AN IMPROVED BEER ENGINE LEVER OR LIFTER, AND APPARATUS FOR FITTING THE SAME TO COUNTERS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Watson, of the firm of Gerardin and
Watson, of Poland Street, in the County of Middlesex, Pewterers, for
the Invention of "AN IMPROVED BEER ENGINE LEVER OR LIFTER, AND
APPARATUS FOR FITTING THE SAME TO COUNTERS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Watson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 28th
August 1856.
I, THOMAS WATSON, of the firm of Gerardin and Watson, of Poland Street,
in the County of Middlesex, Pewterers, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "AN IMPROVED BEER ENGINE LEVER OR LIFTER, AND APPARATUS.
FOR FITTING THE SAME TO COUNTERS," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to prevent the necessity of cutting a hole or
aperture in counters for the lever or lifter of beer engines to work in, and this
I accomplish by a peculiarly shaped lever, the fulcrum of which is a pin or
stud, free to turn in bearings affixed to the under side of an angle or flanged:
plate, which plate is fixed immediately under the counter, and is slotted or cut
out for the reception of the stud and the short arm of the lever to work in.
The lever is in the form of a crank, and just behind the stud it is curved

page_text: back to fit over the edge of the counter; it then rises at right angles, or
nearly so with the plane of the counter, and has fitted thereon, or not, any kind
of handle which may be desired.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Watson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th February 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
WATSON, of the firm of Gerardin and Watson, of Poland Street, in the
County of Middlesex, Pewterers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Thomas Watson, Her special licence that I, the said Thomas Watson, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas
Watson, my executors, 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 "AN IMPROVED BEER ENGINE
LEVER OR LIFTER, AND APPARATUS FOR FITTING THE SAME TO COUNTERS,"
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Watson, 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.
upon
the
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Watson, 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 annexed, that is
to say:-
The object of my Invention is to prevent the necessity of cutting a hole or
aperture in the top of the counter for the lever or lifter of beer engines to
work in; and this I accomplish by a peculiarly shaped lever, the fulcrum of
which is a pin or axle, free to turn in bearings affixed to the under side of an

page_text: angle or flanged plate, which plate is fixed immediately under the counter, or
under a case fixed thereto, and is slotted or cut out for the reception of a stud
and the short arm of the lever to work through. The lever is in the form of
a crank, and just behind the pin or axle it is curved back to fit over the edge
of the counter or case; it then rises at right angles with the plane of the
counter, and has fitted thereon, or not, any kind of handle which may be
desired.
Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Figure 2 a perspective view, of one of my
levers or lifters fitted to a counter. A is the lever or lifter; B, the handle;
C, the counter; D, case fitted thereto; E, E, are bearings for receiving the pin
or axle cast in the lever, and on which it moves; F is the pump sling, con-
nected to the short arm of the lever; G, pipe communicating with the pump
barrel; and II, the spout; I is a stop, cast on the lever.
Although I have shewn in the Drawings the lever fitted to the counter
through a case, yet it will be readily understood that it may be fitted directly
to the counter.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the improved beer
engine lever or lifter, and the method of fitting the same to counters, either
directly or through a case, as shewn in the Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Watson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of February, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-seven.
THOS WATSON.
(L.8.)