AN IM- PROVED SUPPORT OR-STAND-FOR CASKS, BARRELS, OR OTHER VESSELS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Halstead Whitehead, of Rawtenstall, in the
County of Lancaster, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IM-
PROVED SUPPORT OR-STAND-FOR CASKS, BARRELS, OR OTHER
VESSELS."
Sealed the 17th February 1868, and dated the 18th September 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Halstead White-
head at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 18th September 1862.
I, PETER HALSTEAD WHITEHEAD, of Rawtenstall, in the County of Lan-
caster, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED SUPPORT OR STAND FOR CASKS, BARRELS, OR OTHER SIMILAR VESSELS,"
to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in an improved construction of stand or "stillage"
for barrels, constituted as follows:-The frame upon which the cask or barrel
is placed is supported upon a horizontal shaft having bearings in two side
standards or supports, and the said frame is brought to a vertical position to
receive the barrel by turning a handle in connection with bevil gearing, and a
worm and worm quadrant on the said horizontal. shaft, and by reversing the
handle the cask is brought to a horizontal position, and may be "tilted" by
the same means.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Peter Halstead Whitehead in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 16th March 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
HALSTEAD WHITEHEAD, of Rawtenstall, in the County of Lancaster, Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Peter Halstead Whitehead, Her special license, that I, the said
Peter Halstead Whitehead, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Peter Halstead Whitehead, my executors, admi-
nistrators, 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 "AN IMPROVED SUPPORT OR STAND FOB CASKS, BARRELS,
OR OTHER SIMILAR VESSELS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Peter Halstead Whitehead, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their bands and scals, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Peter Halstead Whitehead, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):-
My Invention consists in an improved construction of stand or "stillage"
for barrels constituted as follows:-The frame upon which the cask or barrel
is placed is supported upon a horizontal shaft having bearings in two side
standards or supports, and the said frame is brought to a vertical position to
receive the barrel by turning a handle in connection with bevil gearing, and
a worm and worm quadrant on the said horizontal shaft, and by reversing the
handle the cask is brought to a horizontal position, and may be "tilted" by
the same means..
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in

page_text: detail, I have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings made upon a scale of
about two inches and a half to the foot, and having similar letters of reference
marked upon corresponding parts of the apparatus.
Fig. 1 represents a side view of the improved stillage or stand for casks
wherein the handle for raising and lowering the barrel is placed behind; Fig. 2
is also a side view of a stand for casks, shewing another arrangement whereby
the handle is brought in front, and is the most convenient form; Fig. 3 is a
front view of the same.
In Fig. 1, a, a, is the framing of the stand for casks or barrels which sup-
ports the barrel-rest or carrier 6 by means of the shaft c, upon which the
toothed quadrant d is secured. This worm wheel quadrant gears with the
worm & secured on the shaft f, and is moved by the handle y, by which means
the barrel carrier is caused to assume a vertical position when placing the
barrel upon it, and by reversing the action of the handle it may be brought to
the horizontal position for use, or to any angle between the horizontal and
vertical for the purpose termed "tilting."
In Fig. 2 the haudle and worm are in a horizontal position, the worm being
-driven through the spur gearing h, which renders the movement more easy,
and the barrel is retained at any angle with more certainty. I would remark
that bevil gearing may also be applied instead of spur gearing.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be distinctly
understood that I claim the novel employment and use of a worm and worm-
toothed quadrant or wheel either direct acting, or with interposed gearing for
the purpose of raising and lowering casks or barrels to any angle, and also
the combination, arrangement, and construction of the whole as forming an
improved support or stand for casks or barrels as herein-before described, set
forth, and fully illustrated in the Drawings attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Halstead Whitehead, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
PETER HALSTEAD WHITEHEAD. (L.S.)
Witnessed by
JOHN L. DAVIES,
Office for Patents,
Manchester.