Improvements connected with Apparatus for Withdrawing Beer and other Liquids from Casks or other Vessels.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Jan., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Mar., 1890-Accepted, 26th Apr., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with Apparatus for Withdrawing Beer and
other Liquids from Casks or other Vessels.
I, THOMAS DUNLEVIE, of The Roe Buck Hotel, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire,
Hotel Keeper, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to improvements connected with apparatus for with-
drawing beer and other liquids from casks or other vessels, the object being to enable
the whole or any quantity of the contents of a cask or other vessel to be withdrawn
without stooping the same so as to obviate any possibility of the beer or other liquid
being rendered thick.
In carrying out my invention as applied for instance to a cask of beer the cask is
blocked on its side in the usual way the shive being by preference at the top. I
provide a tube preferably made of copper and tinned all over so as to prevent
corrosion, and this tube passes through an airtight stuffing box in the shive or in
the cask and is made long enough to reach to the lower side of the cask. The
lower part of the said tube or an extension of the same is perforated and surrounded
by a fine wire gauze or is otherwise formed so as to prevent any hops or other
sediment passing up the tube. The upper end of the tube may be bent and furnished
with a connector or be otherwise suitably formed for attachment to the suction pipe
of the beer pump. The said stuffing box consists of an outer cylindrical body prefer-
ably slightly taper outside so as to fit tight in the shive hole when driven therein and
it is furnished with a recess in which is an indiarubber washer or other packing which
can be tightened on the tube by a screw threaded or other gland.
The said tube is free to be moved to and fro in the stuffing box so that the depth of
immersion of the lower perforated end can be regulated at will thus enabling the
clear upper stratum of beer or other liquid to be withdrawn before the lower stratum
has cleared. As the level of the beer in the cask falls the tube is pushed down the
stuffing box to suit.
My invention can be similarly applied to a cask which is standing on end, the said
stuffing box with its tube being fixed in the head of the cask.
Instead of the said tube being connected to the suction pipe of the pump it may be
led down the side or front of the cask to form a syphon and furnished with a tap by
which the contents of the cask can be withdrawn.
When using my invention for withdrawing liquids from vats or vessels other than
casks the stuffing box or a clip to hold the adjustable tube may be carried by a bearer
across the top of the vat or other vessel.
Dated this 4th day of January 1890-
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with Apparatus for Withdrawing Beer and
other Liquids from Casks or other Vessels.
I, THOMAS DUNLEVIE, of The Roe Buck Hotel, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire,
Hotel 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 :-
This invention has reference to improvements connected with apparatus for with-
drawing beer and other liquids from casks or other like vessels, the object being to

page_text: enable the whole or any quantity of the contents of a cask or other like vessel to be
withdrawn without stooping the same so as to obviate any possibility of the beer or
other liquid being rendered thick.
In carrying out my invention as applied for instance to a cask of beer the cask is
blocked on its side in the usual way the shive being by preference at the top. 1
provide a tube preferably made of copper and tinned all over so as to prevent
corrosion, and this tube passes through an airtight stuffing box in the shive or in
the cask and is made long enough to reach to the lower side of the cask. The
lower part of the said tube or an extension of the same is perforated and surrounded
by a fine wire gauze or is otherwise formed so as to prevent any hops or other
sediment passing up the tube. The upper end of the tube may be bent and
furnished with a connector or be otherwise suitably formed for attachment to the
suction pipe of the beer pump. The said stuffing box consists of an outer cylin-
drical body preferably slightly taper outside so as to fit tight in the shive hole
when driven therein and it is furnished with a recess in which is an indiarubber
washer or other packing which can be tightened on the tube by a screw threaded
or other gland.
The said tube is free to be moved to and fro in the stuffing box so that the depth
of immersion of the lower perforated end can be regulated at will thus enabling the
clear upper stratum of beer or other liquid to be withdrawn before the lower stratum
has cleared. As the level of the beer in the cask falls the tube is pushed down the
stuffing box to suit.
My invention can be similarly applied to a cask which is standing on end, the
said stuffing box with its tube being fixed' in the head of the cask.
On the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1. represents in section a barrel on end with my invention applied the suction
tube being some little distance from the bottom of the cask, as when the contents
have not cleared to the bottom, and
Fig. 2 shews the same with the suction tube pushed lower down;
Fig. 3 represents my invention applied to a cask on its side ;*
Figs. 4 and 5 show the suction tube and its stuffing box and gland separately on
an enlarged scale;
Fig 6 shews the same parts in section ;
Fig. 7 shews the same with the gland and stuffing box screwed together' ready
for use.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the
Figures of the drawings:
A is the cask containing beer or other liquid either placed on end (Figs. 1 and 2)
or blocked on its side (Fig. 3). B is the suction tube made straight and parallel
where it passes through the stuffing box and connected at its upper end by the
connector C or otherwise to the lead or other pipe D leading to a beer or liquid
pump. B¹ is the extension of the lower part of the suction tube which is perforated
at band contains a cylindrical piece of wire gauze 62 to form a strainer' to prevent
hops or other sediment passing up the tube B! F is the stuffing box, through which
the tube B passes and is its lower part which is made taper and driven into the
tap hole in the head of the cask or in the shive or other part thereof so as to be air
tight. G is the gland which when screwed on to the upper part of the stuffing box F
(see Fig. 7) tightens the india. rubber washers H or other packing on to the tube B
and makes an air tight joint and secures the tube in position.
By pushing the tube B the proper distance down into the beer or other contents
of the cask the upper clear stratum can be withdrawn and as the liquid clears the
tube can be pushed further down so as ultimately to leave nothing but sediment
and that without stooping or altering the position of the cask. or admitting air
thereto.
My invention can he applied for drawing beer or other liquid from barrels;. hutts,
bogsheads, tuns and other like vessels similarly as above described as applied. to a
cask.

page_text: The accompanying drawings illustrate what I consider to be the best way for
carrying my said invention into effect but it is to be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise shape or construction of the parts shewn.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improvements connected with apparatus for withdrawing beer and other liquids
from casks or other like vessels hereinbefore described and illustrated by the
accompanying drawings, that is to say, the employment for the purposes described
of a rigid parallel suction tube having a strainer at its lower end in combination
with and passing through an air-tight stuffing box fixed in the head or other part
of the cask or other like vessel or in the shive thereof, the said stuffing box being
adapted for tightening upon the tube to fix the same at any desired depth of
immersion in the liquid contents of the cask or other vessel, for the purpose and
substantially as hereinbefore set forth.
Dated this 20th day of March 1890.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.