Improvements in the handles or levers for pumps
Year: 1887

page_text: PETER GASKELL of 60 & 61 Stafford Street Birmingham in the county of Warwick
and JOHN YOUNG of Victoria Place in Aston Juxta Birmingham do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:
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Improvements in the handles or levers for pumps which are principally used for
raising Beer and other such liquids and are usually fixed on the surface of a counter
or Beer Machine case.
The improvement is applicable only to the class of levers which have the weight
and the power on the same side of the fulcrum and are usually termed in the trade as
Quadrant levers-we make the lever work in Iron bearings which we carry from a
plate which has the form of a horse shoe this plate we secure to the upper surface of
such counter or case by two or more bolts or screws.
We propose to use steel or other hard metal for the fulcrums thus gaining the
utmost wearing power.

page_text: We, PETER GASKELL of 60 and 61 Stafford Street, Birmingham in the County of
Warwick, and JOHN YOUNG, of Victoria Place in Aston Juxta Birmingham aforesaid,
do hereby declare the nature of our said invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The object of our invention is to effect improvements in the levers and handles of
pumps our invention being more especially applicable to pumps used for raising
beer and other liquids, and which are usually fixed to a counter or beer machine
case.
Our invention is applicable to the class of levers which have the weight and the
power on the same side of the fulcrum, and are usually known in the trade as quadrant
levers.
We provide for the fulcrum of the lever being carried by an iron plate of a
horse-shoe form, which is screwed to the counter, or cast in one with the standard
casting.
We prefer to use Steel or other hard metal for the fulcrum, in order to ensure
endurance and provide against rapid wearing away.
And in order that our said invention may be particularly described and ascertained,
reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of
reference indicate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is an elevation showing the application of our invention to a beer pump.
Fig. 2 is a side view of the horse shoe bracket. Fig. 3 is a front view of the same,
and Fig. 4 is a plan.
Fig. is a front view and Fig. 6 a side view of an adjustable standard to which the
pump may be.attached and adjusted by means of studs or screws and fly nuts, or other
analagous appliances.
a is the pump. bis the handle, which forms part of or is attached to the lever c,
and the fulcrum of which, at c¹, works in iron bearings in the bracket d.
The bracket d may be cast in one with the support e, as shewn in Fig. 1, or may be
made separately, as shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 4, and fixed to the counter or machine
case by means of screws passing through the holes gg.
In combination with the separate bracket, shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 4, we sometimes
use the adjustable standard h, having a slot k, to which the pump a is fitted by studs
passing through the slot k, and by which the position of the pump can be adjusted as
required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The improved construction of levers and the method and means of mounting the
same, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the drawings

page_text: 2. In the construction of beer and other pumps, the application and use of the
bracket d carrying the bearings e substantially as herein before described and
illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings.
3. In the construction of beer and other pumps, the application and use of the
bracket carrying the bearings e, substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated in Figs. 2, 3 and 4, of the drawings.
4. The general construction, arrangement and combination of the several and
respective parts, together forming our invention of improvements in Beer Engines
and the like.