STAND FOR CASKS OR BARRELS
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Swindells at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th October 1877.
JAMES SWINDELLS, of Stockport, in the County of Chester.
STAND FOR CASKS OR BARRELS."
"AN IMPROVED
This Invention relates to the construction of a stand for casks, barrels, pipes,
hogsheads, and other similar vessels for containing beer or other liquids, and consists
principally of a cask stand capable of tilting bodily with the cask or vessel, in
combination with a self-acting rack for holding the stand in the tilted position.
The stand is made of wood or other suitable material, the lower part being (by
preference) made with rockers, so that the stand can be tilted forwards with the
cask; but the bottom part of the stand may be made flat, if desired, so that the _
stand is tilted on its forward edge instead of being rocked.
To the back of the stand is attached a rack, and in connection with this rack is
a catch or sliding rod, the lower end of which rests on the ground. To tilt the
cask the hand is placed on the upper part of the front end of the barrel, and by
pressing downwards and pulling it forwards the cask and stand are tilted forwards,
the cask thus acting as a lever to tilt the stand. As the action of the tilting raises
the back part of the stand the catch or sliding rod takes into the teeth of the rack,
and holds the stand in the tilted position.

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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said James Swindells in the Great Scal Patent Office on the 20th April
1878.
JAMES SWINDELLS, of Stockport, in the County of Chester. " AN IMPROVED
STAND FOR CASKS OR BARRELS."
This Invention relates to the construction of a stand for casks, barrels, pipes,
hogsheads, and other similar vessels for containing beer or other liquids, and consists
principally of a cask stand capable of tilting bodily with the cask or vessel, in
combination with a self-acting prop or props for holding the stand in the tilted
position.
Such being the nature and object of my said Invention, I will now proceed to
describe in detail the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or
carried into practical effect, and in order that the same may be clearly understood
I have annexed hereunto a Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof, and have marked
the same with figures and letters of reference corresponding with those in the
following explanation thereof:-
Fig. 1 in the annexed Drawing is a side elevation of a stand and barrel, and
Fig. 2 a front view of the same, part of the front cross piece of the stand being
shown as broken away to show the props hereafter described.
Fig. 3 is a side elevation showing the barrel and stand tilted, and Fig. 4 is a
back view of the same.
The stand a, a, is made of wood or other suitable material, the lower part being
(by preference) made with rockers, so that the stand can be tilted forwards with
the cask b, b; but the bottom part of the stand may be made, if desired, so that
the stand is tilted on its forward edge instead of being rocked.
To the back cross piece of the stand is screwed a fixed plate c, c, having lugs or
projections d, d, through holes in which pass the diagonal rods or props e, e, the
lower ends of which rest on the ground. To tilt the cask b, b, the hand is placed
on the upper part of the front end of the barrel at x, and by pressing downwards
and pulling it forwards the cask b, b, and stand a, a, are tilted forwards, the cask
thus acting as a lever to tilt the stand. As the rear end of the barrel and stand
rises the diagonal rods or props e, e, slide through holes in the lugs d, d, (their lower
ends still remaining on the ground, (see Fig. 3 and 4) and as soon as the hand is
withdrawn from the front part of the barrel, and the weight bears upon the back
of the stand, these rods or props by reason of their diagonal position become wedged
fast in their holes and effectually hold the cask in the position to which it has
been tilted. The stud can be brought down to its original level again by simply
drawing the rods e, e, diagonally upwards by hand.
A slight modification in the form of the prop is shown at Figs. 5 and 6. Fig. 5
-being a section, and Fig. 6 a back view of a cask stand with this modification
applied.
To the back of the stand is attached a rack f, f, and in connection with this rack
is a catch or sliding rod g, g, the lower end of which rests on the ground. As the
action of tilting raises the back part of the stand a, a, the catch or sliding rod g, g,
takes into the teeth of the rack ff, and holds the stand in the tilted position.
The above-described arrangement may either be used separately, as shown on
.the Drawings, or both applied to the same stand, as may be preferred.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention, together with
the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into practical
effect, I wish it to be understood that I claim as my Invention,-
First. The construction of a cask stand, substantially as herein-before described,
so that the cask and stand may be tilted bodily together, whether the stand is
formed with rockers or with a straight bottom.
Secondly. The application to such cask stand of a diagonal self-acting sliding

page_text: prop (or props), constructed and operating substantially as and for the purposes
described.
Thirdly. The application to such cask stand of a self-acting rack and sliding
catch or prop, constructed and operating substantially in the manner and for the
5 purposes herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Swindells, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
JAMES SWINDELLS. (L.S.)