IMPROVE- MENTS IN PUMPS FOR PUMPING BEER, WINE, VINEGAR, OILS, OR OTHER LIQUIDS CONTAINING ACIDS OR OILY MATTERS
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Francois Haeck, of 14, Place de la Reine, Brussels,
in the Kingdom of Belgium, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN PUMPS FOR PUMPING BEER, WINE, VINEGAR, OILS, OR OTHER LIQUIDS
CONTAINING ACIDS OR OILY MATTERS." -A communication.
Sealed the 27th August 1858, and dated the 25th March 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Francois Haeck at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 25th
March 1858.
I, FRANCOIS HAECK, of 14, Place de la Reine, Brussels, in the Kingdom of
Belgium, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PUMPS FOR PUMPING BEER, WINE, VINEGAR, OILS, OR OTHER
LIQUIDS CONTAINING ACIDS OR OILY MATTERS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in pumps for pumping'
beer, wine, vinegar, oils, or other liquids containing acids or oily matters.
For these purposes the barrel is constructed of china or earthenware, and
the piston is constructed of a cupped leather, or cup of gutta percha, sup-
ported on its upper or under side by a hollow cup connected to the piston
rod, which hollow cup is also of china or earthenware, and is of less diameter
than the diameter of the pump barrel, by which means the liquid to be
pumped will pass freely between the pump barrel and the piston when the
piston is moved in one direction, but will not pass when the piston is moved
in the other direction.
To one end of the barrel is connected a pipe, which is connected at its other
end with a barrel or other vessel containing the liquid to be pumped up, and
to the other end of the pump barrel is connected another pipe, which conveys

page_text: the liquid away. These pipes are of glass, and may be made up of lengths of
glass tubes connected together by leather or gutta percha joints, and in one of
the joints of each pipe there is a valve which permits the liquid to pass in one
direction only.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said François Haeck in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
22nd September 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANÇOIS
HAECK, of 14, Place de la Reine, Brussels, in the Kingdom of Belgium,
Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-cight, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said François Haeck, Her special licence that I, the said François Haeck,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
François Haeck, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN PUMPS FOR PUMPING BEER, WINE, VINEGAR, OILS, OR OTHER LIQUIDS
CONTAINING ACIDS OR OILY MATTERS," (a communication,) upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said François Haeck, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters.
Patent.
.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said François Haeck, do hereby declare.
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in pumps for pumping beer,
wine, vinegar, oils, or other liquids containing acids or oily matters. For these

page_text: purposes the barrel is constructed of china or earthenware, and the piston is
constructed of a cupped leather, or cup of gutta percha, supported on its upper
or under side by a hollow cup connected to the piston rod, which hollow cup
is also of china or earthenware, and is of less diameter than the diameter of
the pump barrel, by which means the liquid to be pumped will pass freely
between the pump barrel and the piston when the piston is moved in one
direction, but will not pass when the piston is moved in the other direction.
To one end of the barrel is connected a pipe, which is connected at its other
end with a barrel or other vessel containing the liquid to be pumped up, and
to the other end of the pump barrel is connected another pipe, which conveys
the liquid away. These pipes are of glass, and may be made up of lengths of
glass tubes connected together by leather or gutta percha joints, and in one of
the joints of each pipe there is a valve, which permits the liquid to pass in one
direction only.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shews a section of a pump constructed according to the Invention,
inclosed in a wooden case or stand. A is the barrel constructed of china
or earthenware; B is the piston (a plan view and section of which are shewn
separately at Figures 2 and 3,) which is constructed of a cupped leather or cup
of gutta percha a supported on its upper side by a hollow cup of china or
earthenware b, which is connected to the piston rod C. The end of the piston
rod C passes through the cupped leather or cup of gutta percha a, and through
rings c, c, and the cup a is held between the rings c and the cup b. The cup
of china or earthenware b is of less diameter than the diameter of the pump
barrel, by which means the liquid to be pumped will pass freely between the
pump barrel and the piston when the piston is moved upwards, but will not
pass when the piston is moved downwards. The piston rod c passes through
the tube A' on the top of the barrel A, and to the tube A¹ is connected the
end of a flexible tube A", the other end of the flexible tube A" being con-
nected to the piston, by which means air is prevented from passing through
the tube A¹ into the barrel A. To the top of the barrel A is connected a pipe
which is made up of lengths of glass tubes E, connected together by leather
or gutta percha joints D, F, F, F; the last length of this tube passes into the
barrel or other vessel containing the liquid to be pumped, and on the end of
the last length is attached a glass or earthenware strainer. In the joint D
there is a ball valve, similar to that shewn in section at Figure 4, which

page_text: permits the liquid to be pumped to pass into the barrel of the pump, but will
not permit it to pass in the opposite direction. To the bottom of the pump
barrel A is connected another pipe, which conducts the liquid from the pump
barrel to the vase G on the top of the case or stand, which vase G is con-
structed of porcelain or other suitable material, and from thence it flows
through the spout G¹. The pipe which conducts the liquid from the pump
barrel is made up of lengths of glass tube E¹ connected together by a joint D',
and in the joint D' there is a valve, similar to that shewn in section at
Figure 4, which permits the liquid to pass from the pump barrel, but will not
permit it to return back again. A pin on the piston rod C passes through a
slot in the lever H which is hinged to the back of the case or stand, as shewn,
so that by raising and depressing the lever I the piston B is moved up and
down. When the piston B is moved in a downward direction, it draws the
liquid through the pipe E from the barrel, and at the same time it forces the
liquid which before was below the piston up through the pipe E¹ to the vase G,
and when the piston is moved upwards the liquid above the piston passes
between the piston and the pump barrel into the space below the piston, and
so on each time that the piston is moved up and down.
In witness whereof, I, the said Francois Haeck, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Witness,
J. REED, Sol',
4, Rue de la Paille, Brussels.
F. HAECK. (L.S.)