An Improved Gasogene for Beer and other Liquids.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Dec., 1899
Complain Cannifination Loft 10th Luna 1000
Lesented
44th Lul 4000
I, ARCHIBALD BRUCE, of 67, Cathedral Street, Glasgow, Plumber, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
This invention relates to an improved construction of gasogene which is specially
designed for holding beer, whisky, and the like whilst it can, of course, be used
for other liquids.
In carrying out the invention I make the lower vessel preferably of a globular
form and with a tap at or near the base. This tap is provided with a plug which
can only be turned by means of a special key which can be carried on the person
of the proprietor. The top of the lower vessel has a screwed orifice in it. The
bottom of the upper vessel has a similar screwed orifice and the two vessels are
joined together by means of a coupling tube screwed externally and fitting into
the screwed orifices with a tight fit. This coupling tube projects up into the
interior of the upper vessel which latter may also be of globular form. The
upper vessel is provided with a filling orifice internally screwed and into which
fits a screw plug preferably provided with a small spring safety valve.
Instead of screwing the material of the gasogene I preferably insert screwed
brass bushes into each orifice. These bushes are cemented tightly in place.
The connection or joint between the two vessels may be packed with india
rubber or other suitable material.
The lower vessel may have, at its bottom, a coupling tube or branch which
can be connected to a pipe from a beer engine in such manner that the lower
vessel may be charged with beer by said engine.
The vessels may be made of glass, earthenware, or stoneware and may be
ornamented or decorated.
The upper vessel is charged with gas generating material in the usual manner.
Dated this 11th day of December 1899.
An Improved Gasogene for Beer and other Liquids.
I, ARCHIBALD BRUCE, of 67, Cathedral Street, Glasgow, Plumber, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement: —
Mi incantion
relates to an improved construction of casovene which ia

page_text: specially designed for holding beer, wines, whiskey, and the like whilst it can,
of course. be used for other liquids.
In order that my said invention may be properly understood I have hereunto
appended an explanatory sheet of drawings, whereon,
Fig. 1 is a vertical section of the gasogene.
Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same.
Fig. 3 is a sectional view to an enlarged scale of the valve m.
Fig. 4 is a detail view.
Referring to the drawings whereon the same reference letters wherever repeated
indicate the same parts.
The lower vessel of the gasogene is preferably made of a globular form and
with a screwed hole b near the base. Into this hole is screwed an externally and
internally screwed brass bush c into which is fitted the tap d. This tap has a
plug e provided with a turning handle e¹. The plug can be locked by means of
a set screw f¹ inserted in the hollow internally screwed branch of the tap.
The screw has a coned point and a triangular head and, when it is screwed
home, by a special key which has a triangular hollow adapted to fit on the head
of the screw, the plug is held in place owing to the fact that the coned point of
the screw enters a hole or indentation in the side of the plug. The special key
can be carried on the person of the proprietor and the plug e locked or unlocked
by him when desired. The top of the lower vessel a has a screwed orifice f in it.
The bottom of the upper vessel g has a similar screwed orifice and the two
vessels are joined tightly together by means of a cupling tube i (see also Fig. 4).
preferably made of stoneware, screwed externally and fitting into the screwed
orifices with a tight fit. This coupling tube projects up into the interior of the
upper vessel which latter may also be of globular form and have a screwed down-
ward extension g' which screws into an internally screwed upward extension a'
on the vessel a. The coupling tube has a collar on it and when fitted in place
this collar rests between the rubber or leather packing washers 2, 2. The upper
vessel is provided with a filling orifice ; having an externally and internally
screwed brass bush fitted therein and into this bush a metal screw plug 1,
preferably provided with a small valve m, is fitted.
The valve m may be made in the form of an ordinary "Dunlop" inflating
valve as used for inflating bicycle tyres (see Fig. 3) and be fitted in the end of
the hollow branch of the handle of the plug 7. The hollow of the branch
communicates by the vertical passage 12 of the plug with the interior of the
vessel g.
It will be seen that the end of the branch 71 is screwed externally for
the reception of the cap of the valve. is a chain for the cap.
Instead of fitting an inflating valve in the plug an ordinary form of spring
safety valve may be fitted in the plug so as to allow any undue excess of gas
pressure in the gasogene to escape.
In places where a beer engine is used to raise or force beer the lower vessel
may be fitted on the counter and have, at its bottom, a coupling tube or branch
which can be connected to a pipe 9 from the beer barrels so that the lower vessel
may be charged with beer by the action of said engine. The coupling ? is screwed
into a brass bush r screwed into the bottom of the vessel a. ss are packing
washers.
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The vessels a, g, may be made of glass, earthenware, or stoneware and may
be ornamented or decorated.
Instead of having a screw plug 7 provided with a safety valve or an inflating
valve a plain screw plug with T shaped handle may be inserted in the bush k.
Generally a plain fitting plug k or a plug with a safety valve would be used
and in such cases gas generating materials would be inserted through the filling
orifice into the vessel in the manner common with ordinary gasogenes. When,
however, a plug with an inflating valve is used the gasogene can be filled with
compressed air by means of a small air pump in the same manner as a tyre is
inflated.

page_text: Of course when the apparatus is filled from beer barrels by the action of a
beer engine there is no necessity for charging it with gas in the same manner as
a gasogene. A cut off cock would be fitted on the pipe y leading to the barrels.
All joints are preferably made tight with cement.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
consider novel and desire to claim is: -
A gasogene consisting of two vessels connected together by means of a coupling
tube () the two vessels being made substantially as hereinbefore described and
provided with a filling plug at the top and an outlet tap near (or at) the bottom.
Dated this 9th day of Mar 1900
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
100, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.