AN IMPROVED CASK STAND
Year: 1885

page_text: We ALFRED SAMUEL BISHOP of 314 Upper Street, Islington in the County of
Middlesex, Clerk, and FREDERICK DOWN of 28 Archway Road, Highgate, in the
County of Middlesex, Solicitor's Clerk do hereby declare the nature of our invention
for "AN IMPROVED CASK STAND," to be as follows:-
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The object of this invention is to produce a simple and cheap cask stand of a
few pieces of cast metal, which can be readily fitted together for use, and equally
readily taken apart for convenience of storage or packing.
Our improved cask stand consists of four pieces, viz, a front piece, a backbone,
a cradle, and a pawl. The front piece consists of a single casting composed of a
pair of uprights connected together by two cross stays, and having each at its
upper end a trunnion. The top cross stay cast with a recess to receive the
back bone, which is bowed, and is formed with a series of teeth on its upper edge
to receive the pawl. This backbone is cast with a shoulder which rests against
and behind the top cross stay and is also provided with a downwardly projecting
finger, which is arranged to fit over the top cross stay, and into the recess, and
behind the lower cross stay, so that the two parts, the front and the backbone, will
be thereby securely locked together.
The cask rests on a rectangular frame or cradle which is cast in one piece and is
provided on either side with a forked bearing to fit over the trunnions on the
uprights. At the centre of the rear portion of this frame or cradle is a cylindrical
portion, which forms a pivot on which the pawle to support the cradle works, the
hole of the pawle being cored out to admit of the pawle being slidden sideways
onto the pivot at the rear part of the cradle. By raising the rear of the cradle, the
cask may be tilted, and the cradle will be retained in its tilted position by the
pawle falling into one or other of the teeth cast on the backbone.
The great advantage of our improved cask stand is that.all the parts can be cast,
that they require no fitting, but the castings may in most cases be put together as
they leave the Foundry.
When taken to pieces, the parts may be packed in a comparatively small space
which is a great desideratum for warehousing or for shipping purposes.
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NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicants,

page_text: We ALFRED SAMUEL BISHOP of 314 Upper Street, Islington in the County of
Middlesex, Clerk, and FREDERICK DOWN of 28 Archway Road, Highgate, in the
County of Middlesex, Solicitor's Clerk 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 :—
The object of this invention is to produce a simple and cheap cask stand of a
few pieces of cast metal, which can be readily fitted together for use, and equally
readily taken apart for convenience of storage or packing.
Our improved cask stand consists of four pieces, viz., a front piece, a back bone,
a cradle, and a pawl.
In the accompanying drawing, Fig. 1 is a side view of the improved cask stand
with a cask thereon, and.
Fig. 2 is a front view of the same.
Fig. 3 is a front view of the front piece detached.
Fig. 4 is a side view of the backbone.
Fig. 5 is a plan view of the cradle, and
Fig. 6 is a side view of the pawl.
Figs. 7 shew a slight modification in the mode of connecting the backbone to the
front piece, and
Figs. 8 another slight modification.
A is the front piece, B the backbone, C the cradle, and D the pawl.
The front piece consists of a single casting composed of a pair of uprights A A
connected together by two cross stays A' A', each of said uprights having at its
upper end, and externally, a trunnion a. The cross stay A¹ is cast with a recess a¹,
and the cross stay A³ is formed with a projection a². The backbone B is bowed,
and is formed with a series of teeth b on its upper edge.-This backbone is cast
with a shoulder b¹, which rests against and behind the cross stay A¹, and is also
provided with a downwardly projecting finger 6, which is arranged to fit in front
of the cross stay A¹, and into the recess a¹, and behind the cross stay A², at the
part a', so that the two parts, the front A and the backbone B, will be thereby
securely locked together.
The cask rests on the rectangular frame or cradle C, which is cast in one piece,
and is provided on either side with a forked bearing c to fit over the trunnions on
the uprights A-At the centre of the rear bar of this frame or cradle, which is by
preference oblong in cross section, is a cylindrical portion c¹, which forms a pivot
on which is hung the pawl D.
The pawl is cast in the form shown at Fig. 6, the hole being cored out.—The
opening in the hole permits of the pawl being placed on the oblong portion of the
rear bar of the cradle, from which it is slidden sideways onto the pivot o¹, see
Fig. 1. The tilting of the cask is effected by raising the rear of the cradle C, and
the cradle will be retained in its tilted position by the pawl D falling into one or
other of the teeth 6 cast on the backbone B.

page_text: The great advantages of our improved cask stand are, that all the parts can be
cast, they require no fitting, but may in most cases be put together as they leave
the Foundry, and when taken to pieces, the parts can be packed in a comparatively
small space, which is a great desideratum for warehousing or for shipping
purposes.
In the modification shown in Figs. 7, the front piece is formed with a socket a³,
into which the finger 6 (of slightly modified form) of the backbone B is inserted.
In Figa 8 the front piece is formed with a dovetail taper groove a*, and the
finger of the backbone B is formed to correspond thereto.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is
A cask stand constructed and arranged substantially as herein shown and
described, or any mere modification thereof.