use with draught beer, porter, cider, and other similar liquids, which,
from their nature, require the casks containing them to be tilted gradually so long as
they remain on tap.
In carrying my invention into effect, I attach to the rear end of the cask a double
clip hook, one end of which engages under the rim of the cask while the other end
rests on a stave of the cask. The clip is suspended from a spring balance, the strength
of the spring of which is adjusted to suit the weight of the barrel to be tilted. The
upper end of the spring balance is attached to a length of chain passing over a chain
pulley fixed in a suitable carrier. A ratchet wheel, with a pawl to prevent the cask
dropping after the spring has been adjusted to its proper position, is fixed to move
with the pulley. A long har may be run the entire length of the room or cellar in
which the casks are kept, and the chain and sheave (one or more) may be adjusted at
convenient points therefrom.
In order that my invention, and the means by which the same may be carried into
practical effect may be thoroughly understood, I will now describe it in detail,
referring in so doing to the accompanying drawings which are to be taken as part of
this specification and read therewith.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation shewing the invention in operation on a full barrel.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation shewing the position which the invention and barrel
illustrated in Fig. 1 will occupy when the barrel has been emptied.
Fig. 3 is a detail sectional elevation of the spring tilter.
Figs. 4 and 5 are, respectively, side and front elevations illustrating the construction
of the hanger or carrier.
Figs. 6 and 7 are, respectively, elevation and plan of the pawl; and
Figs. 8 and 9 aro, respectively, elevation and inverted plan of the clip-hook.
The last seven figures are drawn on an enlarged scale.
A is the spring tilter. Its capacity of linear compression is not less than the
distance the end of the barrel must be raised, and its strength is proportioned to the
weight to be raised.. It consists of a case a with closed ends a¹, a. The end a is
furnished with a suitable device a³ for connecting it to the suspension chain E. The
spring a (of a spiral or other equivalent form) lies within the case between the end a²
and a plate, or har as (preferably the former with a circular spring) upon the opposite
end of a rod a capable of moving freely through the end ², and terminating in an
eye by which it can make a knuckle-joint or equivalent connection with the
clip-hook 'G.
I do not confine myself to the use of the case a, as it is clear that an open frame
may be substituted for it.

page_text: This clip hook is made with two arms g, g, the former being the longer, and each
terminating in two claws. The claws of the arm g engage with a stave of the barrel
within the edge of the hoop on the back end of the barrel, while the claws of the
arm gengage with the underside of the projecting end of the same stave. After the
clip-hook has taken hold fairly of the stave, its eye g³ cannot he moved without moving
the barrel.
E is the suspension chain and e a convenient handle by which the tilter is suspended
from the langer E' which consists of a chain pulley 1 capable of rotation upon an
axis & supported by the two cheeks d, d², a ratchet wheel B fixed centrally to one
side of the chain pulley, Cits pawl, and Fits releasing cord.
His a horizontal bar extending along the top of the cellar or bar, from which the
hangers depend by means of the hooked extremities of their cheeks.
The use of a horizontal bar as illustrated in the drawings is advantageous when a
number of barrels are horsed in a row, for then the apparatus can be easily moved
from one position to another but when a single barrel only is on tap at a time the two
hanger-cheeks may be joined at the top and made to terminate in either a hook
or eye.
The operation of my invention is as follows. The full barrel having been horsed as
shewn in Fig. 1, and the tilting apparatus suspended centrally above its axis, the
pawl U is released and the clip-hook made to engage with the barrel in the way before
described. The suspension chain is pulled downwards by its handle e, and the spring-
case raised accordingly, until the spring is so far compressed that its linear
expansion will equal the distance through which the back end of the cask has to be
raised, and its resilience and, say, half the weight of the barrel and contents be in
equipoise.
As the liquor is drawn off the spring expands between the plate a' and the case-
end a drawing up the rod and the clip hook at the end of it, and tilts the barrel
accordingly. When all the liquor has been drawn off, a pull at the cord F releases
the pawl, the barrel drops upon the horse again when the clip hook can be taken off.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is
1. The combination of a spring, a rod connected to the spring so as to compress it
downwards against the end of a plate connected to a chain suspended from a fixed
point, and a connection by which a continuation of said rod can engage with a barrel,
Substantially as described with reference to the accompanying figures.
2. The combination of a case (or its equivalent) containing a spiral spring, a chain
by which said case can be suspended at an adjustable height from a pulley the back-
ward motion of which is checked by a controllable pawl, a rod having a clip-hook
flexibly connected to it by which a barrel can be held and which rod is connected to
the upper end of the spring in such a way that a downward pull upon the rod, or an
upward one upon the lower end of the spring will compress the latter, substantially as
described with reference to the accompanying figures.
3. The combination of two cheeks, a chain pulley and a ratchet wheel fixed to said
pulley, an axis common to both, a releasable pawl engaging with said ratchet, and a
rigid point or line of suspension, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore
described and illustrated.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Patent Agents,
22, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.