AN APPARATUS TO BE APPLIED TO ENGINES FOR CONVEYING FLUID THEREFROM
Year: 1802

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
PARKINSON, of the Parish of Saint George, Bloomsbury, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Second day of January, in the
forty-second year of His reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Thomas
Parkinson, His especial licence that I, the said Thomas Parkinson, during the
term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "AN APPARATUS TO BE APPLIED TO ENGINES FOR CONVEYING FLUID
THEREFROM;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging
me, the said Thomas Parkinson, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within one calendar month after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had)
may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Parkinson, do hereby declare that my said Invention of an apparatus,
which I call a regulator, to be applied to all engines, machines, or pumps, for

page_text: the better conveying fluids, particularly malt or other fermented liquors,
therefrom, is described as follows:-
By means of this regulator fluids may be drawn from any distance into a
nug or other vessel in a perfectly tranquil state, and it may be applied or
affixed to machines or pumps now made for similar purposes with equal bene-
ficial effects at a small expence; most of the engines, machines, and pumps
now in use for drawing beer or other fermented liquors, etc. from a distance
have this bad quality, they deliver the beer, etc. into a mug with an impetuous
or great velocity; by which the liquor is thrown into a state of agitation and
fermentation highly disadvantageous to the same, occasioning flatness and
insipidity, with other unpleasant circumstances.
Now the apparatus or regulator hereby specified, by taking off the pressure
of the atmosphere, will deliver the beer or liquor into the mug or other, vessel,
let the distance be ever so great, in a state of as perfect tranquility as if drawn
immediately from a butt in the ordinary method, without agitation, fermen-
tation, or superabundant quantity of froth, and will prevent the most delicate
malt liquor from being injured in drawing. This apparatus is particularly
useful in all public houses, for by its assistance malt liquors from any distance
may be drawn to any convenient place, in the greatest perfection, and imme-
diately under the eye of, the master.
Now my Invention consists of a regulator, which may be made of any shape,
of metal, wood, or any other material of which vessels for holding liquors can be
made. To be more particular, it consists of a vessel of a cylindrical or other form,
with or without a cover, whose capacity may be from a gill to any quantity,
more or less, as required, with an aperture at the bottom. I prefer a cover to
the top (for drawing malt or fermented liquors) which is fixed tight by means of
screws or other fastening. On the top of this cover is an aperture for dis-
charging the air, with or without valves. Within the regulator, and fixed to the
is an inverted cup, suspended, which prevents the fluids rushing through
the aperture. This regulator or apparatus may be fixed or attached to the
-cylinder-with-or-without-a-pipe, or-to the pump-of-the engine_or_machine, or
to the pipe which conveys the fluids from the cylinder, or to the cock through
which the fluid finally passes, or to any other convenient situation.
cover,
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Parkinson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of January, One thousand eight
hundred and two
T. PARKINSON. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the First day of February, in the
year above mentioned, the aforesaid Thomas Parkinson came before our Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and
all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also the
Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute in
that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Second day of February, in the year above written.