Improvements in Apparatus for Drawing Beer or other Fluids from Barrels or other Vessels.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Feb., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Nov., 1899-Accepted, 30th Dec., 1899
Improvements in Apparatus for Drawing Beer or other Fluids from
Barrels or other Vessels.
I, HERBERT GARLAND, of 35, South Road, West Kirby, in the County of
Chester, Mechanician, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has for its object certain improvements in the prior Patent
of Herbert Garland, No. 6839/95: In that patent an apparatus is described in
which the liquid contained in a barrel or other vessel can be drawn off from
immediately below the surface, irrespective of the height of the liquid for the
time being in the vessel. The present invention comprises certain improve-
ments in the construction, which will be understood from the following
description:
In the former patent aforesaid, the barrel or other vessel has a tube dipping
down into it, to which the bung is attached. Another tube is hinged to the
end of the first tube at end of which there is a float with bent nozzle, whereby
the liquid can be drawn off immediately below its surface where the liquid is
purest and less liable to contamination. The present invention comprises the
following improvements:-
1. The wire which passes through the bung and is pivoted at one end to the
float tube is provided at the other end with an arm having a pointer adapted
to move vertically on a scale, thus ensuring that the height of the liquid in the
vessel can be correctly read.
2. To enable the float arm to be lifted clear of the liquid in the barrel when
the demand is finished with for the day, I adopt the following arrangement. A
stationary fixed arm is provided having a hole through which a pin or padlock
can be passed. If now the arm be raised by the hand and fastened to the arm
by passing a pin through the holes or a padlock, the float is in this manner
raised to the top of the vessel and not only raises the float clear of the liquid
but also prevents liquid being drawn off. This also does away with the objec-
tionable wastage of beer lying in the pipes all night, as immediately the nozzle
is raised above the beer level, the liquid in the pipe connecting with the beer
engine falls back into the barrel.
3. For the purpose of keeping a register of the amount of liquid withdrawn,
I provide a cylinder to which a continuous rotation is imparted by the clock.
Upon this cylinder the registering paper is placed. To the wire is fixed a
pencil. Thus as the liquid lowers in the vessel, the pencil will lower also,
tracing on the registering paper a diagram whose vertical ordinates represent
the actual amount of liquid withdrawn at each discharge from the barrel and
the time of withdrawals and whose horizontal lines indicate the period during
which no liquid was being withdrawn.
4. Instead of using a pump for drawing off the liquid from the barrel, I
sometimes employ a syphon. One end of the syphon is screwed to the pipe

page_text: and the other dips down below the bottom of the vessel. It is provided with a
tap, and by opening the tap the liquid will flow from the barrel through the
syphon to a lower level.
5. It is obvious that the drawing off apparatus may be applied to the end of
the barrel instead of the side.
6. The registering rod or wire attached to the float tube may have connected
therewith a spring which only comes into play when the barrel is nearly
emptied of liquid, and then has the effect of counterbalancing the float tube
and preventing it sinking below the surface of the liquid in the barrel, thus
ensuring a correct indication on the dial.
Datad this 90nd der af lakmuam 1800
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.
Improvement in Apparatus for Drawing Beer or other Fluids from
Barrels or other Vessels.
1, HERBERT GARLAND, of 35, South Road, West. Kirby, in the County of
Chester, Mechanician, 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 for its object certain improvements in my prior Patent
No. 6839/95. In that patent an apparatus is described in which the liquid
contained in a barrel or other vessel can be drawn off from immediately below
the surface, irrespective of the height of the liquid for the time being in the
vessel. The present invention comprises certain improvements in the construc-
tion, which will be understood from the following description :-
In the accompanying drawings,
:-
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation showing the present invention applied to
a barrel;
Figure 2a side view on an enlarged scale of the apparatus, showing the
arrangement for registering;
Figure 3a syphoning arrangement;
Figure 4 a slight modification of the locking arrangement.
In these figures A is the barrel or other vessel, B a tube dipping down into
it, to which the bung C is attached, D) another tube hinged to the end of the
first tube B, and E a float at end of tube D with bent nozzle F whereby the
liquid can be drawn off immediately below its surface where the liquid is purest
and less liable to contamination. These features were set forth in my prior
patent aforesaid.
The present invention comprises the following improvements :—
1. The wire G which passes through the bung and is pivoted at one end to
the float tube D), is provided at the other end with an arm I having a pointer I
adapted to move vertically on a scale or dial plate J, thus ensuring that the
height of the liquid in the vessel can be correctly read. K is a stuffing box
surrounding the wire G, which may be provided or not as desired.. This stuffing
box, while not interfering with the vertical movement of the wire G, prevents
access of fresh air into the barrel.
2. To enable the float E to be lifted clear of the liquid in the barrel when
the demand is finished with for the day, I adopt the following arrangement:

page_text: L is a stationary fixed arm having a hole through which a pin or padlock can
be passed. If now the arm I be raised by the hand and fastened to the arm L
by passing a pin or a padlock through the holes i and 1, the float is in this
manner raised to the top of the vessel and not only raises the float clear of the
liquid but also prevents liquid being drawn off.
3. For the purpose of keeping a register of the amount of liquid withdrawn,
I sometimes provide a cylinder N to which a continuous rotation is imparted
by the clock A. Upon this cylinder N¹ the registering paper N is placed. To
the wire G is fixed a pencil n. Thus as the liquid lowers in the vessel, the
pencil will lower also, tracing on the registering paper a diagram whose vertical
ordinates represent the actual amount of liquid withdrawn at each discharge
from the barrel and the time of withdrawals, and whose horizontal lines indi-
cate the period during which no liquid was being withdrawn.
4. Instead of using a pump for drawing off liquid from the barrel I some-
times employ a syphon O. One end of the syphon is screwed to the pipe B and
the other dips down below the bottom of the vessel A. It is provided with a
tap P, and by opening the tap the liquid will flow from the barrel through the
syphon to the lower level.
5. It is obvious that the drawing off apparatus may be applied to the end of
the barrel instead of to the side.
6. The arrangement set forth in Figure 4 is practically an equivalent of that
set forth in Figure 1. J is the scale or dial plate, G the wire which passes
through the bung H and is looped or bent at the top, and provided with a
pointer I. The bent or looped portion of the top of the wire G is passed
through a hole in a stationary plate L' which projects from the tube Bor
forms part of the dial plate J. If now the end of the wire G be raised by hand
and the pin 12 passed between the loop and the plate L' the float is in this
manner raised to the top of the vessel and clear of the liquid. Q is a spring
which is preferably inserted on the wire G between the bung and a washer
secured to the wire, the object of which is to ensure the float E maintaining
its position on the surface of the liquid when the vessel is nearly empty.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. In apparatus for drawing off beer or other liquids, the combination with
a hinged discharge pipe adapted to be inserted into the vessel and provided
with a float for maintaining the orifice of said pipe at substantially the level
of the liquid, of means for registering the amount of liquid drawn off, con-
sisting of a stationary dial plate such as J, a sliding rod actuated by the move-
ment of said hinged pipe and a pointer I worked by the sadd rod and travelling
over the dial plate in such manner as to indicate the height of liquid in the
vessel, substantially as described.
2. In apparatus for drawing off liquids, the arrangements for enabling the
orifice into the discharge pipe 1) to be lifted clear of the liquid in the barrel,
and for locking it when raised, so as to prevent liquid being drawn off, substan-
tially as described.
3. In apparatus for drawing off liquids, the combination with a hinged dis-
charge pipe adapted to be inserted into the vessel, and provided with a float
for maintaining the end of said pipe at immediately below the level of the
liquid, of a rod such as G actuated by the movement of said hinged discharge
pipe, a cylinder to which a continuous rotation is imparted by a clock or other
appliance and on which a registering paper is placed, and a pencil attached to
said rod G substantially as described, whereby as the liquid is drawn off in
the vessel, the pencil will trace on the registering paper a diagram, representing
the amount of liquid withdrawn at each discharge, and the period when it was
withdrawn, substantially as described.

page_text: 4. The general combined arrangement, and construction of parts forming, my
improved apparatus for drawing off beer and other liquids from barrels or other
vessels, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 21st day of November 1899
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Patent, Agents, of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham & London.