Improved Apparatus for Drawing-off Liquids.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 13th May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 13th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 19th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Drawing-off Liquids.
We FREDERICK SMITH of 8 Stocks Lane Stalybridge in the County of Chester,
and WILLIAM TRAVIS of 29 Market Street Stalybridge in the County of
Lancaster Innkeepers do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention is applicable for extracting or drawing-off beer or other liquids
from hogsheads, puncheons or barrels placed on end, the object being to simplify
such apparatus and to dispense with the use of taps.
The invention consists principally of a hollow plug of brass or other metal, into
the lower end of which is fitted a cork, and which is driven by means of a mallet
into the ordinary tap hole.
This plug is made with a recess at the upper end in which is placed an india
rubber bush or ring (which may be secured by a metal screwed bush if desirable)
forming a liquid tight and air tight stuffing box.
We provide a long tube of metal or other suitable material the lower end of
which is closed by a screw plug or otherwise and which is perforated above the
said plug or end. This tube is of such a diameter as will fit air and liquid tight in
the india rubber bush or stuffing box and its upper end is provided with an union
joint for connecting it to the delivery pipe.
One side of the hollow plug is fitted with a self acting vent which is provided
with a check screw to close the same when desired.
When this apparatus is to be used the long tube is coupled with the delivery pipe
by means of the union joint at the top, and its lower end is then forced downwards
through the hollow plug pushing the cork out of the lower end of the same, and
the tube is passed downwards until its perforated end nearly reaches the bottom of
the hogshead or other vessel from which the beer or other liquid can then be drawn
off in the usual manner.
Dated this 19th day of May 1891
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants...
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Drawing-off Liquids.
We FREDERICK SMITH of 8 Stocks Lane Stalybridge in the County of Chester,
and WILLIAM TRAVIS of 29 Market Street Stalybridge in the County of
Lancaster Innkeepers, 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 applicable principally for extracting or drawing-off beer or
other liquids from hogsheads puncheons or barrels placed on end, the object being
to simplify such apparatus and to dispense with the use of taps and vent pegs,
tilters and stillages, and to give more cellar room.
The nature of our said invention and the manner in which the same is to be
performed or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference
to the sheet of drawings hereunto annexed and the following explanation thereof.
Fig. 1 on the drawing is a vertical section of our invention and

page_text: Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the same, and
Fig. 3 is also a vertical section showing the application thereto of the long tube
connected with the pipe for drawing-off the liquor.
The invention consists principally of a hollow plug a of brass or other metal
(see Fig. 1) into the lower end of which is fitted a cork band which is driven by
means of a mallet into the ordinary tap hole whilst the barrel or vessel is in the
vertical position."
If however it is preferred to place the barrel or vessel in a horizontal position
and to draw the beer or other liquor through the bung hole, this can readily be
done by replacing the bung with a wooden shive provided with a tap hole in the
centre.
The plug a is made with a recess at the upper end in which is placed an india
rubber bush or ring which may be secured by a metal screwed bush or gland c if
desirable forming a liquid-tight and air-tight stuffing box.
We provide a long tube d of metal or other suitable material the lower end
of.which is closed by a screw plug e or otherwise, and which is perforated above
the said plug or end.
This tube d is of such a diameter externally as will fit air-and-liquid tight in
the india rubber bush or gland 1 and its upper end is provided with a stop tap f
and union joint for connecting it to the delivery pipe. This long tube d with its
tap and union joint in itself forms no part of our claim as a somewhat similar tube
has been used with other apparatus for drawing off liquids.
One side of the hollow plug a near the top is fitted with a self acting vent h
which may be provided with a check screw to keep the valve closed when
desired.
When this apparatus is to be used the hollow plug a having a cork in the
end of it as shown at Fig. 1 is driven tight by means of a mallet into the tap
hole of the hogshead or vessel instead of an ordinary tap. The long tube d
being coupled with the delivery pipe by means of the union joint g at the top, and
the stop tapf being closed, the lower end of the tube d is forced downwards
through the hollow plng a pushing the cork bout of the lower end of the same, and
the tube is passed downwards until its perforated end nearly reaches the bottom
of the hogshead or vessel from which the beer or other liquid can then be drawn off
in the usual manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
The improved apparatus for drawing-off' liquids constructed and utilized substan-
tially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the drawings hereunto annexed
and especially the combination of the hollow plug india rubber bush, self acting
vent, and cork, when applied and used substantially in the manner and for the
purposes hereinbefore set forth.
Dated this 11th day of February 1892.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Anne's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.