IMPROVEMENTS IN STILLIONS OR APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING AND BARRELS AND OTHER CASES
Year: 1884

page_text: I, HENRY MEADOWS of 143 and 145 Egerton Street, Moses Gate, in the County
of Lancaster, Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN STILLIONS OR APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING AND
BARRELS AND OTHER CASES," to be as follows:-
TILTING
My invention relates to improvements in stillions or apparatus for supporting
and tilting barrels and other cases containing liquids or other substances, and
consists in providing suitable angular fixings on which, at a suitable distance from
the floor, is provided bosses in which is placed a stationary round rod or shaft
secured by set screws or other equivalents. The wood or other frame for carrying
the barrels or cases is provided on the underside with jaw fixings which drop and
swivel on the aforesaid shaft or round rod; this frame is fitted on the back side
with a stay or leg which determines the position of the barrel or case when on the
stillion. To facilitate the mounting of barrels or other cases on the stillions the
back portion of the wood or other frame is fitted on each side with brackets, on
which are mounted suitable bowls or rollers, by which barrels can be adjusted by
simply lifting the the front end and swivelling the same on the said rollers to their
correct position.
In the case of mounting or supporting barrels or cases containing liquids it is
necessary to tilt the same to ensure the contents being emptied, to accomplish this
I provide one of the jaw fixings under each barrel or case with a quadrant with a
suitable number of holes in which drops a catch mounted on a pin attached to a
projection on the angular fixings. When a barrel or caso wants tilting the catch is
lifted into another hole and so on until empty.
When a barrel or case is being mounted the empty frame is tilted so that the
front end rests on the floor, when the barrel or case is placed against it, when both
are lifted or swivelled together on the shaft or centre under the jaw fixings until
the back leg rests on the floor when the catch is dropped into one of the boles in
the quadrant.
By this arrangement any number of stillions may be formed in a row by
extending the stationary shaft and fixings.
The advantages are that barrels or cases can be mounted, adjusted, and tilted
with ease and more readily cleaned by simply lifting the frames away after the
barrels or cases are removed.
CAL
EDMUND CHADWICK,
Agent for the Applicant,
92, St. George's Road, Bolton,

page_text: I HENRY MEADOWS of 143 and 145 Egerton Street, Moses Gate, in the County
of Lancaster, Machinist do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN STILLIONS OR APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING AND TILTING
BARRELS AND OTHER CASES," 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 improvements in stillions or apparatus for supporting
and tilting barrels and other cases containing liquids or other sub-tances, and which
will be readily understood by refering to the annexed sheet of drawings. The
frame A, on which the barrels or cases are mounted, is provided with the jaw
fixings B, shewn more clearly in Fig. 6: the jaw fixings B drop and swivel on the
stationary rod or shaft C which is mounted or fixed in the angular fixings D, and
are secured by the set screws E. To determine the position of the frame when
barrels or cases are being supported on the stillion it is provided with the leg F as
in Fig. 1. To the rod Care secured the fixings G provided with the rollers H for
the purpose of adjusting and swivelling barrels or cases when being mounted on
the stillion; the back side of the fixings G are constructed to rest on the stops I
secured to the angular fixings D as shewn in Figs. 7 and 8, by which the strain is
taken off the set screws J, and which at the same time determines the horizontal
or other position of the frame A, thus dispensing with the leg F in Fig. 1.
To enable barrels or other cases to be tilted, one of the fixings B is provided
with the quadrant K with the holes L in which the pin T on the catch M drops,
the latter being mounted on the centre N attached to the bracket O on the fixing D,
as shewn in Fig. 4, of which Fig. 5 is a plan.
When a barrel or case is being mounted the catch M is lifted, when the front
end of the frame A drops onto the stop P, which arrests it in position for mounting
as shewn in Fig. 3, or in cases where the frame is a long one the front end drops
on the floor, as would be the case with that shewn in Fig. 1.
On looking at Fig. 2 it will be readily seen that any number of stillions may be
formed in a row by simply extending the rod or shaft C and providing the
fixings D with the quadrant attachments.
In making stillions for supporting flat cases the frame A is made flat on the top
side as in Fig. 9, while those for barrels are concaved as in Fig. 2.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the safe is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. The use and construction of the swivelling frame A, with the jaw fixings B,
the quadrant K and catch M, when used for the purpose of tilting and supporting
barrels or other cases, applied and operating substantially in the manner described
and shewn in the drawings.

page_text: 2. The use and construction of the fixings G and rollers H for the purpose
described and as shewn on the drawings.
3. The general construction and arrangement of apparatus for supporting and
tilting barrels or other cases, substantially as described and shewn on the drawings
in Figs. 1 to 9, or any mere modification or imitation thereof.
E. CHADWICK, C.E,
Agent for the Applicant,
92, St. George's Road, Bolton.