An Improved Barrel-tilter.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 21st May, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 29th July, 1896-Accepted, 26th Sept., 1896
An Improved Barrel-tilter.
I DANIEL WOOLLEY of The Paddock, Steel, Whitchurch, in the County of
Salop, Wheelwright, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to the construction of an improved form of barrel-tilter
which raises the rear end of the barrel or cask as the liquor is withdrawn.
The cask stand is made in the form of the ordinary stool or stillage with a cross
bearer at the front the top of which is hollowed out to fit the outside curve of the
barrel or cask and to prevent it from rolling sideways.
The cross bearer at the back is flat, and at or near each side is fixed a metal
plate, each provided with a pin, stud, or screw projecting upwards. Each pin, stud
or screw projects through a slot made at or near the end of a steel plate spring
which is made in a bow form the central part being raised so as to pass under and
support the rear end of the barrel or cask.
When a full barrel or cask is placed on the stand the weight thereof acting on
the plate spring flattens the same and the barrel or cask is held level, but as the
liquor is withdrawn the cask becomes lighter and the spring (meeting with less
resistance) gradually rises up automatically so as to tilt the barrel or cask to the
required degree. It will of course be evident that the size of the stand or stillage
and the strength of the spring will be in proportion to the size (and consequent
weight) of the barrel or cask to be tilted. The tilting will not only be automatic
but so gradual as not to disturb the contents of the barrel or cask.
Dated this 19th day of May 1896.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
An Improved Barrel-tilter.
DANIEL WOOLLEY, of The Paddock, Steel, Whitchurch, in the County of
Salop, Wheelwright, 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 the construction of an improved form of barrel tilter
which automatically raises the rear end of the barrel or cask as the liquor is
withdrawn.
The nature of my said invention and the manner in which the same is to be
performed or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference
to the annexed sheet of drawings and the following explanation thereof.
Fig. 1 on the drawing is a side view, Fig. 2 a plan view, Fig. 3 a front view and
Fig. 4 a rear view of my improved barrel-tilter, and Figs. 5 and 6 are side and plan
views of a modification of the same.
The cask stand a is made in the form of the ordinary stool or stillage with
a cross bearer at the front the top of which is hollowed out (as shown at 6 Fig. 3)

page_text: to fit the outside curve of the barrel or cask c and to prevent it from rolling
sideways.
The cross bearer at the back is flat (see Fig. 4) and at or near each side is fixed
a metal plate each provided with a piu, stud, or screw d projecting upwards. Each
pin stud or screw projects through a slot e (see Fig. 2) made at or near the end of
a steel plate spring f which is made in a bow form (see Fig. 4) the centre part
being raised so as to pass under and support the rear end of the barrel or cask
(Fig. 1).
When a full barrel or cask is placed on the stand the weight thereof acting on
the plate spring flattens the same and the barrel or cask is held level as drawn
at Fig. 1; but as the liquor is withdrawn the cask c becomes lighter and the
spring (meeting with less resistance) gradually rises up automatically so as to
tilt the barrel or cask c to the required degree as shown by the dotted lines on
Fig. 1.
It will of course be evident that the size of the stand or stillage a and the
strength of the spring f will be in due proportion to the size (and consequent
weight) of the barrel or cask to be tilted. The tilting will not only be automatic
but so gradual as not to disturb the contents of the barrel or cask.
Figs. 5 and 6 illustrate the application of a modified form of plate spring g
which I sometimes employ in place of the spring f.
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 combination with an ordinary stool or stillage of a steel plate spring for
supporting and automatically tilting the rear end of a barrel or cask substantially
as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the drawings annexed.
Dated this 27th day of July 1896.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.