Retailing of Ale, Beer, Brown Beer, and Stout.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd May, 1887.
Complete Left, 18th June, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 26th July, 1887.
Retailing of Ale, Beer, Brown Beer, and Stout.
1, WILLIAM THOMAS HARDY, Crown Hotel, 50, Sussex Street, Middlesbrough, in
the North Riding of the County of York, Hotel Keeper, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
My improved automatic apparatus consists of an ordinary beer tap made of brass or
any other suitable material such as is used for connecting the Barrel of beer in the
cellar with the pump in the bar above, but upon the top side of the tap and in front
of the ordinary plug or cock, is a small tube or inlet leading into the interior of the
tap. This small tube or inlet connects with the trough or tank underneath the pumps
in the Bar above by means of a hole in the said trough or tank and an india rubber
tube or any other kind of suitable pipe, so that when any beer or other liquor is spilt
when drawn from the pumps it falls into the trough or tank and through the hole
therein down the india rubber or other pipe connected therewith through the tube or
inlet into the tap and thence into the Barrel, so that no beer or other liquor whatever
is wasted and thus a great saving and economy is effected.
JOHN
HART,
Agent for William Thomas Hardy.

page_text: Improved Automatic Apparatus for Preventing Waste in the
Retailing of any kind of Ale, Beer, Brown Beer, and Stout.
I, WILLIAM THOMAS HARDY, Crown Hotel, 50, Sussex Street, Middlesbrough in
the County of York, Hotel Keeper, 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 :-
My improved automatic apparatus consists of an ordinary beer tap, made of brass
or any other suitable material, such as is used for connecting the barrel of beer in the
cellar with the pump in the bar above, but upon the top side of the tap and in front
of the ordinary plug or cock, is a small tube or inlet, leading into the interior of the
tap. This small tube or inlet connects with the trough or tank underneath the pumps
in the bar above by means of a hole in the said trough or tank and an india rubber
tube or any other kind of suitable pipe, so that when any beer or other liquor is spilt
when drawn from the pumps it falls into the trough or tank and through the hole
therein down the india rubber or other pipe connected therewith through the tube or
inlet into the tap, and thence into the Barrel, so that no beer or other liquor whatever
is wasted and thus a great saving and economy is effected.
I have placed the small tube or inlet on the tap in the position indicated above and
shewn on drawing No. 1, and final, as being the best situation for it, but I claim to
place it also on any part of the tap, or the brass junction piece which connects the
beer pump pipe to the beer tap, or on any part of the beer pipe.
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In order to render my invention more clearly understood, I annex a Drawing No. 1.
& final, which I now proceed to describe.
Fig. 1. shews in detail, the inlet from the Trough or tank to waste Beer pipe, this
inlet is made of brass or other suitable material. On the top at A is soldered or
otherwise secured, wire gauze, to prevent any solid substance being carried down the
pipe. When placed in position this top or funnel end is soldered or otherwise secured
to the zinc lining of the Trough or tank. B, is a coupling allowing the Tank or
trough to be disengaged, and taken out of its place when necessary. C, is a tap or
cock opening or closing communication with waste beer pipe D, G, and through
the Beer tap by means of the small tube or inlet thereon into the interior of the cask,
at will. D, is a lead or tinned pipe, soldered or otherwise secured to the small tap or
cock C.
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Fig. 2. shews in detail the brass or other bend E which is soldered or otherwise
secured to the lead or tinned pipe D, & upon which the india rubber or other
suitable pipe G is slipped.
Fig. shews in detail the internal coupling made of brass or other suitable
material, by the use of one or more of these couplings and various lengths of flexible
tubing, the waste beer pipe may be made of any suitable length to reach any cask in
the cellar.

page_text: Fig. 4. shews in detail the beer tap or cock, made of brass or other suitable
material, upon which is shewn the small tube or inlet J, for the admission of the
waste beer or stout. It will be seen that in placing the small tube or inlet J in the
position shewn, it has the advantage of being in direct line with the draw or suction
of the beer pump, so as to make certain of clearing the waste beer pipe at once.
small tube or inlet may be placed on any part of the beer tap or cock, or on the
junction connecting the beer pipe to the tap, or any part of the beer pipe. By
shutting the beer tap or cock, the beer pipe, waste beer pipe and pumps may be
washed out from the Bar.
The action of my Invention is as follows.-
The
When it is desired to return any waste beer to the cask, the small tap or cock C
upon the inlet from the trough or tank is opened by the attendant when the waste
beer passes down and at once into the cask. The tap or cock C is then closed until
the next similar operation.
Having described the nature of my invention and explained the manner of
performing it, I hereby declare, that what I consider to be novel and original, and
therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent is.―
1. The Inlet or small tube on the Beer Tap, Junction piece, or Beer pipe, whereby
the waste Beer is returned to the Cask, through the said inlet, & thence through the
Beer tap, and blended with the new Beer, without disturbing the contents, and 2. also
the combination therewith, of the Inlet from the Trough or Tank, the lead or tinned
pipe, the India rubber or other flexible tube, with bend & coupling pieces.
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