Improvements in or relating to Distillers' Safes, said Improvements being also applicable for Check Sampling the Spent Wash at Outlets of "Patent" Stills.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 10th May, 1890-Accepted, 25th Apr., 1891
COMPLETE SPLETUALAN
Improvements in or relating to Distillers' Safes, said Improvements
being also applicable for Check Sampling the Spent Wash at
Outlets of "Patent" Stills.
1, WILLIAM DAwsox, of Anderston Brewery. Bishop Street, Glasgow, in the
County of Lanark, Brewer, 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 :-
This invention which has for its object improvements in distillers' safes is a further
development of the invention for which application for Letters Patent bearing date
the 2nd day of July 1889 No. 10667 has been made by William Watson Mutter
and myself and the present improvements more especially relate to that part of the
apparatus described under the said application which is locked up outwith the
control of the person running the still but under the control of the manager or other
responsible official to enable him to test samples of the product.
The present invention is illustrated under several modifications on the accom-
panying sheet of drawings Figure 1 shewing in vertical section Figure 2 in part
plan and part horizontal section and Figure 3 in end elevation a further development
of or improvement upon the arrangement described with reference to Sheet 1 of
the drawings annexed to the said previous Specification the superstructure of the
improved apparatus connected to the spindle D, and sleeve G, being the same as
before as is also the arrangement of the toothed platform or table I, and the
mechanism by which it is alternately partially rotated and stopped from the
ille D. The spur pinion P', geared with the teeth around the outer circum-
frence of the table I, instead of having its vertical spindle P stepped into a plate
laid on the bottom of the trough U, of the safe as before has its spindle carried by
slide 12 which when the wheel is in gear bears upon a platform U' supported
on studs and whose upper surface is level with or slightly above the upper edge
of the trough. At the part of it within the safe the slide is of box form having
two vertical side cheeks and a top or bridge supporting the upper end of the
sindle the said box part sliding in a similarly formed guide I made on the
platform U. The wheel ', is loose on its spindle P', and it has formed on or
connected to its upper surface a level wheel Q, geared with a pinion Q', keyed on
the spindle R, passing through the spindle I This spindle K, which under the
previous arrangement was made in two parts or lengths, is, in the present arrange-
ment in one length and it has upon it a head or thumb piece 4, contained within
the locking part of the apparatus. The outer end of the slide 1, is also of box
shape and it is contained within a rectangular casing, in the bottom of which
guides 6. are formed or fixed between which the slide P. is confined the guides 6,
eing terminated short of the sides of the casing as more particularly seen at
Figure 2. To the extreme onter enls of the sides of the slide there are hinged
dors 7, which, when open, occupy the spaces between the guides 6, and the sides
of the casing J, and when closed and locked up they extend across the end of the
slide. In the part of the lide there is in-erted a dise 9. which is retained in
position by a face plate, and also by checking or "rebotting" the circumference
the di-c an that of the hole in which it is placed. The said die 9, has screwed
or otherwise secured to it another dise 11, in one part of the circumference of
which a hollow is made as shewn by Figure 3. and in conjunction with this disea
tongue 12, working between two side cheeks 13, formel on the lile P is provided.
On the pinlle R, two heels or projections 2, 3, are also forme the one marked 3,
when the apparatus is in the position shown by Figure 1 engaging with a slot made

page_text: in the dise 11 so that when the manager or other responsible official turns the
spindle R. and through it the gearing Q, Q.P to partially rotate the table and so
bring its sockets 11 in succession opposite the end of the spindle R, the dises are,
at the same time rotate 1 and the one 11, acting on the tongue 12, raises it through
a slot in the slide P, and against the end of the casing 5. the apports being so
arranged that the tongue sinks each time the key hole of the stop rock in each
socket curaes opposite the key on the end of the spindle R. The rotation is
continued until a socket containing a filled emple tube came into the said
position and the manager, after testing the contents of such tub, pushes the
spindle R, inward, so as to gear it with the stop cock and by then turning the
spindle to the right the contents of the tube are discharged into the trough U. In
so pushing forward the spindle the projection 3, enters the slot in the dise, and
the projection 2, enters a slot in the face plate 10, which shot, constituting a
quadrant, locks the spindle in position and prevents it from being drawn rear-
wands until the stop rock p, is closed by turning the spindle in the opposite
direction. The turning of the -pindle to open the stop-ek cause the tongue 12,
to be shot out against the end of the cusing , by the netion of the projection 3,
in the lot of the die 9, so that a double check on withdrawing the spindle in
prosided until the stop cock is closed. After the stop cock is closed the slide P³,
is withdrawn together with the entire gearing P, Q, Q into the interior of the
case, and until the end of the slide is flush with the outer ends of the guides 6,
the doors 7, cannot be closed and locked. As seen at 15, ach half door may
have n socket forund on or secured to it for the inertion of a har to more ea-ily
and steadily move the file P- backwards and forward.
In addition to the doors 7, on the slide a door or doors 166, may also he hingel
in the outer end of the en-ing 5, in which ease, as seen by the drawings, the said
door or doors cannot be closed until the inner doors 7 are shuu.
In the act of p-hing the slide P- forward so as to gear the wheel P. with the
table 1. a pin 17, fixel in the under surface of the slide ting on the screw
feather releases the crank from the slot in the underside of the wheel J, this
apparatus being otherwise as described in the said previons Specification.
!
Figure 4 illtrates in vertical section and Figure 5 in end elevation a modified
arrangement in which a spindle R', is provided for turning the stop cock p, in
addition to the spindl R, for turning the table 1. On each of the-e-pindles a cam
or eccentric 21, is secured and situated within a square ha ride in a vertical
plate 22, the two plates working in guides in the box part of the slide B, which is
contained within & easing as last described. The spindle R, as a bevel wheel P,
secured upon it which, when the slide is pushed inwards, to test a sample, is geared
direct with the table I, and when the tube containing the ample has, by turning
the said spindle, been brought opposite the end of the spindle 'R' this spindle is
pushed inwards to gear with the key seat of the stop cock. The spindle R¹, has a
projection 25. upon it which passes through an opening in the end of the boxed part
of the slide and when the spindle has been turned through a quadrant to open the
stop cock the said projection comes in contact with a heel or projection on the
part 10, of the slide and stops its movement. At the same time the cam 21 of
the spindle acting upon the plate 22 pushes the said plate outwards against the
end of the casing, the stud 25 ensuring that the spindle R cannot be withdrawn
until the stop-rock is closed and the plate 22 ensuring that the slide cannot be
moved backwards until the closing of the stop cock has been affected by turning the
spindle R, and so depressing the widest part of the cam.
Under a further arrangement illustrated in end elevation at Figure 6, and in
vertical section at Figure 7, the outer casing 5, is formed with a close end through
which the spindle I and a part of the slide passes. In this case the spindle R,
is made in two lengths screwed together as described in the said previous Specifi
cation and it passes through a hoss 18, formed on or secured to the close end of the
casing 5. On the spindle a projection or stud 19, is formed or fixed which is

page_text: contained within a slot in the boss 18. At its outer end the slot constitutes a key
draft merely in which the projection is free to slide as the spindle is moved horizon-
tally but at the part 20, the slot is circumferential to enable the spindle to be turned
when the wheel P, has been geared with the table I, so as to bring the desired
sample tube opposite the end of the spindle. Between the circumferential part and
its inner end the slot for a short distance corresponding to the depth of the key sent
in the stop-cock, is again in the form of a key draft and at its extreme inner end
the slot is quadrantal to enable the spindle R, to be turned to open the stop cock
and discharge the tested contents of the tube the quadrant preventing the withdrawal
of the spindle until the stop cock is again closed. The part P³ of the slide is of the
same construction as the spindle R, and may be disconnected from the slide block P+
in the same manner.
Figure 8, illustrates in vertical section Figure 9, in plan partly in section and
Figure 10, in end elevation a modification of the last described arrangement as
applied to the construction of safe described with reference to Figures 5, and 6.
Sheet 2, of the drawings under the said previous Patent. With this construction
the casing 5, is also close ended and separate spindles R. R' are employed to rotate
the table I, and to open and close the stop cocks both spindles being made in two
lengths detachable from each other. In the close end of the casing 5, or in a block
attached to it, through which the spindles pass slots are made the slot in conjunction
with the spindle R, being at its inner end circumferential to enable the spindle to
be rotated so as to turn the table 1, whilst at the inner end of the slot in conjunction
with the spindle R', a quadrant is formed to enable the spindle R' after being
geared with the stop cock p, to be turned through a quarter of a revolution to open
the same, the quadrant as hereinbefore set forth preventing the spindle from being
withdrawn until the stop cock is closed.
The doors as applied to the arrangements Figures 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 preferably do
not close entirely across the end of the slide but are provided simply to prevent the
door on the outer case 5, from being closed until the slide is withdrawn into the
interior of the case and the doors of the slide folded inwards.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In apparatus of the class set forth the combination of mechanism hereinbefore
described with reference to Figures 1, 2 and 3 of the annexed drawings and
whereby the manager or other responsible person is enabled to check the samples
and discharge the sample tubes substantially as explained.
2. In apparatus of the class set forth the combination of mechanism for the like
purpose, hereinbefore described with reference to Figures 4 and 5 of the accom-
panying drawings.
3. In apparatus of the class set forth the combination of mechanisın, hereinbefore
described with reference to Figures 6 and 7 of the appended drawings.
4. In apparatus of the class set forth the combination of mechanism herein before
described with reference to Figures 8, 9 and 10 of the drawing-.
Datel this Ninth day of Vay 1800
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.