Improvements in Automatic "Tilters" for Beer Barrels or other Barrels.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Nov., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 26th Aug., 1898-Accepted, 19th Nov., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Automatic "Tilters" for Beer Barrels or other
Barrels.
I, JOSHUA FIELDEN, of the Devonshire Arms Inn, Thornton Road, Bradford,
in the County of York, Inn Keeper, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:
This invention relates to improvements in automatic "tilters" for tilting
beer and other barrels when they are almost empty, and its object is to provide
a tilter simple in construction and operation and which will gradually tilt the
barrel so as not to materially disturb the sediment.
For this purpose I employ a hydraulic ram to support or engage the back
end of the barrel and the size of the ram bears such a relation to the pressure
of the water that when the barrel is almost empty and its weight correspondingly
reduced the power of the ram is sufficient to tilt the barrel. The water passage
is preferably so small that it takes several hours to fill the ram barrel so the
barrel is tilted very slowly..
I may employ a tilter consisting of a board or bracket adapted to be hung or
supported in a suitable position on a projection in the wall or its equivalent behind
the barrel. The end of the ram may be hinged or connected to the lower end of
projection or pro-
said board or bracket and the ran above is provided with a
jections adapted to engage the inside of the top stave of the beer barrel or other
convenient part. The ram barrel may be supplied with water by a flexible tube
attached to a union secured on the end of the ram barrel. A tap is preferably
employed next to the said union.
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DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents, Bradford.
Improvements in Automatic "Tilters" for Beer Barrels or other
Barrels.
I, JOSHUA FIELDEN, of the Devonshire Arms Inn, Thornton Road, Bradford,
in the County of York, Inn 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 relates to improvements in automatic "tilters" for tilting
beer and other barrels when they are almost empty, and its object is to provide

page_text: a tilter simple in construction and operation and which will gradually tilt the
barrel so as not to materially disturb the sediment.
For this purpose I employ a hydraulic ram or cylinder to support or engage
the back end of the barrel and the size of the ram or cylinder bears such a
relation to the pressure of the water that when the barrel is almost empty and
its weight correspondingly reduced the power of the ram or cylinder is sufficient
to tilt the barrel. The water passage is preferably so small that it takes several
hours to fill the cylinder so the barrel is tilted very slowly.
To fully describe our invention reference is made to the accompanying sheet
of drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of
reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the figures.
The rod D
Figure 1. represents an elevation of my improved tilter. Figure 2, is a side
elevation of the same, and Figure 3, is a cross section on the line a, b, Figure 1.
The wooden bracket A is made with a series of holes 13 by any one of which it
can be suspended from a nail or stud projecting from the wall or its equivalent
behind the barrel. The lower end C of the piston rod is pivoted by the pin E
between the lugs F, F secured to the projecting arm G of the bracket.
is connected to the piston H fitting the cylinder J, and the latter is gradually
supplied with water under suitable pressure by the cock K coupled to it by the
union nut L. The cock K is fed by a flexible tube from the usual water service
pipe or other convenient source. A wooden batten N is secured to the cylinder J
by the metal straps 0, 0 passing round the cylinder, and a projection P is fixed
by the screws S to the front of said batten.
In practice the barrel is mounted on an ordinary gantry and the apparatus is
suspended by one of the holes B behind the barrel at such a height that the
projection Plies in the recess at the end of the barrel immediately beneath the
end of the upper stave. The cock K with the flexible tube attached is then
opened to a more or less minute degree and is fixed by the nut L to the top of
the cylinder J, consequently as soon as the weight of the barrel is sufficiently
reduced by the withdrawal of its contents the pressure of the water in the cylinder J
lifts the cylinder and so tilts the barrel.
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. The combination with the bracket A of a hydraulic lifting device having
a projection P adapted to engage the end of the barrel, substantially as herein
shown and described.
2. A barrel tilter constructed to work automatically by hydraulic pressure,
substantially as herein shown and described, and illustrated in the accompany-
ing drawing.
Dated this 25th day of August 1898
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents, Bradford