An Improved Spout for Preventing the After Drip from Pumps, Beer Engines, and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Oct., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Dec., 1892-Accepted, 28th Jan., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Spout for Preventing the After Drip from Pumps,
Beer Engines, and the like.
JAMES WILLIAM JONES 50 Kentish Town Road London, N.W. Musician, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
I employ a tube, made of any material, and bent to any required shape, the base
to be tapped with a thread, so as to screw into the piston, at the extreme end or
outlet, of spout, I insert a small tube, to be carried any required distance up
spout, the end, in spout closed, and a slot made for liquid to pass through. The
outlet of spout being closed, only the small tube being open, when the force is put
on, by pulling down the handle the liquid is forced down the spout, but finding no
outlet, returns, passes through the slot in inner tube, and out at the end of inner
tube, the drip being closed in, inside the larger tube, when the force is taken off.
I also claim as my invention the method of stopping the drip, by an attachment
to the spouts of existing pumps or beer engines. employ a tube of any material
in which I place a smaller tube, a slot is cut in inner tube, underneath the bell cap,
when the force is put on, by pulling down handle, the liquid is forced into outer
case, and through slot in inner tube underneath the bell cap.
D11
of October 1900
J. W. JONES,
50, Kentish Town Road, London, N.W.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Spout for Preventing the After Drip from Pumps,
Beer Engines, and the like.
I, JAMES WILLIAM JONES, of 50, Kentish Town Road, in the County of
London, Musician, 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 improved means for preventing the after-drip from the
spouts of pumps, beer-engines and the like.
In carrying out my invention I fix in the mouth of the spout a tube which
projects upwardly in the same and which is open or provided with openings at the
upper end, the said tube being fixed in such a manner that the liquid has to pass
over the cop thereof. Over this upwardly projecting tube I sometimes place a
second tube closed at the upper end and provided at its lower end with openings or
passages through which the liquid can flow.
To enable iny invention to be fully understood I will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Figure 1 is a front elevation of the spout of a beer-engine provided with my
improvements; and,
Figure 2 is a sectional side elevation of the same :
Figures 3, 4 and 5 are views illustrating modifications of my invention.
a is the spout, and b is the tube fixed in the spout in such a manner that the only
escape for the liquid is through the said tube. c is a tube surrounding the tube b,
which tube c is closed at its upper end and provided with openings d, d at its lower
end. With this arrangement it will be understood that the liquid passing through
the spout, first passes downwardly between the outer shell of the spout a and the
tube c, thence through the openings d, d and upwards through the space between

page_text: the tubes b and c and thence over the top of the tube b and down through the latter
to the outlet. After the pump ceases to work the flow terminates abruptly so that
there is no drip. e is a cap which is screwed onto the top of the spout but such
cap is not necessary as the top of the spout may be permanently closed.
In the modification of my invention shewn in Figure 3 the arrangement is
substantially the same as that hereinbefore described except that the outer tube
is carried by the cap e.
In the modification shewn in Figure 4 the outer pipe c is dispensed with,
the liquid entering the pipe b through an opening 6¹ near the upper part
thereof.
The arrangement shewn in Figure 5 is specially designed for application to the
spouts of existing pumps or engines. It is provided with a casing a designed to be
fitted onto the end of the ordinary spout, a ring f of india-rubber or other
suitable material being placed inside it in order to form a tight joint. To
the bottom of this casing is fixed a pipe from a cap upon which depends a
pipe c.
In practice I find it advantageous to employ in conjunction with the spout a flap
or other valve g, as shewn in Figure 2.
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 :-
1. The combination with the spout of a pump, beer-engine or the like, of a
tube projecting upwardly in the said spout and so arranged that the liquid entering
the spout escapes therefrom by passing through the said tube, substantially as
described.
2. The combination with the spout of a.pump, beer-engine or the like, of a tube
projecting upwardly into the same and a surrounding tube closed at the top and
open at the bottom, substantially as described.
3. The combination with the spout of a pump, beer-engine or the like having
a tube or tubes within the same, of a valve substantially as hereinbefore
described.
4. The improvements in the spouts of pumps, beer-engines and the like herein-
before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 23rd day of December 1892.
t
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.