AN IMPROVED DEVICE FOR INTERCEPTING HOPS AND OTHER FOREIGN MATTERS CONTAINED IN ALE OR BEER
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Elmore, of Exeter, in the County of Devon,
for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED DEVICE FOR INTERCEPTING HOPS AND
OTHER FOREIGN MATTERS CONTAINED IN ALE OR BEER."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Elinore at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th February 1880.
HENRY ELMORE, of Exeter, in the County of Devon. "AN IMPROVED DEVICE
FOR INTERCEPTING HOPS AND OTHER FOREIGN MATTERS CONTAINED IN ALE OR
BEER."
My Invention relates to an improved apparatus or device having for its object to
intercept hops and other foreign matters contained in ale and beer as it is drawn
off from the cask or barrel, and thus prevent them entering the pumps of the beer
engine in the case of public establishments, or the jug or other receptacle in the
Caso of a private consumer.
It consists of a bell or other shaped chamber divided about the middle of its
height by a transverse strainer of wire, cloth, or perforated sheet metal, and pro-
vided with inlet and outlet tubes respectively at opposite sides of the said strainer,
the said tubes being furnished with screw unions or other suitable means of
connection with the tap or spigot in the head of the barrel and the pipe leading
to the beer engine respectively. The inlet tube is preferably at the side of the
chamber, and at the lower side of the strainer in the apparatus to be used in
connection with a beer engine, and the chamber is provided with a removable cover
at bottom in order that the hops and other foreign matters arrested by the strainer
may be readily removed from time to time. This cover is screw-threaded to
correspond to a screw-threaded rim around the lower edge of the chamber, and
it has a leather washer to ensure a tight joint, and a square part for the application
of a wreuch.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Henry Elmore in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 12th August
1880.
HENRY ELMORE, of Exeter, in the County of Devon. AN IMPROVED DEVICE
FOR INTERCEPTING HOPS AND OTHER FOREIGN MATTERS CONTAINED IN ALE OR
BEER."
My Invention relates to an improved apparatus or device having for its object to
intercept hops and other foreign matters contained in ale and beer as it is drawn
off from the cask or barrel, and thus prevent said matters entering the pumps of
the beer engines of public establishments.
It consists of a bell or other shaped chamber divided about the middle of its
length by a transverse strainer of wire, cloth, or perforated sheet metal, and
provided with inlet and outlet tubes respectively on either side of the said
strainer, the said tubes being furnished with screw unions or other suitable
means of connection with the tap or spigot in the head of the barrel and the
pipe leading to the beer engine respectively. The inlet is preferably at the side
of the chamber, and the chamber is provided with a removablo top or cover in
order that the hops and other foreign matters arrested by the strainer may be
readily removed from time to time. This cover is screwthreaded to correspond
to a screwthreaded rim around the edge of the chainber, and it has a leather
washer to ensure a tight joint, and a squared part for the application of a
wrench.
In the accompanying Drawings Figure 1 is a top or plan view, Figure 2 a.
longitudinal section, and Figure 3 an end view of the device with the cover
removed.
A is the metal casting or chamber, and B is the strainer; C and D are the inlet
and outlet orifices respectively, the inlet C being provided with a union coupling
for attachment to the top in the barrel, the outlet D being secured to the pipe
leading to the beer engine. The strainer B is pressed against a shoulder a on the
inside of the chamber, and is held in place by a stem b fixed to its underside against
which bears a disc e and spring E confined within the screw cap or cover F; G is a
leather washer to make a tight joint between the cap and the mouth of the chainber
into which the cap screws, as shown.
Any hops or other foreign matter contained in the beer are arrested by the
strainer and retained in the chamber A, from whence they can be removed by
simply unscrewing the cap and taking out the strainer.
Having described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of performing
the same, I declare that what I claim as my Invention to be protected by the
hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is,-
The device for intercepting hops and other foreign matters contained in ale or
beer constructed of a chamber containing a strainer, and fitted with a removable
cap or cover, and applied substantially as shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Elmore, have to this my Specification
set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty.