Improved Means for Cooling Liquids.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 16th July, 1897.
Complete Specification Left, 25th Mar., 1898-Accepted, 30th Apr.,
1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Cooling Liquids.
I, JAMES JOHNSON, of 16, Gun Street, Ancoats, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Publican, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
This invention has for its object to provide simple and effective means for
cooling liquids such as beer, wine, spirits and the like whilst being drawn from
casks or other vessels.
To this end I employ between the cask or vessel containing the liquid to be
drawn off and the pump, outlet or tap a tubular coil formed of tin or of lead lined
with tin around which coil I employ a vessel adapted to receive ice, or cold water.
The liquid in the cask or vessel on its way to the pump, outlet or tap passes through
the said coil and the ice, or cold water in the vessel surrounding it, causes the
liquid to be cooled as may be required.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
I, JAMES JOHNSON, of 16, Gun Street, Ancoats, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Publican, 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 has for its object to provide simple and effective means for
cooling liquids such as beer, wine, spirits and the like whilst being drawn from
casks or other vessels.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused
to be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures.
Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of my improved apparatus for cooling liquids
such as beer, wine, spirits and the like detached, Fig. 2 shows the same as applied
between a cask and pump for English beer, Fig. 3 between two casks and a double
fountain for lager beer, Fig. 4 as applied directly to the tap of a beer cask by
means of a screw union and Fig. 5 to the tap of a wine or spirit cask by a rubber
ring union.
a is the vessel containing the ice, cold water or another cooling agent, b the
tubular coil therein, c the cask, d the beer pump, e the lager beer fountain.

page_text: a,
In carrying out my improvements and referring to Fig. 1, I form the said
vessel of sheet or other metal which may be enamelled, electro-plated or galvanized
or of other suitable material and by preference with an annular cavity a' which
forms an insulator.
The upper end of the said vessel I form with a lid a³, which permits of filling
it with ice, cold water or another cooling agent and the bottom I furnish with a
water outlet or drain tap f. The tubular coil which may be of tin, or lead lined
with tin, is employed in the middle of the vessel a and is of such a size as to leave
a space all round for the ice, cold water or another cooling agent to get in close
contact with the coil.
The upper end of the coil is bent to and suitably supported at one side of the
vessel b and the lower end secured to the bottom and furnished with a nozzle g.
When using my improved cooling apparatus for English beer between the cask
and pump I preferably employ the vessel a above the floor, see Fig. 2, so as to
have ready access and its nozzle I couple with the tap c¹ of the cask c by the pipe h
and the upper end of the coil b with the pump d, whilst the water which requires
drawing from the vessel a is conducted to the cellar by the pipe i or other suitable
place.
When using my improved cooling apparatus for lager beer, Fig. 3, I may form
the coil in the vessel a double, so as to serve for two casks as shown, it being also
employed above the floor and the upper ends of the coil connected to a double
fountain e and the lower end to the taps c¹ of the casks c by means of the pipes h; h.
in Figs. 4 & 5, the vessel a at its bottom is formed with a draw off tap 61, which
When applying the cooling apparatus directly to the tap c¹ of a cask c, as shown
communicates with the lower end of the tubular coil in the vessel a and the upper
end of the said coil is connected to the tap c¹ of the cask c by means of a screw
union, as shown in Fig. 4, or by a rubber ring union c³, as shown in Fig. 5.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is: :-
The means herein before described for cocling beverages, applied and operating
substantially as and in the manner set forth and illustrated in the annexed
drawings.
Dated this outh
1. 1000
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester. Agents to Applicant.