AN IMPROVED STAND FOR BEER AND OTHER CASKS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Thomas Burgess, of Brentwood, in the County
of Essex, Engineer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED STAND FOR BEER
AND OTHER CASKS."
Scaled the 23rd January 1868, and dated the 29th July 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Thomas Burgess
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 29th July 1862.
I, CHARLES THOMAS BURGESS, of Brentwood, in the County of Essex,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
STAND FOR BEER AND OTHER CASKS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in constructing a stand for beer and other casks; in
which the cask is made to tilt gradually forward with the decrease of the
liquid in the cask.
The stand consists of two parts; the first is a pillar with a foot and forked
arms for supporting a cradle in which the cask is placed, or any other suitable
support for the cradle may be used. This cradle is a semicircular frame with
flanges projecting from the upper and outer sides. The bearing surface of
theso flanges is curved or cam-shaped, and the flanges rest upon flat surfaces
on the top of the forked arms. A bar projects forward from the semicircular
frame; and is bent up at front to receive one of the ends of the cask: A
weight is attached to the front of the cask, and the cask is placed in the cradle
in a horizontal line, or nearly so, then, upon a portion of the liquid being

page_text: drawn off, the cask becomes heavier in front of the centre than behind it, and
the cradle resting upon the curved surfaces of the flanges allows of the cask
tilting forward gradually, whereby the contents may be drawn off clear.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Thomas Burgess in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 29th January 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
THOMAS BURGESS, of Brentwood, in the County of Essex, Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord. One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her reign,
lid, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Charles Thomas Burgoss, Her special licence, that I, the said Charles
Thomas Burgess, uiy executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Charles Thomas Burgess, 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 King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man,
an Invention for "AN IMPROVED STAND FOR BEER AND OTHER CASES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles Thomas Burgess, 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 per-
formed, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charlos Thomas Burgess, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in constructing a stand for beer and other casks, in
which the cask is made to tilt gradually forward with the decrease of the
liquid in the cask. .

page_text: The stand consists of two parts; the first is a pillar or frame for supporting
a cradle in which the cask is placed. This cradle is a semicircular frame with
flanges projecting from the upper and outer sides. The bearing surface of
these flanges is curved or cam-shaped, and the flanges rest upon flat surfaces
on the top of the frames. A bar projects forward from the semicircular frame,
which is bent up at front to receive one of the ends of the casks. In some
cases, however, I dispense with the projecting bar.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a perspective view, and
Figure 2 is a side elevation of a cask stand, constructed according to my
Invention.
a is the support or frame for the cradle b; c, c, are flat surfaces on the
support a, for receiving the flanges d, d, on the under side of the cradle; e, e,
are projections on the surfaces c, c, over which corresponding notches f, f, in
the under side of the cradle 6 fit. The cradle is shewn tilted at Figure 2. A
weight g is attached to the front of the cask at the top or bottom thereof, as
shown by the full and dotted lines in Figure 2, or it may be attached to the
fore part of the cradle, and the cask is placed in the cradle in a horizontal line,
or nearly so; then, úpon a portion of the liquid being drawn off, the cask
becomes heavier in front of the centre than behind it, and the cradle resting
upon the curved surfaces of the flanges, allows of the cask tilting forward
gradually, whereby the contents may be drawn off clear.
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 construction
of stands for beer and other casks in two parts, so that the cask is made to
tilt gradually as the liquid decreases, substantially as hercin-before described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Thomas Burgess, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of January, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three.