Improvements applicable to Beer Pumps.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements applicable to Beer Pumps.
We,.
GEORGE HOWARD, of 5, Moss Square, Worsbro Common, in the County
of York, Brewer's Machinery Fitter, and JAMES SMITII, of 21, Commercial Street,
in the Borough of Barnsley, county aforesaid, Commercial Traveller, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our present invention relates to certain improvements applicable to beer pumps,
the object being to arrange and combine improved apparatus in connection with
ordinary beer pumps, that the waste or droppings obtained in the drawing' off of
beer is economically effectively and in a perfectly clean and proportionable manner
returned to the pump barrel or cylinder and so redrawn off, and consequently
entirely economised, with the least possible amount of risk of injurious effect to
the beer being drawn; to attain which we employ a receptacle or jar preferably
composed of glass but which may be contained in wicker-work or other covering.
This jar has preferably a brass or other lid which screws on to it, and a joint is
made by an ordinary india-rubber ring. The jar is placed at a required distance
and at a suitable position below the ordinary waste beer trough and pump barrel
or cylinder of beer pump, and a glass or other pipe or connection extends from
the opening in said beer trough to the lid of jar and projects a short distance
within said jar. A glass or other tube extends also through the lid of said' jar
to near its bottom part and it is coupled by means of a flexible or other tubing to
a back pressure valve which latter is on the same level or thereabouts to a cock
or hand workable tap or valve which allows the said flexible or other tubing to
complete a communication between the jar and beer pump barrel or cylinder at
about a half-way vertical distance of the latter. A vent pipe is connected to lid
of jar and is carried to a vertical distance immediately above the beer pump
trough for an obvious reason. Any overflow from a measure or glass, or droppings
from the beer engine tap, falls into the ordinary trough and descends by gravity
through the perforated or other opening therein down the return tubing before
described into our improved glass receptacle, and it is redrawn from said recep-
tacle, but only when the beer pump piston has lifted a certain proportion of
fresh beer, that is to say, the pump piston travels half or more its journey before
it draws in any waste beer as will be well understood.
All the parts of our said improved apparatus are easily and readily accessable
and the arrangement is perfectly compact and as the retaining parts are composed
of glass the otherwise wastable beer is kept in a pure conditions and served out
only with measures which have had a distinct proportion of fresh beer already
drawn; whereas in apparatus for the utilisation of waste beer or droppings as
hitherto arranged the waste is drawn in with the fresh beer simultaneously with
the result that it is not uniform through a series of measurings and in con-
sequence a variableness in quality of the beer drawn is produced.
Dated this 23rd day of November 1898
H. F. BOUGHTON.
Patent Agent, Barnsley,

page_text: improvements applicable to beеr Pumps.
We, GEORGE HOWARD, of 5, Moss Square, Worsbro Common, in the County
of York, Brewer's Machinery Fitter, and JAMES SMITH, of 21, Commercial Street,
Barnsley, in the County aforesaid, Commercial. Traveller, 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:-
Our present invention relates to certain improvements applicable to beer-
pumps, the object being to arrange and combine improved apparatus in connec
tion with ordinary beer-pumps that the waste or droppings obtained in the
drawing off of beer is economically, effectively and in a perfectly clean and
proportionable manner returned to the pump barrel or cylinder and so redrawn
off, and consequently entirely economised with the least possible amount of
risk of injurious effect to the beer being drawn; to attain which we apply our
improvements to ordinary beer pumps or engines substantially in the manner
described by reference to the accompanying drawing. Fig. 1, which is an
isometric perspective view of an ordinary set of beer pumps with our improved
apparatus applied thereto.
We employ a receptacle or jar A preferably composed of glass and which where
preferred may be contained in wicker-work or other covering. This jar A has
preferably a brass or other lid a¹ which screws into it and a joint is made by an
ordinary india-rubber ring a².
The jar A is placed at a required distance and at a suitable position below the
ordinary waste-beer trough 1 and pump barrels or cylinders E of beer pumps
and a pipe G extends from a perforated opening g' in trough D through the
lid a¹ of jar A and projects a short distance within said jar.
A glass or other tube C extends also through the lid a¹ of said jar A. to near the
bottom and it receives a back pressure valve c¹ near said lid, and extends upwards
to another back pressure valve which is on the same level or thereabouts to a
cock or hand workable tap or valve H which allows the said flexible or other
tubing C to complete a communication between the jar A and beer pump barreļ
or cylinder E at about half way vertical distance of the latter.
A vent pipe J is connected to lid a' of jar A and is carried to a vertical distance
immediately above the beer pump trough D and pump cylinders for an obvious
reason.
Any overflow from a measure or glass or droppings from the beer engine taps
falls into the ordinary trough D and descends by gravity through the perforated
or other opening g' therein down the tube G and into the improved glass recep-
tacle A, and it is redrawn from said receptacle, but only when the beer-pump
piston has lifted a certain proportion of fresh beer, that is to say the pump
piston travels half or more its journey before it draws any waste beer as our
improvements make the connection from the receptacle A to enter the cylinder E
at about the centre vertically as shown.
All the parts of our said improved apparatus are easily and readily accessable
and the arrangement is perfectly compact and as the retaining parts are composed
of glass the otherwise wastable beer is kept in a pure and fresh condition and
served out only with measurings or quantities which have had a distinct propor-
tion of fresh beer already drawn; whereas in apparatus for the utilisation of
waste beer or droppings as hitherto arranged the waste is drawn in with fresh
beer during the whole stroke of pump and simultaneously, with the result that
it is not uniform through a series of measures as in our improvements and in
consequence a variableness in the quality of the beer drawn is produced.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that
what we claim is :-
1. The combination with ordinary beer-engines or pumps of a receptacle A for
waste beer with screw lid and washer, a connection thereto from trough and a
vent, and a connection therefrom to a pump cylinder with intermediate stop
valve and one or more back pressure valves.
2. The arrangement of a communication from the waste beer receptable to the
Lump cylinder for the object specified.
Dated this 22nd dort of Anost 1800
H. F. BOUGHTON,
Patent Agent, 114A Chancery Lane, W.C.