Improved Blending and Drawing Off Apparatus for Liquids.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 20th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 6th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Blending and Drawing Off Apparatus for Liquids.
I, DENNIS WHEATLEY, of 16 North Audley Street, in the County of London,
Wine Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention to be as
follows:-.
This invention relates to an improved arrangement and combination of devices
to be employed for blending, mixing, racking, bottling or otherwise drawing-off
wines, spirits, beers and other liquids from a series of vats or cisterns or other
large containers into casks, barrels or other smaller containers or into syphonic
apparatus from which such liquids may be bottled.
To this end, I apply to each of the larger containers a draw-off tap provided
with a specially long shank so as to extend well into the liquid in the container and
formed at its inmost end with perforations in a usual manner but so disposed away
from the tap hole of the container that any sediment that may be deposited about
the tap-hole will not be disturbed by the outflowing curront of liquid, whereby a
greater quantity of the contents may be drawn off without liability of spoliation
by disturbance of the sediment. Each such tap is further provided with a plug by
means of which its outlet of liquid can be regulated as may be desired. The
outlet of each such tap is also provided with a detachable union which is adapted
to screw onto the outlet or delivery of the tap, and is also adapted for connection
with a flexible or other suitable tube or pipe. By a series of such taps, tubes or
pipes the liquids from a series of containers are led to a common or blending-
chamber into which they all deliver. Such chamber is formed with a series of
inlets as many in number as that of the series of containers from which it is
required to draw off at a time, and such inlets are arranged so as to produce cross
currents of the liquids they respectively introduce into the said chamber so as to
produce, when the apparatus is used for blending purposes, an intimate com-
mingling of such liquids in said chamber in the proportions regulated by the said
taps. Each of said inlets to said chamber is also fitted with a detachable union
which is adapted to screw thereonto and is also adapted for connection with one of
the said flexible tubes or pipes leading from the larger containers. The blending
chamber is formed with an outlet which is provided with a plug for controlling or
closing off the supply of the blended liquid to the smaller container or to the
syphon, as may be required, and with a detachable union which is adapted to screw
onto such outlet and is also adapted for connection with a flexible tube or pipe
which may be inserted directly into the bung-hole of the smaller container or into
the syphonic apparatus or such outlet may be adapted with a detachable nose
which may deliver directly into the bung-hole of the container or into said
syphonic apparatus or into a bottle or other container.
The special advantages arising from such improved arrangement and combination
of devices are that, for blending and mixing purposes, the several liquids can be
respectively proportioned at the outlets from their respective containers which are
at times racked high out of reach and that when once set as may be required they
are out of the way and without liability of being tampered with, and that the
delivery of the blended liquid is under the instant control of the attendant
superintending the filling or bottling operation, and that there is an avoidance of
waste of the liquid, and, in ordinary cask filling or bottling operations, the
contents of several larger containers can be simultaneously drawn off whereby,
owing to an avoidance. of the repetition of the operations of connecting and

page_text: disconnecting the usual connections and of the frequent interruptions and dis-
turbance of the sediment in the larger containers, the operations can be effected
much more expeditiously and with much less waste than is usual.
Each of the inlets to the blending chamber may be fitted with a screw-cap
should it be necessary to disconnect any thereof from any vat or like container
not in use, and each of the vat taps may be fitted with a detachable nose adapted
to screw thereonto and to deliver directly into any smaller container.
Dated this 20th day of January 1893.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Blending and Drawing Off Apparatus for Liquids.
I, DENNIS WHEATLEY of 164 North Audley Street in the County of London,
Wine Merchant 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 :-
This invention relates to an improved arrangement and combination of devices
to be employed for blending, mixing, racking, bottling or otherwise drawing off
wines, spirits, beers and other liquids from a series of vats, or cisterns or other
large containers into casks, barrels, or other smaller containers, or into syphonic
apparatus from which such liquids may be bottled.
On the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1. represents a general view of the apparatus applied to the purpose of
blending liquids.
Fig. 2. represents an elevation of the apparatus, partly in section.
Fig. 3 represents a plan thereof, and
Fig. 4 represents an end elevation of the blending chamber.
In carrying this invention into effect, I apply to each of the containers 5, a
draw-off tap 6, provided with a specially long shank 7, so as to extend well into
the liquid in the container, and formed at its inmost end with perforations 8, in a
usual manner but so disposed away from the tap hole 9, of the container that any
sediment that may be deposited about the taphole will not be disturbed by the
outflowing current of liquid, whereby a greater quantity of the contents may be
drawn off without liability of spoliation by disturbance of the sediment.
Each such tap is further provided with a plug 10 by means of which its outlet
of liquid can be regulated as may be desired. The outlet 11 of each such tap is
also provided with a detachable union or screw coupling 12 which is adapted to
screw into the outlet or delivery of the tap and is also adapted for connection with
a flexible or other suitable tube or pipe 13.
By the combination and use of a series of such taps, and tubes or pipes, the
liquids from a series of containers 5 are led to a common or blending chamber 14
into which they all deliver.
Such chamber is formed with a series of inlets 15, at least as many in number as
that of the series of containers 5 from which it is required to draw off at a time,
and such inlets are arranged so as to produce cross currents of the liquids they
respectively introduce into the said chamber so as to produce, when the apparatus
is used for blending purposes, an intimate commingling of such liquids in said
chamber in the proportions regulated by the said taps 6. Each inlet 15, to said
chamber 14, is also fitted with a detachable union 16, which is adapted to screw
thereonto, and is also adapted for connection with one of the said flexible tubes or
pipes 13, leading from the (larger) containers 5.
The blending chamber 14 is formed with an outlet 17, which is provided with a

page_text: plug 18 for controlling or closing off the supply of the blended liquid to the
(smaller) container 19, or to the syphon as may be required, and with a detachable
union which is adapted to screw on to such outlet, and is also adapted for connection
with a flexible tube or pipe which may be inserted directly into the bung-hole of
the smaller container or into the syphonic apparatus; or such outlet may be adapted
with a detachable nose 20 which may deliver directly into the bung hole 21 of the
container or into said syphonic apparatus or into a bottle or other container.
The special advantages arising from such improved arrangement and combination
of devices are that, for blending and mixing purposes, the several liquids can be
respectively proportioned at the outlets from their respective containers which are
at times racked high out of reach, and that when once set as may be required they
are out of the way and without liability of being tampered with, and that the
delivery of the blended liquid is under the instant control of the attendant_super-
intending the filling or bottling operation, and that there is an avoidance of waste
of the liquid, and, in ordinary cask filling or bottling operations, the contents of
several larger containers can be simultaneously drawn off, whereby, owing to an
avoidance of the repetition of the operations of connecting and disconnecting the
usual connections and of the frequent interruptions and disturbance of the sediment
in the larger containers, the operations can be effected much more expeditiously and
with much less waste than is usual.
Each of the inlets to the blending chamber may be fitted with a screw cap 22,.
(see Figure 3) should it be necessary to disconnect any thereof from any vat or like
container not in use, and each of the vat taps may be fitted with a detachable nose
adapted to screw thereonto and to deliver directly into any smaller container.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The hereinbefore described arrangement and combination of parts constituting
the improved apparatus for blending or drawing off liquids.
Dated this 20th day of November 1893.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.