CERTAIN IMPROVED METHODS OF RAISING OF BEER, ALE, SPIRITUOUS LIQUOR3, &c., FROM THE CELLAR TO THE BAR OR ANY OTHER PART OF THE HOUSE, FOR THE USE CF PUBLICANS, BREWERS, DISTILLERS, AND OTHERS, TOGETHER WITH AND BY A MEANS OF SUNDRY NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS NECESSARY FOR THAT PURPOSE
Year: 1798

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
HART, of the Parish of Saint James, Westminster, in the County of Middlesex,
Brazier, sends greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain bearing
date at Westminster, the Seventeenth day of December, in the thirty-ninth
year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said William Hart, Ilis
especial licence that I, the said William Hart, during the term of years therein
imentioned, should, and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"CERTAIN IMPROVED METHODS OF RAISING OF BEER, ALE, SPIRITUOUS LIQUOR3, &c.,
FROM THE CELLAR TO THE BAR OR ANY OTHER PART OF THE HOUSE, FOR THE USE
CF PUBLICANS, BREWERS, DISTILLERS, AND OTHERS, TOGETHER WITH AND BY A
MEANS OF SUNDRY NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS NECESSARY FOR THAT PURPOSE;"
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the
said William Hart, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Hart, do hereby declare that my said Invention, is described in the
plan and description thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said William. Hart, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.

page_text: Two Vessels made
either of Lead Earthenware or any other makual
that can be made our proof. -
may
be made as on the drawing ct any
The exhauster or air pump which
other shape make or figure most appropriate to the situation of fixing it
and worked with any motion suitable and at pleasure. -
A Tube communicating from the exhauster B. to the Cocks D. D. und
from them to the Vessels A. A.
Two Cocks under which are two Valves shutting off the Air of the
exhausting tube C. C. so that the porter VC YC
may
not communicate
to the pump B. on the Vessels AA being full
Two Air pipes and Cocks fixed to the top of the Vessels A. A. m
and from thence by two levers to the Drawing Cocks F. F. being
easy way of giving the necessary vent at the time of drawing the
Porter yo &
a more
Two Valves soldered on to the two mains mild and state porter
shewn by H H and from thence carried to the Cellar in which they may
be supported to the Floor of the Bar or layed in a French dug in the
Cellar Floor at pleasure of the Publican or giving room in the Cellar
Two new invented machines made of brass or other metal for the more
security in tapping and safety from Leckage ..
Two pipes made of any material soldered or screwed on to the la-
chines II. of which there may be made any number according to the
largeness of the Cellar..
A new invented Vent peg necessary to the working the whole
Apparatus and made of
Metal-
any
The Bax..
The Cellar
Two Glass tubes for ascertaining when the Vessels are full ..
Two Brass Caps and Screws or Cocks for cleansing the Vessels
I do not rist the merits or value of this Invention on any particular
parks thereof but the whole Apparatus as it is now combined together
application of it to the purposes of conveying porter Ale Spirits or
from the Cellar to the Bar or any other part of the House or Room
use of flublicans Brewers Distillers and others fe