An Improved Appliance for Tilting Casks and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 1st Apr., 1893-Accepted, 6th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for Tilting Casks and the like.
I, JOHN MEAR of Victoria Street, Melbourne in the County of Derby, Warp-
hand, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In carrying out my invention I employ a suitable stay or support to be fixed to
the wall or in other convenient position carrying an arm or projection overbanging
the cask or the like and having a hole formed therein or carrying a collar or other
suitable guide through which passes a threaded rod carrying a chain or other
equivalent at the lower end, the said chain or other attachment being fixed to
the end of the cask to be tilted in any convenient manner. Upon this threaded rod
and above the arm of the stay I provide a thumb screw or other suitable means of
screwing up the said rod which may thus be operated and the cask raised or lowered
at will. The said thumb screw or like device may be either fixed or loose on the
rod and in the latter case the arm of the stay or collar or guide through which the
rod passes need not be threaded, if the said thumb screw or its equivalent be fixed
to the rod the hole, collar or guide in or on the arm of the stay would be threaded.
Dated this 10th day of December 1892.
W. SWINDELL,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for Tilting Casks and the like.
I, JOHN MEAR of Victoria Street, Melbourne in the County of Derby, Warp-
haud, 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 :-
In order that my invention may be the more readily understood I have caused
to be annexed to this Specification a sheet of drawings the figures and letters of
reference marked upon which will be hereafter referred to. Figure 1 being a side
elevation shewing an application of my improved appliance to a cask before tilting
and Figure 2 when tilted.
In carrying out my invention I employ a suitable stay or support A to be fixed
to the wall B or in other convenient position such as from a ceiling; the said stay
or support carrying an arm or projection C overhanging the cask D and having a
hole formed therein or carrying a collar or other suitable guide through which
passes a threaded rod E carrying a chain F or the like at the lower end, the said
chain or other attachment being fixed or attached to the ends of the cask to be
tilted as shewn on the drawings by means of clips or hooks G & H, or in any other
convenient manner.
Upon the threaded rod and above the arin of the stay I provide a thumb screw
or lever arm I or other suitable means of screwing up the said rod which may thus
be operated and raise or lower the end of the cask or the like or tilt it as may be
desired. The said thumb screw, lever arm or like device may be either fixed or
loose on the rod, and in the latter case the arın of the stay, collar or guide through
which the rod passes need not be threaded, (it is shewn in this manner upon the
drawings). If the said thumb screw or lever be fixed to the rod the hole, collar or
guide in the projecting arm of the stay would be threaded.

page_text: 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 :-
The improved appliance for tilting casks and the like substantially as described
herein and illustrated by the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 30th day of March 1893.
W. SWINDELL,
Agent for the Applicant.