AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR DRAWING AND IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF BEER AND OTHER LIQUORS
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Nunns, of Halifax, in the County of York,
Innkeeper, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR DRAWING AND
IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF BEER AND OTHER LIQUORS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Nunns at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th December 1879.
"AN
FREDERICK NUNNS, of Halifax, in the County of York, Innkeeper.
IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR DRAWING AND IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF BEER
AND OTHER LIQUORS."
This Invention relates to an improved apparatus for drawing off beer, whereby
the pumps now used may be entirely dispensed with, and beer so improved that
however flat it may be a permanent and creamy head is imparted to it, the beer
being fined and altogether improved.
I construct my apparatus as follows:-I fix in any convenient position a vessel
or receiver (preferably cylindrical), into which 1 force (by means of a pump)
atmospheric air or other gases; the pump may be placed in any convenient position,
either in the bar or cellar. The barrels from which liquor is required to be drawü
are each connected by indiarubber or other pipes to the receiver; the pipes are
fixed to the barrels by screw taps and connections, and so long and according as
the receiver is filled with air or gas there will be a corresponding supply or pressure
of beer or liquor, and the ripeness or head can be regulated by the amount of
pressure of air or gas in the receiver; the above apparatus is applicable to single
barrels for domestic purposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Frederick Nunns in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th June
1880.
"AN
FREDERICK NUNNS, of Halifax, in the County of York, Innkeeper.
IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR DRAWING AND IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF BEER
AND OTHER LIQUORS."
This Invention relates to an improved apparatus for drawing off beer and other
liquors, whereby the pumps now used may be entirely dispensed with, and beer so

page_text: improved that however flat it may be in the barrel when drawn it has a permanent
ripe and creamy head imparted to it.
My apparatus is constructed as follows:-I fix in any convenient position a
vessel or receiver (preferably cylindrical), into which I force, by means of a pump,
atmospheric air or other gases; the pump may be placed in a convenient position
either in the bar or cellar. The barrels from which the liquor is required to be
drawn are each connected by pipes to the receiver; the pipes are attached to the
barrels by screw taps, stop taps, and ordinary connections, and so long and
according as the receiver is filled with air or gas there will be a corresponding
supply or pressure of air on the beer or liquor in the barrel, and the ripeness or
head on the beer is regulated by the amount of air or gas in the receiver. The
liquor runs through the pipes in a steady stream, causing it to fine rapidly, and
generally improving the condition of the beer or liquor; this apparatus can also be
applied to small barrels for private use.
Such being the nature and object of this my said Invention, in order that the
sane may be clearly understood, I have hereunto annexed one Sheet of Drawings
illustrative thereof, and have marked the same with letters of reference.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING.
A is the vessel or receiver into which air is forced by means of the force pump B
which may be placed either in the cellar or bar; C, C, are barrels from which
liquor or beer is being drawn; D, D, are india-rubber or other pipes from the
receiver to the barrels Č, C; E is the pipe from force pump B to the receiver A; the
pipes D, D, are fixed to the barrels by screw taps F, F, stop taps G, G, and ordinary
connections; so long and according as the receiver A. is filled with air, there will be
a corresponding supply or pressure of air on the beer in the barrels C, C, the liquor
will flow through the pipes in a steady stream causing the beer when drawn to
fine rapidly and altogether improving its condition.
This apparatus is equally applicable to small barrels for private use, for which
the receiver might be proportionately small (or dispensed with), and the air forced
directly into the barrel.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of this my said Invention,
I would have it understood that I claim,-
The arrangement as described and illustrated for generally improving the
condition of beer (and dispensing with the use of beer pumps and vent pegs).
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Nunns, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty.
TRANNYAY
FITRA
Witness,
יזתור הזנגי
A
TREDERICK NUNND.,
L.S.)
JOHN E. WALSH,
Patent Agent, Consulting Engineer, and Mechanical Draughtsman,
Crossley Street, Halifax,
and 30, East Parade,
Leeds.