Improved Means for Drawing Off Beer and other Liquids.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 10th Nov., 1891-Accepted, 19th Dec., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Drawing Off Beer and other Liquids.
GEORGE BRIERLY BARKER of Unity Inn Grosvenor Street Stalybridge in
the County of Chester Inn Keeper do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to enable inn-keepers and others to draw off beer
and other liquids from casks or similar vessels whilst they are placed "on end" SO
as to dispense with the necessity for stillages and for any arrangements for tilting
the said casks or vessels. The invention also owing to the upright position of the
casks will allow of more than double the usual number of casks or vessels being
placed in a cellar of given dimensions, and as there is no necessity for tilting,
the beer or other liquid will not be disturbed and will remain clear and bright to
the end.
The invention is applicable in all cases where the beer or other liquid is raised
by pumps or equivalent means from a cellar, to a bar or other place where the
liquor is drawn.
In the first place provide a tap somewhat similar to an ordinary beer tap
having a conical fore-end for driving into the head of the cask but with the
outer end straight and made so as to form a gland or stuffing box with a
screw cap.
This (and the plug) is bored out with a circular hole (say) half an inch in
diameter to receive a long straight tube and make a gas and liquid tight joint.
One end of the half inch tube is pointed and perforated and the other end is
provided with a stop tap and a screw junction to connect it with the suction pipe of
the pump.
The barrel or cask being on end ready for tapping the first named tap is
removed from the long tube and the plug being closed the said tap is packed and
driven into the tap hole in the top end of the cask with a mallet in the usual
manner.
The stop tap on the long tube being closed the pointed end of the latter is passed
into the gland of the barrel tap until it touches the plug of the tap and the screw
cap of the gland is partly screwed on.
The barrel tap may now be opened and the pointed end of the tube pushed down
through it, the screw cap of the gland being at the same time tightened so as to .
prevent escape of liquid or air.
The tube may now be pushed down until its pointed end reaches the bottom
end of the barrel or cask when the lowest perforations will be about one inch
(more or less) from the bottom of the cask. The screw junction at the other end
of the tube is now connected up to the suction pipe of the pump, after which the
stop tap may be opened and the pump is ready for usc.
Thus it will be seen that the barrel or cask is tapped and connected with the
pump without the escape of either air or liquid, and without any disturbance what-
ever so that the beer can be drawn immediately and it will retain its life and
brilliancy to the end.
Dated this 1141 day of Wah 1001

page_text: Improved Means for Drawing Off Beer and other Liquids.
I GEORGE BRIERLY BARKER of Unity Inn, Grosvenor Street Stalybridge in
the County of Chester Inn Keeper, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to enable inn-keepers and others to draw off beer
and other liquids from casks or similar vessels whilst they are placed "on end,'
so as to dispense with the necessity for stillages and for any arrangements for
tilting the said casks or vessels. The invention also owing to the upright position
of the casks, will allow of more than double the usual number of casks or vessels
being placed in a cellar of given dimensions and as there is no necessity for
tilting, the beer or other liquid will not be disturbed and will remain clear and
bright to the end.
The invention is applicable in all cases where the beer or other liquid is raised
by pumps or equivalent means from a cellar, to a bar or other place where the
liquor is drawn.
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 is an elevation and Fig. 2 a vertical section of my improved apparatus.
In the first place I provide a tap a somewhat similar to an ordinary beer tap
having a conical fore-end for driving into the head of the cask but with the outer
end straight and made so as to form a gland or stuffing box 6 with a screw cap c
This (and the plug) is bored with a circular hole (say) half an inch in diameter to
receive a long straight tube d and make a gas and liquid tight joint.
One end of the half inch tube d is pointed and perforated as at d', or for porter
the end may be left open, and the other end is provided with a stop tape and a
screw junction to connect it with the suction pipe of the pump. The stop tap e
is provided with a clack valve g to prevent the liquid from running back into the
barrel.
The barrel or cask being on end, ready for tapping, the first named tap a is
removed from the long tube d, and the plug of the tap a being closed the said tap
is packed and driven into the tap hole in the top end of the cask with a mallet in
the usual manner.
The stop tape on the long tube d being closed the pointed end d' of the latter
is passed into the gland of the barrel tap a until it touches the plug of the tap
and the screw cap c of the gland is partly screwed on.
The barrel tap a may now be opened and the pointed end of the tube d pushed
down through it, the screw cap c of the gland being at the same time tightened
so as to prevent escape of liquid or air.
.
The tube d may now be pushed down until its pointed end d' reaches the bottom
end of the barrel or cask when the lowest perforations will be about one inch
(more or less) from the bottom of the cask. For porter as previously stated the
lower end of the tube d may be left open, and the point dispensed with so that it
can be drawn off to the bottom of the cask.
The screw junction at the other end of the tube d is now connected up to the
suction pipe of the pump, after which the stop tap e may be opened and the pump
is ready for use.
Thus it will be seen that the barrel or cask is tapped and connected with the
pump without either the escape of air or liquid, and without any disturbance what-
ever so that the beer can be drawn immediately and it will retain its life and
brilliancy to the end.

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 combination of the straight plug tap a, gland b, screw cap c, long tube d, stop
tape, screw junction f, and clack valve g, substantially in the manner hereinbefore
described and illustrated by the drawing annexed.
Dated this 9th day of November 1891.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.