Improvements in Means for Raising and Drawing-off Beer or other Beverages, or for like Operations.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Mar. 1893
Comp ete Specification Left, 21st Sept., 1893-Accepted, 11th Nov,
1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Raising and Drawing-off Beer or other
Beverages, or for like Operations.
We, SAM MITCHELL LUND of Skipton Road, Keighley in the County of
York, Plumber, and GEORGE SCAIFE of The Burlington Hotel, Keighley
aforesaid, Publican, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows, that is to say :-
It relates to the application of means to the pipes or tubes leading from
the barrels or casks or other receptacles, containing the beer or other liquid to
be withdrawn, to the beer-engines or pumps above or at a distance therefrom,
whereby the interchangeability of the positions of these pipes or tubes is greatly
facilitated as compared with their present method of arrangement, while the
liability to waste or loss by leakage is greatly diminished.
To attain the object of our invention we dispense with a portion of the leaden or
inflexible pipe usually used and in its place we employ flexible tubing (as hose-
piping, india-rubber tubing or the like) which we arrange to be coupled at one end
to the cock, tap or outlet pipe in the barrel or other receptacle, while its other
end reaches sufficiently far therefrom that it may be coupled to a union or joint
fixed upon the ceiling, wall or other convenient part or fixture in the room, to
which union or joint is coupled the remainder of the inflexible pipe leading to
the beer-engine or pump.
This union or joint is formed, by having screwed projections extending from it
in appropriate positions, so that it may be readily attached to its bearing-plate
whether same is mounted in a horizontal, vertical or other position, and in this
union or joint, we mount a valve either of spherical or other shape, proper seatings
being formed therein so that all the liquid which has passed the valve may be
thereby prevented from returning by which means at all times or under any
circumstances the greatest quantity of liquid liable to be wasted is only that
portion contained by the flexible tube, and the loss of this may be somewhat
avoided by care being taken, on the detachment of the said flexible tube from the
receptacle to turn this end of it upward to be on a higher level than the valve in
the union or joint.
Provided the flexible tube and pump are required for raising other liquids, such
as oil from a tank, or water that has to be removed from a lower to a higher level,
by such liquids being in open receptacles that will allow the immersion of said
flexible tube no further attachment is necessary and the outer end of the tube may
be loosely placed into said receptacle.
Dated this 4th day of March 1893.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Raising and Drawing-off Beer or other
Beverages, or for like Operations.
We, SAM MITCHELL LUND of Skipton Road, Keighley in the County of
York, Plumber, and GEORGE SCAIFE of "The Burlington Hotel," Keighley
aforesaid Publican, 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, that is to say :-
It relates to the application of means to the pipes. or tubes leading from
the barrels or casks or other receptacles containing the beer or other liquid to
be withdrawn, to the beer-engines or pumps above or at a distance from
same, whereby the interchangeability of the positions of these pipes or tubes as
from being coupled with one receptacle to be so coupled to any other receptacle
within its reach is greatly facilitated as compared with their present method of
arrangement, while the liability to waste or loss by leakage is greatly diminished.
In the accompanying sheets of drawings illustrative of our invention,-
Figs. 1 and 2 are side elevation and sectional views respectively of a pipe
coupling with joint or union valve and other parts made in accordance with our
invention.
Fig. 3 is a similar view to Fig. 2 but shows a modification in the formation or
construction as hereinafter described.
Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the interior of a building and illustrates
our improved arrangement and combination of means as in use for drawing-off
beer.
To attain the object of our invention we dispense with a portion of the leaden or
other kind of inflexible pipe usually used and in its place we employ flexible
tubing a a, which may be hose-piping, india-rubber tubing or the like, and which
we arrange to be coupled at one end to the cock, tap or outlet pipe b in the
barrel c (or in any other receptacle), while its other end reaches sufficiently far
therefrom so that it may be coupled to a union or joint d fixed upon the ceiling e,
wall or other convenient part as on the rail upon which the barrels c are
placed, the pipe / leading from the pipe coupling d to the beer-engine or
pump k.
P,
The pipe coupling has suitable fixing attachments such as the screwed
projections m extending from it in suitable or appropriate positions, so that it may
be readily fixed, whether the bearing-plate n is mounted in a horizontal position as
when on the ceiling e and as shown by Figs. 1 and 2, or in a vertical position as when
on the wall and as shown by Fig. 3, and in the pipe coupling we mount a valve
either of the spherical form as shown at p by Fig. 3, or of the shape shown by
Fig. 2, but preferably the latter since a better seating may be formed on the part
for the valve p than can be formed on the joining part d¹ for the valve p¹. By
this means all the beer (or other liquid) which has passed from the barrels c beyond
this valve p is thereby prevented from returning, so that at all times or under any
circumstances, when the taps b are closed, the greatest quantity of liquid liable to
be wasted by the changing of the attachment of the tubing a from one barrel c
to another, is only that portion contained by this flexible tube a, and the loss of
this may be somewhat avoided by care being taken on the detachment of the said
tube a from the barrel c, to turn this end of it upwards to be ou a higher level
than the valve in the pipe coupling d.
It is obvions that instead of the valve being placed in the pipe coupling d, the
same results may be secured by placing the valve in connexion with the union a'.
We prefer however to place it in the pipe coupling d, as the purposes of our inven-
tion are then secured by the use of the one single special fitting d.

page_text: The apparatus or arrangement of parts above described may be used for the
purpose of raising or withdrawing other liquids than beer, such as oil or other
substance that is contained in barrels, vats or open receptacles in a room beneath
the one in which it is to be used. In this latter case the outer end of the flexible
tube a is thrown loosely into said open receptacle instead of being joined to an
outlet pipe.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is,
1. The combination with a pump or beer engine, of a fixed supply pipe leading
therefrom, a flexible coupling pipe, and a pipe coupling furnished with a union and
a non-return valve, constructed and arranged substantially as described.
2. The improved pipe coupling or special fitting herein before described, furnished
with a union joint, a non-return valve and suitable fixing attachments as and for
the purpose set forth.
3. The pipe coupling or special fitting substantially as described and illustrated
in Figs. 1 and 2.
4. The pipe coupling or special fitting substantially as described, and illustrated
in Fig. 3.
Dated this 20th day of September 1893.
SAM M. LUND,
GEORGE SCAIFE,
Per Samuel Hey,
Agent.