Improvements in or relating to Engines for Pumping Up Beer.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 19th May, 1896-Accepted, 5th Sept., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Engines for Pumping Up Beer.
I ALEXANDER EDWIN HART of No. 59 Queen's Row, Walworth, in the County
of Surrey, Metal Turner, 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 is to prevent the usual waste from the spouts of beer engines by
the application hereinafter described and consisting of a suction tube and plunger
attached either to the side or bottom of beer engine barrels whichever may be most
convenient. Hitherto there has been much waste from the nozzle or spout at the
time of drawing beer in consequence, on the return of the piston to the barrel of so
much of the beer being displaced and which I claim my invention prevents and
saves instead of same being wasted at the spout.
For the purpose of explaining my invention there are drawings accompanying
this specification which are explanatory as shewing the action of the suction tube
above referred to.
"A" suction tube attached either to the side or bottom of the barrel see Fig. 1
or Fig. 2 such tube being open at the bottom. "6" plunger to same. "C" the
connecting rod to lever "d."
From the drawing in Fig. 1 it will be seen that the handle of the engine is up
and that the suction tube is therefore charged with the beer which but for this
invention would be lost.
The action of the apparatus is as follows;
The suction tube "A" is attached to the side of the barrel in Fig. 1 such tube
having a rod with inverted cupleathers or other packing attached to the bottom
of such rod and which in its action slides backwards and forwards in the said
suction tube, the tube being open at the bottom, the suction tube has an inlet or
outlet at "e." The plunger rod to the suction tube going through the stuffing box
and at the top being connected with the knuckle "f" and at the other end of such
knuckle is attached the rod "C" which at its further extremity is attached to
another knuckle at "g."
The action of the suction tube when in use is as follows.
By pulling the handle of the beer engine downwards in the act of drawing beer
the suction tube is brought into action at the same time as the barrel of the engine
and empties itself in such barrel at "e" but when the handle is pushed back the action
is that the suction tube becomes filled again with what otherwise would have been
wasted at the spout.
With regard to Fig. 2 the suction tube is on the same principle as the tube in
Fig. 1 but in cases when the fixing same would not be available as in Fig. 1 it can
be fixed at the bottom of the barrel.
The suction tube in Fig. 2 is fixed by being screwed into the bottom of the
barrel as shewn in Fig. 2 at "h" the rod with the plunger attached going through
the bottom of such barrel and being fixed on to the inside piston as seen at "i."
When the necessity for fixing of the suction tube is at the bottom instead of the
side of the barrel as shewn in Fig. 2 the inlet to the barrel will be at the side
instead of the middle as shewn at "j."

page_text: Having shewn and described the nature of my invention and in what manner the
same can be used I declare that what I claim is ;
1. The improvements in or relating to engines for pumping up beer substantially
as and for the purposes set forth.
2. In engines for pumping up beer the use of a suction tube and plunger
attached to the side or bottom of beer engine barrels as shewn by Figs. 1 and 2
respectively.
3. In engines for pumping up beer an additional rod "C" attached to the
knuckle "" at the lower end of the rod to the plunger rod and at the top of such
rod by a knuckle to the lever at "g."
4. In engines for pumping up beer the general construction and arrangement
of parts substantially as hereinbefore described and shewn on the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 19th day of May 1896.
ALEXANDER EDWIN HART,
59 Queen's Row, Walworth, S.E.