IMPROVE- MENTS IN APPARATUS CONNECTED WITH FERMENTING, CHARGING, CLEANSING, OR TUNNING VESSELS, CASKS, OR VATS
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Williams, of Broad Quay, in the City of
Bath, in the County of Somerset, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS CONNECTED WITH FERMENTING, CHARGING, CLEANSING,
OR TUNNING VESSELS, CASKS, OR VATS."
Sealed the 18th November 1864, and dated the 12th September 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Williams at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
12th September 1864.
I, JAMES WILLIAMS, of Broad Quay, in the City of Bath, in the County
of Somerset, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS CONNECTED WITH FERMENTING, CHARGING,
CLEANSING, OR TUNNING VESSELS, CASES, OR VATS," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to prevent the necessity for shifting or
removing the main or pipe usually used for charging, fermenting, cleansing,
or tunning vessels, casks, or vats used in the cleansing of beer, worts, or fer-
mentations, and to provide for the rotation of such vessels while being cleaned
without contact or damage to the main or pipe notwithstanding its non-removal,
thereby saving much labour and damage usually consequent on the present
mode of disconnection.
My Invention consists in moving the vessels, casks, or vats endways upon
their axles, both in and out of gear with the charging pipe or pipes leading
from the supply back, and keeping them in their positions by means of cams,
eccentrics, levers, or screws screws attached to one or both of the axles or

page_text: bearings of one or more of the vessels, casks, or vats in the set, thus enabling
them to rotate when disengaged for the purpose of being cleaned without tho
necessity of removing any other pipe than the goose or swan neck which leads
into the yeast trough.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Williams in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
18th February 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
WILLIAMS, of Broad Quay, in the City of Bath, in the County of Somerset,
Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of Iler
reign, did, for Herself, IIer heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said James Williams, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said James Williams, my exccutors, 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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS CONNECTED WITH FERMENTING, CHARGING, CLEANSING,
OR TUNNING VESSELS, CASES, OR VATS," upon condition (amongst others) that
I, the said James Williams, 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 James Williams, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings. hereunto annexed,
that is to say:-
The object of my Invention is to prevent the necessity for shifting or
removing the main or pipo usually used for charging, fermenting, tunning, or
cleansing vessels, casks, or vats used in the cleansing of beer, worts, or fer-

page_text: mentations, and to provide for the rotation of such vessels while being cleaned
without contact or damage to the main or pipe notwithstanding its non-removal,
thereby saving much labour and damage usually consequent on the present
mode of disconnection.
My Invention consists in moving the vessels, casks, or vats endways upon
their axles, both into and out of gear with the charging pipe or pipes or mains
leading from the supply back, and keeping them in their positions by means
of cams, eccentrics, levers, or screws attached to one or both of the axles or
bearings of one or more of the vessels, casks, or vats in the set, thus enabling
them to rotate when disengaged for the purpose of being cleaned without the
necessity of removing any other pipe than the goose-neck which leads into the
yeast trough.
:
In the annexed Drawings, Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7 show respectively
in front and side elevations the various ways of accomplishing the object of
moving the vessels endways upon their axles or bearings. Figures 1 & 2
show the method which I think preferable. Similar letters refer to similar
parts in all the Figures. The parts colored pink refer to the Patent.
In Figures 1 and 2, A. A, are the tunning or cleansing casks; B, B, the
charging mains or pipes leading from the supply back, or from C, C, the yeast
troughs, or from D, the beer or feeder trough; E, E, the goose or swan nocks
leading into the yeast trough; F, framing for carrying the casks or vessels ; g,
the stays for carrying the charging pipes B; H, the cam or eccentric by means
of which the vessel or cask is moved endways upon its axle T; I is the centre
of motion of the cam or eccentric H. The blade of the cam or eccentric is
made askew to the plane of its action on the centre I, as seen in Figure 2, so
that when the handle, Figure 1, is depressed in the direction of the arrow K,
the skew blade takes the direction of L, and in so doing sends the vessel
endways on its axle in the direction of the arrow x, x, in Figure 2, or by the
reverse motion produces a reverse result; ✗ is the supply cock from the
charging pipe to the vessel, the union joint of which is unfastened previous to
shifting the vessel endways in the manner described, thereby allowing the
vessel to rotate upon its axle T by means of a winch or other contrivance for
the purpose; M is the draw-off cock of the vessel A.
Figures 3, 4, and 5 show how the endway motion of the vessel can be
accomplished by the means of a screw and lever. T, the centre or bearing of
the vessel; 7, the lever; f, the fulcrum; and s, the screw. By turning a winch
on the end of the screw which works into a nut motion is given in either
direction to the lever 1, which being in connection with the centre T gives the
necessary motion to the vessel. In Figures 6 and 7 the same result is

page_text: attained by lovers without screws. T, T, the centres or bearings of the vessels;
ff, the fulcrums; R, R, tho stops to regulate the distance of motion.
And having now described the naturo of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim apparatus
for moving and retaining fermenting, charging, cleansing, or tunning vessels,
casks, or vats endways upon their axles as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Williams, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, this Third day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
JAMES WILLIAMS. (L.s.).