AN IMPROVED SELF-ACTING STAND OR TILT FOR CASKS OR BARRELS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Dalgety, of 76, Florence Road, Deptford,
in the County of Kent, Engineer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
SELF-ACTING STAND OR TILT FOR CASKS OR BARRELS."
Sealed the 1st July 1856, and dated the 26th January 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Dalgety at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th January 1856.
I, ALEXANDER DALGETY, of 76, Florence Road, Deptford, in the County of
Kent, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED SELF-ACTING STAND OR TILT FOR CASKS OR BARRELS," to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to a peculiar arrangement of self-acting apparatus
for tilting beer or other barrels requiring to be tilted. The apparatus consists
of a holding frame, on which the barrel rests on three bearing points; this
frame works near the front end of the barrel on a V or knife edge, so that
perfect steadiness of motion is obtained, without any oil or other lubricating
material being required for any of the working parts. On the back end of the
frame is fitted a tube, closed at the top and having a helical or other spring
inside, which spring bears both on the upper end of its holding tube and on
the end of a rod fixed by a pin joint at its lower end to the fixed portion of

page_text: the stand; the tube slides along this röd freely; and is fitted with a friction
detent, which, when in action, prevents the tube-and-spring from being pushed
downwards, but allows them always to rise.
The full barrel on being placed on the stand or tilt, and the detent held
up, will descend at the back end to a horizontal or nearly horizontal position,
and as the beer or other liquid is drawn off, the decreasing weight thereof
will cause the spring to raise up or tilt the back end of the barrel, whilst at
the same time all vibration is avoided, and the cask prevented from being
forced down by hand by the intervention of the friction detent herein-before
referred to.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alexander Dalgety in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
18th July-1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,, I, ALEX-
ANDER DALGETY, of 76, Florence Road, Deptford, in the County of Kent,
Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me the said Alexander Dalgety, Her special licence that I, 'the said
Alexander Dalgety, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Alexander Dalgety, 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 In-
vention for AN IMPROVED SELF-ACTING STAND OR TILT FOR CASKS.OR BARRELS,
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alexander Dalgety, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alexander Dalgety, do hereby declaré
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the follow-
ing statement, reference' being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and
to the letters and figures marked 'thereon (that is to say):
My Invention relates to a peculiar arrangement of self-acting apparatus for
tilting beer or other casks or barrels requiring to be tilted. The apparatus
consists of an upper holding or supporting frame, on which 'the cask or barrel
rests on three bearing points (which principle of triangular bearing is maintained
throughout); this frame works near the front end of the cask or barrel on a
"V" or knife edge, so that perfect steadiness' of motion is obtained; and no
oil or other lubricating material is required for that or any other of the
working parts. At the back end of "the upper holding or supporting frame is
fitted a tube closed at the top and having a helical or other spring inside,
which spring bears both on the upper end of the holding tube and on the end
of a rod fixed by a pin joint at its lower extremity to the base of the stand;
the tube slides freely upon the rod, and has attached to its lower end a self-
acting friction detent, which prevents the tube and upper holding or supporting
frame from being forced downwards, but allows' the spring: to raise the upper
holding or supporting frame as the contents of the cask or barrél diminish.
The full cask or barrel being placed on the upper holding or supporting
frame of the stand or tilt, and the friction detent held up, will descend at the
back to a horizontal or nearly horizontal position, and as the beer or other
fluid is drawn off, the decreasing weight will allow the spring to raise up or
tilt the back end of the upper holding or supporting frame; whilst at the same
time all vibration is avoided, and the cask or barrel prevented from being
forced downwards by the self-acting friction detent before referred to.
In order, however, that my Invention may be fully understood, I will
proceed to describe it more particularly by the aid of the accompanying
Drawings. (In each Figure the same letters of reference denote similar
corresponding parts.)
Fig. 1 represents a front elevation, and Fig. II. a side elevation, of my
improved self-acting stand or tilt for casks or barrels; "A, A," upper holding
or supporting frame, on which the cask or barrel is to be placed, the two
front ends "B, B," forming two "V" or kuife edges working in "V"
bearings "C, C," on the top of front columns "D, D," of base "E;" "F"
tube containing belical or other spring attached to upper holding or supporting
frame "A, A," by pin-joint "N," (shown in section Figure 2). "G, G," self-
acting friction detent (shown in Figure 2); "H," small arm or bracket

page_text: attached to tube "F" carrying self-acting friction detent "G, G," on pin
joint "I" (shown in Figure 2); "K," rod fixed to base "E," by pin joint
M," on which tube "F" slides (shown in section Figure 2).
Having now fully described the nature of my said Invention; and the mode
in which the same is to be performed, I would have it clearly to be understood
that I do not by any means confine myself to the precise details herein-beforo
described, as the same might be varied without departing from the general
principle of my said improvements; but that which I do claim as new and of
my Invention is,-
Firstly, the application of a friction detent to a self-acting stand or tilt for
casks or barrels, as before described.
Secondly, causing the front end of the upper holding or supporting frame
of a stand or tilt, on which the cask or barrel is placed, to move upon two "V"
or knife edges, as already described.
And, thirdly, protecting the lifting spring or springs from the injurious effects
of any liquid, by placing it or them within a tube closed at the top, in
.connection with my self-acting apparatus applied to stands or tilts for raising
or tilting casks or barrels.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Dalgety, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
GEO. H. SHOVE,
13, Hatcham Park Road,
New Cross, Deptford.
A. DALULII.
(L.B.)